tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84431333364924264252012-02-28T09:00:21.564+05:00TuxGarage: Tutorials, News, TroubleshootingTutorials, News, TroubleshootingSikander Hayat Khanhttps://profiles.google.com/107415142751469860105noreply@blogger.comBlogger209125http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-IPw2utlbmoc/TkbszvUNM7I/AAAAAAAAARg/fZAxKJv1Y9Q/s800/XG-logo.pngTuxGaragehttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotationtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8443133336492426425.post-25165845423939843932012-02-25T13:44:00.002+05:002012-02-27T02:17:54.348+05:002012-02-27T02:17:54.348+05:00Adobe Drops Support of Flash for Firefox under Linux; Alternatives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">As you might have heard already, Adobe has announced that, under Linux, new versions of its Flash Player after 11.2 will only be available for Google Chrome, via its new 'Pepper' plugin API (PPAPI), dropping the support of the old Netscape plugin API (NPAPI). This means that Firefox' Flash support on Linux will freeze at version 11.2 unless Mozilla comes up with some better plans like partnering with Adobe (extremely doubtful), or supporting the 'Pepper' API, in which it <quote>"<a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:Pepper" target="_blank">is not interested at this time</a>"</quote>.<br>
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From the <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html" target="_blank">Adobe blog</a>:<br>
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<div class="quote">For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.</div><br>
So, this doesn't mean that it is the end of Flash on Linux for Firefox users. As you can read above, security updates for Flash 11.2 will be provided for the next 5 years. Till then, we might well have switched to HTML5 completely, or if not, we might have an acceptably stable open source Flash player at least. There are already a few open source Flash players around, like Gnash, Lightspark and Swfdec, but I am really sorry to say that so far, none of them really competes with Adobe Flash Player in any sense.<br>
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Google Chrome browser already ships with an embedded Adobe Flash Player, and will start shipping with the PPAPI-based version later this year.<br>
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<sub1>Alternatives?</sub1><br>
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Chris Coulson, maintainer of the Firefox packages for Ubuntu, has recently outlined <a href="http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=111" target="_blank">on his blog</a> the pros and cons, and the prospects of offering the Firefox ESR version via the official repos or a PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu - the bottom line: as of now, not planned via the official repos; but maybe via a PPA. But, while we're waiting for what will happen on this front, you can manually download and install Firefox ESR on <i>any</i> Linux, and can easily keep it updated from within Firefox itself.<br>
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<sub1>Installation</sub1><br>
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<sub1>Computer Name</sub1><br>
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The first thing you got to ask yourself, of course, is whether you need the computer name, also called "hostname", in your command prompt or not. That's important if you are logging in to other systems remotely, rarely done by the average desktop user. If the answer to that question is 'yes' but you want to change the computer name to something more nice or appropriate, you only need to change two entries in two different configuration files. When you open the files as shown below, you will easily spot your currently set computer name; then just change it to your liking.<br>
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<div class="code">gksudo gedit /etc/hostname</div><br>
<div class="code">gksudo gedit /etc/hosts</div><br>
You need to reboot your system for the changes to take effect.<br>
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<sub1>Command Prompt</sub1><br>
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New ability to search the Web</li>
<li>Improvements to email search</li>
<li>Several fixes when drafting email</li>
<li>And several other platform fixes</li>
</ul>A list of all changes in this version can be found here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/10.0/releasenotes/" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/10.0/releasenotes/</a><br>
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<sub1>Lucid, Maverick and Natty Installation</sub1><br>
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<ul><li>All add-ons are now considered to be compatible by default, even if they are not marked as such</li>
<li>The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back</li>
<li>Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented</li>
<li>CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported</li>
<li>Numerous bugs were also fixed, a list of which can be found <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0/releasenotes/buglist.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
</ul>The complete changelog can be found here:<br />
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<a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0/releasenotes/" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/10.0/releasenotes/</a><br />
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As far as Ubuntu and Firefox are concerned, as announced a couple of weeks ago, all Ubuntu versions - including Lucid and Maverick - would feature the same latest version of Firefox, which would be made available via the official repositories, and Firefox 10 is already available via the Update Manager to all Ubuntu users:<br />
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<a href="http://www.tuxgarage.com/2012/01/latest-firefox-official-repos-lucid.html" target="_blank">http://www.tuxgarage.com/2012/01/latest-firefox-official-repos-lucid.html</a><br />
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For installing Firefox 10 in any version of Ubuntu, you now simply need to install the available updates via the Update Manager, or from the Terminal:<br />
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<div class="code">sudo apt-get update<br />
sudo apt-get upgrade</div><br />
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<sub1>Installing the Theme</sub1><br>
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Several pies, each pie consisting of multiple slices, make up the 'Gnome-Pie', a circular application launcher for Linux. Different key combinations are assigned to different pies, not to mention that the pies and combinations can be tweaked, added, and hitting a certain combination launches a certain pie. Instead of remembering the name of a certain application as is the case if you want to launch it from the keyboard, <b>you just need to remember the direction of that application in the pie</b> and just click the left mouse button after activating the pie. <b>You don't need to click exactly at the icon</b> in the pie, simply click in its direction anywhere on the screen and the application would start.<br>
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Gnome-Pie is an under development project and not everything might work as expected; however, it is working smoothly for me. The bottom line, installing Gnome-Pie shouldn't break your system, so feel free installing and playing with it. It is available for both GTK2 and GTK3.<br>
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<sub1>Installation</sub1><br>
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In the case of Maverick 10.10, that doesn't matter too much, as it reaches its own EOL in April 2012 too, but Lucid 10.04 is an LTS release and will reach its EOL only in April 2013 (Desktop; Server in 2015), so they were compelled to do this.<br>
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Please also see this official doc:<br>
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<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes/FirefoxRapidReleaseMigration" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes/FirefoxRapidReleaseMigration</a><br>
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And you can check the current status of the Firefox packages in the official repos by visiting this site:<br>
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<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all" target="_blank">http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all</a><br>
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<b>Update 1/27/2012:</b> The Firefox 9 packages have now eventually arrived in the official repos of both Lucid 10.04 and Maverick 10.10.<br>
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<b>Update 1/29/2012:</b> Chris Coulson, the maintainer of the "Firefox Stable PPA", <a href="http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=100" target="_blank">announces on his blog</a> that he's going to retire that PPA due to matter of this post, which makes completely sense, of course.<br>
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<sub1>Upsides / Downsides</sub1><br>
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First off, if you weren't already using a PPA to get the latest versions of Firefox, or installed them manually, you'll get all the new features and improvements since the release of Firefox 3.6, which is huge leap forward! And also, this will lift Firefox back on par with Chromium, which was updated in the official repos throughout all the time.<br>
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On the other hand, some IT departments of enterprises using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS might not be so happy with this, since the rapid release cycle of Firefox in general is already drawing a lot of criticism since its introduction, particularly from that corner. That's because every new version can bring some regressions and backward compatibility issues with it, of course, and enterprises, if acting responsible, need to test them before rolling out the upgrade.<br>
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However, I can imagine that Canonical will later on switch at least the <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS" target="_blank">LTS</a> (Long Term Support) versions of Ubuntu to using the recently announced <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal" target="_blank">ESR</a> (Extended Support Release) versions of Firefox, planned to start with Firefox 10, and currently scheduled for a life-cycle of 54 weeks (derived from 9 release cycles of the regular version). ... I mean, hopefully they would apply that only to the LTS versions, as otherwise, the average user - usually going along with the regular versions - would miss out all the latest features and improvements introduced to Firefox.<br>
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<b>Update 2/7/2012:</b> Chris Coulson, maintainer of the Firefox packages, outlines <a href="http://www.chriscoulson.me.uk/blog/?p=111" target="_blank">on his blog</a> the pros and cons, and the prospects of offering the Firefox ESR version via the official repos or a PPA - the bottom line: as of now, not planned via the official repos; but maybe via a PPA, I suppose depending on the demand.<br>
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Digging more into the above-mentioned possible backward compatibility issues, every new version of Firefox is likely to break one or more add-ons you might have installed, when the most recent available version of it is either really not compatible with the new Firefox version, or is simply not marked as such. Depending on what's the case, you either need to manually mark it as compatible, or find an adequate replacement for it.<br>
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<sub1>What precisely does this mean for you?</sub1><br>
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A couple of weeks ago, some amazing Spanish guys from <a href="http://www.atareao.es/ubuntu/personalizando-ubuntu/buscar-videos-de-youtube-en-ubuntu-con-unity-o-otro-lens-mas/" target="_blank">Atareao</a> presented us a YouTube Unity Lens. Initially this Lens would only let one search for YouTube videos from the Dash and when clicked, it opened the video in the preferred web browser. Later, they added local media player support and the videos would play in VLC, no Flash needed.<br>
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Now, it has got even better as they have added support for playing YouTube videos in <a href="http://www.tuxgarage.com/2011/10/minitube-1-6-released-ppa-installation.html" target="_blank">Minitube</a>, and also a small configuration tool has been developed which lets one select the preferred YouTube player, whether it be the web browser, VLC or Minitube.<br>
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If you want to use VLC for playing your videos, you can install VLC from the Software Center. If VLC isn't playing videos for you, you are probably missing some codecs. As the most convenient solution, you can install the 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' package from the Software Center to figure out all of this stuff for you. If you want to use Minitube for playing YouTube videos, you would need to install Minitube by following the commands mentioned here:<br>
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The Lens supports YouTube filters and categories, and the search results can be sorted by relevance, view count, rating and publishing date.<br>
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Like the title says, Canonical has today unveiled Ubuntu TV at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, and offers a preview video along with it. Judging from those, it's apparently a modified version of Unity, not really surprising and similar to the preview images of the intended OS for mobile devices also announced a while back.<br>
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So this is the promised preview video:<br>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jq_WaOLjdyQ" width="560"></iframe></div><br>
Canonical has also launched a dedicated section for Ubuntu TV on its website:<br>
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<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/tv" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/tv</a><br>
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And for the as of now planned features, please see here (sorry, I'm not going to copy & paste that stuff over here):<br>
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<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/features-and-specs" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/tv/features-and-specs</a><br>
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Options for tweaking Unity, Unity 2D and Gnome Shell have been added. Other major changes include:<br>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Redesigned user interface</li>
<li>Support for Unity, Unity 2D and Gnome Shell</li>
<li>Supports tweaking GTK3 Themes and Fonts</li>
<li>Tweaking the LightDM Screen</li>
<li>Plugin Support</li>
<li>Better organized "Overview" page</li>
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Thunderbird 9 is based on the Mozilla Gecko Engine 9 and includes these improvements:<br>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>New opt-in system for users to send performance and usability data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Thunderbird</li>
<li>Additional support for Personas in the compose and address book windows</li>
<li>Better keyboard handling for attachments</li>
<li>Windows users can hide the menu bar (and show it with the "alt" key)</li>
<li>Several user interface fixes and improvements</li>
<li>Fixed several security issues</li>
</ul>Complete Changelog: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/9.0/releasenotes/" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/9.0/releasenotes/</a><br>
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So, most importantly, Firefox 9 comes with JavaScript enhancements that are said to increase the performance by 20% - 30% on rich content websites. Other improvements include:<br>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Improved theme integration for Mac OS X Lion</li>
<li>Added two finger swipe navigation for Mac OS X Lion</li>
<li>Added support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript</li>
<li>Added support for font-stretch</li>
<li>Improved support for text-overflow</li>
<li>Improved standards support for HTML5, MathML, and CSS</li>
<li>Fixed several stability issues</li>
<li>Fixed several security issues</li>
</ul>Complete Changelog: <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/9.0.1/releasenotes/" target="_blank">http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/9.0.1/releasenotes/</a><br>
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Ditching of the DLJ meant that Canonical couldn't include Sun Java packages in the Oneiric partner repositories and now has to remove Sun Java package from the Ubuntu partner repositories of older releases as well. They have gone one step further as they've announced to release a software update which would remove the Sun Java packages from user computers who've already installed Sun Java packages. The reasoning behind this software update is the presence of several security issues in the version of Sun Java that was included in the repositories, as mentioned in an advisory published by Oracle recently. This software update would effect Ubuntu Lucid, Maverick and Natty users.<br>
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Routers are known to act buggy and unstable and might disconnect you from the internet without any obvious reasons. Then, you obviously need to restart the router to re-gain internet access. But you can also set up your Linux box to ping a specific web address at regular intervals and restart the router if the ping is unsuccessful.<br>
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If you are the only user of that internet connection and are not that lazy to manually restart your router whenever it disconnects, you could probably just stick with the conventional method.<br>
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If you share that internet connection with room-mates, family, etc. or run some kind of server, you would probably want to never lose connectivity for longer periods, even when you yourself are away from the network, this post is for you.<br>
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So the idea basically is to create a 'ping' script that pings a specific web address and if unsuccessful, it executes another script to reset the router via 'telnet'. The 'ping' script is run at regular intervals by 'crontab'. The interval can be anything you like but for me, the ideal is 3 minutes.<br>
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<sub1>Telnet Setup</sub1><br>
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From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnet" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>:<br>
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Telnet is a network protocol used on the Internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications facility using a virtual terminal connection.</div>
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If your router doesn't support Telnet (however, almost all routers do support Telnet), you are out of luck here. To make sure that your router supports Telnet, log in to your router's web access page and look for 'local access' or something similar, probably under 'management' or 'connectivity'. Make sure 'Telnet' is there and also make sure that it is enabled.<br>
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Another thing worth mentioning is Opera Unite which lets you share your content over the web with your friends, only yourself or even everyone by configuring your Opera as a web server, bypassing the complex configurations of DNS, etc. And like every other popular browser, Opera supports extensions and widgets. However, the collection isn't that wealthy as that of Firefox.<br>
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Opera 11.60, codenamed "Tunny", was released recently. For the complete changelog, please take a look here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1160/" target="_blank">http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/unix/1160/</a><br>
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Please note that both of these Scopes are only available for Ubuntu Oneiric and Precise, so you won't be able to install them in Natty.<br>
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<sub1>Dash-Based Calculator</sub1><br>
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For installing this Dash-based Calculator, get to a Terminal and run:<br>
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<div class="code">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:scopes-packagers/ppa<br>
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sudo apt-get install unity-lens-utilities unity-scope-calculator</div><br>
PPA: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~scopes-packagers/+archive/ppa" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~scopes-packagers/+archive/ppa</a><br>
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You would need to re-login for the Calculator to start working.<br>
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This package might also cause issues if it isn't installed properly, mainly because it downloads the fonts from SourceForge and as I've experienced, SourceForge servers are almost always over-loaded. As the result, the download of the fonts doesn't complete successfully and the package is left in an inconsistent state by the system.<br>
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So this guide covers:<br>
<ol><li>Installing the Package</li>
<li>Accepting the EULA</li>
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<sub1>Changelog</sub1><br>
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The complete changelogs can be found at the links below:<br>
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<a href="http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-release-3.4.4.1.log" target="_blank">http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-release-3.4.4.1.log</a><br>
<a href="http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-4-release-3.4.4.2.log" target="_blank">http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/bugfixes-libreoffice-3-4-4-release-3.4.4.2.log</a><br>
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<b>Update 11/16/2011:</b> Firefox 8 was now finally published to its Stable PPA, but hasn't arrived the official repositories yet, that should take just one or two days from now.<br>
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Keeping in mind that they had to drop many important applications lately, e.g. GIMP, Synaptic, Pitivi, etc., for squeezing it all in a 700 MB image, and also keeping in mind that they are now shipping Gnome 3 with Ubuntu and are forced to leave out many key features of it, e.g. Gnome Sushi, and also realizing that all the modern OS (Windows 7, Mac OSX) now come on DVDs and are sized greater than 3 GB, managing it all in 750 MB or even 1.5 GB isn't lavish at all.<br />
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With additional 50 MB of space being used, I am not hoping to see many or even any new applications being included in a default install of Ubuntu. Rather, there might be some <i>under the hood</i> additions, and also, the developers have possibly just ruled out one of their concerns for the Precise development cycle, as they were working on trimming the size of the image to 700 MB nearly all the time during the Oneiric cycle.<br />
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So, if you don't already have one, get your hands on a USB drive or DVD media essentials when you plan to install Precise. However, you could also opt for an oversized CD, if you don't have a DVD drive already.<br />
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<sub1>Nautilus Open Termnial</sub1><br>
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There might have been occasions when you wanted to open a directory in the Terminal and had to copy & paste its path or type the whole of it, taking care of the letter case, spaces, etc. For times like these, 'nautilus-open-terminal' adds an entry to the right-click context menu, named 'Open in Terminal', which gives you a command prompt at the current path.<br>
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