“The team has been hard at work throughout this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs,” wrote Kate Stewart, Canonical’s Ubuntu Release Manager, in an announcement on Thursday.

Among the new changes included in this first beta version are a feature enabling considerable power savings and a new CD image size of 703MB “to squeeze in every bit of package goodness we can on the installation CD images,” Stewart added.

Designed for testing purposes, Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 can now be downloaded from the project’s site. Here’s a quick rundown of some of the release’s key highlights.

1. A Taste of HUD

As hinted by Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth in late January, Ubuntu’s new “Head-Up Display,” or “HUD,” interface makes its debut in this beta version. Dubbed as “a new way to quickly search and access any desktop application’s and indicator’s menu,” HUD can be accessed by pressing the Alt key and typing in a description of what you want to do. The software will then return a set of corresponding entries, including some fuzzy matching, the project team says. Over time, it also learns from your previous choices to make the search more and more accurate, they note.

2. Unity Tweaks

Ubuntu’s Unity interface has been nothing if not controversial, but in this new release, the “Appearance” panel in the software’s system settings lets you more easily configure some properties of Unity. For bookmark users, the Unity launcher now also includes Nautilus quicklist support.

3. ClickPad Support

Ubuntu 12.04 now includes support for ClickPads, or trackpads on which the physical button is integrated into the trackpad surface. Most Synaptics ClickPads are recognized out of the box in this new release, as are Apple MacBook trackpads. Coming in Ubuntu’s next release will be support for Apple Magic Trackpads and more Synaptics brand devices, the Ubuntu team says.

4. Power Savings

For the aforementioned power savings, RC6–the technology that allows GPUs to go into a very low power consumption state when the GPU is idle–is now enabled by default for Sandy Bridge systems. The result can be improvements of between 40 and 60 percent in power usage under idle loads, the developers say.

5. LibreOffice 3.5 and Rhythmbox

Among the default applications in Ubuntu 12.04 are the newly updated LibreOffice 3.5 as well as Rhythmbox as the default music player.

6. Better Language Support

When users install new software through the Ubuntu Software Center, the corresponding language support packages–including translations and spell check modules–are now installed automatically as well, thus eliminating the need to open “Language Support” after installing new software.

7. A Fresh Kernel

Finally, upgrading from the second alpha release of Precise Pangolin, this new beta version includes the 3.2.0-17.27 Ubuntu kernel, which is based on version 3.2.6 of the upstream stable Linux kernel.

Version 12.04, available for x86 and 64-bit platforms, is based around the Linux kernel 3.2 release, and a lot of work has gone into bugfixing around this for Ubuntu’s code, including problems with how it interacts with Intel’s Sandy Bridge and Centrino hardware. The code also includes version 9 of both Firefox and Thunderbird from Mozilla.

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Click here for download the IBM sametime version 8.5.1.

After downloading the package. Run the below command in terminal.

sahab-laptop@ubuntulinux:~/Downloads$ unzip ST851-Lin-Client.zip
Archive:  ST851-Lin-Client.zip
inflating: sametime-connect-8.5.1-1.i586.rpm
inflating: sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb
sahab-laptop@ubuntulinux:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg –install sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package sametime-connect.
(Reading database … 168269 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sametime-connect (from sametime-connect-8.5.1.i386.deb) …
Setting up sametime-connect (8.5.1-1) …

The video tutorial is given below for the same.

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I have already installed ubuntu 11.04 in my notebook. So in this article I am describing method of taking the backup old installation files and doing the fresh install and restoring it.

After boot from live cd, open the terminal and type

#sudo bash

For root login.The type

#mount

command for check the device details

As per the second screen shot you can easily understand that my  older installation is on /dev/sda6 and remainig are windows partition.

ubuntu 11.10 install copying the olde installer file

Then I have created the folder called test and mounted the windows partition on it.

After that I have created folder ‘test1″ for mount the Linux partition on it, Please refer the above screen shot. Then copy the /home/sahab  into the windows mounted directory test.

For the remaining steps please refer the below video file

Watch this video on YouTube.

Blender is professional Open Source 3D modelling suit that’s runs in Ubuntu (which also available for windows).  The latest version of blender is 2.60a.

Blender 2.60 Features
Blender 2.60 come with numerous changes since its version 2.59, here some of feature you can find in Blender 2.60 taken from its official website ”

• Blender 2.60 allow us to place speaker objects in the scene, make an animation and mix down to an audio file.
• Blender 2.60 Includes several changes to the graph editor, dopesheet editor, NLA editor, curves, drivers, constraints, and posing.
• Vertex group modifiers has been added. There are three modifiers can be chosen : one to edit existing vertex groups, one to mix groups together, and another to generate vertex groups based on proximity to other objects
• Blender 2.60 now support non-English language (eg : Chinese

Installation steps

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install blender

After upgrading the wireless connection didn’t work I thought it was a problem related to the wlan driver.

Finally I have followed below steps for resolving the issue

Open the terminal

Alt+F2 type gnome-terminal

then run the below command

$sudo apt-get remove –purge network-manager

uninstalled the networkmanager

$sudo apt-get install wicd

Installed the wicd for fixing the issue.

Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you’ll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely nothing.

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Album url is given below.

https://picasaweb.google.com/sahabcse/TechSeminar?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCP_Y3cyG7-WmBg&feat=directlink

Please find the attached file

Linux Basics

For setup the auto splell check please follow the below steps

#sudo apt-get install ispell

#vim ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

Then add the follwing lines

[KSpell]
KSpell_Client=1
KSpell_DictFromList=1
KSpell_Dictionary=american
KSpell_Encoding=0
KSpell_NoRootAffix=0
KSpell_RunTogether=0