XBMC Eden , latest release of Award winning free and open source software media player is available in official Ubuntu 12.04 repositories . Hereafter for installation, you can install through Ubuntu software centre in spite of installing through third party PPAs. It happened because of XBMC and Debian developer Andres Mejia , who integrated XBMC eden with Debian . For more info : http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/04/10/xbmc-accepted-into-debian/ Excerpt from XBMC Blog : Linux users rejoice! Thanks primarily to the hard work of Andres Mejia, XBMC has been accepted into the official Debian distribution! In the past we have been unable to make it [&hellip
Ubuntu 12.04 Archive
The Beta Version of Ubuntu’s next LTS – Ubuntu 12.04 has been released .To use this version, you can either download new version or upgrade existing version .To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -d” (without the quotes) into the command box. Update Manager should open up and tell you: New distribution release ‘12.04’ is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions. To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.10 on a server system: install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed; launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d; [&hellip
Finally new version of VLC ,VLC 2.0 is released . There are many new features like Faster decoding on multi-core ,Blue ray support etc . New Features in VLC 2.0: Faster Decoding on multi core Experimental support for BluRay discs Support for 10bits codecs, WMV image and some other codecs. Correct support for FLAC, RV and Hi10p in MKV. New video outputs for Windows 7, Android, iOS and OS/2. Click below link to know more about new features in VLC . http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.0.0.html Installation Instructions : For Ubuntu 10.04 Open the terminal and run the following commands to install VLC 2.0 [&hellip
Few hours before , Mark Shuttleworth announced about new version of ubuntu i.e. ubuntu 12.04 in his blog. Codename of Ubuntu 12.04 would be named Precise Pangolin . Lets see what Mark have to tell about this version : “12.04 is an LTS. So we want it to be tough and long-lasting, reliable, solid as a rock and well defended. It’s also going to be the face of Ubuntu for large deployments for a long time, so we want it to have no loose ends, we want it to be coherent, neat. “We’ve told the story of the cloud in [&hellip
Good News Readers !! Get ready for another bang ! Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system has been published on the Ubuntu wiki. The distribution will be released at the end of April 2012.But codename for this version has not been chosen yet . Schedule : Date Release 1st December 2011 Alpha I 2nd February 2012 Alpha II 1st March 2012 Beta I 22nd March 2012 Beta II 19th April 2012 Release Candidate 26th April 2012 Final Version