Wallpaper Contest for Xubuntu 22.04 LTS is open for submissions. Xubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish desktop is due for release in this April. Wallpaper submission deadline is March 12th, 2022 and winner announcement in late March. The winners will get Xubuntu stickers and winning wallpaper inclusion on the Xubuntu 22.04.
Canonical the team behind Ubuntu released the code name of the next version of Ubuntu operating system. The upcoming release of Ubuntu 21.10 will be called Impish Indri. According to dictionaries Impish is a adjective and meaning mischievous or “showing no respect for something in a way that is amusing”. And the second part according to Wikipedia, Indri is a largest living black and white color monogamous Madagascar lemurs and lives in small family groups.
GNOME 40 is now officially available to download and use. According to Gnome team, this release gives you a focused distraction free and smoother computing. GNOME has a new versioning scheme in this release from previous 3.38 to this 40. The most notable features are completely redesigned horizontal workspace switcher and having the Dash launcher to the bottom of the screen from left.
Manjaro team just released Manjaro 21.0 Code named Ornara. Manjaro is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux. In this Manjaro Ornara, the installer Calamares now supports best guess languages for each country and when GeoIP is enable and best guess for keyboard mappings. All there major editions Gnome, KDE and xfce got lot of important and improvements. Manjaro 21.0 Ornara comes with some new exciting features and with the new Linux Kernel 5.10 LTS.
0 A.D. Alpha 24 Xšay?rš? (Khsha-ya-?sha) is now available for download from Wildfire Games. 0 A.D. is a free and open-source real-time strategy game for Windows, OS X, and Linux. This release cycle of 0.A.D is the longest in the 0 A.D history. It is released under GNU Public License version 2 and CC-BY-SA 3.0. It comes with new building snapping feature, renderer improvement and several new game balancing adjustments.
The Mint team just released Linux Mint 20.1 called Ulyssa. It is a long term support release which will be supported until 2025. Linux Mint is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Ubuntu. It comes with some new features, updated software and bug fixes. It is available with 3 desktop environments Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce. All there major editions got lot of important and improvements.
Xfce team just released Xfce desktop 4.16 the new the stable version of Xfce. Time between the last stable version Xfce 4.14 and this current release is 1 year 4 months. Xfce is a free and open source lightweight desktop environment for Linux and BSD. Xfce comes with a lot of new features and visual changes.
Manjaro team just released Manjaro 20.2 Nibia. Manjaro is a free and open-source Linux distribution based on the Arch Linux. It comes with some new exciting features and with the Linux Kernel 5.9. In Manjaro 20.2 , the installer Calamares now supports encrypted systems without encrypted /boot partition. This reduces the boot time 1 minute compared to full disk encryption. All there major editions Gnome, KDE and xfce got lot of important and improvements.
Google has announced a new version of the Android Studio software code named Android Studio Arctic Fox. Currently the Android Studio Arctic Fox in the Canary channel with a new version numbering 2020.3.1.1. The new version numbering system for Android Studio now closely align with IntelliJ IDEA, the IDE upon which Android Studio is built. Now You can now download Android Studio Arctic Fox Canary 1 (2020.3.1.1) from below download link.
Salesforce CRM giant strikes a deal to acquire Slack for $27.7 billion. The two companies made it official today. Recently Salesforce surpassed $20 billion in annual revenue. The acquisition of $27.7 billion is the largest deal that the customer relationship management (CRM) giant Salesforce has made. The deal is bigger than Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion. This big giant deal is expected to complete in year 2022 after post regulatory and shareholder approvals.
