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Ubuntu 12.10 codenamed Quantal Quetzal

Post last modified:August 12, 2019
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu 12.10 gets a codename Quantal Quetzal,Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed on his personal blog post. Ubuntu 12.10 is scheduled for release in 18th October 2012.

In his blog he said that “I give you the Quantal Quetzal, soon to be dressed in tessellated technicolour, now open for toolchains, kernels and other pressing preparatory packages.”

This is release Colonical mainly focus on the quality of the Ubuntu . This means you can except small amount of new features. According to wikipedia Quetzals are strikingly colored birds in the trogon family, found in forests, especially in humid highlands.
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Ubuntu 12.10 Release Date

Post last modified:April 23, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu 12.10 Release Date – 18th October 2012.

There will be 3 alphas and 2 beta releases.

Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1 – 7th June
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 2 – 28th June
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 3 – 2nd August
Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 1 – 6th September
Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 – 27th September
Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.10 – 18th October

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How to Install Pinta on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:January 7, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Pinta is a free and easy to use drawing and image editing application for Linux , BSD, Windows and MacOS. You can install it in your Ubuntu Linux system via terminal application easily. It is available via Ubuntu default repositories, snap package and flatpak package.

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DeaDBeeF Music Player – How to install DeaDBeeF on Ubuntu Linux

Post last modified:January 7, 2022
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is a free and open source audio player for Linux and Windows. It plays a variety of audio formats like Mp3, ogg vorbis, flac, ape, wv/iso.wv, wav, m4a/m4b/mp4 (aac and alac), mpc, tta, cd audio and converts between them. You can also extend its features via plugins. It comes with playlist support, you can sort and group the tracks, ALSA and PulseAudio support, cuesheet (.cue files) support and full tag reading and writing support.

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Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 Released

Post last modified:March 30, 2012
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 is now available to download.

3.2.0-20.33 Ubuntu kernel (based on the v3.2.12 upstream stable Linux kernel).
AUFS has been re-enabled for the Beta-2 kernel.
addition of seccomp filter patches.
an updated AppArmor patch set.
misc kernel config changes
default music player has been switched to Rhythmbox
LibreOffice 3.5.1
Nautilus quicklist support has been added to Unity launcher.
ClickPad support
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MediaInfo Get Technical Data of Multimedia Files

Post last modified:March 16, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

MediaInfo is a free and open source multimedia software for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS. Using MediaInfo application you can easily view all technical and tag information about video and audio files. It comes with many video and audio…

GoldenDict Dictionary Lookup Application

Post last modified:January 26, 2023
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

GoldenDict is a free and open source dictionary lookup application for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It supports multiple dictionary formats and online dictionaries. Currently it supports StarDict, Babylon, Lingvo, Dictd, AARD, MDict and SDict file formats. Also supports Wikipedia, Wiktionary,…

Lazarus IDE for FreePascal

Post last modified:July 24, 2023
Post category:Software
Post author:Manikandan

Lazarus is a free and open source IDE for FreePascal Compiler. It is Delphi compatible IDE for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS and Windows. Free Pascal is a free and open source compiler that runs on Linux, Windows, OS/2, 68K and more.…

Ubuntu Builder – build your own distribution

Post last modified:March 14, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Author’s description:
Ubuntu Builder is a simple tool to build your own distribution. It allows to download, extract, customize in many ways and rebuild your ubuntu images. You can customize i386 and amd64 images.

Download the latest .deb package.
Double click on it and intall via ubuntu software center or dpkg or gdebi.
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Lifeograph – private digital diary

Post last modified:March 9, 2012
Post category:Linux
Post author:Manikandan

Lifeograph is a free private digital diary software for linux.

Main features:

supports encrypted and unencrypted diaries
automatically logs out when not used for some time
automatically formats entry titles and subheadings
basic searching/filtering
favorite entries
entry tagging
spell checking
links between entries
links in URI form (http://, file://, mailto://, etc…)
automatic backups
printing individual entries or whole diaries
basic statistical charts
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