To create website desktop shortcuts
1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field.And click Terminal.
2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/Desktop/ --create-new
3.The create lancher window will pop-up,Type website name in the name field and type the browser name and the url in the command field. And click Ok button.
Main features of Scratch
syntax highlighting with gtksourceview-3
a SearchBar to search the words in the files
strong integration with Granite framework by elementary-team
tab and split documents system
1.Go to Scratch download page and download the .deb file .
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GParted is a free partition editor that enables you to resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss.
Supported file systems:
btrfs,ext2 / ext3 / ext4,fat16 / fat32,hfs / hfs+,linux-swap,ntfs,reiserfs / reiser4,ufs,xfs
To install Gnome Partition Editor in ubuntu 11.10
1.Open ubuntu software center.To open ubuntu software center click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type ubuntu software center in the search field.And click ubuntu software center.
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To install Netbeans IDE on Ubuntu 12.04 Click Here
NOTE: JDK 6 is required for installing and running the Java SE, Java EE and All NetBeans Bundles.
To install JDK on ubuntu click here
1.Go to Netbeans download page and download the netbeans Linux (x86/x64) .sh installer file (like netbeans-7.0.1-ml-linux.sh).
2.Copy your Netbeans installer file to your Desktop.
3.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field.And click Terminal.
4.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
The sun-java6 package (and also jdk7) is no longer available in the official Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot repositories due to the removal of the JDL license. To install sun jdk on ubuntu 11.10.
To install JDK7 click Here:
1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field.And click Terminal
2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java
Type your ubuntu password if needed and press enter.
To install vlc media player on ubuntu 11.10
1.Open Terminal.To open terminal click the Dash home from unity launcher.And type terminal in the search field.And click Terminal
2.Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
sudo apt-get update
Type your ubuntu password if needed and press enter.
3.And Type the below code in terminal and hit enter.
sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-pulse mozilla-plugin-vlc
Type y and hit enter to confirm the installation.
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Canonical announced that support and maintenance period for ubuntu 12.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu for desktop users from three years to five years. The first two years of the LTS period will provide hardware updates and Maintenance updates will continue for a further three years.
Ubuntu 12.04 is scheduled for release in April 2012.
Support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ends in April 2013.
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Ubuntu’s founder Mark Shuttleworth says on his personal blog,
“we can focus on polish, performance and predictability. I’d like to improve the user experience around Workspaces for power users, and we’ll publish our design work for that, but I think it would be wisest for us to defer that unless we get an early and effective contribution of that code.”
“12.04 will be the first LTS to support the ARM architecture on selected ARM SoC parts.”
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Faenza is one of the popular monochrome GNOME icon themes. It provides monochromatic icons for panels, toolbars and buttons and colorful squared icons for devices, applications, folder, files and Gnome menu items. It comes with both light and dark looks for the desktop.
Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is now available for download. What’s new in ubuntu 11.10?
Dash is now opened by a launcher icon.
improved lenses
new Music Lens
Improved the default Ubuntu themes
14 new HQ photo wallpapers
new login screen called ‘LightDM’
Mozilla Thunderbird replaces Evolution
Deja Dup backup tool
Ubuntu Software Centre version 5.0
new feature multiarch
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