Oficial discs for Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop and Server editions have gone on pre-sale in the Canonical Store. As Ubuntu 12.10 marks the first release of Ubuntu to not fit on a standard CD-size the desktop edition is provided on DVD media.
Unity 6.8.0 landed in Ubuntu 12.10 this morning - but what's changed? Largely a bug fix release, 6.8.0 addresses numerous performance and visual glitches experienced by beta testers over the last few months.
Months seem to whizz by faster than Quantal's new app install animation, so we're once again here to run down the top 10 most sold apps through the Ubuntu Software Center during September 2012.
A 'Kill Switch' to disable online results Ubuntu's Dash is ready to land in Ubuntu 12.10.
Take one Ubuntu Community team, sit them in front of webcams and make them work for 24 hours solid. Sound good? that's what happening today as part of the 'Ubuntu Community Charity Marathon'.
Want to help make Ubuntu better and get paid to do so? Nope, you don't need to apply for a job at Canonical just be a regular user who can spare 2 hours for one evening next week to take part in some testing.
Ubuntu 12.10 has updated its Messaging Menu icons once again. Five revamped 'pips' - small icons that appear on the panel 'envelope' icon - have been added.
A new development release of new desktop e-mail app Geary has been released. Geary works with most popular webmail services, including GMail and Yahoo, as well as providing IMAP support.
An unfortunate "side effect" of Ubuntu's new 'shopping suggestions' feature is that, regardless of what you're looking for, be it local or online, you're going to be met with a barrage of results. This filterless 'show whatever from where-ever' approach has raised the eyebrows of some early testers...
Steam's arrival on Linux isn't a secret - and even when it was it was a poorly kept one. The company have been internally testing the Linux client for a while, and recently announced that an 'external' beta Linux users would be coming out 'sometime in October'. No specific date was given. But, today, a request from Valve's "bryceh" to Ubuntu developers has offered up a more definite time-frame - one that's happening this week.
OpenShot video editor has premiered its 1.4.3 release - which debuts a number of new features.
The flash-free desktop YouTube app MiniTube has been updated - and in the nick of time, too. Recent changes to YouTube has 'broken' video playback in all releases prior to this one, including the most recent version released in June of this year. But aside from 'fixing' itself to work with an update dYouTube there are also other changes to be taken advantage of...