2014

Clarity icons are light, modern & beautiful icon theme. It is based on famous Aw0ken and Token icon themes, lots of shapes and basic color pallete was taken from these icons. Creator also used some shapes from OpenClipart, Wikipedia, Humanity icon theme and ACYL icon theme. Most of other icons are also designed by simplifying existed icons/logos. Mostly icons are in monoshape, but some icons also have additional elements. This icon theme has 8 templates to build different colors icons, so I created all those colors and uploaded to our PPA, further more if you want different color then you can download and follow instructions to create your own customized color icon set. The eight variants available are as follows: violaceus (violet/pink gradient), lux_violaceus (glossy), canus (grey gradient), dark_canus (dark grey gradient), caeruleus (blue gradient), lux_caeruleus (glossy), viridis (green gradient), and luteus (orange gradient). This icon theme is compatible with Unity, Gnome, Xfce, Mate, etc. In following screenshots Ambiance Blackout and Flat were used. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.
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There are many command line wireless scanner tools available for Linux, which requires command line knowledge to deal with them. Also there are some GUI tools available for Linux which scans wireless network around your wireless device like iwScanner, etc.
LinSSID is great application designed from scratch using C++, Qwt, and Qt languages, it is similar to iwScanner and Inssider (for MS Windows). LinSSID displays the information available from iwlist tool in graphical format. LinSSID displays a table of all of the local wireless networks that your device can receive, and information about them. It also displays charts of the signal strength of each network by channel number and over time. LinSSID will work with more than one wireless device attached to a system, but only one at a time (selectable).
LinSSID requires root privilege to run the iwlist tool. It can be run in one of two ways to do this. The preferred method is to launch LinSSID as a regular user and let it ask for a password. It will then use the password to get iwlist information, but LinSSID itself will not run with root privilege. Alternately, LinSSID can be launched with root privilege. This second method is less secure since any misbehaving code in the program could possibly have detrimental effects on the system.
It is multi-threaded, using the main thread to communicate with the main window and the user while a second worker thread keeps a named pipe filled with iwlist data. The program is in active development, so if you find any bug report it to the developer following this link.
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FFmpeg is popular multimedia framework, that allows users to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge. It contains libavcodec, libavutil, libavformat, libavfilter, libavdevice, libswscale and libswresample which can be used by applications. As well as ffmpeg, ffserver, ffplay and ffprobe which can be used by end users for transcoding, streaming and playing. It is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
FFmpeg security is a high priority and code review is always done with security in mind. Though due to the very large amounts of code touching untrusted data security issues are unavoidable and thus developers provide as quick as possible updates to last stable releases when new security issues are found.
Since "Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty" FFmpeg is dropped and its fork adopted 'libav' which made a lot of application unusable under Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty. In coming release '15.04' Ubuntu team decided to add FFmpeg again to its repositories, so there won't be such issues like we have with 14.04/14.10 but there are unofficial FFmpeg PPAs available for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty. Now unusable applications can be used again on Ubuntu 14.10/14.04 using FFmpeg and if you want to use FFmpeg from command line then follow this official documentation.

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FFmpeg offers following functionality with libs:
  • libavutil is a library containing functions for simplifying programming, including random number generators, data structures, mathematics routines, core multimedia utilities, and much more.
  • libavcodec is a library containing decoders and encoders for audio/video codecs.
  • libavformat is a library containing demuxers and muxers for multimedia container formats.
  • libavdevice is a library containing input and output devices for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output software frameworks, including Video4Linux, Video4Linux2, VfW, and ALSA.
  • libavfilter is a library containing media filters.
  • libswscale is a library performing highly optimized image scaling and color space/pixel format conversion operations.
  • libswresample is a library performing highly optimized audio resampling, rematrixing and sample format conversion operations.

You can also follow this guide to build from source.

There are two unofficial PPAs available to install FFmpeg in Ubuntu 14.10/14.04. A PPA by Kyrill offers packages for 14.10 Utopic and 14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17.1/17
To install FFmpeg in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Another PPA offers FFmpeg packages for Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty and 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13 (This PPA is also promoted on official FFmpeg website)
To install FFmpeg in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Note: This PPA is removed and now you cannot install ffmpeg with above PPA.
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Install XiX Music Player (QT) in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/other related Ubuntu derivatives

XiX Player is a free easy to use multi-platform music player that currently runs in Linux, Linux ARM (Raspberry Pi), Windows & MacOS.

Changes in this release versions:
  • Read more OPUS Tags.
  • Read "UNSYNCED LYRICS" in OGG/OPUS.
  • Support for folders in Multi-Rename
  • Fixed an application freeze when an encoded picture frame was found in a flac file
  • Buffer length can be changed in the configuation dialog
  • Search now searches all added tags
  • Added a webbrowser unit LAZBRO (http://www.wascal.net/)
  • Show Wikipage of artist with external browser (English and Language chosen for XiX), or with integrated LAZBRO browser
  • Show complete LastFM artist Information & most played songs on LastFM from artist (integrated)
  • Save BEGIN and END trim of song
  • Play now start at the BEGIN trim and stop at the END trim setting of song.  This way you can skip unwanted intro's or silence.
  • Added very basic DSD support.  (Added .dff and .wav)
  • Number of times a song was played didn't get saved. (I do not save it in the ID3-Tag, if you want this feature, let me know)
  • Saved state of SHUFFLE was not shown at first start
  • Added Grouping, SubTitle, Conductor, Orchestra, Original Title, Original Year, Interpreter to the tags (MultiTag dialog) (MP3/FLAC/APE/OGG)
  • Save/Read Lyrics in the ID3-Tag (MP3/FLAC/APE/OGG). 
  • Reading/Saving FLAC/MP3 embedded picture in MultiTag Dialog. (Also used in the Main app when no local or internet folder has been found)
  • Fixed a few errors on saving FLAC/OGG Tags in RENAME and INFO Dialog.
  • Reading CD-TEXT is seperated from reading CD.  Some bugs are gone, but still not 100% correct.
  • Fixed: Creating a new playlist created a wrong submenu.
  • Remove selected songs from playlist is working again. Don't know what happened, but the procedure was left empty.

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Install Linux Deepin Terminal in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives via PPA

Deepin Terminal Emulator is developed by Linux Deepin team, also known as new generation terminal emulator and aims to enhance the command line user experience. Professional may find it useful and very handy with a lot of features. It is default terminal in Linux Deepin distribution and it has features like vertical and horizontal terminal split, terminal workspace switcher, transparent background with adjustment or background image, ssh connection, font resizing, hot keys (changeable), quick access to important option by right click menu, fullscreen, search and etc... Deepin Terminal also has several skins you can choose from or you may add your own skin.
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Install Deepin Audio Player in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Deepin Audio Player is designed by Linux Deepin team and it is default audio player in Linux Deepin. It is an awesome music player with brilliant and customizable UI, gstreamer front-end, with features likes search music by pinyin, quanpin, colorful lyrics supports, and more powerfull functions you will found. It is completely free and open source released under GNU General Public License.



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Kodi is a new name for project XBMC, Kodi feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater. Currently Kodi can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available. Use your media as-is: Kodi can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart. There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox. More than 50 software developers have contributed to Kodi, and 100-plus translators have worked to expand its reach, making it available in more than 30 languages.

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Libra is one of the best theme derived from flattastic theme suite. This theme is light with combination of blue color and it has menu colored buttons (minimize, maximize, close). It features a modern and clean look, with fully integrated and tested support for many of the popular desktops Including: Unity, Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, Mate, Gnome Classic & Fallback. It has been designed to be compatible with most GTK2/3 desktops out of the box. Rave-X-Colors and Ursa icons used in following screenshots. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.
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There are many dark themes available for GTK with different combinations, mostly people like dark themes because it doesn't hurt eyes that much. This theme set is inspired by the default dark look of WPS office and the guy created this theme using Numix Gtk. It features a modern and clean look in your choice of 3 variants. With fully integrated and tested support for many of the popular desktops Including: Unity, Cinnamon, Mate, Xfce, Lxde, OpenBox, Gnome Classic & Fallback. It has been designed to be compatible with most GTK2/3 desktops out of the box. Vibrancy-Colors icons used in following screenshots. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.
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Telegram is a cloud-based mobile and desktop messaging app with a focus on security and speed. It is like SMS and email combined - fast, versatile and powerful. It is cross-platform app available for Android, Linux, Windows, Mac, and Windows Phone. You can send messages, photos, videos and files of any type (doc, zip, mp3, etc) to people who are in your phone contacts and have Telegram. You can also create groups for up to 200 people. With Telegram you can do all of this on any number of your devices, both mobile and desktop.
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Install Gis-Weather Widget in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Gis-Weather Customizable weather widget. Which offers: View weather for several days - 3 to 12; Detailed weather forecast for today and tomorrow; Fast switching between cities; Select the background and theme weather icons; "Compass" with the wind direction, with adjustable angle of rotation; Highlighting the high wind.
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NVIDIA is well-known company all over the world regarding gaming cards. Sometimes it is really difficult to configure manufacturer drivers for NVIDIA cards in Linux, there could be many reasons for this such as kernel upgrade, and so. By default Ubuntu use the open source video driver Nouveau for NVIDIA graphics card. This driver lacks support for 3D acceleration and may not work with the very latest video cards or technologies from NVIDIA. An alternative to Nouveau are the closed source unified NVIDIA drivers, which are developed by NVIDIA. This driver provides excellent 3D acceleration and video card support.
If you are tired of compiling drivers and kernels then use xorg-edgers PPA to install latest drivers for NVIDIA graphics card and get high performance from your card. This PPA xorg-edgers is up-to-date among others and offers old and latest drivers for different kind of NVIDIA cards, which means you can choose to install what is best performing driver for your card. In latest drivers if you encounter any kind of issue, you can directly submit bug reports to NVIDIA, in order to fix that issue in future releases.
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Release Notes for 352.30 & 346.16 drivers
  • Added support for the following GPU: GeForce 910M
  • Fixed a bug that caused poor video post-processing performance in VDPAU when operating on a large number of video streams simultaneously.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause an Xid error when terminating a video playback application using the overlay presentation queue in VDPAU.
  • Updated nvidia-installer to avoid recursing too deeply into kernel source trees under /usr/lib/modules, mirroring an existing restriction on recursion under /lib/modules.
  • Fixed a rare deadlock condition when running applications that use OpenGL in multiple threads on a Quadro GPU.
  • Fixed a kernel memory leak that occurred when looping hardware - accelerated video decoding with VDPAU on Maxwell-based GPUs.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the X server to crash if a RandR 1.4 output provided by a Sink Output provider was selected as the primary output on X.Org xserver 1.17 and higher.
  • Fixed a bug that caused waiting on X Sync Fence objects in OpenGL to hang indefinitely in some cases.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented OpenGL from properly recovering from hardware errors or sync object waits that had timed out.
  • Added support for the following GPUs: GeForce GTX 970M, GeForce GTX 980M
  • Fixed a bug that caused a blank screen when setting a mode requiring YUV 4:2:0 compression. These modes are not currently supported.
  • Fixed a bug that caused an incorrect DisplayPort link configuration to be displayed after a hotplug or unplug.
  • Added support for decoding VP8 video streams using the NVCUVID API on GPUs with VP8 hardware decode support.
  • Added support for the following EGL extensions: EGL_EXT_device_base, EGL_EXT_platform_device, EGL_EXT_output_base
  • Added the ability to increase the operating voltage on certain GeForce GPUs in the GeForce GTX 400 series and later. Voltage adjustments are done at the user's own risk. See the documentation on the "CoolBits" X configuration option in the README for details.
  • Added support for NVENC on GeForce GPUs. For more details on the NVENC SDK, see:
  • https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-video-codec-sdk.
  • Removed a sanity check in nvidia-installer that tested the availability of POSIX shared memory. The NVIDIA GPU driver has not required POSIX shared memory since release 270.xx.
  • Added accelerated support for r8g8b8a8, r8g8b8x8, b8g8r8a8 and b8g8r8x8 RENDER formats.
  • Updated nvidia-settings to take advantage of GTK+ 3, when available. This is implemented by building the nvidia-settings user interface into separate shared libraries (libnvidia-gtk2.so, libnvidia-gtk3.so), and loading the correct one at run-time.
  • Added the nvidia-settings option --gtk-library to allow specifying the path of the directory containing the user interface library or the path and filename of the specific library to use.
  • Added support in nvidia-settings for a GTK+ 3 user interface on x86 and x86_64.
  • Added the nvidia-settings option --use-gtk2 to force the use of the GTK+ 2 UI library.
  • Updated nvidia-installer to install a file in the system's xorg.conf.d directory, when a sufficiently new X server is detected, to cause the X server to load the "nvidia" X driver automatically if it is started after the NVIDIA kernel module is loaded.
  • This feature is supported in X.Org xserver 1.16 and higher when running on Linux 3.9 or higher with CONFIG_DRM enabled.
  • Improved the performance of nvidia-installer by enabling the use of parallel make when building the NVIDIA kernel modules. The concurrency level can be set with the --concurrency-level option, and defaults to the number of detected CPUs.
  • Updated nvidia-installer to determine default installation locations for libraries based on the presence of known paths in the ldconfig(8) cache and the filesystem, rather than hardcoded distro-specific paths.
  • Fixed a GLSL compiler bug that would produce corruption when running games in Wine.
  • Fixed the EGL_KHR_stream_cross_process_fd extension.
  • Fixed rendering corruption that sometimes happened when calling
  • DrawElementsInstancedBaseVertexBaseInstance(),
  • DrawElementsInstancedBaseInstance(),
  • or DrawArraysInstancedBaseInstance().
  • Dramatically improved OpenGL Framebuffer Object creation performance.
  • Removed the limit on the maximum number of OpenGL Framebuffer Objects.
  • Updated the NVIDIA OpenGL driver to prefer $XDG_CACHE_HOME over $HOME as the default location for storing the GL shader disk cache.


Supported Cards (using 352.30 drivers) are as follows:
  • GeForce GTX TITAN X, GeForce GTX 980 Ti, GeForce GTX 980, GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960
  • GeForce GTX 980M, GeForce GTX 970M, GeForce GTX 965M, GeForce GTX 960M, GeForce GTX 950M, GeForce 940M, GeForce 930M, GeForce 920M, GeForce 910M
  • GeForce 800M Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 880M, GeForce GTX 870M, GeForce GTX 860M, GeForce GTX 850M, GeForce 840M, GeForce 830M, GeForce 820M, GeForce 810M
  • GeForce 700 Series: GeForce GTX TITAN Z, GeForce GTX TITAN Black, GeForce GTX TITAN, GeForce GTX 780 Ti, GeForce GTX 780, GeForce GTX 770, GeForce GTX 760, GeForce GTX 760 Ti (OEM), GeForce GTX 750 Ti, GeForce GTX 750, GeForce GTX 745, GeForce GT 740, GeForce GT 730, GeForce GT 720, GeForce GT 710, GeForce GT 705
  • GeForce 700M Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 780M, GeForce GTX 770M, GeForce GTX 765M, GeForce GTX 760M, GeForce GT 755M, GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M, GeForce GT 740M, GeForce GT 735M, GeForce GT 730M, GeForce GT 720M, GeForce 710M
  • GeForce 600 Series: GeForce GTX 690, GeForce GTX 680, GeForce GTX 670, GeForce GTX 660 Ti, GeForce GTX 660, GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST, GeForce GTX 650 Ti, GeForce GTX 650, GeForce GTX 645, GeForce GT 645, GeForce GT 640, GeForce GT 630, GeForce GT 620, GeForce GT 610, GeForce 605
  • GeForce 600M Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 680MX, GeForce GTX 680M, GeForce GTX 675MX, GeForce GTX 675M, GeForce GTX 670MX, GeForce GTX 670M, GeForce GTX 660M, GeForce GT 650M, GeForce GT 645M, GeForce GT 640M, GeForce GT 640M LE, GeForce GT 635M, GeForce GT 630M, GeForce GT 625M, GeForce GT 620M, GeForce 610M
  • GeForce 500 Series: GeForce GTX 590, GeForce GTX 580, GeForce GTX 570, GeForce GTX 560 Ti, GeForce GTX 560 SE, GeForce GTX 560, GeForce GTX 555, GeForce GTX 550 Ti, GeForce GT 545, GeForce GT 530, GeForce GT 520, GeForce 510
  • GeForce 500M Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 580M, GeForce GTX 570M, GeForce GTX 560M, GeForce GT 555M, GeForce GT 550M, GeForce GT 540M, GeForce GT 525M, GeForce GT 520M
  • GeForce 400 Series: GeForce GTX 480, GeForce GTX 470, GeForce GTX 465, GeForce GTX 460 SE v2, GeForce GTX 460 SE, GeForce GTX 460, GeForce GTS 450, GeForce GT 440, GeForce GT 430, GeForce GT 420
  • GeForce 400M Series (Notebooks): GeForce GTX 485M, GeForce GTX 480M, GeForce GTX 470M, GeForce GTX 460M, GeForce GT 445M, GeForce GT 435M, GeForce GT 425M, GeForce GT 420M, GeForce GT 415M, GeForce 410M, GeForce 405M
  • Quadro Series: Quadro M6000, Quadro K6000, Quadro K5200, Quadro K5000, Quadro K4000, Quadro K4200, Quadro K2200, Quadro K2000, Quadro K2000D, Quadro K1200, Quadro K620, Quadro K600, Quadro K420, Quadro 6000, Quadro 5000, Quadro 4000, Quadro 2000, Quadro 2000D, Quadro 600, Quadro 410
  • Quadro Series (Notebooks): Quadro K5100M, Quadro K5000M, Quadro K4100M, Quadro K4000M, Quadro K3100M, Quadro K2200M, Quadro K2100M, Quadro K3000M, Quadro K2000M, Quadro K1100M, Quadro K1000M, Quadro K620M, Quadro K610M, Quadro K510M, Quadro K500M, Quadro 5010M, Quadro 5000M, Quadro 4000M, Quadro 3000M, Quadro 2000M
  • Quadro NVS Series: NVS 510, NVS 315, NVS 310
  • Quadro NVS Series (Notebooks): NVS 5400M, NVS 5200M, NVS 4200M
  • Quadro Plex Series: Quadro Plex 7000
  • Quadro Sync Series: Quadro Sync, Quadro G-Sync II
  • Quadro SDI: Quadro SDI
  • GRID Series: GRID K2, GRID K520, GRID K1, GRID K340
  • NVS Series: NVS 510, NVS 315, NVS 310
  • NVS Series (Notebooks): NVS 5400M, NVS 5200M, NVS 4200M

Note: We're not responsible for any damage to your computer/data, install these drivers on your own risk and please don't report bugs here because this PPA is not maintained by us.

>>>Different version of drivers available for NVIDIA cards which is managed in xorg-edgers PPA. Supported OS Ubuntu 15.04/14.10/14.04/12.04/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/and other related Ubuntu derivatives
To Install/Update Nvidia card drivers open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

>>To install 352.xx drivers (Only for Ubuntu 15.10/15.04/14.04)

>>To install 346.xx drivers (For Ubuntu 15.10/15.04/14.04/12.04)

>>To install 340.xx drivers (For Ubuntu 15.04/12.04)

>>To install 331.xx drivers (For Ubuntu 15.04/14.04/12.04)

>>To install 304.xx drivers (For Ubuntu 15.04/14.04/12.04)


Screen Blanks/Monitor Turns Off (Geforce Go card)
Using a laptop with a GeForce Go card, or connecting the sole display via DVI on a dual-head system sometimes results in the screen not receiving a picture. This is caused by the driver outputting video to the VGA port on the graphics card, instead of DVI.
The usual hint that you have this problem is when you hear the startup sound but nothing appears on the screen. If you do not hear any sound, you are more than likely experiencing unrelated problems.
Switch to the console by using CTRL+ALT+F1, or reboot and select recovery mode from the GRUB menu.
Open and edit xorg.conf like this: sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Find the line that says: Section "Screen"
Insert a new line that says Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Save the file. Use sudo reboot to restart your computer.


Uninstall Nvidia Drivers
If something went wrong after installation of NVIDIA drivers, then follow these steps to recover.
1-> Boot into recovery mode
If you don't see Grub (recovery option) just hold "Shift" before boot and choose recovery option
2-> Now in following menu choose "root"
3-> Now uninstall Nvidia drivers using commands:
4-> Now remove xorg configuration:
5-> Now Reinstall the Mesa package for GL:
6-> Now reboot

That's it
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Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them.
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Ambiance Blackout Flat is a Modern , Beautiful Fully Dark & flat "reboot" of the Ambiance & Radiance GTK 2/3 Themes. It features a modern and clean "flat" look in your choice of 13 vibrant colors. Ambiance Blackout Flat brings you a fully dark and flat version of Ambiance, However we don't go crazy with making everything "Too Dark" the theme was designed to be a calm beautiful shade of Dark Grey that is still highly visible and not too dark. We spent lots of time crafting and perfecting things so the theme could be highly useable and buttons and all elements highly visible and clear.

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Install Nuvola Player 2.5.0 in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Nuvola Player runs a web interface of cloud music services in its own window and provides integration with a Linux desktop (multimedia keys, system tray, media player applets, dock menu, notifications and more).Nuvola Player is an open-source project licensed under GNU GPL 3 and written mainly in Vala (the core) and JavaScript (service integrations).
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Unsettings is a graphical configuration program for the Unity desktop environment that lets you change some of the Unity settings. Unsettings can only change your user's settings, you can't use it to change global settings or do anything else that needs root privileges. You can use Unsettings to change the themes for GTK, window manager, icons and cursors. But it doesn't support the installation of new themes. With Unsettings you can switch off the global menu and the overlay scrollbars used in Unity. In addition to just applying the settings Unsettings lets you to save your settings into and load from a text file (JSON format) so you can easily backup you settings or copy them to a different account. You can file bug report using this link.
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Install VLC 2.0.9 stable in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives


VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xvid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.


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Ambiance & Radiance Flat is a Modern, Beautiful and Vivid Re-imagination of the Ambiance & Radiance Color GTK 2/3 Themes. It features a Modern, Clean And "Flat" look in your choice of 13 vibrant colors. Despite the name "Ambiance" the theme has been re-designed from top to bottom. And is a theme of it's own. A theme For Ubuntu, Mint Or any Distro and nearly any GTK Desktop.

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Sigil is a free, open source ebook editor, it is designed to edit books in ePub format. There is another great alternative which also can edit ePub files called Calibre. Sigil is multi-platform editor available for Linux, Windows, and Mac. If you are looking .EPUB editor for editing and creating ebooks in Linux (Ubuntu/Linux Mint), Sigil can help you all with this kind of stuff including html editing of EPUB ebooks, it can edit books in following formats: EPUB, TXT, and HTML, and export these formats to EPUB.
It offers multi-tabbed interface which is easy to navigate and arranged in quite good manner, with various views, including code view, validation of results, book browser, and WYSIWYG view. It has a table of content (TOC) editor, .EPUB validation and a really nice HTML tidy feature.
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Linux Lite team release new version of their OS Linux Lite 2.2, it is an updated build based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and features the Xfce desktop. "Linux Lite 2.2 final is now available for download. This release is a product of the incredible contributions from both the community and the developers. We've added Backups, a very simple to use backup utility, Date & Time, File Search, and our newest members to the Linux Lite software family - Lite Cleaner, an easy-to-use point and click system cleaner and Lite Welcome which greets you on first boot, gives useful information about Linux Lite including updates, support and development. We've also added Light Locker as the new default screen locker. There are also improvements to Install Additional Software, allowing you to choose multiple programs at once to install. There is also Check Install Media that has been added to the live boot menu and finally, we've added some community created Linux Lite themed wallpapers." Checkout complete release announcement here.
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Most of the Operating Systems now a days offers search within it, Linux is modern desktop which offers many more features than any other Operating System. Ubuntu Unity has its Dash, Gnome Shell desktop also has integrated search, Whisper can be used in Xfce, KDE also offers search from menu, Mate and Cinnamon desktops already have this feature. Mac yosemite introduced new spotlight, it is an productivity feature available in Mac OS. But there are always some Linux users who bring new stuff to Linux and make it better than any other OS.
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Linux Mint team announced the latest release of Linux Mint 17.1 code-named "Rebecca", it is updated version based on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS and Linux Mint 17.1 now features Cinnamon 2.4/Mate 1.8, MDM 1.8, a Linux kernel 3.13 and an Ubuntu 14.04 package base. "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 17.1 'Rebecca' MATE. Linux Mint 17.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2019. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. Linux Mint 17.1 MATE edition comes with two window managers installed and configured by default: Marco (MATE's very own window manager, simple, fast and very stable); Compiz (an advanced compositing window manager which can do wonders if your hardware supports it). Among the various window managers available for Linux, Compiz is certainly the most impressive when it comes to desktop effects." You can dive into complete details of release announcement here for Cinnamon and Mate.

Cinnamon and Mate screenshots
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Install Xtreme Download Manager in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/1713/and other Ubuntu derivatives

Xtreme Download Manager is a advanced and powerful tool to increase download speed up-to 500%, resume broken/dead downloads, integrate with any browser, capture videos from YouTube, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Google Video or any other website and schedule downloads. Xtreme Download Manager uses sophisticated dynamic segmentation algorithm,data compression and connection reuse to speed up the download process. Xtreme Download Manager supports HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols, firewalls, proxy servers, automatic proxy scripts, file redirects, cookies, authorization etc.

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Install GnomishGray theme on Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13 and other Ubuntu based distributions (GTK + Gnome Shell)

GnomishGray is a silver gray GTK3+Gnome-Shell theme, based on Adwaita, for those who prefer light GTK themes with neutral colors. A GTK2 theme, based on the Murrine and Pixmap engines (provided by gtk2-engines-murrine and gtk2-engines-pixbuf in the Debian-based systems) is also included. This version is compatible with Gnome 3.10/3.12 and latest GTK but PPA contains all versions for previous Gnome + Gtk versions. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes. Fs-icons used in screenshots.
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Install GnomishDark theme in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13 (GTK)

GnomishDark is dark clean GTK3 theme, this theme is based on adwaita engine, and Gnome-Shell version is also included with this theme but only available for Ubuntu 12.04. GnomishDark also offers GTK2 themes, which depends on murrine and pixbuf engines. Developer stopped development of Gnome Shell theme because Gnome Shell development is frequent and always breaks his theme so no more gnome updates. If you found any bug in theme then report it to developer via given source link.
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Install GnomishBeige theme in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13 (GTK 3 + Gnome Shell)

GnomishBeige theme is designed for GTK 3, Gnome Shell and it is based on adwaita engine, it is available for Gnome Shell 3.4/3.5.4 version, creator said it is waste of time to make Gnome Shell theme because every new release of Gnome Shell breaks the theme and they have to fix it. GnomishBeige gives brownish flavor to desktop, Developer also created GnomishDark and GnomishGray themes. GnomishDark also offers GTK2 themes, which depends on murrine and pixmap engines. This update brings compatibility with latest GTK. If you found any bug in theme than report it to developer via source link.
zonColor icons used in screenshots. Also checkout icons collection.
You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes/icons.
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Ubuntu 15.04, which is codenamed the Vivid Vervet, is currently penciled in to release on 23rd April, 2015. The release date for Ubuntu 15.04 has now been firmed up as are the other development milestones leading up to the mid-April debut of this release. Ubuntu 15.04 a big focus on convergence and Unity 8 with Mir, early systemd integration, and many other changes planned for development over the next six months.
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The schedule of the release of Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet with given dates are as follows:
  • December 18th - Alpha 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
  • January 22nd - Alpha 2 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
  • February 28th - Beta 1 (Not Public Release - opt-in)
  • March 26th - Final Beta
  • April 16th - Release Candidate
  • April 23rd - Final Release

Download Daily build of Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet
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Mac OS (MBuntu) Transformation pack is ready for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty Tahr/Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca/17 Qiana
(Note: For best results use Unity/Gnome FallBack, and for previous Ubuntu versions link to posts are given)

Finally after a lot of work Mac OS X (Macbuntu Yosemite) transformation pack is ready for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn/14.04 Trusty Tahr. We could make everything automated but in this way you guys won't get how things done in Linux, so we kept everything semi-automatic and interactive. This pack contains themes for GTK (supports: Unity, Gnome, Cinnamon, Mate, and Xfce), two themes for Gnome Shell, one theme for Cinnamon, one icon theme, cursors, and boot screen. I collected some parts for themes from different sources (Cinnamon, Gnome Shell theme from Yosemite Shell, some parts from Zukimac) and Jared from ravefinity helped us fixing bugs in themes, and some icons also collected from different sources[1], docky themes are Ambiance and Buyi-idock. Following these instructions you can completely change look of your Ubuntu 14.10/14.04 to look like Mac. In previous pack we used LightDM webkit theme which was quite similar to Mac login screen, this time we are offering again but you have to use it on your own risk because many users reported problems last time.
Mac packs for Linux are almost stopped but we kept this project on our list from 12.04, and now we have reached to 14.10 with Mac transformation. Many people look on the internet for pre-configured Macbuntu 14.10/Mac4lin, Mac Ubuntu theme and so on, but it is good idea to transform it by yourself because if you want to go back to default look or want to change look you can do that easily.
Note: If you encounter any bug in theme/icons/any stuff, report to us with screenshot or problem with details.

>> MacBuntu Pack For Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty Zapus
>> MacBuntu Pack For Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus
>> MacBuntu Pack For Ubuntu 15.10 Wily Werewolf
>> MacBuntu Pack For Ubuntu 15.04 Vivit Vervet
>> MacBuntu Pack For Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr/Linux Mint 17
>> MacBuntu Pack For Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin/Linux Mint 13

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For numerical computation, data analysis, usually Matlab software is used but it is not necessarily best software available. The main thing is that Matlab is commercial and expensive. Students of Machine learning always wondering what other alternative available for them that is powerful and can be free of cost, which means students don't have to spend their money on a proprietary software. I received a request from people who were looking for Matlab alternatives, so I decided to share with all of you, here are some best available alternatives to Matlab for Linux/Ubuntu/Linux Mint. These software are available in Ubuntu universe repository, also you can build from source if needed.
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Vibrancy Colors is a bold, modern & beautiful "Vibrant" GTK Icon Theme. Vibrancy is a highly polished mixture of many amazing open source icon projects/themes into a new, "beautiful" icon theme. It is meant to be modern, clean and customizable. Vibrancy is a different take on the "Flat" or "Modern Design" trend, Featuring simple, beautiful and modern icons. But with more handcrafted details and emotion. Fully tested/built to work on most major GTK desktops including: Unity, Cinnamon, Gnome Shell, Gnome Classic, Mate, Xfce, LXDE, Openbox and more.


To install Vibrancy-Colors in any Debian/Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the terminal:
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The days of the big mechanical cash register are long gone; even platen scanners are no longer considered a necessity for retail services, with big box retail chains like OfficeMax stores eschewing the glass and laser counter for a simple hand scanner. Many retailers already use Ubuntu or Linux operation systems for their point of sale (POS) systems due to the locked down security they offer, but for the most part this has been limited to large chain retailers with money to spend on a dozen POS stations at a time.
However, with the release of Ubuntu Touch 14.04, the winds of change may just be blowing in. As stated by developers—and reiterated in Ars Technica's review—the 14.04 is a "mostly stable" build of the Linux based mobile OS. It's not perfect, but the fact that it offers unrivaled security with the mobility and touch functionality of a tablet means this could be a contender for POS systems in small businesses everywhere.


Easy Checkout

According to the specs offered on the official site, Ubuntu Touch works on displays as small as 6.5 inches and as large as 20 inches, meaning that while buying a brand new tablet for just this purpose sounds like a great idea, most small business owners can probably get away with putting it on that Nexus 7 half the entrepreneurs of the world picked up last year to help manage their business better.

There are a plethora of apps, both free and paid, that can turn an Ubuntu tablet into a POS station, but with a five star rating on SourceForge and an update within the last 90 days, POSper is definitely the winner. This is a simple, easy to use touch-based POS app designed for use on a Linux OS—the touch-based functionality makes it seem that this one was designed specifically for Ubuntu Touch, but that's not even the best feature. POSper was designed specifically for small businesses, supporting an impressive range of hardware and databases to allow everyone who uses it to get the most out of every feature.

In spite of being free, POSper offers a number of features commonly only found in paid POS applications:
  • Ability to use multiple currencies (with programmable exchange rates)
  • Custom payment methods including "free" and "invoice"
  • Warning message when no payment type is selected (often even big retail POS systems simply do nothing in the case of this error, so this is an excellent feature for new users)
  • System warnings in plain English for new users
  • Printer templates with scale and margin features
With these simple must-have features available on a secure, stable and free system, what is it that's keeping Ubuntu Touch from becoming the clear choice for small businesses everywhere? As usual, it's a problem with plastic. At the moment the biggest hurdle to jump toward making a complete POS system for small businesses that works with a Linux operating system is actually the credit card reader. While there are plenty of readers that are compatible with Ubuntu and Linux, considering it's fairly popular with big retailers, they're a little pricey when it comes to individual sales.

However, retailers can rest assured that, as more small businesses get familiar with what a Linux OS can offer them in terms of security and ease of use, there's little doubt that Square and PayPal Here will offer compatibility before long.


A Full Retail Solution?

When it comes to small business retail, there are a lot of moving parts. While the POS terminal itself is extremely important to the daily operation of mom and pop shops everywhere, that's not the end of it. On top of needing a POS system and all related hardware, small businesses also need to make sure the checkout process is easy and inventory can easily be tracked.

Thankfully, those requirements have a single solution, and it's one that Linux can provide with ease: UPCs and other barcodes. Chances are you've already heard about the ZINT Barcode Generator, which offers easy creation of over 150 different barcode symbologies from UPCs to QR codes; this is one program that every small business that works with a barcode scanner could use, and it's designed especially for Linux.

ZINT Barcode Generator can also create USPS codes, making business easier for online retailers as well by offering simple shipping solutions. No more wasting hours in the post office every time a big order comes in! All you need is a Linux compatible barcode printer, like the ones offered by small business support company Shopify, and you're ready to get started.


Trust In the Future

Whether Ubuntu Touch ever catches on in small business POS systems remains to be seen. Considering the unrivaled security and ease of use, as the operating system becomes more streamlined in updates past the 14.04 you can expect to see it used more often in retail business everywhere. It may just change how small retailers do business, both from a cost perspective and when it comes to the go-to equipment.
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Tomahawk is open-source and free a new kind of music player that brings all of your streams, downloads, cloud music storage, playlists, radio stations and friends to the same party. It is multi source audio player which not only plays your local collection, but it can also stream from different services using plugins from SoundCloud, Spotify, Beats, YouTube and many more. It also allows you to connect to your friends via GTalk/Jabber and share your playlist and collection, browse your friends playlist and play their libraries, stations, playlists or just listen along to whatever they are playing.
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Royal-Gtk is a modern flat theme with a combination of light and dark elements based on Numix. The original Numix theme modified to make more user experience better because it was too dark according to Sultan Al Isaiee. He did it for himself but then he shared his work with public.
Now this theme contains less dark colors, dark toolbar for Gtk3 apps, dark theme for GIMP and Qt Creator, new window controls (similar to OSX 10.10) and border-less Unity app windows. He modified this only for Ubuntu Unity but as I tested it can work under Linux Mint too. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change themes.
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This 14.0 release brings many updates and changes, not the least of which is the change to the software’s name and logo. The release candidate cycle will also be the first to include the official logo of Kodi! Kodi is a new name for project XBMC, Kodi feels very natural to use from the couch and is the ideal solution for your home theater.

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Sovietec-OS icons are created by Juan. It contains more than 9500+ icons for the most of applications/folders/status/mime-types/others which are available for Linux, it is released under GNU General Public License. If you like the creator work then don't forget to cheer them up by donations. This icon theme is compatible with Unity, Gnome, Xfce, KDE, Mate, and Cinnamon. It is first release of this icon theme and in active development, if you found any missing icon for an application/mime-type/folder/devices/or any other icon then report to creator via this link. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.
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Mint team released new version 2.4 of Cinnamon with new features and bugs fixes, new redesigned stuff, enhancements to the bottom panel, also include cinnamon setting manager. In version 2.4, and similar to MATE or Xfce, Cinnamon is an entire desktop environment built on GNOME technologies. It still uses toolkits and libraries such as GTK or Clutter and it is still compatible with all GNOME applications, but it no longer requires GNOME itself to be installed. It now communicates directly with its own backend services, libraries and daemons: cinnamon-desktop, cinnamon-session and cinnamon-settings-daemon. This new version will be featured in Linux Mint 17.1 “Rebecca” planned for the end of November and in LMDE 2 “Betsy” planned for Spring 2015.
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Install Grive and Grive Tools in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/Linux Mint 17/16/15/14/other Ubuntu derivatives

Months back Pear OS developer created Syncdrive which was GUI for Grive, and its PPA was maintained by NoobsLab team. Unfortunately Pear OS has been sold and Syncdrive is no more supported, I received a lot of queries that it is not functioning anymore. So here is another unofficial great client for Google Drive, Grive command-line client was already available but the only thing 'GUI setup' was missing so thefanclub created Grive-Tools in order to made Grive setup easy for everybody. Basically it is front-end of Grive with some extended features. It has panel indicator and I tested it under these desktops: Unity, Mate, Gnome Classic, Lxde, and indicator doesn't work in other desktops Gnome Shell, Cinnamon, Xfce (I will report to maintainer).
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Install Deepin Software Center v3.2 in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17 and Deepin Software Center v3.0 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Install Deepin Software Center v2.1 in 13.10 Saucy/13.04 Raring/12.10 Quantal/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17/16/15/14/13/other Ubuntu derivatives

Deepin Software Center, aka DSC, is one of the most talked about applications of Linux Deepin. DSC supports parallel downloading, resuming downloads, update notification and cache cleaning. DSC also comes with colorful skins that can be swapped as your mood changes.
It provides more than 2,600 decent applications and features easy installation and uninstall, software repository and recommended applications. It supports 1-click install, downloading packages with multi-thread and clearing up cached packages. It provides topics for software introduction and shares good applications.
Note: You can't have all versions at the same time.

Deepin Software Center Version 3.2/3.0



Screenshots v3.2/v3.0
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Emerald icon theme is based on Flattr and Breeze (Plasma next icons) icons themes. It contains more than 4000+ icons for applications/folders/status/mime-types/others and it offers two themes: Emerald it can be used with light panels and Emerald-Dark use it if you are using dark theme.
It is compatible with Unity, Gnome, Xfce, Mate, and Cinnamon. It is first release of this icon theme and in active development, if you found any missing icon for an application/mime-type/folder/devices/or any other icon then report to creator. You can use Unity Tweak Tool, Gnome-tweak-tool or Ubuntu-Tweak to change icons.
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StreamStudio is a free software licensed under the GPLv2. It helps to do your search from an intuitive interface, and stream your videos. It also offers nine plugins from various online sources, it has UPnP protocol support.

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cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight. This terminal emulator works under Linux Ubuntu/Linux Mint and OSX and requires Qt 5.2 or higher.



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Things/Tweaks to do after fresh install of Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn/Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

Most awaiting release Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr LTS is arrived, Ubuntu team is heading towards great way and has done really great work, unlike previous releases this release got many new features and improvements. Unity 7 is much faster, responsive and a lot of things further you can see the release post of Ubuntu 14.04. After digging in this version I was wondering what tweaks/things a normal user should do with this release and make it much better than any other OS available out there. All tweaks are tested by NoobsLab, so hopefully you won't get any problem with them and if you encounter any problem feel free to ask. Lets start .....
Ubuntu 14.10 is released today, I was wondering what to tweak in this release and this time there aren't different tweaks for this release 14.10 than previous 14.04 Trusty. So you guys can continue following these tweaks for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn. For some tweaks it is written "Only for 14.04 Trusty" these won't work in 14.10 Utopic as I tested.
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Ubuntu team announced the availability of the final release of Ubuntu 14.10 and all other derivatives, Ubuntu Mate is not official derivative yet: The final release of Ubuntu 14.10 Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. This release includes images from not only the Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products, but also the Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu flavours. Utopic final includes updated versions of most of our core set of packages, including a current 3.16.x Linux kernel, AppArmor improvements, oxide, and many more.
New fixes and features for Unity desktop, Firefox is updated to version 33 and Chromium is updated to version 38. Gtk updated to version 3.12. Qt updated to version 5.3. Other apps LibreOffice 4.3.2.2; Thunderbird 33; Nautilus 3.10; Evince 3.14; Rhythmbox 3.0.3; Unity 7.3.1. Support for IPP Everywhere printers is added, and printers shared from Ubuntu can emulate IPP Everywhere printers. IPP printers require no configuration under Ubuntu. LibreOffice 4.3 brings a lot of improvements including improved PDF support, new features in Writer, Calc and Impress (word processor, spreadsheet and presentations). With Xorg 1.16, we have better support for non-pci devices. Xephyr now supports DRI3. The mesa 10.3 update has support for AMD Hawaii GPU's, improved support for dri3 offloading, the freedreno open source driver, and preliminary support for using nouveau on maxwell devices.
Codenamed "Utopic Unicorn", 14.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs.
Under the hood, there have been updates to many core packages, including a new 3.16-based kernel, a new AppArmor with fine-grained socket control, and more.
Ubuntu Desktop has seen incremental improvements, with newer versions of GTK and Qt, updates to major packages like Firefox and LibreOffice, and improvements to Unity, including improved High-DPI display support. Release announcement.
Checkout release notes of Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn.
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How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/any Ubuntu version
Warning: Backup your data.

Graphical Upgrade:

This is the most easiest way to upgrade Ubuntu from any version to any latest Ubuntu Version. You can upgrade with just few clicks and rest of the process Ubuntu will do.

Step 1: Open "Dash" and Search for "Update Manager" then open it. In update manager Click on "Settings" Button.
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Install Cairo Dock 3.3.1 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy/Ubuntu 13.04 Raring/Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal/Ubuntu 12.04 Precise/10.04 Lucid/11.10/11.04/10.10/Linux Mint 16/15/14/13/12/11/10/9/other Ubuntu derivatives

Cairo-Dock, a fast and customizable desktop interface which can be used as alternative or addition to Unity, Gnome-Shell, Xfce-panel, and KDE-panel, is now at version 3.3.1.
Cairo-Dock sits in the centre of your desktop, allowing you to monitor and control your favourite apps: music players, chat messengers, twitter, torrents downloaders, RSS feeds, calendar/tasks, weather, mail checkers, etc, and a powerful taskbar.
Cairo Dock includes many plugins/applets such as: weather, clock, Messaging Menu, system monitor, keyboard indicators, custom icons, notification area, clipboard manager, and many other plugins.
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Core:
  • Cairo-Dock Session:
    • Support Gnome Session 3.8
    • When launching it for the first time and if Compiz is running, enable a staticswitcher (Alt+Tab) if no switcher is enabled
  • Default themes: added a few default apps for XFCE
  • Dialogues:
    • Prevent dialogues from going out of the screen if the WM doesn't handle this
    • Close the sub-dock if a dialogue overlaps it
    • Fixed a bug that made the background of the widgets inside the dialogue visible
  • GUI: settings about images: used the image selector widget instead file selector widget
  • Docks:
    • Fixed a bug that made a sub-dock hide itself when placed in the top left corner of the screen
    • Fixed a bug that prevented sub-docks to hide in specific conditions
  • OpenGL:
    • Created a backend for the OpenGL interfaces (can be useful for a future support of other OpenGL interfaces)
    • The Intel 4000HD is now blacklisted (except if 'cairo-dock -o' command is used) due to annoying bug
  • Tests: Added a test framework, and several tests
  • Theme packager: added the possibility to select another output directory and added a message if there is an error
  • Windows:
    • Isolated a lot of functions linked to X11 (can be useful for a future support of Wayland or Mir)
    • If a window has no type and is not transient (e.g. windows of xterm, lxterm, uxterm, and rxvt), keep it on the taskbar
  • Misc:

 Plug-ins:
  • Applications Menu:
    • Added support of ezame, a new Menu Editor
    • Added an option to not load settings.menu file (can be useless or it duplicates menu sections on some systems)
    • Set the desktop environment to correctly exclude apps
  • Clipper: In some cases the history was not saved before the end of the session
  • Clock:
    • Interface: Python: fixed a crash if no translation file is found for this domain
    • Installation: Python: support DESTDIR env var
  • DBus:
    • Support login1 for the 'resuming' signal
    • ICAL: Check if a task a valid before adding it
  • Drop to Share:
    • Added Imgur.com support
    • Fixed imageshack.us and uppix.com support
    • Improved error messages
    • Added the possibility to translate some dedicated menus
    • Fixed the title of the Text items in the History menu
  • Indicator-applet3 (Indicator-Generic):
    • Added support of new Indicator Services (Indicator-NG, installed in /usr/share/unity/indicators)
    • Added a workaround to draw the correct image after a short delay if the image is not yet ready.
  • Logout:
    • Lock Screen: added support of cinnamon-screensaver, all [smthg]-screensaver daemons and light-locker
    • Added the possibility to switch user with a custom command
    • Fixed switch user when using GDM
    • Displayed a warning message if it's not possible to reboot/shutdown.
  • Mail: Added the possibility to use a specific icon for each account
  • Note-taking: improve the window to edit notes
  • Notification area: Hide the icon if there is no item (if there is nothing to display)
  • PowerManager:
    • Better handle the case where a device is added/removed
    • Capacity: used the sum and not the average of all batteries
    • Label: used shorter string for the label and start with the percentage (should be better when displaying the dock in a vertical position where labels have a maximum size)
  • Recent-event:
    • Support both Zeitgeist-1.0 and Zeitgeist-2.0
    • Dialogue: used a longer search bar (expanded and filled)
    • Update the result each time a new key is pressed
  • Switcher: listen to more events to correctly update the icon when a window is moved/minimised/created/...
  • Terminal: Added a few more options: scrollback, scroll on output/keystroke, custom font
  • Weather: URL for the detailed weather has changed
  • Wifi:
    • If we don't want the quickinfo: refresh the icon too
    • Used the full path for iwconfig

Other Changes:
  • Deluge: A menu entry to quit the application was missing
  • Calendar:
    • Used 'cal' if 'ncal' is not available
    • Added a theme selector: default, faenza, custom
  • Screensaver inhibitor: only list processes of the current user
  • Moon: fixed a few bugs:
    • Added the possibility to translate the label (days)
    • When using a subdock for the next 7 days, also change the main icon
    • Added the possibility to use other icons in different formats (only in the directory of the applet)
    • Removed duplicated code
  • Translator: invert languages when scrolling
  • Twitter: Updating to the API 1.1
  • Deluge & KTorrent: translated torrents info message
  • GMail: reduce the number of update of the icon/quickinfo (do that only if it's needed)
  • Google: Parser: if the URL can changed: with or without '/url' (it depends of the country)
  • Transmission:
    • Added the possibility to display the remaining time of the slowest active torrent as quick-info
    • Improved torrents info dialogue
    • Fixed a possible crash if Transmission has never been launched before
  • Websearch:
    • Fixed Google, Flickr and Bing search.
    • Removed Webshots (no longer available) and Twitter (api has changed).
    • List of results now shows the search engine's logo if is not a thumbnailable link icon.
  • Misc:
    • Added the possibility to translate the name of the applet
    • Fixed some compatibilities with Python 3 (some applets still need Python 2)

To install Cairo Dock in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
That's it
Source: glx-dock
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