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A new Ubuntuone-Installer version was uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin repositories today and with it, Ubuntu One has switched to a new Qt interface by default, replacing the old GTK version.
According to a bug report, the Ubuntu One team is no longer supporting the GTK interface so it will be removed soon.
Among the reasons behind this decision are: deprecated pygtk bindings, uniform  interface across all the platforms, usability and others.
UbuntuOne Installer:



And the Qt UbuntuOne Control Panel interface:



Currently, there's a bug and launching UbuntuOne from the Unity Launcher, the installer fails. This can be solved by manually installing the Ubuntu One Control Panel Qt interface:

sudo apt-get install ubuntuone-control-panel-qt

The latest ubuntuone-installer package also installs the new Rhythmbox UbuntuOne Music Store plugin, replacing the Banshee one:

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Cinnamon 1.3 was released almost a week ago, with version 1.3.1 following shortly and for some reason, the PPA we've posted a while back hasn't been updated with either of these versions. A new PPA has been created so Ubuntu users can easily get updates without having to manually download the .deb files.
To add the new PPA and install the latest Cinnamon in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin or 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, copy/paste the following commands in a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gwendal-lebihan-dev/cinnamon-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cinnamon

You can remove the previous PPA (ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa), but it's not mandatory and leaving it won't affect anything. A note though: some (possibly all) extensions you may have installed from the ppa:merlwiz79/cinnamon-ppa PPA won't work with the latest Cinnamon 1.3.1. But most of them have been converted to applets and are now built-in anyway.

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The update to the open source flight simulator includes a number of improvements to AI aircraft, a "major overhaul" of the JSBSim flight dynamics model and more fine-tuning options

The Btrfs and MD code offers new ways to change RAIDs while keeping data intact. Ext4 filesystems can now be expanded more quickly. The kernel also gained a driver for an upcoming storage device interface

According to a blog post by Adobe, after the 11.2 release, Flash Player for Linux will only be available through a new "Pepper" API as a part of Google Chrome, and won't be available as a separate download anymore. However, Adobe will continue to offer security updates for Flash Player 11.2 for Linux for five years.
Google will provide the "Pepper" Flash Player implementation for all supported Chrome platforms, including Linux (x86/64).
As for Firefox, its Wiki states that "Mozilla is not interested in or working on Pepper at this time". But even if Mozilla changes its mind, the post on Adobe's website says that Flash will be bundled with Google Chrome only, so unless Mozilla and Adobe become partners, they probably can't use it.

At this point, Mozilla's options are: use an alternative like Gnash or Lightspark (which will hopefully become more reliable) or hope that in 5 years, Flash won't matter and HTML5 will be used pretty much everywhere.

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The project developers plan to provide intelligent code prediction for the Eclipse development environment as an "IDE 2.0" effort

Aimed at developers and testers, the first of two planned betas for version 2 of the Mandriva Linux community fork brings updates to the Linux kernel and included desktops, as well as various package udpates

The new version of the Linux distribution for administering and reparing systems drops Firefox as the default web browser in favour of Midori; it includes updates to its standard and alternative kernels, and packages

The free software for programming flash chips now supports the SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface), SFDP (Serial Flash Discoverable Parameters) and new chips from AMD and Intel

The cross platform mobile toolkit has a new look web site at the Apache Foundation's incubator

Here's a video demoing the new Ubuntu for Android:


(direct link to video)

As you can see in the video above, all Android applications installed on the phone show up in Dash and you can run them on the Ubuntu for Android desktop. It doesn't yet looks like in the screenshots/mockups we've posted earlier: there are no interactive notifications, it uses Unity 2D, etc. But this is just the beginning!
What do you think?

via muktware.com

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Adobe has announced that in future, the Linux Flash Player will only be available as part of the Google Chrome browser and not as a standalone download. Future Flash Players after 11.2 will only support Google's Pepper plugin API

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Mark Shuttleworth has announced "Ubuntu for Android", which brings Ubuntu to multi core Android phones.

Ubuntu for Android is a phone but also your own portable computer that you can plug in to any monitor to get a fully featured desktop:

Carry just the phone, and connect it to any monitor to get a full Ubuntu desktop with all the native apps you want, running on the same device at the same time as Android. Magic. Everything important is shared across the desktop and the phone in real time.

And it's not just a computer, Ubuntu TV is integrated into Ubuntu for Android so when you connect it to a TV, you don't get the Ubuntu desktop interface but the Ubuntu TV interface.

Ubuntu for Android will use Unity, along with applications (or web apps) you're already familiar with, like: Chromium, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Thunderbird, Gwibber, VLC, PiTiVi, "Ubuntu Music Player" (looks like Rhythmbox) or Ubuntu Photo Gallery (Shotwell). This is possible because Ubuntu and Android will share the same kernel.

Contacts, photos, music etc., will be available on both the phone and the desktop interface.



Ubuntu for Android will work on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) or newer and will require the following hardware:

• Dual-core 1GHz CPU
• Video acceleration: shared kernel driver with associated X driver; Open GL, ES/EGL
• torage: 2GB for OS disk image
• HDMI: video out with secondary frame buffer device
• USB host mode
• 512 MB RAM

Mark Shuttleworth also says that this isn't the Ubuntu Phone (which is still in the pipeline).
Ubuntu for Android will be demoed at the Mobile World Congress next week. For more information, see Mark's post and the official Ubuntu for Android page.
Update: check out this Ubuntu for Android video.


screenshots via Ubuntu for Android and Extremetech

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