Iloveubuntu: Ubuntu blog

20 million users are currently using Ubuntu, powerful, solid and versatile operating system that offers security, stability, speed and reliability to users located from Brazil to Russia, India and China.

Moreover, Ubuntu is actually a family of OSes, in the sense of being expressed in multiple flavors with specific functionalities and features, as in the case of Ubuntu Server.

FLISOL is one of the biggest events aimed at spreading free (libre) software in Latin America, event's attendees spreading, explaining and installing free software simultaneously in numerous countries.

As FLISOL participants, there are Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela, essentially, a massive number of involved countries.

Weeks ago, the Ubuntu developers announced the creation of an official PPA dedicated to gather Ubuntu SDK apps,--Ubuntu SDK Apps Collection PPA --, thus allowing users to enjoy and test apps like XKCD Viewer, uReadIt, Electronics Toolbox, Akari, Mastermind, Stock Ticker Mobile App, Sudoku Touch, LightOff, etc.

Today, 30th of April 2013, Lightworks for Linux BETA was released, allowing interested users to download, test and enjoy the versatile video editor.

The BETA release incarnates months of development on the Linux front, presenting itself as a usable (although work in progress) video editor.

Serious development work is an attribute clearly observed on Ubuntu Touch, overall project housing numerous components and tools, including Ubuntu SDK.

With Ubuntu SDK (work in progress) third-party developers are able to create modern, highly-useful and polished applications, new and new apps being almost daily displayed in the open.

Across the latest months, the Lightworks developers have released several Lightworks for Linux ALPHA versions via a closed invite-only testing program, testing process aimed at strengthening Lightworks for Linux.

The Lightworks team has just released the first public BETA of Lightworks for Linux, opening the powerful versatile video editor to interested users.

In Ubuntu 13.10 there is a high probability for the Smart Scopes project (the Online Dash Initiative) to be implemented by default, meaning, the users will be able to search through a massive set of default scopes (data sources) via the Dash home.

The Ubuntu Touch Core Apps project houses a set of applications that are to be landed in the touch OS by default, thus users will be able to enjoy both beautiful and useful applications.

It seems that the development advancement on the core apps is rapidly incarnating new features and functionalities, expressing the core apps as usable (work in progress) and constantly gaining exciting capabilities.

Unsettings is a powerful tweaking utility that gathers a significant amount of tweakable options under a simplistic easy-to-use interface.

2013 has started a revolution into the Ubuntu world, introducing Ubuntu Touch, Mir and UnityNext, bundle of exciting software that is to express Ubuntu as suitable for phones, desktops, tablets, etc.

Almost immediately, third-party developers have started to filter through their experience and preferences software with Ubuntu SDK, significantly enriching Ubuntu's ecosystem of community-contributed apps.

Software centers, games, chat utilities, converters and painting canvases are among the numerous publicly presented third-party software.