Iloveubuntu: Ubuntu blog

While developing Ubuntu, the developers are constantly faced with bugs, bugs featuring diverse complexities, affected areas, necessary skills to be fixed, etc, basically, being perceived as bugs (in the sense of regular), serious, critical, show-stoppers, etc, bundle of bug labels shaped around a coding-based fixing "zone".

GRUB is Ubuntu's default boot loader and manager, allowing the user, when the computer starts, to select a preferred operating system, a different kernel from an operating system, generate various tests, etc, via a minimalistic clear interface, usually (in Ubuntu) displaying a purple-ish background and text.

Although perceived as GRUB 2, Ubuntu uses (in its at-the-moment current version) GRUB 1.x (1.99 version), 1.99 release acknowledged and referred to across the internets as GRUB 2.

Accessing applications, restarting the computer, opening a torrent app, etc, are actions usually performed by the user via mouse and/or keyboard, "built-in" computer components imprinted in one's mind and usage behavior.

Nevertheless, in our highly-diverse hardware "world" where hardware interactions are daily increased via constantly added new technologies, there are situations requiring non-specific computer maneuvering behaviors, such as using gaming-specific tools to manage applications, computer processes, etc.

Landscape is a powerful management technology, allowing users to hassle-free manage thousands and thousands of Ubuntu machines as easily as dealing with one machine.

VPN (virtual private network) is a handy technology, that allows users to connect computers to remote computer networks via a secure connection, resulting in numerous use cases, such as the ability to access numerous resources (printers, databases, files, etc) on remote networks.

In order to add a VPN connection, navigate to Unity panel's Network Indicator-->Edit Connections-->VPN-->Add, followed by entering the required connection details.

Editing video clips, creating long documents, enjoying games, watching movies, etc, are sometimes part of our daily workflows, workflow tending to "use" numerous hours, sometimes more than we previously anticipated.

Usually, a remedy is the usage of an alarm that, set as one's initially scheduled activity, stops the in-progress activity after x hours/minutes.

Cuckoo is a simplistic yet effective alarm utility, aimed at setting and generating alarms in a matter of seconds.

OrthCal is a handy utility, focused on delivering official/recognized/celebrated feasts of the Eastern Orthodox Calendar, categorizing its data in feasts as set by the old Julian Calendar and the new revised Julian Calendar.

Launching the app, pushes its appindicator into the Unity panel, where Today's Feasts (Julian/Old Calendar) and Today's Feasts (Revised Julian/New Calendar) are to be located.

Days ago, Unity greeter was updated with various visual refinements, minor yet relevant visual bits, aimed at further polishing Ubuntu's default login experience.

The visual refresh has been followed by the handy addition of the Network Indicator, indicator exposed (by default) at login, furthermore, adding specific functionalities, such as enabling/disabling connections, access connection details, etc.

Ubuntu One is a useful technology that provides 5GB of free space to be used by users, space accessible via the desktop and/or trough its online place, space provided for free by default (furthermore, the users can purchase various payed plans when searching to extend the used storage).

Along with the mentioned storage functionality, Ubuntu One incorporates a music store, easily accessible via Ubuntu's default music player, Rhythmbox, where previewing tracks (listening the first minute) and buying music albums can be achieved.

After selecting and landing the default wallpaper stack for Ubuntu 12.10, the developers have just published and landed in Quantal the default wallpaper.

The new default wallpaper definitely takes a different approach in terms of expressing the visual brand of Quantal Quetzal, combining warm colors with shadows, similar to a wave of colors.

The eye is to follow a solid yet fluid movement from the right-side to the left area of the screen, a movement of light encompassing the shiny Quantal desktop.