15 New Wallpapers Shipped in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

Did you remember ?, Few month ago an Ubuntu Artwork has made a challenge for community/individual to submit their best wallpaper/artwork here to be include as default wallpapers in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

The time has come, Ubuntu Artwork has choose best 14 community wallpapers, to be include as default wallpapers in Ubuntu 11.10 along with default wallpapers that provide by official, So you will get 15 Fresh Wallpapers in Ubuntu 11.10 which have never included in it's previous version.

Best 44 Ubuntu 11.10 Wallpapers Candidate

14 Wallpapers that been chosen has been selected from best 44 wallpapers picked by the the team including Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com>, Kenneth Wimer <kenneth.wimer@ubuntu.com> and Otto Greenslade <otto.greenslade@canonical.com>, Is one of yours is  chosen ?,  Here are a 14 Default Wallpapers that will shipped in Ubuntu 11.10 :

1. Buck off! by SirPecanGum
2. Darkening Clockwork by Matt Katzenberger
3. Dybbølsbro Station by SirPecanGum
4. JardinPolar by CarmenGloria Gonzalez
5. Langelinie Allé by SirPecanGum
6. Momiji Dream by Deacon MacMillan
7. Mount Snowdon, Wales by Adam Vellender
8. Not Alone by Deacon MacMillan
9. Power of Words by Antonio Litterio
10. PurpleDancers by Emilio Merlino
11. Small flowers by Dariusz Duma
12. Stalking Ocelot by Sayantan Chaudhuri
13. The Grass aint Greener by fix pena
14. WildWheat by Brian Burt

Download Ubuntu 11.10 Wallpapers
You do no need to wait till Ubuntu 11.10 Final Launched, you can download it now though following link :

• Download  Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Default Wallpapers 

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Gnome 3.2 Features and Review, See Gnome 3.2 in Action [Video]

Today we search in YouTube looking for someone who have tried Gnome 3.2, Yataii !!  and we found it. We found interesting video from fredbezies who have tried Gnome 3.2 in their machines (Archlinux). So check this out, give your own assessment. 

Gnome 3.2 Features and Review Video

From video that uploaded by fredbezies above, i see that not so many thing changes (in term of appearance and artwork) in Gnome 3.2. Some visible change are it's using nautilus 3.2.0 and new window decoration, and some effect which remind us with safari (browser from Apple.Inc). 

See our article here, To Install Gnome 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 via PPA.

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Firefox 7 Finall Ready to Upgrade/Install in Ubuntu via PPA

Finally Mozilla Firefox 7 released, Since Firefox 7 beta shipped with Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2, we guess (can be ensured) that Firefox 7 Final will released soon along with ubuntu 11.10 release in October 13th and will be shipped as default browser there.

Firefox 7 Final Features
Unlike in the previous release, on this release there are not many changes happen, in term of performance or appearance, here some features you can found at Firefox 7 Final :

• Simple options for add-ons embedded in the main UI,  For detail of this feature you can read in here.
• Improve Responsiveness with Memory Reductions, For detail of this feature you can read in here.

Install Firefox 7 Final in Ubuntu via Mozilla Firefox PPA Stable
Continue what we wrote in Download / Install Firefox 7 Beta (build 3), today Firefox 7 Final (Stable) are really ready to upgrade in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot and 11.04 Natty Narwhall or to Install in previous version of Ubuntu. If you are using Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 (Alpha/Beta) you do not need to do following step because you can install it automaticaly by the time your system update it's repository, Otherwise do following step to install Mozilla Firefox 7 Final in Ubuntu.

• sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install firefox or  sudo apt-get upgrade firefox

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Gnome Shell 3.2 ready to Install in Oneiric and Natty via Gnome-Shell Testing PPA

GNOME 3.2 is ready to Rocks !!, The GNOME team is done with major revamps for a while, GNOME 3.2 is all about polish, adding new features and improving some else.

GNOME 3.2 scheduled to be released in 28 September 2011, but you can test it via PPA that maintain by Rico Tzschichholz. Gnome 3.2 come with an integrated chat, share files and even take calls from the GNOME without the need to install any additional apps.

Here some features and changes which available in Gnome 3.2 (GTK+ 3.2.0 Features) :

• Many improvements to the CSS theming support
• Width-for-height support in many more widgets:
• GtkPaned, GtkMenuBar, GtkNotebook,
• New experimental Wayland and HTML5 backends
• GtkFileChooser and GtkAssistant have received face-lifts
• The GtkFontSelection has been replaced by a new
• family of GtkFontChooser widgets
• New widgets: GtkLockButton and GtkOVerlay

Install or Upgrade Gnome Shell 3.2 in Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 via PPA
This PPA is Experimental channel so Install/Upgrade it wisely and do with your own risk :)
  

* updated 1 oct 2011

Use this PPA this PPA which provide by Gnome 3 Development team to install Upgrade Gnome Shell 3.2 in Natty or Oneiric :

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

If PPA above not work you can try to use PPA that maintain by Rico Tzschichholz bellow.

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot :

• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu oneiric main
• deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu oneiric main

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal :

• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu natty main
• deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ricotz/testing/ubuntu natty main

If you are using the Natty packages make sure you also added the Gnome3 PPA!
ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3 (https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3)

• Read also, 5 Step to make your Gnome Looks Great! (here)

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Install Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric via PPA

Ubuntu Tweak is an application designed to config Ubuntu easier for everyone, It provided many usefull desktop and system options that the default desktop environment isn’t provided.At present, Ubuntu Tweak have come to version 0.6 (beta).

On this release, Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta come with following changes and features :

• New User Interface
• New clips feature: first screen information
• All features are plug-able
• Package Cleaner becomes a new major part feature as the “Janitor”

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta Screenshot

Four `fresh` major features which available on this release is Overview, Tweaks, Admins and Janitor

Install / Upgrade Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta via PPA
you can install Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta from PPA that maintanence by tualatrix team, this only provide `Beta` version of Ubuntu Tweak so do with your own risk.

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/next
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak

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Install Backtrack 5 Application in Ubuntu

Continue what I wrote here about how to use any Backtrack 5 application ubuntu, a few days ago someone asked me "How to install Backtrack 5 r1 application in Ubuntu?",  so I thought of having to write it here.

For those of you who focus on computer/network security and love being Ubuntu user, You do not need to consider switching to other distros because you can Install any security application which available on Backtrack 5 on your Ubuntu. You can  add Backtrack 5 repository to your ubuntu following this :

Add Backtrack 5 Menu  to Ubuntu Repository

1. Download the key, here  (*if first link not work change with this here)
2. Add the key you have download through synaptic (or terminal), Open your Synaptics then go to Repositories > Authentication > Import key file
3. Add following Backtrack 5 Ubuntu repository 

• deb http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing
• deb http://32.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing
• deb http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing
• deb http://source.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution main microverse non-free testing

If repository above not work, you can use following repository (taken from indonesian backtrack community)

• deb http://backtrack.indowebster.com/repo/all revolution main microverse non-free testing
• deb http://backtrack.indowebster.com/repo/32 revolution main microverse non-free testing
• deb http://backtrack.indowebster.com/repo/source revolution main microverse non-free testing

Yes, that's it.

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Install Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 11.10

Note : Use only if you have Legal Copy of Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft Office 2007 is such a popular word processing application although until now it'a still not available yet for ubuntu or other Linux distro. When you are using Ubuntu and you do not feel familiar with LibreOffice it's good try to install Microsoft Office 2007 in your Ubuntu (*if you have the legal copy) I think it is a wise choice than you are sacrificing your time.

To be able to install Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu we need such supporting application and library  so that Office 2007 can be work properly, some of these applications are Wine 1.3, Winetrick, msttcorefonts-offline library (to make clear type and smooth font face) and some required library.  Here are step by step to install Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 11.10 :


Install Wine 1.3
Step first is installing Wine (windows emulator) version 1.3 through PPA, do following action in terminal :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine1.3

Download and Install Microsoft Core Font Library
To complate your Office 2007 font collection, download and install msttcorefont-offline as following :

wget http://imaginux.com/repos/pool/renzo/msttcorefonts-offline_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i msttcorefonts-offline_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb

Install Windows DLL Component in Ubuntu
To ensure your Windows application can work properly, install required windows library (DLL) through following step : 

• Run Winetrick (sudo winetrick)
• Select Install a Windows DLL or Component
• Components are selected: msxml3, dotnet20, gdiplus, riched20, riched30, and vcrun2005

Install  Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu
After you do some of the above, now is the time you install Office 2007 in your system, you can double click or open with `wine` the Office 2007 installer [setup.exe], or do following command in your terminal :

$ wine /path/to/office2007installer/setup.exe

Microsoft Office 2007 run on Ubuntu 11.10

If step by step above have been executed without error, you should have Microsoft Office 2007 installed in your Ubuntu. Go to Application >  Wine > Programs > Microsoft Office > Microsoft Office Word 2007 to open the program.

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Want to design a dream home ? (Sweet Home 3D Video Tutorial)

Sweet Home 3D allows you to design your dream home with ease. It comes with various "components" (furniture) ready-made such as sofas, tables, chairs, bed and others. The results of the design of artificial Sweet Home 3D can be exported into PDF, image files (PNG), video and 3D file format standard.
For more details, please check the video tutorial here.

Download Sweet Home 3D

You can download Sweet Home 3D Application through following links.

• Download Sweet Home 3D

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Bossie (Best Open Software Source) Awards 2011

Rapidly Open Source development encourage Infoworld to confer Open Source developer/application as `the Best Open Source of the year` are considered to be very feasible to accept the award in his field. Here  are the best Open Source Application of the year picked from InfoWorld's Test Center compiled By Doug Dineley, James R. Borck, Peter Wayner, Serdar Yegulalp from InfoWorld.

Best Open Source Application 2011

• Apache Lucene & Solr
• Bonita Open Solution
• Drupal
• OpenBravo ERP
• Pentaho BI Suite
• Sugar CRM
• WordPress

Best Open Source Application in Desktop and Mobile 2011

• 7Zip
• Google Android
• CamStudio
• Google Chrome
• LibreOffice
• Oracle VM VirtualBox
• PDF Creator
• Pidgin
• PortableApps.Com
• TrueCrypt
• VLC

Best Open Source Development Application 2011

• CakePHP
• CoffeeScript
• Git
• Apache Hadoop
• Hudson & Jenkins
• jQuery Mobile and Sencha Touch
• MongoDB
• Node.js
• Web2py

Best Open Source Application for Data Centre and Cloud Solution

• Eucalyptus and OpenStack
• Gluster
• Talend Open Studio
• Vyatta
• Xen
• WSO2

For the rest of this news, can be read in the official page here

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Install Plexydesk (Beautifull Desktop Widget) in Ubuntu

What is PlexyDesk
PlexyDesk s such Desktop widget which run on various desktop envoroment (KDE,GNOME, Unity, Mac OS and Windows) powered by Qt/QML, through Playdesk you can easily changging wallpapers by dragging and dropping any image you like from your file manager. Here some features that you can get in Playdesk :

• Small selection of widgets (clock, photo frame, file browser)
• Some widgets have extra themes – just right-click to switch between them
• Ability to change desktop wallpaper by dragging and dropping an image on to the desktop
• 3D support
• Themepack support for changing themes (QML)
• Drag and drop adding of new widgets

Install PlexyDesk in Ubuntu
You can install plexydesk through installed or using `unstable` plexydesk PPA channel that maintain by PlexyDesk team it self, download or install Plexydesk through following link :

• Install PlexyDesk in Ubuntu Through PPA
• Other Platform

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Download / Install Flash Player 11 RC in Ubuntu

Yesterday (6 Sept 2011), Adobe labs officially released Flash Player 11 Release Candidate (RC) through this page, some new features that available on Flash Player 11 are :

• Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop) — Take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
• Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player) — Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
• TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player) — Enables secure communications for client/server applications.
• Some other features you can find in here

Download Flash Player 11 RC Ubuntu
Adobe Flash Player 11 RC available for ubuntu and other operating system, you can download Adobe Flash Player 11 through following links

• Download Adobe Flash Player 11 32-bit for Ubuntu
• Download Adobe Flash Player 11 64-bit for Ubuntu

Especially for Ubuntu  64-bit users, you can also upgrade or install Adobe Flash Player 11 RC through this PPA :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

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Install Global Menu in Ubuntu Gnome 3 (Shell)

Despite it's has been confirmed that Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric will not shipped with Gnome 3, some ubuntu user assume that Gnome still the best compared with Unity.Although Linus Torvald have expressed his disappointment to Gnome 3 performance, we still hope Gnome 3 will make significant changes and accommodate the user desire. If you feel confortable of using Global Menu, here is step to Install Global menu on Gnome 3 :

1. sudo apt-get install git-core valac-0.12 libvala-0.12-dev libgtk-3-dev gobject-introspection libgirepository1.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev autotools-dev automake autoconf intltool libtool
2. mkdir -p globalmenu
3. cd globalmenu
4. wget http://gnome2-globalmenu.googlecode.com/files/gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5.tar.bz2
5. tar -xvf gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5.tar.bz2
6. git clone git://github.com/gnome-globalmenu/gnome-globalmenu.git
7. cd gnome-globalmenu
8. git checkout gnome-3
9. cp ../gnome-globalmenu-0.9.alpha5/src/{module.c,header.h,header-gtk2.h} ./src
10. autoreconf –force –install –verbose
11. ./autogen.sh –prefix=/usr
12. make
13. sudo make GTK2_MODULES_DIR=/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules GTK3_MODULES_DIR=/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/modules GLIB_COMPILE_SCHEMAS=/bin/true install
14. sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
15. sudo sed -i ‘s/3\.0\.2/3\.1\.4/’ /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/GlobalMenu@globalmenu.org/metadata.json
16. ln -sfv /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libglobalmenu-gtk2.so /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libglobalmenu-gtk.so
17. gnome-globalmenu-manager & GTK_MODULES=globalmenu-gtk gedit
18. sudo cp ~/globalmenu/gnome-globalmenu/globalmenu.sh /etc/profile.d/
19. sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/globalmenu.sh
20. sudo reboot

 reference : http://frijal.com/global-menu-ubuntu-gnome3/

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How to Increase / Extend Battery Life in Ubuntu

Since Ubuntu 11.04 released many people feels their battery life getting shorter than previous, This problem might be caused by difference kernel used and ofcourse a`luxury` display and some desktop effect make GPU should work more hard. We think it's possible to extend a battery life of a laptop/notebook/netbook by disabling various services and installing various packages. Here is tips to extend your battery life summarized from askubuntu.com.

jupiter screenshot

 Changing a Habit
you can increase / extend your battre life by changing your habits when using netbook/laptop/notebook, we can start by disabling some uneccessary service and run itonly when needed, here common tips that you can try :

• Reduce screen brightness.
• Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth. Disable wifi an bluetooth when you do not use it, disabling wifi eill extend your battery life.
• Reduce desktop effects (System->Preferences->Appearance->Visual Effects->None). even its has been has stated that enabling or disabling desktop effects generally has no impact on battery consumption (codon.org.uk/~mjg59/power/good_practices.html), we think that to much desktop effect will disturb your work and GPU will need more power consumption.
• Use Hibernate rather than suspend power features. (System->Preferences->Power Management->On Battery Power).
• Turning off a bunch of services that you don't need, and unloading their kernel drivers. See how to do it here.

Installing Additional Package
Some other tips that make you increase battery life is installing some package that help you to reduce power consumption, here are some package/program that will help you to manage a power consumption :

1. Use powertop to find which unneeded programs that running on background such as beagle/tracker, weather notifications, gnome-do, and (if you don't need the internet) network-manager, mail-notifications. powertop is Linux tool that finds the software component(s) that make your laptop use more power than necessary while it is idle.
2. Install the package laptop-mode-tools. laptop-mode-tools lets us spin down a hard drive. In addition it allows us to tweak a number of other power-related settings using a simple configuration file. See it here.
3. Install Jupiter, Jupiter applet give quick access to some of the commonly needed hardware controls like screen output and resolution, WIFI, and bluetooth. If you use Linux in a netbook/laptop/notebook, it's take the effort out of going mobile. See it here.

here are a tips to Increase / Extend a netbook/laptop/notebook battery life, hopefully that next release (ubuntu 11.10) will care about power consumption.

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Fixing Broadcom 43xx Wireless Card Error in Ubuntu

In several case Broadcom 43xx Wireless Card often getting error in Ubuntu (since ubuntu 8.04), some of them `recognize` the device but the wireless didn't work moreover the system can't detect any wireless installed (no wireless found). Regarding to that problem many forum have been discussed, here are summary of step by step how to fix Broadcom 43xx Wireless Card Error in Ubuntu.

Make sure Broadcom Wireless card installed properly
First step, make it sure that some of Broadcom Wireless card has been installed properly and detect by kernel, do following command on the terminal :

lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation

If give following output :

0000:02:0d.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

it's mean that your Kernel has been recognize your device, if that command above didn't give any output but you're sure that Broadcom Wireless has been installed do following command and restart.

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

sudo reboot    

Installing Broadcom 43xx Wireless Driver in Ubuntu
Second step, After make the system recognizing your device, next step is installing appropriate driver to your device, if your device is any of these :

• BCM4306/3
• BCM4311
• BCM4318
• BCM4321
• BCM4322           

do following step :

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer bcmwl*
sudo reboot

other, if your Broadcom Wireless series is any of these :

• BCM4301
• BCM4303
• BCM4306/2
• BCM4306

do following step :

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43legacy-installer bcmwl*
sudo reboot

if you have completed all the steps above without error you should have Broadcard Wireless on your system, try to open your network manager and connect to any hot spot.

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Linus Interviewed at LinuxCon Japan 2011

A resume of  Linus Torvald (a person who made Linux kernel) Interview with Greg Kroah-Hartman at Linuxcon Japan 2011 above, also can be read on following links :

• http://lwn.net/Articles/445687/

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Linus Torvalds Quotes

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.

      Linus Torvalds

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Download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta (Build 3)

Seems a long time not update this blog, this morning we have been check Mozilla Firefox FTP we found Mozilla Firefox 7.0 Beta (Build 3) has been available and ready for download since 30 August. This Version has been release within 15 Days from previous release Mozilla Firefox 6 Final.

Download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta

Can't wait to try it, download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta through following link to see what's new out there ? :

• Download Mozilla Firefox 7 Beta (FTP)

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Download Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Beta [Video Review]

Yesterday, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (first) Beta has been released and ready for download. As previous, a Beta release is always likely/closed to the Final release, what changes would get there, find out here on quidsup's youtube video.

Ubuntu 11.10 Beta Review Video

What changes, what different, and what features will you find in Ubuntu 11.10 [Final] seems you can peek on this release, check following Ubuntu 11.10 Beta Review Video.
 

Download Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric ISO

You can download Ubuntu 11.10 Beta various image through following links.

• Download Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Beta Iso

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