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Kubuntu developers officially announces the release of Kubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" with final build of KDE 4.14 along with Plasma 5 and Plasma 4 desktop. Well if you compare this beta release with beta 1 then you won't find much difference between them. The only advantage of getting Kubuntu 14.10 beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" is to access Plasma 5 desktop preview.

According to official announcement, Kubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" finally available for download and testing with Plasma 4 desktop and KDE 4.14. The Plasma 4 desktop is recommended by Kubuntu community which runs software with which you are familiar and also provides updates and bug fixes but no new features are included in Plasma 4 desktop.

This release also provides Plasma 5 desktop packages which allows you to upgrade Plasma 4 to Plasma 5. The developers are still working on Plasma 5 desktop and provides updates for it at a regular interval. Apart from Plasma desktop, the second beta release of Kubuntu 14.10 also includes final KDE 4.14 Applications and Platform with several bug fixes. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The development team also publishes some of the known issues of Kubuntu 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" such as no install icon on desktop, ubiquity-dm does not allow alive desktop on live system, permission issue, no web browser in app menu, khelpcenter docs misses any themeing, plasma5 phonon kcm misses icons and no sddm kcm. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in software world ?

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Ubuntu GNOME development team officially announces the release of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 2 "Utopic Unicorn" with new features and improvements. Well this is the final beta release of Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 which is going to release on 23rd October, 2014. Currently this release is beta phase and only available for testing purposes, so use it very carefully.

According to official announcement, Ubuntu GNOME 14.10 Beta 2 comes with default GNOME 3.12 desktop environment. As you know that few days ago, GNOME 3.14 desktop was released but the Ubuntu GNOME developers stick with older GNOME desktop environment which also allows its users to upgrade to newer version via PPA available in Ubuntu repository.

Apart from GNOME 3.12 desktop, you will be able to find other GNOME applications like GNOME Maps, GNOME Shell and GNOME Weather. Currently, the GNOME desktop still facing some known issues like Utopic ubiquity froze while reformatting existing partition, can't select which drive to resize when using "install alongside" in Trusty. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in Software World ?

Other known issues are Utopic installation freezes during partition creation, after reboot of Ubuntu Gnome installation, password for LVM encryption is not accepted and Ubiquity offers to erase existing OS rather than use entire disc even when more than one disc exists. 

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4MLinux developers officially announces the release of 4MLinux 10.1 Game Beta Edition with new and updated features. Well this release is the updated version which uses 4MLinux 10.1 as the core system. You might also know that 4MLinux Game Edition is based on Busybox, Dropbear, OpenSSH and PuTTY. There are lot of flavors available for 4MLinux and they usually updated every flavor after certain period of time.

According to official announcement, 4MLinux 10.1 Game Beta Edition comes with classic "shoot'em up" games such as Abuse, Doom, Freedom, Heretic, Hexen, Quake I and Quake II along with other games such as Liero, Lincity, space shooters, Extreme Tux Racer, DOSBox 0.74 and small set of games which uses Qt. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Apart from these games, 4MLinux 10.1 Game Beta Edition also includes GNU Chess 6.1.2 with WinBoard 4.8.0, GNU Go 3.8 and Michael Speck's LGames. You might like to check out other latest Software News on our website. You can also download the ISO Image of 4MLinux 10.1 Game Beta Edition to install it on your machine.

openSUSE development team officially announces the release of openSUSE 13.2 Beta 1 with new features along with updated applications. Well as you can see that this is the beta release which is now available for testing purposes. It's being long time to hear something new from openSUSE development team as you know that few months ago, openSUSE altered their development cycle from 6 months to 12 months.

According to official announcement, openSUSE 13.2 Beta 1 comes with lot of updated apps like Linux Kernel 3.16, GNOME 3.12, Plasma Workspaces 4.11, KDE applications 4.13 mixed with 4.14. Apart from this, some of the applications are in testing phase which includes Plasma 5.1, Frameworks 5.2 and latest KDE Applications and Platform. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The LibreOffice is updated to 4.3.1.2 version where as btrfsprogs is updated to 3.16 version. The btrfs will be the default filesystem in this release. The AppArmor 2.9 beta comes with new python-based tools which were developed during GSoC 2013 and some new rule types to mediate sockets, ptrace, signals and dbus along with other profile updates and bug fixes. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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4MLinux team officially announces the release of 4MLinux Rescue Edition 9.1 Beta with new features and minor fixes. This beta release primarily includes updated applications as well as packages. 4MLinux Rescue Edition 9.1 Beta is the special release which will be used by both newbies and professional users. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know which distro has been released with what new features ?

According to official announcement, 4MLinux Rescue Edition 9.1 Beta release comes with antivirus protection which includes Clam AntiVirus 0.98.4 with ClamWin. The system backup tool, 4MLinux Backup Scripts is also updated to 9.1 version. The archive formats in this release are managed via many applications which includes 7-Zip 9.20, FreeArc 0.67 and PeaZip 5.4.0.

The main updated applications of 4MLinux Rescue Edition 9.1 Beta includes data recovery tool like GNU ddrescue 1.18.1, TestDisk 6.14 with QPhotoRec, disk partitioning such as cgdisk 2.14.2, cgdisk 0.8.10, GNU Parted 3.1 and partition imaging tools such as Partimage 0.6.9, Partclone 0.2.69. You can download the ISO Image of 4MLinux Rescue Edition 9.1 Beta for your machine.

Other applications which you might find in 4MLinux Rescue Edition 9.1 Beta is the support for file managers like Midnight Commander 4.8.11, X File Explorer 1.37, muCommander 0.9.0., support for CD and DVD burners such as cdw 0.7.1 and InfraRecorder 0.53 along with support for UNetbooting 608. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Manjaro XFCE development team officially announces the release of Manjaro XFCE 0.9.0 Pre1 distro with new features and updated applications. Well some of you already know that a small community developers already started developing next stable release of Manjaro XFCE. With this XFCE series, Manjaro Xfce tried to switch over to more modern graphical installer framework called Calamares. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

According to official announcement, Manjaro Xfce 0.9.0 pre1 release comes with XFCE 4.11 series, linux318 kernel series and all other usual upstream updates of Manjaro. The main highlighted feature of this pre version is the introduction of Calamares framework which is simply a installer framework and modular in approach. You can also download the ISO Image of Manjaro Xfce 0.9.0 Pre1 to install it on your machine.

Because of modular nature of Calamares, it uses about 10% of modules which are specific to Manjaro, but other stays entirely integrated. Currently, Calamares is in beta phase but soon it will available in stable version. The idea of Calamares born because developers of Netrunner, KaOS and Manjaro discussed together the possibility to work jointly on a brand new Qt5 based installer. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Fedora development team officially announces the release of Fedora 22 Beta with a preview of latest free and open source technology. Well as the name resembles, this is beta version which is primarily available to identify bugs and also includes several new features which might be implemented in final release. The final release of Fedora 22 is expected to arrive in mid May.

According to official announcement, Fedora 22 Beta has faster and better dependency management because Yum is replaced with DNF as default package manager. Well DNF has similar command line options and configuration files compared to yum along with several major internal changes including using libsolv in coordination with friends from openSUSE project for faster and better dependency management. You might also like to check out recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Currently, Fedora 22 beta is available in three flavors which are Fedora 22 Cloud, Fedora 22 Server and Fedora 22 Workstation. The Fedora 22 Cloud comes with number of improvements such as updated versions of rpm-ostree and rpm-ostree-toolbox along with atomic command line tool. Fedora 22 Server edition includes XFS as default filesystem along with few cockpit updates. You can review the detailed list of all improvements on their official announcement page.

XBMC and Kodi project developers officially announces that first beta version of Kodi 14.0 codenamed "Helix" soon going to available for download. Since the previous fourth alpha release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" the developers consistently making some changes and improvements before the final beta released. The developers already freezes the features of beta release but they still find something important which they want to introduce in this release.

According to official announcement, the first beta release of Kodi 14.0 "Helix" comes with support for Localised keyboard along with faster channel switching for PVR. The Kodi 14.0 Beta for Windows also receives DXVA-HQ scaling for videos. Well this feature might cause some issues for certain video cards, so for better safety you could enable this via advancedsettings.xml file.

The Kodi 14.0 "Helix" beta release also includes addition of MMAL decoder and MMAL renderer for Raspberry Pi along with Raspberry Pi audio resampling which supports high quality re-sampling, format conversation and up/down mixing. Some of the improvements are made in file handling system which mainly done for better stability and possible error handling.

Among other features, this beta release of Kodi 14.0 also includes dolby atmos surround sound, extends JSON-RPC, update Windows power management functions and fixes iOS 8 runtime issues. This release also includes several bug fixes like fixed T9/SMS text input, fixed non loading of external subtitles for ISO files and BluRay directories and fix for importing some add-on modules that depended on other modules. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 which is the third maintenance release under 5.x series. This release is also known as OpenELEC 4.95.3 as you know that OpenELEC 4.95 branch act as test releases for upcoming stable OpenELEC 5.0 version.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 comes with updated core components like updated kodi 14, kmod 19, bcm2835 driver, bcm2835 bootloader and kodi pvr addons. This release also includes updated Linux Kernel 3.17.3 and updated dbus 1.8.10.

The main highlighted feature of OpenELEC 5.0 Beta 3 release is switching from XBMC to Kodi brand. Both project teams worked on it simultaneously, so that the functionality and interface of this release will remain same and user might not confuse about XBMC and Kodi media center. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Among other changes, this release includes updated Linux Kernel version from 3.16 to 3.17 along with switching from OpenSSL to LibreSSL because LibreSSL package includes better licensing and allows OpenELEC to be simplified by removing support for other cryptographic libraries such as GnuTLS. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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The Debian Installer team officially announces the release of Debian 8.0 "Jessie" Beta 1 with new changes and bug fixes. According to official announcement, Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 comes with fixed Gnome installation images which allows you to install Gnome instead of Xfce and also offers best experience as far as accessibility is concerned. This release also includes merged major parted release and several other related components also updated. If you face problem during partitioning, then make sure to include /var/log/syslog but also /var/log/partman in your installation report.

One of the main hightlighted feature of this release is that this installer supports systemd as default init system. It also deal with incompatible changes in syslinux and drops some parted_server functions. Other new changes includes updated Linux Kernel 3.14.15, updated kfreebsd 10 and resized banner when window width and banner width doesn't match. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The Debian 8 Installer Beta 1 also comes with some of the new hardware changes which is specifically supported by this release. This installer includes support for mipsel/loongson-3, support for QNAP HS-210 and support for D-Link DNS 320. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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4MLinux development team officially announces the release of 4MLinux 10.0 Multiboot Edition Beta with new features and updated packages. Among 4MLinux flavors, 4MLinux 10.0 Multiboot Edition mainly focussed on Maintenance, Multimedia, Miniserver and Mystery which includes Linux Games. Currently, this release is in beta phase and now available for testing purposes only.

According to official announcement, 4MLinux 10.0 Multiboot Edition Beta allows you to make network installations of systems like Debian 7.6, Fedora 20, Slackware 14.1 and Ubuntu 14.04.1. With this release, it is quite possible to boot 4MLinux 10.0 Rescue Edition to prepare the installation of these systems by performing data backup and disk partitioning.

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Opera browser team officially announces the release of new update for Opera 25 Beta Browser with support for bookmarks feature along with several other features. Well you know that this is the Opera's beta cycle which updated with new addition at regular intervals. The Beta channel is now supported by Linux which also signifies that the Linux build soon going to get a new ans stable Opera Web Browser.

According to official announcement, Opera 25 Beta Browser comes with support for bookmarks feature which allows you save the page links so that you can visit those links later on. The user interface of bookmark section of Opera is also modified with new and beautiful graphical collections. Apart from this, the Opera 25 beta also comes with better startpage which features Speed Dial with Coast-style tiles instead of screenshots.

As we have discussed in our previous posts, the Opera 25 development cycle already includes features like integrated PDF viewer which allows you open and read PDF files directly in your Opera browser, it also provides web notifications so that its users get regular information about upcoming events. The Opera 25 browser also provides support for H.264 and MP3 audio files which are widely used over the internet nowadays. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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OpenELEC development team officially announces the release of OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 3 with new features and minor bug fixes. As you can see that this is a beta release which contains bug fixes and is available for testing purposes only. The OpenELEC 4.2 will be the next stable release which will be the successor of OpenELEC 4.0 distro.

According to official announcement, OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 3 comes with bug fixes, security fixes and improvements since OpenELEC 4.1.2 release. This release includes several bug fixes which were reported since OpenELEC 4.1.2 release and also includes updated packages like XBMC Gotham 13.2 beta 3, FFmpeg 2.3.1, Linux Kernel 3.16 and Mesa 10.2.5. The team has also updated the Raspberry Pi firmware to include last fixes and new features. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

OpenELEC 4.1 and 4.2 is now based on Linux Kernel 3.16, Mesa 10.2 and Xorg 1.16. Other updates applications of OpenELEC 4.2 Beta 2 includes updated NVIDIA 340.x, systemd-215, connman-1.24 and XBMC Gotham 13.2. The team also switched their libc from eglibc to glibc. They have also provided support for nss-mdns, support to perform filesystem checks on every boot for our both default system partitions. The FFmpeg 2.3 now supports H.265 format. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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