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Linux Mint development team officially announces the release of stable Linux Mint 17.1 codenamed "Rebecca" MATE flavor for download and now available for testing purposes. As its name suggest that this contains MATE Destkop as its default Desktop Environment whereas it also available in Cinnamon Desktop flavor too.

According to official announcement, Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca" MATE comes with long term support which has active support till 2019. It comes with updated software and also brings refinements which allows its users to make their desktops even more comfortable to use. The main highlighted feature of this release includes support for Compiz program which is quite popular among Linux users.

The Mint 17.1 "Rebecca" MATE offers default two window managers named as: Marco and Compiz tool. Well there are lot of window managers available for Linux Mint but Compiz is one of the famous among Linux users because it offers features which are quite attractive and advanced graphics concepts. The rotating cube desktop view in Compiz make it one of the most impressive tool and differentiate with other available window managers. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Among other new features, Linux Mint 17.1 "Rebecca" MATE includes improved Update Manager, refined Language settings, redesigned Login Window Preferences, improved search command and some new theme or icons have been implemented in this release too. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Manjaro team officially announces the release of fourth update pack for Manjaro 0.8.10 which primarily includes updated packages and applications. This update pack includes new packages along with updated apps.

According to official announcement, Manjaro 0.8.10 distro comes with updated Linux Kernel which includes support for 3.10, 3.11, 3.14 and 3.15 kernel series. The main highlighted feature of this release is that it drops linux34 for better performance improvements. You can remove linux34, by running the following command in terminal on your Manjaro distro.

Other updates which you might find in this release includes updated Octopi 0.4.1 which comes with bunch of obligatory bug fixes along with updates like few new translations, installed size info in tooltips, search by file option and installed packages are counted based on View filters. Also, review other recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The fourth update pack for Manjaro 0.8.10 also consists of KDE5 as you know that earlier this month KF 5.0 was released. The developers are still working on Plasma 5 so that it will be available in Manjaro repositories. The Flash player recieves another security fixes and Nvidia graphics drives are also updated to latest version. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Kubuntu team officially announces the release of first Alpha release of Kubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" with new features for testing purposes. The developers announces that this release will be based on Plasma 5 and they need your feedbacks after testing Kubuntu 14.10 on your machines. Also, review latest Software News to know what software is released today ?

According to official announcement, Kubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" Alpha 1 is based on KDE 4.13.2, Plasma 1 and Plasma 5. The community state that Plasma 1 is their recommended stable offering and whatever you might get from default download, you will receive it in maintenance mode.

The Plasma 1 allows you to run software with which you are familiar and you will also recieve software updates and several bug fixes. Unfortunately, the Plasma 1 doesn't bring any new features, so you have to wait until its final release. You might also like to check out How to install KDE 4.13.2 using PPA on Ubuntu Variants and Linux Mint ?

Apart from Plasma 1, Kubuntu 14.10 will also introduce Plasma 5 whose work is in progress. The next generation of KDE Software is still a work in progress. The community also provided PPA for Plasma 5 which you can install it from Kubuntu Next PPA but remember that it will remove your stable software. You can easily download ISO Image of Kubuntu 14.10 Alpha 1 "Utopic Unicorn" for your machines.

The main highlighted feature of Kubuntu 14.10 Alpha 1 release is based in KDE Applications and Platform 4.13.2 which mianly includes several bug fixes. There are some known problems which community shared with its users. Some of these known problems includes syslinux offers no OEM mode on Kubuntu Utopic Alpha 1, ubiquity-kde fails to install Kubuntu in non-English and Ubiquity-side bar is broken on the initial page for the KDE UI. You might also like to check out latest Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

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OpenMandriva development team officially announces the release of OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 with several bug fixes and performance improvements. As you all know that OpenMandriva 2014.1 is another KDE based Linux Distro which includes updated packages along with updated applications.

According to official announcement, OpenMandriva 2014.1 comes with updated Linux Kernel 3.15.10 with new nrjQL patchset, KDE 4.13.3, Firefox 32.0.3, x11-server 1.15.2, Mesa 10.2.6 and updated bash with latest security fixes. Apart from these updates, it also includes several updates for drivers and other software.

The team also claim thats they have mainly focused on system boot up time which is now reduced to 17 seconds and also reduces memore footprint significantly. You can also download the OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1 ISO images from the links given below. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's happening in Software World ?

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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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Manjaro development team officially announces the release of sixth update pack for Manjaro 0.8.10 distro. As you know that Manjaro distro is based on snapshots of ArchLinux repositories and fully compatible with Arch Linux. As you noticed that Archlinux moved on to xorg-server 1.16 series where as Manjaro still have hold on xorg115.

According to official announcement, the sixth update pack for Manjaro 0.8.10 comes with updated Linux Kernel version and fixed samba for security reasons. The coding language gambas3 receives another great point release. The LibreOffice-fresh includes latest LibreOffice 4.3.0 which you could install on your Manjaro box but it might create some complexity so if you planning to upgrade LibreOffice then do it at your own risk. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

Some of fixes which were reported in Cinnamon are fixed in this release along with Cinnamon version is to updated to 2.2.14 version. The KDE Frameworks upgrade to 5.1 version which offers more stability and functionality. Due to lot of bad regressions with new xorg version, this update uses its own xorg-stack which might be merged with Archlinux when it will be stable enough. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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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.

Salix Linux development team officially announces the release of Salix Fluxbox 14.1 with new features and updated applications. Well the Salix Fluxbox is specially designed to bring minimalist environment to your desktop.

According to official announcement, Salix Fluxbox 14.1 comes with default Firefox browser, PCManFM file manager, office suites like Abiword and Gnumeric, Whaawmp as default video player and Exaile as default audio media library. It also includes Salix Codecs Installer to install all kinds of restricted codecs which you might need.

The Salix Fluxbox 14.1 includes Mtpaint as default picture editor along with other applications like Transmission torrent client and Claws email client. The package management is primarily handled by Gslapt and slapt-get where as access to SlackBuilds repositories is provided by Sourcery. Apart from this, spi, command line tool, is also available in this release which allows you to install packages from both binary package repositories and SlackBuilds repositories.

The Fluxbox menu uses xdgmenumaker to create a list of installed applications like any other environments. The installation of Salix Fluxbox 14.1 is done in three different modes, named as Full mode, Basic mode and Core mode. The default Full mode allows you to install all available software in ISO where as the Basic mode only install Fluxbox along with Salix system tools and package management applications. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The Basic mode is specially intended for advanced users which would like to customize their own Fluxbox installation according to their requirements. Finally, the Core mode is specially intended for experts who can install software via command line environment. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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