VUMESOFT

The first thing will be the switch from GDM (Gnome Display Manager) to LightDM for managing initial logins. LightDM is a tenth of the size of GDM and so will remove some of the overhead, and hopefully contribute to faster boot-ups. LightDM is also able to use the WebKit HTML engine to render login screens that can be easily customised using HTML, CSS and Javascript. More here

ull Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community
are proud to announce the release of our forty-ninth issue.

This month:
* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Program in Python – Part 23, LibreOffice – Part 4, Ubuntu
Development – Part 1, and Use Google In Thunderbird.
* Linux Lab – Swappiness Part Two.
* Review – Virtual Machines.
* Top 5 – Web Management Tools.
* NEW COLUMN! I Think – we pose a question and you, the readers, give
your thoughts. This month: what do you think of Unity?
plus: Ubuntu Games, My Story, and much much more!

Get it while it’s hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-49/

Sure, the Motorola XOOM was designed to run Google Android, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also run other operating systems. Xda-developers forum member has put together a disk image and instructions for running Ubuntu 11.04 Linux on the XOOM. More here

This note is just to confirm that the support period for Ubuntu 9.10
(Karmic Koala) formally ended on May 1, 2011 and Ubuntu Security Notices no longer includes information or updated packages for Ubuntu 9.10.

The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 9.10 is via Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
(Lucid Lynx). Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades. Ubuntu
10.04 LTS continues to be actively supported with security updates and
select high-impact bug fixes. All announcements of official security
updates for Ubuntu releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce
mailing list, information about which may be found at

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce.

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most
highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes,
schools, businesses and governments around the world. Ubuntu is Open
Source software, costs nothing to download, and users are free to
customize or alter their software in order to meet their needs.

Kate Stewart
Ubuntu Release Manager

I thought it would be a simple matter of configuring the Launcher bar to pop up somewhere else on the screen. Like the right side. Or the bottom. This would be simple, I reasoned, because any other Linux distro I have used would let me do this. Until now. And this was no accident, I would learn today, but rather a deliberate design decision, according to Mark Shuttleworth. More here