VUMESOFT

In February of this year, Mozilla announced its shift to a new, rapid release cycle, and the company has stuck to the plan. You can now get Firefox 8, which Mozilla has made very clear is a major upgrade of the browser. Also, all Ubuntu 11.10 users can now upgrade their default browsers to Firefox 8 Read more here

In April 2012 Canonical will release the latest version of Ubuntu, this time known as Precise Pangolin.The new release will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release so will likely be more conservative than other releases and consolidate on the many changes over the past year. LTS releases are supported for five years. Read more here

The Linux distro said it has given up on the open-source CouchDB in Ubuntu One after three years trying and failing to make the document store scale to millions of users and databases. Read more here

Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our fifty-fifth issue.

This month:
* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Program in Python – Part 29, LibreOffice – Part 9, Backup Strategy – Part 3, Audacity Basics, and Quick Home Server.
* Linux Lab – VOIP at Home.
* Review – BackTrack vs BackBox.
* I Think – Did you update your current install or do a fresh install?
* Closing Windows – Control Panel and Device Manager
plus: Ubuntu Women, Ubuntu Games, My Desktop, My Story, and much much more!

Get it while it’s hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-55/

Enjoy!
Ronnie

It has been an interesting year for Ubuntu and its backer, Canonical. Unity arrived amid much speculation in its April release of Ubuntu 11.4, with many questioning why Canonical needed to be moving away from Gnome’s desktop environment. Unity makes sense for those new to Linux, but many power users found it frustrating to work with. Read more here