Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta1 Released

Linux Mint developers have announced that they will not base Linux Mint 11 KDE on Kubuntu. Instead, it will be based on Debian.

Ubuntu 11.10 will have a fully revamped version of Gwibber – Gwibber 3.1. While the earlier version of Gwibber was made using Python and Webkit, Gwibber 3.1 is made using Vala and GTK3.

After the delay. Canonical has released the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10. Meant for development purposes, this release has a number of new features that will finally make it to the final release in October.

According to the original release schedule, Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 was supposed to be released on 30th June. The release date was missed and now, it has been revealed that the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 will be released on 7th July.

Thunderbird has replaced Evolution as the default email client in the daily build of Ubuntu 11.10

Canonical has decided that it is time for the Software Center to replace Synaptic. So, in the next daily build of Ubuntu 11.10, Synaptic will no longer be installed by default.

Firefox 5 was officially released only yesterday and today the Ubuntu 11.04 main repository has been updated with Firefox 5.

The Ambiance and Radiance themes that comes by default in Ubuntu has been ported to GTK3 now and they have landed in the development version of Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”.

Earlier today, the final build of Firefox 5.0 has landed in the firefox-next PPA. Read on for instructions on how to install it in Ubuntu.

Colin Watson of Canonical has announced yesterday that all the amd64 and i386 ISO for Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” will be distributed in the hybrid format starting today.

In an interview, Mark Shuttleworth confirmed that Canonical is looking to replace Firefox with Chrome in Ubuntu. He said that one of the best thing about Chrome on Linux id the performance.

Canonical is building a 42-core ARM cluster server for building ARM packages for Ubuntu. The machine has 42 GB of RAM and 6.3 TB of storage.

Last week, Mozilla released Thunderbird 5 Beta 1. Here is how you can install it in Ubuntu.

PC manufacturer Asus has announced that they are releasing three Eee PC models with Ubuntu pre-installed. The three models that will be available with Ubuntu are the 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX.