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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 250 for the week
January 23 – 29, 2012.

== Links to UWN ==

* Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue250

After delivering benchmarks last week that were comparing the Intel Sandy Bridge performance of Mac OS X 10.7 “Lion” vs. Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot” when it came to the Sandy Bridge OpenGL graphics performance, here’s a comparative look at the performance of Ubuntu 11.10 against Mac OS X 10.7.2 from the Intel Sandy Bridge-based Mac. Read more here

Ubuntu’s Unity interface is a step away from traditional graphical user interfaces. The intention is to make it the basis of a standard interface for everything from PCs to tablets to phones, and it’s implementation has been somewhat controversial – it’s worth exploring Unity to see what it has to offer. Read more here

If the jump from the GNOME 2 desktop to the new GNOME Shell or Unity desktop in Ubuntu has left you feeling dissatisfied, one increasingly popular distribution just might offer something that turns out to be the best of both worlds – Linux Mint. Read more here

Between Ubuntu’s big CES revelation, the arrival of Cinnamon, the ongoing Secure Boot saga and the flaring up of the Great Gender Debate, in fact, January appears to have started the year off with a bang. Do we get a little break now that it’s the end of the month? No, we don’t, thanks to the arrival of Ubuntu’s “HUD.” Read more here

Being a tablet, it makes a lot more sense to run Ubuntu on the ASUS Tranformer Prime than on a smartphone. Of course, that hasn’t stopped people from porting the popular Linux distro to the HTC Desire, for example, and for the old Windows Mobile devices, getting Ubuntu to work was a stepping stone for Android ports – a process probably best illustrated with the HTC HD2. Read more here

Usually when you install Ubuntu, it will ask you for your username and assign a hostname to you, such as damien@damien-laptop. This is also what you will see in your terminal. If you don’t like the hostname shown in the terminal, or for some reason that you want to change the hostname, here’re the exact steps in Ubuntu. Read more here

Tired of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment? Try Cinnamon, the latest desktop environment from Linux Mint. Cinnamon offers a more traditional, GNOME 2-like layout, but it’s based on the modern GNOME Shell — and you can install it on Ubuntu. Read more here

Full Circle Issue #57 – Full Circle – the independent magazine for the Ubuntu Linux community are proud to announce the release of our fifty-seventh issue.

This month:
* Command and Conquer.
* How-To : Try Enlightenment, LibreOffice – Part 11, Backup Strategy – Part 5, Encrypted USB Stick, and Varnish Web Cache.
* Linux Lab – Mana World Server.
* Review – OpenArtist: 5th Incarnation
* I Think – SpiderOak Questionnaire.
* Closing Windows – Wireless Networking
plus: more Ubuntu Games, My Desktop (and another extra!), My Opinion, My Story, and much much more!

Google Currents edition: http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowvZtX/full_circle_magazine_57_lite

Get it while it’s hot!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-57/

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*All the best!*
/Ronnie

David Mandala of Canonical talked last week at Linux.Conf.Au 2012 about the history of Ubuntu Linux supporting the ARM architecture, what’s coming up for Ubuntu ARM in the 12.04 LTS release, and even what’s expected from Ubuntu on ARM as far out as 2015. Read more here

The Ubuntu development team has announced that the Ubuntu Developer Week for the 12.04 “Precise Pangolin” cycle will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2012. Over the course of the three days, contributors and members of the Ubuntu community will present various online workshops including tutorials and hands-on sessions focused on Ubuntu development. Read more here

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 249 for the week
January 16 – 22, 2012.

== Links to UWN ==

* Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue249

Say hello to the Head-Up Display, or HUD, which will ultimately replace menus in Unity applications. Here’s what we hope you’ll see in 12.04 when you invoke the HUD from any standard Ubuntu app that supports the global menu: Read more here

And then there’s gazillions of comments from all over:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/01/moving-away-from-menus-is-ubun.php
http://www.howtogeek.com/103975/heads-up-display-hud-to-replace-application-menus-in-unity-ubuntu-news/
http://inessential.com/2012/01/24/ubuntu_hud
http://siliconfilter.com/ubuntu-wants-to-replace-its-menus-with-a-hud/
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/ubuntu_looks_replace_traditional_menus_new_hud_interface
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Ubuntu-12.04-HUD-Mark-Shuttleworth-intenterface,14548.html
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/244039/ubuntu-feature-command-line-shortcuts
http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/3332340/ubuntu-1204-replaces-application-menus-with-heads-up-display/
http://liliputing.com/2012/01/ubuntu-re-invents-pc-menu-systems-with-new-hud-interface.html
http://www.cultofmac.com/142197/ubuntu-is-killing-the-menu-bar-with-new-tech-that-is-part-alfred-part-siri/
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/1421236/ubuntu-1204-to-include-head-up-display-menus
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/01/ubuntu-hud-control-system/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/25/mark-shuttleworth-unveils-new-head-up-display-for-ubuntu-12-04/
http://ostatic.com/blog/the-latest-ubuntu-interface-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-menus
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/245809/scitech/technology/ubuntu-to-sport-new-head-up-display-menu?ref=section_latest

Today we will see how to make an incredible and surprising combination of a low-performance PCs and a nice TV or projector. Our goal is to turn that old PC into a fantastic Media Center, which will give you many possibilities. From the view of Film and/or video, to listen to music (excellent if you have connected a good sound system), an excellent way to show photographs and browse the web with a simple click . Read more here

Think Unity means you need to find another Linux distribution? Try one of these tools first. If you’re still not happy, then you can start looking around for a new desktop or a new distribution. Read more here

With Ubuntu 12.04 scheduled for release in April 2012, the Ubuntu developers have released a test version of Unity 5.0, the newest version of Ubuntu’s desktop interface. Read more here

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there’s no need for the VirtualBox GUI. Read more here

If you’re using MySQL replication, then you’re probably counting on it for some fairly important need. Monitoring via Nagios is generally considered a best practice. This article assumes you’ve already got your Nagios server setup and your intention is to add a Ubuntu 10.04 NRPE client Read more here

The Unity desktop environment that was recently made default in Ubuntu Linux has been nothing if not controversial, as has the alternative GNOME 3. Fortunately, thanks to the customizability that has long been a hallmark of open source software in general and Linux in particular, you can modify both of these desktops so that they are more to your liking. Read more here

In this month’s print edition of PC World, reader David Crickmer mentions he’d like to see a series about getting started in Linux. Since this blog largely revolves around the portly penguin, I thought I’d give it a go …And I have chosen Ubuntu for the guide Read more here

And here’s how to install it

…and here’s how to set it up