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The wait is over, the next version of our favorite and the largest community supported Linux distribution has finally launched officially.

Ubuntu 8.10 comes with some excellent new features and enhancements and promises a more secure and stable Linux platform. The basic focus in this new release is to introduce a better network integration in Ubuntu for both WiFi and 3G.

Here is a list of some of the new enhancements.

• 3G Support – Improvements to the network manager in Ubuntu 8.10 makes it simple to detect and connect to 3G networks and manage connectivity.
• Carry on a USB Drive – Now a simple application in Ubuntu will allow users to write Ubuntu to a USB drive.
• Guest Accounts – A handy new feature just the same as the one found in Windows.
• Tabs in Nautilus – It means that now when you open file browser window in Ubuntu you get tabs.
• Auto-install Printer Drivers – Drivers for most printers will now be automatically detected and installed.
• Better Flash Support – Flash for Linux just became a lot better.

and a lot more.

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is supported until 2010 and it should be noted that it is not an LTS release. It has already been pushed for download to a number of mirrors. Use the link below to select a mirror of your choice and download the ISO.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download

Don’t forget to take a look at the History of Ubuntu.

Since Twitter has shut-down the Jabber service, users can no longer update their Twitter status through Google Talk in Pidgin and have to unwillingly use Twitter Clients for Ubuntu for this purpose.

Though such clients are good and useful but updating Twitter status through Pidgin has its own ease and fun.

IceHot shares a very useful plugin for Pidgin known as Pidgin-Microblog which allows user to post updates to Twitter even without using the Jabber service. This way you can stay connected to your followers anywhere, anytime on Ubuntu.

The plugin also works for Pidgin on Windows. To download and install for Ubuntu Linux, simply use the deb package.

Twitch is just another cross-platform Twitter client for Windows and Mac built on Adobe AIR runtime.

To be honest, it is not much different to Twhirl except for the fact that Twitch is very clean, simple and low on features.

Twitch currently only allows you to update your Twitter status, view friend’s timeline, reply to tweets and view highlighted replies which makes it a perfect client for new Twitter users who do not want to play with the complicated features such as the ones provided by Twhirl.

Moreover it even supports embedding of URLs using the TinyURL system.

To install Twitch, simply download the latest version of Adobe Air from here and install the Twitch Air File.

Beijing Olympics 2008 is no doubt one of the most hyped and talked about events of this year. Two days ago I did a post highlighting various resources to Watch Beijing Olympics 2008 videos and event clips and also get latest news and updates.

However, browsing different websites and collecting information from multiple resources is a big pain in the ass. Therefore following are some desktop apps that you might find helpful to fetch all news, photos, event updates related to Beijing Olympics 2008 right on your desktop.

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If you have been using Ubuntu for long, then Synaptic Package Manager might be one your favorite applications as it allows you to manage, download, add/remove various packages and applications in bulk.

Unfortunately, Windows does not come pre-installed with any such application which allows user to download and manage various other softwares. However, QWinApt can do the same job for you on Windows that Synaptic does for Ubuntu users.

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buntu Linux fans have their hopes high for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex as it will feature a complete new user interface and a stylish new brownish-black theme which we have already witnessed in some of the screenshots for the Alpha build.Canonical is planning to surpass Mac OS X in the next coming two years but without a revolutionary change in the Ubuntu GUI it is close to impossible. Will has made a good attempt by designing some of the best mockups of Intrepid Ibex ever and with such a design, Ubuntu can easily take over Mac OS X soon enough.

Take a loot at some of the Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Mockup Design created by Will.

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Ubuntu is one of most popular and widely used Linux flavor, any windows users who wants to switch to Linux can opt for Ubuntu without fearing about commands and controls since Ubuntu is almost like windows with nicely supported GUI. Ubuntu has variety of supported applications too.

However searching for proper packages of your favorite application could be time consuming. Ultamatix is one great application which makes this task easier for you and also automats installation of application.

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Apple hasn’t sued Psystar yet, so it’s no surprise the company is pushing the envelope as far as it can — it’s just introduced two rackmount servers that come with OS X Server pre-installed. The OpenServ 1100 and 2400 are both configurable with 2.5 GHz Xeon processors and up to 16GB of RAM, with the 1U 1100 sporting four drive bays and the 2U 2400 rocking six. Just like Psystar’s other products, you’re on your own (or at the mercy of Psystar) for service and support, since Apple won’t help you — and considering Psystar kept sending us support tickets for that DHCP issue but never actually called us to resolve it, that might make enterprise customers a bit wary. On the other hand, with prices starting at $1599, we’re certain some desperate render shop will take the plunge.
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People have been stuffing PCs in all kinds of things they don’t belong in for a while now, but this Linux cluster creatively packed into an Ikea Helmer filing cabinet might be the first time we’ve seen furniture actually modded into a useful case. Sure, it looks like an ordinary filing cabinet, but it’s packing six machines with Intel Core 2 Quad processors on Gigabyte S-series mobos with 8GB of RAM each, allowing it pump out 186 Gflops — enough to complete a render job that takes a 2.66Ghz quad-core Mac Pro nine hours in just 64 minutes. Yeah, that’s quite a filing cabinet. Hit the read links for tech specs, instructions, and updates on Helmer II.
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Ubuntu is relatively a new operating system and Windows users who want to try Ubuntu have a lot questions which need to be answered. For such users I have a perfect Firefox extension thats going to make it easy for them to find questions and answers related to Ubuntu of any sort.

The extension, known as Ubuntu Forums Menu, adds additional navigation menu for Ubuntu Forums via main-menu and context to Firefox.

As Ubuntu Forums are currently the most active and only platform to search for Ubuntu related question/answers therefore this extension can come quite handy for new Ubuntu users.

This extension is also useful for Windows users who are planning to shift to Ubuntu soon as it gives one easy access to all Ubuntu related questions and answers.

Ubuntu Forums Menu Firefox extension can be downloaded from the link below:

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