The monthly KDE update, 4.11.2, has been released earlier today, fixing over 70 bugs, including KWin, Dolphin and the personal information manager application Kontact.
To try it in (K)Ubuntu, use the Kubuntu Updates PPA:
LibreOffice 4.0 Final is now available via the LibreOffice PPA. To install it in Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10, follow the instructions below:
According to a development update posted on Ubuntu Fridge by the Ubuntu developer Daniel Holbach, Ubuntu 12.04 is on its way to release the first beta next week, on February 29, after the user interface freeze which occured today. “Today User Interface Freeze and Beta Freeze will kick in, next week we will do a test rebuild of the whole archive and Beta 1 will get out next week as well.”
NeonView is a new minimalist, lightweight image viewer, completely free and open-source, licensed under the GPLv2 and developed by TuxArena.
This first release, codenamed ‘Betta splendens’, includes just a handful of features for now, however it is the base on which development of more advanced features will take place. Still, the goal of NeonView is to remain clean and lightweight, while also trying to implement only the needed functions that a simple image viewer should have.
Some of the features of NeonView:
After changing its stable release policy to a more accelerated pace, Mozilla released Firefox 5 pretty quick after the latest major Firefox version was put out. Firefox 4 was released on March 22, 2011 and this version follows only three months later. Here’s an announcement on the Mozilla Blog website.
The latest KDE security update, 4.6.4, is now available in the Kubuntu Updates PPA. This release brings several new features, including:
– the new Kontact suite brings next generation groupware to desktop and mobile
– Kontact receives a major architectural boost, using the capabilities of the new scalable Akonadi groupware framework to build interconnected PIM-related applications
- ColorCode 0.8.5 Mastermind Clone Game Gets Qt5 Support
- Pentobi Is a Blokus Board Game Implementation for KDE with Various Features
- 12 Labours of Hercules and Out of the Park Baseball 16 Now on Steam
- Red Eclipse 1.5 Overview & Screenshots
- Eschalon Book I, II & III 75% Off on GOG.com, Unrest 50%
- Steam Publisher Sale: Borderlands, BioShock Infinite, Civilization V and XCOM Up to 75% Off
- Tropico 5 75% Off, Free to Play Until Sunday