After the release of Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal) on September 27th, Canonical announced the immediate availability of their operating system for the audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional, Ubuntu Studio 12.10 Beta 2.
Lubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 has also been announced by Canonical, on September 27th, after the release of Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal).
There are almost no details on the new Lubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 (Quantal Quetzal), with the exemption of a major bug that got fixed at the last moment.
The installation was completed successfully, but it failed to boot properly afterwards.
The Document Foundation has announced that the second beta version for LibreOffice 4.0.0 is now available for the Linux platform, bringing a lot of bugfixes and improvements.
Highlights of LibreOffice 4.0.0 Beta 2:
• Support for multiple selections in page fields has been implemented;
• Setting properties for all data labels has been fixed;
• A misleading font replacement for list
Canonical has announced today, October 18th, the immediate availability for download of Ubuntu Server 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), along with Ubuntu 12.10, Lubuntu 12.10, and Kubuntu 12.10. Highlights of Ubuntu Server 12.10: • The Folsom release of Openstack has been included.
Peter Baldwin from the ClearFoundation announced that ClearOS Community 6.4.0 Beta 2 is now available for download.According to the developer, this release adds a new reports engine, a storage manager, an antimalware file scanner, a basic POP/IMAP server as well as upstream proxy support.Highlights of ClearOS Community 6.4.0 Beta 2:• A new reporting engine has been added;• The RADIUS Ser
Mozilla has officially announced that the first beta release in the Firefox 20.x branch is now available for download.The new Firefox 20.0 Beta 1 for Linux comes with some interesting features and new updates.Highlights of Mozilla Firefox 20.0 Beta 1:• Per-window Private Browsing has been implemented;• A new download experience has been integrated;• A ability to close hanging plugin
FreeNAS, a free implementation of a minimal FreeBSD distribution, has just reached version 8.3.1 Beta 2.
FreeNAS 8.3.1 Beta 2 has introduced a large number of functional changes in comparison with the 8.0.x branch.
Highlights of FreeNAS 8.3.1 Beta 2:
• A feature to initialize disks with random data has been added;
• The iconv option has been added to rsync;
• A bug that was preve
Canonical has announced on March 15, the first Beta of the upcoming Xubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) operating system.
Xubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 1 is the first release, besides the daily build, but there aren't too many features.
Kubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 has been announced on September 27th, along with the other distributions from Canonical.
Probably the biggest change to Kubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 is the addition of encrypted and LVM partitioning options.
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