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The HUD or “Head-Up display” is an interactive way to search inside currently running application menus. This tool becomes handy, specially for applications with many menus and a lot of options, and you hardly remember where is the required options you want to execute. We have seen earlier HUD running on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin with Unity interface. Now it’s available for Unity 2D user interface as well.

The first official Alpha for the upcoming release Fedora 17 is available to download. After Jared K. Smith “fedora project leader” announced the name suggestions for the upcoming release fedora 17, many people had participated for suggesting and voting for the codename, and it concluded with the codename “Beefy Miracle” Yummy!!

Canonical is always moving forward toward an almost complete user experiance every where. Mark Shuttleworth just announced Ubuntu for Android devices, which will work natively on mobile devcies with Android operating system side by side using the same kernel. Ubuntu for Android will be introduced at MWC “Mobile World Congress” 2012 next week.

The Long Term Support release Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has reached its final stage of maintenance for this release with the Forth release Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. Now it’s available to download and the other flavor of Ubuntu with KDE desktop “Kubuntu” is available as well. The final release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin will take the place of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which suppose to be release in April 26th,2012. However, Ubuntu will keep providing support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx desktop till 2013 and till 2015 for server.

Mozilla Firefox 11 web browser the latest development release brings several new features improves the web browsing experience for regular users and better developing environment for web developers. A couple of new developer features added lately to the Beta version of Mozilla Firefox 11 are a style editor for CSS editing web page elements and 3D web page visualizer tool allows you to easily check the web page structure in 3D.

One day after the official release of Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 LTS Precise Pangolin, Unity 5.2 user interface is available to update from Precise repository. The last release brings several changes to Unity Dash and Compiz improvements to decrease Ubuntu Unity plugin crashes.

The latest stable release Mozilla Firefox 10 web browser for desktop and mobile users has been released. Firefox 10 for desktop users brings improvements to the user interface, better add-ons compatibility, CSS 3D-Transforms and several enhancements.

OpenShot is a free and open source video editor for Linux operating systems. OpenShot is capable of editing high definitions video formats including HDV and AVCHD. It comes with many video transitions and several audio and video effects. Also you can use OpenShot for adding templates titles and 3D animated titles depends on Blender graphics applications.

Wine application allows you to run Microsoft applications on Linux/Unix platforms. After many development releases for wine 1.3 here comes the first release candidate for the upcoming stable release wine 1.4. Check the what’s new in Wine 1.4 RC1, changes since Wine 1.3.37 and download options.

The latest stable KDE plasma and applications version 4.8 are available to update/install through backport PPA provided by Kubuntu team for 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot users. KDE 4.8 brings better performance, more stability and many new features to the plasma workspaces and KDE applications. So, let’s check KDE 4.8 highlights and some of the new features added recently to it.

Canonical introduced a new online entertainment experience with Ubuntu TV. It will allow you to watch movies, and TV shows over the web with need to additional devices except the Ubuntu TV. It will be a strong competitor to satellite TV and many online TV streamers because you will be able to search through millions of movies and TV shows and watch it directly or record it to watch it later.

XBMC is a free and open-source entertaining multimedia software works on major platforms and gaming consoles such as Xbox and on PS3 compiled through Ubuntu. XBMC 11.0 with code name “Eden” Beta released few weeks ago. Check what’s new in XBMC 11.0 Beta and installation instructions on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot using PPA.

After a long development cycle for Dreamlinux 4.0, the Dreamlinux developer team decided to discontinued the release of Dreamlinux 4.0 And Today the Dreamlinux developers pleased to announce the new Dreamlinux 5.0 after a long absence since the last stable release Dreamlinux 3.5. Dreamlinux is a debian based distribution which specializes in multimedia support. So, let’s check what’s new in Dreamlinux 5.0 and Download options.

Wine application allows you to run Microsoft Windows applications on Linux, BSD, and MAC OS X. This week development release Wine 1.3.36 supports dynamic devices using UDisks utility which allows you to mount, unmount, format, and safely remove devices “External USB drive, USB flash drive, hard drive,..etc”. Also this release has many enhancements, and several bug fixes.

Mozilla Firefox 9 desktop web browser was released a few days ago. Mozilla always promises to bring better web browsing experience with newer releases of Firefox. The latest release of Mozilla Firefox 9 is 30% faster than Firefox 8 according to Java Script and HTML 5 benchmarks. Check Mozilla Firefox 9 release notes and installation instruction on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and earlier release of Ubuntu as well down below.

Gimp 2.7.4 has been released. Latest development release brings many improvements to the single-window-mode, better tablet support specially after updating the brushes engine on tablets like Wacom, and several bug fixes. Hopefully this could be the last development release of Gimp 2.7.x leading to the stable release Gimp 2.8 .

Canonical introduced the new odm.ubuntu.com portal in ubuntu hardware summit yesterday held on Taipei, Taiwan. odm.ubuntu.com aims to provide help to engineering, and developers with manufacturing devices running Ubuntu operating system.

Plank dock is a lightweight applications launcher, Plank dock is developed by Docky Core team. It could be a great alternative to many dock applications if you are looking for simple dock application do the basic function of launching applications and arranging applications on the dock. Also, it’s a lightweight dock does not require big a mount of memory at all.

Paypal payment method support is coming to Ubuntu Software Center to easily purchase commercial software. Ubuntu Pay project aims to provide an easy and safe way to purchase software from Ubuntu Software Center and subscriptions to some of Ubuntu products like Ubuntu One.

LibrePlan is free and open-source advanced web application for projects planning, managing resources, monitoring projects progress, tracking progress with advanced reports and even more. LibrePlan formerly known as NavalPlan for the earlier releases.