Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta has been released seconds ago.

The beta version of Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' has been released. The final version will come out on October,10.

You can download the beta from the links below. Please note that though it is fairly stable, it is still not the final version and there will be bugs.

What's New in Beta:



New Ambiance and Radiance Themes:

It is reported that Microsoft recently obtained patent for "Operating System Shutdown".

Launchpad code hosting will be offline Friday between 8.00 and 9.30 UTC for unexpected hardware maintenance. This means you won’t be able to browse, push to, pull from or otherwise access code hosted on Launchpad.

Going offline: 8.00 UTC 3rd September 2010

Expected back: 9.30 UTC 3rd September 2010

You don't need any introduction of OMGUbuntu. They are by far the most popular Ubuntu blog out there. They had a complete site overhaul recently and I have to say, OMGUbuntu website looks absolutely gorgeous now.

Equinox is a new GTK2 engine already used by themes such as Elementary.

Ubuntu Stack Exchange is a community driven Q&A site for both Ubuntu users and

If you want to suspen your gnome session when it is idle at the login screen use the following procedure.

Add gnome-power-preferences to GDM’s autostart directory

Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is.

Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team?

The Ubuntu kernel team has prepared a new proposed kernel for Lucid (2.6.32-25.43), containing a large number of fixes.

Laura Cowen, Tony Whitmore and Alan Pope are back in Studio A for episode 15 of season 3 of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

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Valve is all too familiar with gaming folks out there. They are the guys behind the awesome STEAM online gaming platform. They were in a bit of controversy recently when they denied all reports of a Linux version of their famous online gaming platform.

With Talika Gnome Panel Applet, you can get a Windows 7 like taskbar in Ubuntu. It is a lightweight alternative to the default window manager in Ubuntu and it supports window previews.


Features:

Not many mainstream PC manufacturers have a Linux preinstalled version of their products. But some do have and the there are many other not-so-mainstream providers of Linux preinstalled laptops, netbooks and PC's. Here are a few of them you should know.



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This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Empathy!

The task is to assign to the right package and triage those as well:

• 44 New bugs need a hug
• 109 Incompletes bugs need a status check
• 23 Confirmed bugs need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!

This Month we have profiled a member of the Canonical family, who has been with us almost from the start

*Henrik Omma*

Read on to see his recollection of what Canonical was like in the early days and why he enjoys working here.

*Take 60 seconds with Henrik Omma*

Henrik works as the Enterprise Applications Team Manager and has been with Canonical for 6 years.

Today is Twitter's OAuthpocalypse: Twitter is shutting down basic authentification so all clients not using OAuth will stop working and one of these Twitter clients is Ubuntu's default microblogging clien