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The work on Ubuntu Dhivehi Translation recently have picked up speed with new members joining in the team and contributing.

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Ubuntu is a Linux-Based Operating System that is perfect for Desktops, Laptops and Servers. Ubuntu is one of the best and popular Linux distributor.

Follow this post to Upgrade your Ubuntu version to Ubuntu 9.04 (Most Recent Release) [Code Name: "Jaunty Jackalope"). In this post I'll only include "Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Desktops" which is most recommended one.

1. Start System/Administration/Update Manager. (If you do not see "Update Manager" in the list, launch the Synaptic Package Manager and install the "update-manager" package.)

2. Click the Check button to check for new updates.

3. If there are any updates to install, use the Install Updates button to install them, and press Check again after that is complete.

4. A message will appear informing you of the availability of the new release.

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5. Click Upgrade.

6. Follow the on-screen instructions.

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Source: (Ubuntu[dot]com)
For more info on upgrading Ubuntu, Visit the Source link.

I've seen many open source video editors for Linux. But Acidemux is better than all of those video editors i have used.

Acodemux is specially designed for simply cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports allmost all the file types. (Including: VI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF)

This program is written and available for almost all distributions of Linux that are capable of compiling C/C++, GTK+ and the SpiderMonkey ECMAScript scripting engine.

Key features of Acidemux include

• User Friendly interface
• WYSIWYG cutting, appending, filters and re-encoding into various formats
• mux and demux audio streams into and out of video files

Download Avidemux 2.4.3

What is UbuntuMe?
UbuntuMe is a customized version of Ubuntu. Its useful and targeted for Muslim users using Ubuntu.

UbuntuMe comes with Islamic Softwares.

More Information & Download - Here

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Few weeks back Lifehacker posted a poll, Whats the Best linux distributor? so far Ubuntu got more votes.

Nowadays Ubuntu has become too popular in Maldivian Teens.

I know that most of us Linux user usually cringe whenever we need to *god forbid* use a Microsoft WIndows machine. So we created applications like Wine in an effort minimize the contact with that horrid machine. With Wine a big percentage of Windows only apps could run on Linux, which more or less takes Windows out of the equation and lets us interact directly with our favorite App. Another solution of course would be installing Windows on a virtual machine.

But running an app on a virtual machine doesn’t eliminate Windows from the equation. Right? So I will show you now how to run Windows apps 100% seamlessly on Ubuntu. You know something like this:

Tools

1. Windows installed on Vmware. ( I assume you have one or know how to create one)
2. rdesktop, you can grab that from apt-get or directly download it from their site
3. SeamlessRDP, download it an extract it in your Windows VM in c:/seamless

What to do:

In Windows VM

1. In the Windows VM, get the local IP address of that machine using the Ipconfig command in DOS.
2. Also give that machine a static IP (Not DHCP). This will help you later when invoking the launch command, you won’t need to change the IP everytime
3. Create a new Windows admin user, let’s call it Linux for now (Password:123123)
4. Finally, we want to make Windows launch without a Desktop. So launch your registry editor (regedit in run) and navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> Explorer. Once there create a new DWORD entry and call it “NoDesktop” and then change it’s value to 1.

On Ubuntu Linux

Right click on your desktop and choose “create launcher”. In type, keep it as is (application), for name name it whatever you please (I named it Windows-VM), and in command type in “rdesktop -A -s ‘c:\seamless\seamlessrdpshell.exe c:\windows\explorer.exe’ 192.168.1.104 -u linux -p 123123?. Of course you will need to change the IP to your IP and the password (123123) to whatever password you chose. Thats it! Double click on the launcher and you will shortly get a the Windows taskbar on the bottom. Of course if you want to totally get rid of MS nuisance, just enable the autohide option

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Windows mobiles, OS X on Apple iPhone; what about Linux? Maybe not even close to the others, but it's here on the mobile handset arena too. It's been around for a while and been talked a lot, however it's not done as good as the rest of the OS's for mobiles. One reason for this maybe that Linux is a platform for open source developers and a "platform" has been missing for most of the community based developers. Motorola has Linux based phones; Google is leading on the Android platform. Many others like Access Linux Platform, OpenZaurus and Qtopia are all examples of Linux based mobile OS's.

The good news now is we have an open source mobile phone, the "Neo FreeRunner" (The previous version was the Neo 1973), the phone runs Openmoko Linux which is I guess Debian based like Ubuntu is. So what difference does it make? "Freedom"! now developers can freely modify and develop the as they please ( ability to modify the operating system and software stack). This is in no way yet the replacement for iPhones or your avrage Nokia Nseries phones. It's assumed that most of the users of the Neo FreeRunner will be hardcore hackers who want to explore and experiment. There can be good commercial applications as well, as it's an open platform but this is yet to be explored. One area which I would really wanna go into this is to implement a "Thaana" based phone. This might be the ideal platform for it. Linux supports Thaana and with some effort I am sure it will be easy to implement a Thaana based GUI into the phone. Not that I want to be the one who is assigned with the task; but it's a good challage for those of you out there who are willing to give it a try.

Other such platforms besides Neo include TuxPhone and the Greenphone.