Netrunner 15 'Prometheus' is here -- the best KDE-based Linux distro gets better

I'm a GNOME 3 man through and through, but I love KDE too. Quite frankly, you can't go wrong with either desktop environment, but if you are new to Linux, KDE may seem a bit more familiar. Why? It more resembles the traditional "Windows" user interface.

What makes Netrunner the best KDE-based Linux distribution, and one of the best distros overall, is the polish. The team behind it pays close attention to detail, making it a cohesive and positive user experience. It comes pre-loaded with plenty of software and it is drop-dead gorgeous. Today, you can download version 15, codenamed "Prometheus". The most exciting aspect? It has been redesigned and comes with KDE Plasma Desktop 5.2 -- yeah, you want this.

Clemens Tönnies lists just some of the major changes below.

Kernel 3.16.0.30~40
KDE Plasma 5.2
KDE Frameworks 5.7
Qt5.4
Firefox 35.0.1
Thunderbird 31.4.0
VLC 2.2.0
LibreOffice 4.4
Krita ; Karbon 2.8.5
Gimp 2.8.10
Pidgin 2.10.9
and much more…





Source:
http://betanews.com/2015/02/16/netrunner-15-prometheus-is-here-the-best-kde-based-linux-distro-gets-better/

5 less-known Variants of Ubuntu

Ubuntu, the world's most popular free OS acts as a bridge to Linux for most of the Windows users. It has probably made tons of Windows lovers fall in love with Linux and change their perception about Linux. Almost all Linux users are aware of Ubuntu and have used it at one point or the other. We have heard about lots of Linux distributions but there are various others those claim to be the variants of Ubuntu.







Here is a collection of few of them:

Download Ubuntu Kylin here : http://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/

Download Ubuntu CE here : http://www.ubuntuce.com/download.htm

Download Ubuntu Studio here : http://ubuntustudio.org/download/

Download Ubuntu DesktopPack here : http://ualinux.com/en/download

Download Ubuntu GNOME here: http://ubuntugnome.org/download/

Source:
http://www.coolcoder.in/2014/02/5-less-known-variants-of-ubuntu.html

2014 Highlights

Its been both an exciting and challenging year for us, this post includes some of the highlights.

Early in the spring Karen Sandler announced her departure* as the Executive Director of the foundation.

The GNOME Asia Summit, an event with a strong community building focus, was this year hosted in Beijing, China. In the end of July the GNOME community gathered for GUADEC in the beautiful city of Strasbourg, France for a week of talks, discussions and hacking.

Several Hackfest’s took place around the world including the first edition of the West Coast Summit where the growing number of GNOME contributors living in Silicon Valley got together. GNOME was also present at great conferences such as FOSDEM and FSCONS.

We saw two stable GNOME releases, 3.12 & 3.14 where the developer experience took leaps forward with many improvements to GTK+ and the introduction of the inspector while the user experience continued to evolve.

Source:
http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/12/2014-highlights/

gnome-rdp

gnome-rdp

• Build Status
 
• Update Status
 
• Package Source
 
• Bug Reports
 
• Package Info

Status	Approved
Creation Date	Not yet implemented

Remote Desktop Protocol client for the GNOME desktop environment

gnome-rdp is a Remote Desktop Protocol client for the GNOME desktop
environment. It supports RDP, VNC and SSH. Configured sessions can be saved to
the built in list.

Contents:

• Fedora devel

• Fedora 20

• Fedora 19

• Fedora 18

Collection	Owner	QA Contact	Crit Path	Status
Fedora devel	lbazan			Approved
User watchbugzilla watchcommits commit approveacls echevemaster Approved Approved Approved Approved lbazan Approved Approved Approved Approved vicodan Approved Approved Approved Approved
provenpackager group members can commit?

Collection	Owner	QA Contact	Crit Path	Status
Fedora 20	lbazan			Approved
User watchbugzilla watchcommits commit approveacls echevemaster Approved Approved Approved Approved lbazan Approved Approved Approved Approved vicodan Approved Approved Approved Approved
provenpackager group members can commit?

Collection	Owner	QA Contact	Crit Path	Status
Fedora 19	lbazan			Approved
User watchbugzilla watchcommits commit approveacls echevemaster Approved Approved Approved Approved lbazan Approved Approved Approved Approved vicodan Approved Approved Approved Approved
provenpackager group members can commit?

Collection	Owner	QA Contact	Crit Path	Status
Fedora 18	lbazan			Approved
User watchbugzilla watchcommits commit approveacls echevemaster Approved Approved Approved Approved lbazan Approved Approved Approved Approved vicodan Approved Approved Awaiting Review Awaiting Review
provenpackager group members can commit?

sursa : https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/gnome-rdp?_csrf_token=f391b0b6bead768601520d8408a540a719504ba4