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Canonical company in recent years has an active policy to promote Ubuntu, established an important partnership agreements with various countries, organizations and government agencies.

A few days ago it became known that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has decided to use Ubuntu as a reference operating system for its national program running, emphasizing its advantages such as flexibility, openness, the popularity and availability of standards development. Announcement was the result of a five-year transition plan and the accelerated growth of open source software ecosystem in China.

Everything else, in Beijing will be an office development, which Canonical, in close cooperation with their Chinese counterparts will be to further develop the Ubuntu with a focus on the Chinese market.
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According to plans, the first tablet with Ubuntu Touch will appear in October. However, the first announcement of such a device was not made ​​by Canonical, a third-party developer tablets to publish pre-order at one of the Australian sites.

As far as it’s legal, it is not clear, but enthusiasts can now place an order for Intermatrix U7, the price of which is set at about 8500 rubles (AU $ 269), including delivery, according to the order form, it will be available around the world. Price may change over time, as in the smaller, and in a big way, but for those who pre-ordered, it will remain the same, except for the case when the tablet will be cheaper, the overpayment will be refunded. In addition, the first 50 customers a 10% discount. (more…)

Drew Bliss (Valve) said at a speech in the Ubuntu Developer Summit, that Linux is more affordable gaming platform than Windows 8.

Some key points of performance:

- Native Steam works well on Ubuntu.
- Cooperation with Canonical has been very productive.
- Linux has everything you need – a good OpenGL, OpenAL, PulseAudio. Well, on the side of a large community of Linux.
- For Linux will soon be available on the new games Source. (more…)

As is known, this month will begin closed beta testing of the Steam client for Linux, in which 1000 people will be able to take part. The main limitation of the test version is that you can only play in one game, the title of which unless remains under a veil of secrecy.

Not assigning even an approximate release date of final release, Valve has already submitted a list of games that will be included in the stable release of Steam. In an added twenty-one game, and the list continues to grow.
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The Ubuntu One team has announced the opening of the Ubuntu One Music Store for the web and your mobile phone. From now on users can not Rhythmbox detour buy their music via a browser or mobile device in the Ubuntu One Music Store.

The integration in cooperation with the 7digital -powered and available for Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu One Music Store was previously using the Gnome media player Rhythmbox. Banshee also has a corresponding extension. The shares purchased will be transferred except as a local downloads in the personal Ubuntu One memory of the user and can be synchronized from there, with each connected client PC. At extra cost from there also streaming the shares purchased is possible on a mobile phone.
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NexPhone – it’s smartphone operating system Android, which is surrounding the technology of Ubuntu for Android. One of the main advantages of this device – the ability to connect not only to your computer, but also to the tablet.

This smartphone is being developed by NexCrea, which advertises itself as the first company to release a smartphone with technology Ubuntu for Android. That the company has launched a promotional video NexPhone.

Naturally NexCrea not the first to work on a smartphone with Ubuntu for Android. But in NexCrea want to do more, and do it with style. Just look how it will look NexPhone , NexTablet , NexLaptop , NexMonitor .
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The Ubuntu team is planning to automate the upload of applications by developers largely because the review team is now overloaded. For the safety of those not tested software manually should ensure AppArmor.

After Ubuntu had introduced the software center, it was also allows external developers to build their applications (for Ubuntu consistently referred to as apps) in the Software Center upload. Before activation but there is a manual review of the app, which, according to a notice from David Planella now leads increasingly to frustration because of the great interest of the developers, as well as on Ubuntu App Showdown read, was the review team is overloaded. Weeks of delays are the result.

Uploads to the Software Center is so popular because it allows app developers, the latest versions relatively quickly bring to the users. The alternative way to package the software for Ubuntu leads, initially on the development version of Ubuntu (or Debian) and to be included in the next official version of Ubuntu. Available at the time of the Ubuntu application has already be outdated. In extreme cases, it is an app that was written for a specific event, and is no longer needed after the event.
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For users of Ubuntu 12.04 Chromium browser updates stopped appearing since the 18 version, but now, thanks to the developer Alex Shkop, latest builds are available again in two specially prepared PPA .

Chromium is one of the repositories used to install the latest stable version (currently 21), and the other versions are under development (currently 23).

Installing Chromium in Ubuntu 12.04

PPA with the stable version of Chromium:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:av-shkop/chromium sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

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Presented the first alpha version of the new derivative distro Ubuntu 12.10, using desktop GNOME.

The main purpose of registration is a separate version of the creation of a “pure» GNOME environment using the latest release of GNOME 3.6.

However, the new versions of these packages, such as the file manager Nautilus and Totem media player will not be included due to the fact that they are not in the official repositories Ubuntu, due to a number of technical and controversial issues, but you can put them out of GNOME 3 PPA .
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Gnomebuntu - is the name chosen for the new Ubuntu developers an official derivative distribution c desktop Gnome.

Issue is a edition with a clean installation of Gnome, which combines a number of components of Ubuntu. Release date is scheduled, as well as for other distributions from the family of Ubuntu (Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Lubuntu, etc.), on October 18 of this year.

What will be included

The Nautilus file manager will be the same version as in Ubuntu. Recall that the Ubuntu developers have refused to move to version 3.6 at 12.10, but instead were asked to leave the old 3.4, which still contains the deleted data.
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