This is list of New Applications and Defaults on ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot)
Thunderbird is included as default email client including menu and launcher integration.
Déjà Dup is included as the default backup tool, making it easy to upload backups to Ubuntu One.
The new Gwibber landed in Oneiric bringing improved performance and a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies.
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VirtualBox is a free, open source, cross-platform application for creating, managing and running Virtual Machines (VMs).
You've heard a lot about Linux and you'd love to try it out, but you don't know enough to take the plunge and install it alongside Windows -- maybe you're worried you'll wipe all your files off in the process. Besides, you'd like to have another computer handy so that you can look something up if you get stuck, but you don't have another computer. This is it.
Or maybe it's the opposite. Perhaps you've taken a step out of your comfort zone and ditched Windows -- maybe for Ubuntu, or maybe for Mac OS X. You feel liberated! No more Blue Screens of Death! You're living life on the edge, getting on with your work… and then you come to a screeching halt. You discover that a piece of software crucial to your workflow runs on Windows… and only Windows.
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We have already posted some time ago about Nice Ubuntu themes for Maverick Users and this is updated for Natty users now.
XNOISE is a media player for Gtk+ with a slick GUI, great speed and lots of features.Unlike Rhythmbox, Banshee or itunes, Xnoise uses a tracklist centric design. The tracklist is a list of video or music tracks that are played one by one without being removed (right side of window).
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Remastered based on the original wav files, since my previous version was based on the lossy, compressed ogg files.
Adjusted a couple of levels, having actually tested it on as many different 5.1 and 2-channel stereo environments I could find.
Updated the ubuntu-sounds package and pushed to bzr and a PPA for easier installation on lucid, maverick, natty, or oneiric!
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