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New Features Of 15.04 Ubuntu

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The system is replacing the Upstart

system is replacing upstart in Ubuntu 15. TheSystem is going to be there on the desktop, server and cloud version of Ubuntu except for Ubuntu Touch.

Linux kernel

It will be using Linux kernel 3.19.3 which has better graphics support.

GTK 3.14 support

Ubuntu 15.04 brings GTK 3.14 supports. Which means you can install various newly developed applications such as vocal in Ubuntu without using a staging PPA

More development tools

With Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu Development Center has been transformed into ubuntu make. For developers of mobile apps, web applications, and games, it provides support for 14 new platforms including Android NDK, Android Studio, IDEA (ultimate and community editions), pycharm (professional, educational and community publications), web store, rubymine, phpstorm, eclipse, Stencyl game development platform.

‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core

Ubuntu 15.04 brings the first stable version of ‘Snappy’ Ubuntu Core.

Local menus are back

Regional cuisines are coming back as default in Ubuntu 15.04. It also means that global list won’t be enabled by default in 15.04. You can let the comprehensive menu in System Settings -> Appearance -> Behaviour tab -> ‘In the menu bar’ option.

Files (Nautilus) 3.14 brings a couple of new features

15.04 also has the latest version 3.14 of Files (previously known as Nautilus) file manager. You can notice a minor change in the look in the left sidebar where mounted drivers are segregated more cleanly:

The new version of Files also has the option of Open in Terminal option in the right-click menu.

Option to save WiFi password

Another minor change you might notice is that Ubuntu 15.04 provides you the opportunity to keep the WiFi password either for the current user or for all the users. A minor change but might be useful for some.

Updated applications

Needless to mention that Ubuntu 15.04 has updated versions of most of the applications such as LibreOffice, Totem, etc.

Source: itsfoss.com

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Open Source Softwares Rules The World

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Do you know that 78% of companies use open source software? Yes, it is the reality

Open Source Software is those software whose source code is freely available and can be inspected, modified and enhanced. This free nature of usage has made open source software is extremely popular all over the world. But despite the popularity of open source software and the fact that so many companies all over the world are embracing it even a half-way of those companies do a decent work of managing it.

Black Duck Software, the open-source software (OSS) logistics and legal solutions provider published these results after conducting a survey. It was found that companies were adopting open source software crazily but were not managing it properly.

Lou Shipley, Black Duck’s CEO, said in a statement, “In the results this year, it has become more evident that companies need their management and governance of open source to catch up to their usage. This is critical to reducing potential security, legal, and operational risks while allowing companies to reap the full benefits OSS provides.”

Some of the thesurvey results conducted by Black Duck:

  1. 78 percent said their companies run part or all of its operations on OSS.
    2. 66 percent said their company creates software for customers built on open source.
  2. 55 percent believe open source delivers superior security when lined up against proprietary solutions.
    4. 58 percent think open source scales better and 43 percent said OSS provides superior ease of deployment over proprietary software.