What's Wrong With Utux-Utux?

• Back up your data securely on line.
• Use a remote storage area to share your data and access it from anywhere, and synchronize your data on several computers.

• Improved boot times! How? Through various tweaks and improvements;
• New bootsplash - A smaller and slicker loading bar and logo replaced the old splash;
• New login screen - Black with a big 3D Ubuntu logo on the bottom-right corner login screen;
• Two new wallpapers - the default one has swirly shapes on an orange-brown background and the other is brighter and has a bubbly design; also, a smooth fading transition effect will occur when changing wallpapers;
• Three new themes - New Wave, Dust and Dust Sand are sure to please most users;
• LZMA compression - available via the right click -> create archive option or in the File Roller application. LZMA offers high compression ratio and extremely fast decompression;
• New timezone map - It was redrawn and provides a more efficient way of choosing your timezone;
• Automatic keyboard detection - The Ubiquity installer will try to guess the keyboard layout that you're using;
• New notification framework - Semi-transparent black boxes will pop up to provide a quick look for different events: updates, network availability, new emails, instant messages, etc.;
• Improved terminal - When you open an application through the terminal and try to close the terminal, a warning will pop up;
• Improved screenshot utility - differentiating between the two ways of invoking it (either by opening it from the Main Menu or by pressing the Print Screen);
• Computer Janitor - Ubuntu now has a system cleaner that will get rid of all the cruft;
• Brasero - the default CD/DVD burning tool. Moreover, the "Write to disc" context menu option is now handled by Brasero;
• Amazing 3D desktop effects - Compiz Fusion was updated to properly support the GNOME desktop environment;
• PST support - in Evolution Email client;
• PulseAudio - as the default audio input/output framework and brings a redesigned volume control;
• New software updates notifications - the Software Updates window will now pop-up when important updates are available; after installing them, if neccessary, you will also be prompted, by another pop-up... to reboot the computer;
• Logout/Shutdown/Restart countdown timers - After selecting one of these functions, you will have 60 seconds to change your mind;
• Better Wacom tablets support - They will now be automatically recognized and enabled.

The long-awaited PCLinuxOS 2009 has been released: "The Ripper Gang is pleased to announce the final public ISO image release of PCLinuxOS 2009.1. This release features Linux kernel 2.6.26.8, KDE 3.5.10, OpenOffice.org 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KTorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz Fusion 3D and much more. We decided to use KDE 3.5.10 as our default desktop as we could not achieve a similar functionality from KDE 4. We will however offer KDE 4 as an alternative desktop environment available from the repository once we stabilize it." Here is the brief release announcement. Besides the main product, a GNOME edition of PCLinuxOS 2009 containing GNOME 2.24.3, Brasero, GNOME Power Manager, Exaile Music Player and other GTK+ applications, is also released. Download: pclinuxos-2009.1.iso (696MB, MD5), pclos-gnome2009.1.iso (694MB, MD5, torrent).