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Enable hotkeys(combination of function key and other special key in your laptop) for adjusting brightness on your laptop in Ubuntu. When you install Ubuntu on your laptop then it may happen that hotkeys for screen brightness control are not working. You can enable them by following instruction provided in the article.

Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of OS4 1.0 "OpenDesktop" edition, a Xubuntu-based distribution targeting legacy 32-bit hardware, ultrabooks and netbooks: "Today we are proud to announce the general availability of OS4 OpenDesktop 1.0. OS4 OpenDesktop is a 32-bit offering that runs on all legacy 32-bit hardware as well as the newer ultrabooks and netbooks. With this release we focus on mobility and cloud computing. Along with this release the system comes with Audacious, Totem, and Google Chrome.

Pierre Schmitz has announced the availability of a new installation CD/USB image for Arch Linux, version 2012.08.04: "The August snapshot of our live and install media comes with updated packages and the following changes on top of the previous iso image: GRUB 2.00 instead of the legacy 0.9 version is available; the installation guide can be found at /root/install.txt; ZSH with Grml's configuration is used as interactive shell to provide a user friendly and more convenient environment, this includes completion support for pacstrap, arch-chroot, pacman and most other tools; the network daemon, which will automatically setup your network if DHCP is available, is started by default.

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the release of Calculate Linux 12.0, a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers: "Calculate Linux 12.0 released. Major changes: Calculate Utilities 3 are now used to install and set up your system - network client-server solutions via SOAP/WSDL are supported, both console and graphical interfaces are implemented, multiple installations are supported, system settings can now be configured either from the command line or in a graphical environment.

For around a decade only the i386/i486 edition of VectorLinux has been available, which is a Slackware-based distribution optimised for business and office use. Today Robert Lange announced the first 64-bit edition of VectorLinux 7.0 Standard under the name "VLocity": "The main desktop is based on Xfce-4.8 with a custom theme and artwork unique to us. All the VectorLinux trademarks are included: DVD playback, audio and video codecs, multimedia and Java plugins are installed and working out of the box.

Ryan Finnie today announced the availability of Finnix 105, a live CD distribution for system administrators based on Debian's testing branch: "I am pleased to announce the release of Finnix 105, a major architectural update to the Finnix series. Finnix 105 brings major organizational changes to the build and boot systems, along with the usual assortment of software updates. Finnix 105 is the first Finnix release to be produced under Project NEALE (Normalized Extraction and Assembly of LiveCD Environments), a new set of procedures to build Finnix CDs from a minimal base Debian bootstrap. This allows for a consistent build process each time, and between architectures. It also allows for more future options, such as a native userland AMD64 release."

Ultimate Edition 3.4, now based on Ubuntu 12.04 and featuring the GNOME 3 desktop, has been released: "Ultimate Edition 3.4 was built off Ubuntu 12.04 'Precise Pangolin'. All updates fully applied, old kernels purged, new initrd and vmlinuz rebuilt. Ultimate Edition 3.4 is what 2.6 series was - a stable environment. GNOME, the default environment is rock solid. Ultimate Edition 3.4 has a new GTK+ 3 theme and a comprehensive set of software packages. I have really placed thought and diligence into what this product is. Ultimate Edition 3.4 takes things to a whole new level. It was developed with stability in mind, sorry KDE users, we will catch you in Ultimate Edition 3.5. This OS will be my primary OS for some time to come. That statement alone says a lot for my feeling on this operating system."

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 9, a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers: "We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 9 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 8, this is just another step towards world domination. There you have it, shining at full bright, for your home computer, your laptop and your home server. Linux kernel 3.4, GNOME 3.2.3, KDE 4.8.3, Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.5.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Gentoo Hardened features, Rigo -- a new way of browsing applications, ZFS tech-preview, and PAE kernel for x86 editions."

Snowlinux Lars Torben Kremer has announced the release of Snowlinux 2 "Cinnamon" edition, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution: "The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 2 'Cream' 'Cinnamon'. Snowlinux 2 'Cream' is based upon the LTS edition Ubuntu 12.04 and is supported for 5 years until April 2017.

Dick MacInnis has announced the release of Dream Studio 12.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution with a goal of helping users to create graphics, videos, music and websites.

Andrew Wyatt has announced the availability of Fuduntu 2012.2 on 2nd April, 2012.No major updates are there but some minor changes have been made. It uses Linux kernel 3.2.13, Chromium 17, Mozilla Firefox 11, Thunderbird 11, Pidgin 2.10.2, LibreOffice 3.5.1.

Linpus is Fedora based Linux Operating System which is developed by Linpus Technology. They has announced the availability of Linpus 1.7 on 16th Mar, 2012. The Linpus Technology has their head-office at Taipei, Taiwan and the development office in Shanghai, China.

Mobeen Iqbal has announced the availability of the Vinux 3.0.2. This Ubuntu based operating system is specially developed for blind and visually impaired users. Hence it contain screen-reader, full screen magnification and support for Braille display.

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of second beta version of Mageia 2 Linux on 15th Mar, 2012. This version include KDE 4.8.1, GNOME 3.3 and Linux Kernel 3.3-rc7 with many other new updates. This version is specially for testing and bug fixing.

After release of Salix OS 13.37 'Xfce' the 'KDE' version of it has been released on 14th Mar, 2012. This version is also built using SaLT [Salix Live Technology] which is more powerful tool. Basically Salix OS is easy to use and very fast Linux which is based on Slackware Linux. It comes in four desktop environment which are Fluxbox, KDE, LXDE and Xfce.

Guadalinex is the linux operating system based on Ubuntu made for facilitate the information technology to the citizen by the government of Andalucia.

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the availability of the Calculate Linux 11.15 on 14th Mar, 2012. It provides CDS [calculate directory server] using server version and user can use this services by the desktop medium. The main change in this version is migration to GNOME shell.

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the FreeNAS 8.2.0 second beta version on 14th Mar, 2012. FreeNAS is small-scale operating system based of FreeBSD which gives the NAS [network attached storage] facilities like CIFS, FTP and NFS.

Jeff Rizzo has announced the availability of the beta version of NetBSD 6.0 for testing on 13th Mar, 2012. NetBSD is secure and highly portable UNIX-like operating system which is opensource and available for number of architecture like i386, ia64, arm, armel, mips, mipsel, sparc64, pc98, powerpc, powerpc64, xbox and many more.

Jose Antonio Calvo has announced the availability of beta version of Zentyal 2.3 on 9th Mar, 2012. Zentyal is server Linux operating system which is based on Ubuntu and this version is based on Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1.