As heard before, Ubuntu has a faster boot time than Windows or Mac, but some users have had a different experience than others. This aim of this article is to explain about it , how it happens and how to make it faster. (thanks to Neil_m)

One factor that influence booting time is a hardware specs, not only about capacity, but whether is the hardware having a good drivers and well supported by Ubuntu. When we boot up the machine, Grub does search for all the necessary drivers to load, this action actually takes a time, a long booting time usually caused by grub does not 'immediately' find the required drivers or some error occurs when the Grub try find that drivers.

One of the ways that help us to speed up ubuntu boot time is removing unnecessary services and drivers that are loaded at boot time. Something that you have to do is tell the Grub to make a new profile. Profile is Grub option that should add to grub configuration file (/etc/default/grub) to inform the boot loader to create a new profile during the next boot loading sequence.

Lugaru (pronounced Loo-GAH-roo) is a DRM-free, third-person action game available for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The main character, Turner, is an anthropomorphic rebel bunny rabbit with impressive combat skills. In his quest to find those responsible for slaughtering his village, he uncovers a far-reaching conspiracy involving the corrupt leaders of the rabbit republic and the starving wolves from a nearby den. Turner takes it upon himself to fight against their plot and save his fellow rabbits from slavery.

via: Wolfire Games

HUD is a short of 'Head-Up Display', HUD is a one of smart innovation from Unity Team that designed for Ubuntu 12.04 which integrates application menu to the Unity-desktop. HUD is designed as a semi-Dash, Users are allow to access application menu, recent history, and standard application command (undo, redo, search, etc) trough search button that stick dash. See following video to get clear illustration of HUD 'Head-Up Display'.

So far, we already know many kinds of desktop environments such GNOME, KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Unity, Openbox etc. But, have you ever imagined such a web based desktop environment? Now, there is a new project which try to create web based desktop environment for Linux called Asturix On. The key features of this desktop environments are:

Web based
All of the Asturix On user interface is programmed with only web technologies. Yes, just HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. That's pretty cool! Cool for the developer because we can build and extend all the desktop components easily. And cool for the user because the interface results in a highly animated and fresh experience!

Beautiful and simple
With a small top panel (only 24px height!) you won't be distracted. There aren't oversized docks or tool bars to reduce your display's usable space. With the top panel you can switch tabs, access desktops or monitor system information thanks to indicators. When you are on the desktop, swipe your mouse to access applications, widgets or places. Just work.

LibreOffice 3.4.5 has been released January 16, 2012, LibreOffice 3.4.5 availabe in Linux, Windows, and Mac.

What's New Features inside :

• Redesigned Move/Copy Sheet dialog (Edit->Sheet->Move/Copy) to improve its ergonomics. (Joost Eekhoorn, Christoph Noack)
• Improve HTML export with an image thumbnail gallery of the slides on the contents page. (Julien Nabet, Michael Meeks).
• Fonts which are tuned for use with a specific script, e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Malayalam, etc. now show an additional preview of some sample text in the target script. (Caolán McNamara, Red Hat, Inc.)
• Color Charts: Adding and Removing color charts is now possible from: Tools->Options->Charts->Default Colors (Rob Snelders).
• Named range as data source: With 3.4 it is now possible to use a named range as the data source for DataPilot.
• Text Rendering: Linux text-rendering improvements. Text is now drawn via Cairo with the same subpixeling options as other Cairo-using apps. The outcome is that text in LibreOffice is rendered the same as the rest of your desktop.