Thanks to one of unity’s main packagers, mdawkins, GNOME 2.30 is now available in your local repositories.
Yesterday afternoon I took to the task of updating my Unity Linux install having testing enabled.

Well, everything went fine until I hit libgdk_pixbuff. That just threw plenty of errors at me, making it impossible to launch any GTK+ applications.
After reinstalling the library, the log

The Unite17  project is pleased to announce its first Unite17 version.

What is inside:

• Based of Unity Linux RC1 core (openbox removed)
• Kernel updated to 2.6.31.13-uniy1
• Enlightenment E17 0.16.999.063 (thank you guys!) not include ecomorph.
• Themes, wallpapers (Thank you Agust, Verdegal, who you are, )
• Amsn
• Skype 2.1.0.81
• Transmission (bit torrent client)
• Firefox 3.6 (web browser)
• Mozilla Thunderbird (e-mail client)
• Mplayer (movie player)
• XMMS (audio player)

This Unite17 release is a “raw” system. I hope you will like it.

Please remember! Enlightenment DR17 is under heavy development, it is not stable.

Check this page and later the mirrors to get the 32 bit LiveCD.

Unite17 homepage (in hungarian).

The move went well and everything is back online.  If you find any problems, please report them and thanks for using Unity!

Hi Unity Linux fans!

We’re currently moving the physical server that houses dev.unity-linux.org.  We’ve had some instability in the past few months that was tracked down to some faulty hardware.  This move should give us the stability we’ve sought but have yet to achieve.

Both the SVN and Issue tracker will be down until things have moved.  Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.

Geany has a number of plugins, and there is spell checking in their main plugins bundle.  Installing was easy. Tested 2010-04-29 on Unity Linux 2010 64bit beta1, updated recently. su smart install geany-devel lib64enchant-devel intltool wget http://plugins.geany.org/geany-plugins/geany-plugins-0.18.tar.bz2 tar xvvjf geany-plugins-0.18.tar.bz2 cd geany-plugins-0.18 ./configure make make install Then go to `Tools > Plugin Manager` and select [...]

Thanks to Granola, you can now go about computing guilt free. 
Yes! Guilt free.
“Help the planet. Use granola” is the sites slogan.  

The projects aim is to make computers more energy efficient by managing your computer workload. The power manager runs in the background and supposedly does not interfere with your normal computing. I can support that, although I haven’t tested with any

Today I patched kdebase to have webcam image support for kdepasswd. This patch simply allows the user to take a picture of themselves and use it as there User account icon in kde4. If you don’t have a webcam plugged in or detected then the button will stay grayed out. This patch obsoletes the kcm-useraccount [...]

KDE 4.4.2 Packaging.
This weekend I have pretty much finished packaging for 4.4.2. It’s a little later then what I wanted it for a few different reasons.
1. There was a Akonadi MySql issue that I think had to do with the lastest Mysql update on the mirrors. This was reported by Steve who was very patient. [...]

It seems as if the Ubuntu developers have given in to the complaining and moaning coming forth from the Ubuntu community. The window buttons are back on the right. At least, that’s what my desktop shows, after the latest update.

Seems that the pressure was just to great.

Take a look at the Ubuntu brainstorm suggestion of moving the buttons back.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/23899/

Although I couldn’t find an official post, I assume that the buttons will stay there for quite a while… that is unless my computer somehow moved them to the left (backports package maybe?)

Due to an interesting bug with fdupes (again, something I should write on) I splatted some of my system.  While it’s trivial to restore stuff because I do proper regular backups, I decided to install the updated rc1 (Release Candidate 1) of Unity Linux.
The way I have my system set up makes it very easy [...]