How To Use GNOME 3.10 in Ubuntu 13.10?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOww4cRCD5GfMLvmV8sfKpaN42iszari4y5yMEXsuhR2aHC_0Mrr4AeNagRA3yI0Z7ZIEf1WDwt56ZHSCxV9olSL8G64BmPfUlY3idGiXnrKJb4cRaOKMPRYo_roH1C1398dGVgeGhl4T/s1600/header-bars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOww4cRCD5GfMLvmV8sfKpaN42iszari4y5yMEXsuhR2aHC_0Mrr4AeNagRA3yI0Z7ZIEf1WDwt56ZHSCxV9olSL8G64BmPfUlY3idGiXnrKJb4cRaOKMPRYo_roH1C1398dGVgeGhl4T/s400/header-bars.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The newer version of the GNOME desktop was released back in September 2013 and comes with a raft of improved features, apps and usability tweaks. From hi-res screen support to new client-side decoration of app windows, GNOME 3.10 is a compelling upgrade.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The good news is that – providing you’re running Ubuntu 13.10, have a decent internet connection, and some command line aptitude (pun fully intended) – you don’t have to stick with a stale version of GNOME.</span></div><h3 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How To Upgrade to GNOME 3.10 in Ubuntu 13.10</span></h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the benefit of the skim readers whose eyes dropped straight to the point I’ll reiterate two points:</span></div><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: inside; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 16px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You need to be running Ubuntu 13.10 to install GNOME 3.10 using this method</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">GNOME 3.10 has NOT been tested with Ubuntu 13.10; you upgrade at your own risk</span></span></li></ul><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First, let’s add the GNOME 3 PPA to Ubuntu’s <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Software Sources</em>. This can be done using a GUI but it is far easier to achieve using the command line.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Open a new<em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Terminal</em> window and enter the following command, entering your user password when asked:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo add-apt-repository </span><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ppa:gnome3-team/<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gnome3-next</span> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">&& sudo apt-get update</span></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the PPA added and our package list updated we can move on to installing GNOME 3.10 itself. To do this r<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">un the following command, again entering your user password when prompted:</span></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop</span></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It can take a while for all the necessary packages and components to be fetched and installed, so try to be patient.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Midway through the installation a prompt will appear in the <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Terminal</em> asking you to choose what display manager – aka “login screen” – should be used by default.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This decision is entirely up to you; both Ubuntu’s Unity Greeter and the<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> GNOME Display Manager</span> let you easily switch between desktop sessions (handy if you want to keep Unity or another desktop around) but only GDM offers GNOME-specific features such as lock-screen notifications.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you’re ready to decide make your selection using the up/down arrow keys and hit ‘Enter/Return’ to confirm. The installation will then proceed.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warning out of the way, open up a new tab in a Terminal and punch in the following:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo add-apt-repository <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo add-apt-repository<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade</span></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To add some of the cool apps we mentioned earlier run:</span></div><pre style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 16px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo apt-get install gnome-weather gnome-music gnome-maps cheese gnome-documents</span></pre><pre style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 16px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></pre><pre style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-left: 16px; overflow: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Uninstalling GNOME 3.10</i></span></h4><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So you’ve tried it and didn’t like it. Now what?</span></div><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Removing GNOME 3.10 is a fairly straightforward processing providing we use a command-line tool called ‘PPA Purge’. It can be found in the Ubuntu Software Center and is by far the easiest way to automatically remove and/or downgrade packages installed from PPAs.</span></div><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><a class="omg-button usc-link" href="apt:ppa-purge" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.34902) 0px 1px 0px inset; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: color 250ms ease; background-color: #dd4814; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(221, 72, 20), rgb(188, 61, 17)); border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 72, 20); box-shadow: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.34902) 0px 1px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 18px; margin: 8px 0px; padding: 9px 10px 9px 42px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; transition: color 250ms ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="PPA Purge on Ubuntu Software Center"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Install PPA Purge from Ubuntu Software Center</span></a></div><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To use the tool we’ll need to go back to the terminal and enter the following, taking care to look out for any prompts that may appear during the downgrade process.</span></div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-next</span></blockquote><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you also added the optional extra PPAs you will also need to purge those as well:</span></div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo ppa-purge ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3</span></blockquote><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once completed you should be left with the stock GNOME 3.8 desktop. If you don’t want to keep GNOME Shell around <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">at all</em> you can proceed to remove it:</span></div><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell ubuntu-gnome-desktop</span></blockquote><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, manually remove any remaining applications that persist after downgrade (e.g., Epiphany and GNOME Documents), then reboot.</span></div><br /><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via : <a href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/12/upgrade-gnome-3-10-ubuntu-13-10" target="_blank">OMG Ubuntu</a></span></i></div><br /></pre>

How To Use GNOME 3.10 in Ubuntu 13.10?

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Pinguy OS 13.10 (based on Ubuntu 13.10) has been released with GNOME 3.10

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8RbBDDiyGbZAd9sjfMEC9Fy_FbX75F__NSLy81MCAMjoJutsB2XQ9CA8ajhmRmnZmX68vK2h5sQUEu9eKOzV_MkBnm0F46NV-DpzRa2lTN2524UXwZrNK02wy3m6-CZuN0sVkCMeakHmH/s1600/pinguyos-13.10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8RbBDDiyGbZAd9sjfMEC9Fy_FbX75F__NSLy81MCAMjoJutsB2XQ9CA8ajhmRmnZmX68vK2h5sQUEu9eKOzV_MkBnm0F46NV-DpzRa2lTN2524UXwZrNK02wy3m6-CZuN0sVkCMeakHmH/s640/pinguyos-13.10.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pinguy OS is a remastered Ubuntu with a lot of useful default applications - great for those who don't like to do a lot of tweaking and want an OS that "just works".</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is the final 13.10 release but it's called beta because only LTS releases are considered stable</b>. </span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><a href="" name="more" style="background-color: white; border: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"></a></span><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Non-LTS Pinguy OS releases use bleeding edge software - for instance, the latest 13.10 ships with XBMC 13 alpha as well as GNOME 13.10 which isn't included by default in Ubuntu 13.10 so it's not considered fully stable.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The latest Pinguy OS 13.10 ships with the <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">GNOME 3.10 desktop with GNOME Shell as the default "shell", customized with various extensions</b>. Since GNOME 3.10 is used, it means you'll get all the goodies available in the latest stable GNOME, which aren't available in Ubuntu 13.10 by default: client side decorations for applications such as GNOME Tweak Tool, GNOME Documents and so on, the new GNOME Shell System Menu, pagination in the GNOME Shell app picker, all the System Settings improvements included in GNOME 3.10 and more.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><h2 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">GNOME Shell customizations</span></h2><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pinguy OS 13.10 continues to use Docky, like in the previous releases: a bottom dock used as a taskbar / app launcher and a second dock at the left with auto-hide enabled by default, which lets you quickly access the folders in your home directory.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/pinguy13.10-gnomenu.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGGloRMyWWcUiw_nesGI1rbJcVJYGpxnLvCjcXgASb8S_cCCDv1W05bfyAtSM0jib9Q0bZpZxgCepsYgbLct0V6fN-SLY3IIT4kH6GdU79TKIE9EG2AWxxB3D5cGqsl7djutZslqHVnLc/s320/pinguy13.10-gnomenu.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 575px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the menu, Pinguy OS 13.10 uses <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Gno-menu</b>, a traditional styled GNOME Shell menu "<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">that aims to offer all the essentials in a simple uncluttered intuitive interface</i>". The Activities hot corner is disabled by default but you can enable it from the Gno-menu preferences or you can access the Activities Overview by using the Super (Windows) key:</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1113424/img/pinguy13.10-gnome-shell.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="image_group" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 1em; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmDWOckteWMh-sSzBYeC1khOUWWKmkoxFy_5Td9kQMf3sAs1u3ErdN4h5deuIYAP-_361GuMLLimWfnMxVJ8PSW3OoXpSp6WqS-M2wWmiLzqSUbFTYWp-f9ITe4Fkqkz9OBLXYdzOwXY/s320/pinguy13.10-gnome-shell.jpg" style="border: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 575px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Other GNOME Shell extensions enabled by default in Pinguy OS 13.10:</b></span><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 35px; text-align: start;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frippery move clock: moves the clock on the right;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Media player indicator: Ubuntu Unity-like sound indicator;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Messaging Menu: Unity-like messaging menu;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">TopIcons: shows legacy tray icons on the GNOME Shell Top Bar;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">User Themes: lets you change the GNOME Shell theme;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Workspace indicator: displays an indicator on the GNOME Shell Top Bar that indicates the current workspace and lets you switch between workspaces;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Appsearch: searches the software repository and provides results in the GNOME Shell overview.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ignore request hide titlebar: makes GNOME Shell ignore requests to hide the titlebar for maximized windows.</span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Important:</b> there's a bug and all GNOME Shell extensions are turned off after a reboot. See<a class="external" href="http://forum.pinguyos.com/Thread-Pinguy-OS-13-10-Beta-Bugs" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">THIS</a> Pinguy OS Forums post for a fix.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the GTK theme, Pinguy OS 13.10 uses Zukitwo, with elementary window borders and Zukitwo as the default GNOME Shell theme. The default icon theme is the beautiful Faience Azur, but more are available, like elementary, all the Faience and Faenza icon themes and more.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tweaks available by default</span></h2><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pinguy OS 13.10 ships with various tweaks that contribute to a great default experience:</span></div><ul style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 15px 0px 35px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/pipelight-020-released-with-multi.html" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Pipelight</a> is installed by default so you can watch Netflix and other video streaming services that require Silverlight in Pinguy OS, without having to configure anything;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/04/improve-power-usage-battery-life-in.html" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">TLP</a>, a tool that applies various tweaks to your laptop to save battery power, is installed by default in the latest Pinguy OS 13.10;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/10/increased-performance-in-linux-with.html" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">zram-config</a>, an upstart script that enables Zram, is used by default for better performance. With this tweak, a RAM based block device is created which acts as a swap disk, but is compressed and stored in memory instead of swap disk (which is slow), allowing very fast I/O and increasing the amount of memory available before the system starts swapping to disk;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">preload is installed by default - this is a daemon that stores the frequently used files in memory for faster startup times;</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Profile Sync Daemon, a tool that moves the web browser profile to RAM, reducing disk writes and providing increased speed and responsiveness, is installed by default but not enabled.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><h2 style="line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Default applications</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting change in the latest Pinguy OS 13.10 is <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">the addition of the Windows version of Adobe Flash, used instead of the native Linux Flash (which only receives bugfixes) thanks to <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/08/pipelight-use-silverlight-in-your-linux.html" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" title="Pipelight: Use Silverlight In Your Linux Browser To Watch Netflix, Maxdome Videos And More">Pipelight</a></b>. And also, as I mentioned above, Silverlight has been added and enabled by default with the help of Pipelight</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />A <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">new default application has been added</b>: <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/06/variety-wallpaper-changer-0415-released.html" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Variety</a>,</b> a cool wallpaper changer that can automatically download wallpapers from sources such as Wallbase, Flickr, Wallpapers.net and more.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among the applications included by default with the latest Pinguy OS 13.10 are: Firefox 25, Thunderbird 24.1.1, LibreOffice 4.1.3, Nemo 2.0.8, Clementine 1.2.0 (but 1.2.1 is available as an update) Steam 1.0.0.45, Skype 4.2.0.11 VLC 2.0.8, GNOME Documents 3.10, Empathy 3.10.2, Deluge 3.6, Calibre 1.13.0, Cheese 3.10, XBMC 13 alpha, Spotify 0.9.4.183, GNOME Tweak Tool 3.10.1 and Ubuntu Software Center 13.10, among others, on top of GTK 3.10.5 and GNOME Shell 3.10.2.1.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like Ubuntu 13.10, the latest PinguyOS includes the 3.11.0 Ubuntu Linux Kernel, Xorg server 1.14.3 and Mesa 9.2.1.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as usual, codecs, Java (icedtea and OpenJRE), G-talk plugin and so on are all installed by default.</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><h2 style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Download Pinguy OS 13.10 (beta 2 - final)</span></h2><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /></span><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="external" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pinguy-os/files/Pinguy_OS_13.10/" style="border: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Download Pinguy OS 13.10</span></a></b></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;">For support visit the </span><a class="external" href="http://forum.pinguyos.com/index.php" style="border: none; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Pinguy OS Forum</a><span style="text-align: start;">.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2013/12/pinguy-os-1310-released-screenshots.html">Web Upd8</a></span></i></span></div>

Pinguy OS 13.10 (based on Ubuntu 13.10) has been released with GNOME 3.10

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