The Ubuntu team has released the final version of Ubuntu 12.04, also known as Precise Pangolin. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, meaning Canonical promises to fix bugs for the next five years.
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Although Bash is a scripting language, it has pretty much all the capabilities of a general purpose programming language. This includes arithmetic functions. There are a number of syntax options you can use to evoke arithmetic evaluation of an expression. Read more...

The remote access and remote desktop system Xming, which provides easy set-up of X-windows on your Microsoft Windows system with connectivity to Linux servers, has been updated to version 7.5.0.47, and the portable PuTTY version to 7.5.0.48.
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The Linux-based disk partitioning package Parted Magic has been updated to version 2012_04_21. This release runs on the 3.2.15 Linux kernel and brings numerous updates of the partitioning and recovery tools that make up this package. A FAT16/32 filesystem resizing issue has been fixed, and the complete util-linux and coreutils packages are now included in Parted Magic to make sure all commands potentially used by a script are available.

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