Like you probably know, the uTorrent developers said they will be releasing uTorrent for Linux a while back. The first step has already been made with the release of a headless uTorrent client for Linux which you can control through the WebUI (Web User Interface). There is also work ongoing for the GUI (graphical user interface).

To run the uTorrent server, download it from HERE, extract it and run the "utserver" file (double click it). Then, in your browser, enter the following address: http://localhost:8080/gui/ and when asked, enter "admin" for username and blank for the password.

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Back in January we posted a video with an amazing Plymouth theme called "Space Sunrise" created by Andre "Osku" Schmidt. The theme was available for download at the time, but at some point the download link stopped working and since then I've received lots of emails asking for a download link.

Today, inameiname uploaded a new Space Sunrise Plymouth theme he created based on the original theme by Andre "Osku" Schmidt. Here is the old video we posted when Ubuntu was just switching to Plymouth with the amazing Space Sunrise theme:

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Beta has been released seconds ago.

There have been many changes and updates in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat since Alpha 3, so let's take a look at what's new - in both Desktop and Netbook editions. We've already posted most of these changes when the packages were updated in Maverick, but as always, we'll take a closer look at what's new with each alpha/beta release. Watch out, huge post ahead!

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Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) is a tool you can use to customize the official Ubuntu Live CDs by adding additional language packs, applications and so on. It doesn't just work for Ubuntu (GNOME), but also for Kubuntu / Xubuntu and Edubuntu.

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Equinox is a new GTK2 engine already used by themes such as Elementary. The relatively new GTK2 engine has been recently added to the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat official repositories and has it's own Ubuntu PPA which, besides the Equinox GTK engine also holds a few great themes (click for screenshots).

Yesterday, a new version of the Equinox GTK2 engine has been released - 1.30, and with it, 2 new themes called "Equinox Evolution" and "Equinox Evolution Light" (they are complete with GTK and Metacity themes) are available in the PPA:

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Talika is a GNOME Panel applet that lets you switch between open windows using icons. 

So what's new in Talika 0.50? The most important changes have been made to the icons such  as custom icons for the launchers (right click a launcher (pinned app), and select "Change icon)), better default icons, option to use monochrome icons and so on. The "Pin" feature has also received a lot of attention and you now have pin options for pinnable applications, support for pinning apps via drag and drop and better pinning support for OpenOffice and WINE apps.

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Elegant Gnome Theme Pack, one of the best dark themes was updated today and it now automatically installs a Firefox theme to match Elegant Gnome. But that's not all, there are a lot of changes in the latest Elegant Gnome Pack 0.7:

• New GTK+ theme version
• A Google Chrome Theme and Google Chrome scrollbar extension to match the GTK+ theme
• New icons for the experimental version of the Dropbox - you no longer have to overwrite the Dropbox icons, but now the theme can specify the Dropbox icons like for any native app (it requires the latest Dropbox experimental)
• The AwOken icon theme has been updated to version 1.1.

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Ubuntu Stack Exchange is a community driven Q&A site for both Ubuntu users and developers, currently in public beta. The idea is simple: you post a question and wait for the answers; users can then upvote the answers and the person who asked the question can also mark one of the answers as "best answer"! So far I noticed the answers have a really high quality so if you can't find the answer to your question(s), you may want to try the Ubuntu Stack Exchange!

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Today is Twitter's OAuthpocalypse: Twitter is shutting down basic authentification so all clients not using OAuth will stop working and one of these Twitter clients is Ubuntu's default microblogging client: Gwibber. That means that you need to upgrade if you want to continue using Gwibber.

An official Gwibber PPA for both Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been created - for testing purposes! - with an updated Gwibber version which uses OAuth.

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There are no "best wallpapers" or "best themes", as it depends on one's taste. But for me, these are the best 3 Ubuntu 10.10 wallpapers so far:

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