Archive for February, 2008
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Sun Microsystems is on a major Open Source Acquistion spree. First it was it's MySQL acquisition, now it's moved on to acquire innotek. For those who're still wondering who or what innotek is, innotek is the developer of the hugely popular Virtualizer, VirtualBox.
According to Sun's Press Release
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Introducing Ubuntu Mobile - full Internet, no compromise
Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices.
Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world's most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing.
Ubuntu ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Mark Shuttleworth today posted on the Ubuntu Mailing list, what is planned for the next version of Ubuntu, titled The Intrepid Ibex which would most likely have a version number of 8.10 and be released around October 2008.
To quote him,
With Hardy now past feature-freeze it's time to start to plan
features ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
 The good folks over at Free Software Magazine got bored writing regular articles on free software. For some chuckles, they decided to research on some easter eggs. Here's what they found.
What is it with cows and GNU/Linux? Let me answer my own self-serving question and show you some varied and ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only])
andLinux uses CoLinux as its core which is confusing for many people. CoLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to Windows. Although this technology is like VMware or Virtual PC, ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
For all those people who miss Amarok badly while on Windows, well fear not, your dream has come true....almost.
With the release of KDE4.0 which uses Qt4 framework, which has been GPL'd and available for Windows and MacOSX, a lot of effort has been put in to port KDE4 for Windows, ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Yesterday, Mozilla announced that the 3rd beta of the next version of their immensely popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox would be available for download. I'd posted earlier on the impressive changes between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 2. So what does the third Beta bring? Let's have a look.
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Mozilla Developer Center reports that Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download.
New features and changes in this milestone include:
Improved security features such as: better presentation of website identity and security including support for Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates, malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
Only three weeks after Alpha1, we’re glad to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 2. There are various exciting changes in there that we would like to have feedback on.
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For more screenshots head over to the Screenshots/openSUSE 11.0 Alpha2 wiki page
Changes since openSUSE 11.0 Alpha 1
KDE 4.0.1 replaced KDE ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
If you've ever followed KDE 4 development then you've probably heard about Marble. Marble is a virtual globe which displays the earth. So Marble can be used as a nice digital replacement for your desktop globe at home where you can look up places.
But wait! There's more to it: Actually ...
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