Archive for April, 2008

Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Now that the first beta is out for openSUSE 11.0, you can start to dig in and really start banging on the release to catch bugs before the release candidates and final release. If you’re wondering where to start, Holger Sickenberg has put together an excellent resouce to help guide ...

Announcing OpenSUSE 11 Beta 1

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Last week,  the openSUSE team announced the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! Some of the many  enhancements and features in the new release include  the incredibly fast package management (libzypp), KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.3, GNOME 2.22.1, a beautiful new installer, live CDs and much more. What’s New SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Announcing OpenSUSE ...

Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

It's that time of the year. Everyone's excited and looking forward to it. Ofcourse it's the release of the next LTS version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04, aka Hardy Heron. So what're new features expected in Hardy Heron you ask? Well here are some of them SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Countdown to Ubuntu ...

Compiz Fusion Gets New Effect - Presenting the Cylinder

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Unless you have been living under a stone, you should be knowing that Compiz Fusion transforms your Linux 2D desktop, with virtual desktops into a 3D one, complete with Cube plugin(amongst others) which transforms the virtual desktops into a cube. Developer Dennis Kasprzyk has finally finished his idea to implement a cylinder deformation for the cube plugin. ...

Linux Gets Adobe AIR, Flex

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

People had been demanding for a Linux version of Adobe AIR. Now now finally, Adobe has joined Linux Foundation and has announced the pre-release alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux. The pre-release alpha version can be downloaded from  Adobe Labs. Adobe Labs also updated an alpha version of Adobe Flex ...