Archive for the ‘open source’ Category
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Fedora’s Project Leader writes on the steps for installing Fedora 8 onto a USB pen drive, making it bootable Live-drive. He states,
I have used a USB key as the boot device, and the laptop is currently running Fedora 8, codenamed “Werewolf.”
When I am finished, I can unplug the USB ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Max Spevack, Fedora's Project Leader speaks about the release of Fedora 8 at the Mailing List
On Thursday November 8th (about 3:00 PM GMT), Fedora 8 will go live to the world, and you will be able to download it at http://fedoraproject.org
The bits are all finalized, the mirrors are synced, and the ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
After introducing a $198 Linux desktop this week, PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under $300 to users next year.
The laptops will come with 12.1-inch to 17-inch screens and run the GOS version of the OS, built on Ubuntu Linux 7.10. It will include icons providing one-click ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
KOffice, the office suite built on KDE technology and in the KDE Communtiy has recently gotten a lot of press, but is still often underrepresented. In this interview, some key KOffice developers tell us about the recent progress of KDE's Office suite, about Open Standards and how KOffice plays an ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
The live version of openSUSE 10.3 is now available as a GNOME or KDE CD. Both contain the same software as the 1 CD installation versions would provide you with, but as a live version. The live system can be used as a productive system or rescue system. You ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
This is the first BETA release of Linux Mint 4.0, codename Daryna, based on Celena and compatible with Ubuntu Gutsy and its repositories.
Daryna is using Gutsy's package base (kernel 2.6.22, Gnome 2.20, OpenOffice 2.3, Thunderbird 2.0...etc).
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
Wine 0.9.48 was released today, with the following main changes:
Still more fixes for regression test failures.
Much more complete cryptnet implementation.
WIDL is now able to generate the oleaut32 proxy code.
Lots of bug fixes.
Binary packages are in the process of being built and it may take a few days for them to ...
Posted in WINE, open source | 2 Comments »
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Developers, artists and user interface designers from all over the world worked together to make GIMP more powerful and easier to use than ever. The changes from version 2.2 are too numerous to list here, please check the Release Notes to get an overview.
If you want to compile GIMP 2.4 ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Gobuntu is a GNU/Linux operating system, derived from Ubuntu, that endeavors to adhere to the Free Software Foundations four freedoms and intends to provide a base for other free software platforms to build upon with minimal modification required. It does this by only including open-source non-restricted software. This means there ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Chart
The Chart component of OpenOffice.org has undergone a major revamp for 2.3. The developers have added a range of exciting new features, and at the same time made the creation of charts simpler and more logical. The default chart appearance is improved, with a new colour palette. The scaling of ...
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