The latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution Ubuntu 9.10 will be released in few hours from the official project web site. New features since Ubuntu 9.04 includes - Firefox 3.5, GNOME 2.28, an enforcing AppArmor profile, Linux kernel 2.6.31, ext4 file system (default), Empathy instant messenger instead of Pidgin, the Ubuntu One client, which interfaces with Canonical's new on-line storage system. It also includes a new application called the Ubuntu Software Center. A quick screen-shot tour of new features available here on our website.

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Fedora Games spin is a custom variant of Fedora targeted at Linux gamers. This is to demonstrate the gaming potential of Fedora without altering user’s existing configuration. The Live DVD also allows installation to hard disk or USB flash. Download Fedora Linux Live DVD => Download DVD ISO and Bittorent files

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Fedora 8 has been released. The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community supported open source project. Its goal is the rapid progress of free and open source software and content. It offers cutting edge softwares for desktop usage. The latest version of the popular Linux distribution has a lot to offer users [...]

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OpenBSD 4.2 has been released and available for download. OpenBSD is famous for its focus on security. Today, November 1st, the team is proud to announce Release 4.2. Even though security is still there, this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB shootdown [...]

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This sounds like a good idea to me. Never thought one can use OpenOffice to import MySQL database and do all sort of crazy things. I can even build PDF file of all top posts and provide it as download option for a small fee. From the article: If you are running a blog (or any [...]

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Ubuntu Linux Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has been released and available for download. The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 320MB of RAM [...]

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Recently I was looking for XML reporting engine that allows me to generate reports from a variety of different MySQL databases. Your reports can be generated as PDF, PostScript, XML, HTML, DVI, Latex or straight ANSI text. Papyrus will correctly represent the reports in each of these outputted mediums with as much support as it [...]

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On October 9th, 2007, Guardian Digital announced the newest release of EnGarde Secure Linux: Community 3.0.17 (Version 3.0, Release 17) server edition. Features: - Enterprise Reliability and scalability in a Community Platform - Integrated SELinux policies and Firewall Functionality - Intrusion detection and Complete Monitoring Services - Web and Email Security Services - Quick and easy Network Installation - Combining the best [...]

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Mandriva Linux (aka Mandrake Linux) has been released. Mandriva Linux 2008 is the latest edition of Mandriva Linux, the product of more than 9 years of continuous innovation for desktops and enterprise servers. In this release, you will get the most up-to-date versions of the major components, with the brand new GNOME 2.20 desktop, the [...]

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Vixta.org is a Fedora-based Linux distribution designed to be user-friendly and eye-catching, similar in look and feel to Windows Vista. Trying to spread Linux to the “masses”, not just sysadmins. It is vista look-a-like Linux Os. If you like Vista user interface, this distro is for you. Vixta Linux distribution Goals 1. Absolutely free 2. Spread [...]

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Skype 1.4 for Linux has been released and now available for download. Skype for Linux is a version of Skype P2P VoIP software for computers running a Linux-based operating system. It will give Linux users the opportunity to make free phone calls via the Internet worldwide. If you have glibc and Qt libraries installed skype [...]

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Opensue Linux version 10.3 GM has been released. The openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world?s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies. The latest version of the popular Linux distribution has a lot [...]

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Looks like Linux adoption getting stronger and stronger each day Adobe Flex is a software development kit and an IDE for a group of technologies initially released in March of 2004 by Macromedia to support the development and deployment of cross platform, rich Internet applications based on their proprietary Macromedia Flash platform. Now Adobe has [...]

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I use Google Calendar exclusively. However to access this product you need to use a web browser. There is nice program called gcalcli (Google Calendar Command Line Interface) which allows to access Google Calendar from bash shell. Now I can see an agenda using a specified start/end time and date from a shell prompt [...]

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This is one cool application for Windows users. I had installed it one of my friends Windows XP laptop. If you heard about Ubuntu Linux and if you wanted to try them but you were afraid, this is for you. It does not require you to modify the partitions of your Windows PC, or to [...]

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