Dubbed Clockwork, the third maintenance version of the amazing KDE 4.3 desktop environment was released a few minutes ago by the KDE community. Bringing only translation updates and bug fixes to applications such Dolphin, Konqueror, KWin, KGeography, KLettres, KStars, KPat, Okular, KAlarm, KGpg, Okteta or JuK, KDE 4.3.3 is the next-generation KDE desktop environment for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms. With every release, KDE 4 is here to deliver the most modern, beautiful and attractive desktop environment! "Like the ticking of a Swiss watch, every month the KDE team brings you a new release. November's edition of KDE is a bug... [read more >>] Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced on September 9th the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.31, a version that brings initial support for the upcoming USB 3.0 devices, Kernel Mode Setting support for ATI Radeon, initial support for NFS 4.1, and many other goodies for all Linux users around the world. "What else? Lots and lots of driver work. Over 70% of all of the 2.6.30 to 2.6.31 patch is under drivers/, and there's another 6%+ in firmware/ and sound/. That's not entirely unusual, but it does seem to be growing. My rough rule of thumb used to be '50% drivers, 50% everything else,' but that's cle... [read more >>] After the new X-based graphical boot splash introduced a couple of days ago, Canonical unveiled today what it was only a mockup a few months ago, the Ubuntu Software Store (previously known as Ubuntu AppCenter), a piece of software that would unify all the existing package managers in the Ubuntu operating system. At the moment, the Ubuntu Software Store is not installed by default in the current development release of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) distribution, but it can be easily installed by searching "software-store" in Synaptic. The goal of the new Ubuntu Software Store application is to replace many system-administration pr... [read more >>] Dubbed Caizen, the amazing KDE 4.3.0 desktop environment was released a few minutes ago by the KDE community. This is the next-generation KDE desktop environment for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms, and it is here to deliver the most modern, beautiful and attractive desktop environment!"The KDE community has fixed over 10,000 bugs and implemented almost 2,000 feature requests in the last 6 months. Close to 63,000 changes were checked in by a little under 700 contributors. Read on for an overview of the changes in the KDE 4.3 Desktop Workspace, Application Suites and the KDE 4.3 Development Platform. " - was stated in the official rele... [read more >>] Today, July 21st, Canonical announced a few hours ago that Launchpad, the popular collaboration and software development platform, has been open-sourced. Released a few years ago, the Launchpad project is today the home of thousands of projects and it is also used to build the Ubuntu operating system. As of today, anyone can join the Launchpad community in order to help improve it! "Launchpad accelerates collaboration between open source projects. [...] Collaboration is the engine of innovation in free software development, and Launchpad supports one of the key strengths of free software compared with the traditional proprietary developmen... [read more >>] Dear readers, it's time to celebrate... as one of the best, free and popular media player application, VLC (VideoLAN Client), reached today version 1.0.0, after more than eight years of activity!Dubbed Goldeneye, VLC 1.0.0 brings some of the highly anticipated features, lots of bug fixes and many improvements. Among the new features we can notice support for some HD streams. Without further introduction, here are the highlights of VLC 1.0.0: · Added new HD (High-Definition) codecs, such as: · Blu-Ray Linear PCM · Dolby Digital Plus &... [read more >>] VirtualBox, the popular, amazing, open-source, virtualization software from Sun Microsystems, reached version 3.0.0 a few minutes ago. This major update brings lots of new features, many bugfixes and improvements over previous 2.x versions. The big and breathtaking news is that users can now use Direct3D 8 and 9 games or applications! Moreover, with VirtualBox 3.0.0, support for OpenGL 2.0 (only for Linux, Solaris and Windows guests) has been implemented. Another important feature is the new SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) guest support with no more than 32 virtual processors. Without any further introduction, let's have a look at th... [read more >>] Today (June 10th), Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, has announced the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.30, a version that brings initial support for the log-structured NILFS2 filesystem, the POHMELFS distributed network filesystems, the RDS protocol, and the Microblaze CPU architecture. It also includes preliminary support for NFS 4.1 and IEEE 802.11w. Moreover, Linux kernel 2.6.30 comes with DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx video cards, the Tomoyo security module, faster boot-up support by asynchronously scanning the partitions and devices, ability to switch between the RAID5/6 modes, new drivers and many more. Ohh, and..... [read more >>] Though Linux users could test the popular browser for a couple of months through unofficial Chromium builds, yesterday, June 4th, Google announced the first official release of Google Chrome for Linux. The version 3.0.183.1 is still very unstable and lacks a lot of features that are otherwise present in the Windows package. One of Chrome's main advantages over other web browsers is the way it handles tabs as separate processes. Why is this important? Well, if a web page crashes, it doesn't take the whole browser with it, but only the tab it was opened in, significantly increasing overall stability. Also, Google Chrome makes brow... [read more >>] None other than Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, announced last evening the immediate availability of Linux kernel 2.6.29, a version that brings initial support for the highly expected Btrfs filesystem. Btrfs is a brand new filesystem created by Chris Mason and designed to act like the ZFS or WAFL ones. When Btrfs will be stable, it will definitely replace the Ext filesystem! Moreover, starting with this release, the Tux Penguin logo was temporarily replaced by the new Tuz logo (see it in the left image), because Linus Torvalds thinks we should all contribute to Save The Tasmanian Devil! "The most obvious change is the (temporary) cha... [read more >>] |
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