Category Archives: Software

Wine 1.5.13 has been released!

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in News, Releases, Software

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Wine 1.5.13 has been released, this bi-weekly developent release comes with some new features and bug fixes.

OpenIndiana Project Leader Resigns

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

On August 28, the Project Leader and Founder of OpenIndiana, Alasdair Lumsden, resigned from his position effective immediately. OpenIndiana was the fork of which was originally OpenSolaris. When Oracle announced to sudden death of OpenSolaris, post their acquisition of former … Continue reading

Enterprise Desktop for the Home Office

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, opensource, Reviews, Software

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For the home office, I’ve been searching for a new stable enterprise class operating system to replace my current desktop. I thought it might be an interesting read for our Unixmen audience to join me in my quest to find … Continue reading

Red Hat Forum 2012 (Brisbane, Australia) – Summary Part 2

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

This is the second and final part of our Red Hat Forum 2012 summary, which was held in the city of Brisbane QLD, Australia. I attended the conference and represented Unixmen.com. The topic was “Build Your Own Open Hybrid Cloud … Continue reading

Red Hat Forum 2012 (Brisbane, Australia) – Summary Part 1

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, opensource, Software

I was lucky enough to be invited to the Red Hat Forum 2012, which was held in the city of Brisbane QLD, Australia. I attended the conference and represented Unixmen.com. The topic was “Build Your Own Open Hybrid Cloud Today!”. … Continue reading

Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’: Looking Ahead

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Linux distributions, News, Software, Ubuntu

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Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’ is not due for release until October, here at Unixmen we felt now was a good time to have a sneak peek at what will be making its way into the new release.

Microsoft Wins Over Novell in WordPerfect Court Hearing

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, Software

Does anyone remember WordPerfect? Yes, there was a viable competitor to Microsoft Office at one stage. Back in 1994, Novell bought WordPerfect for $US 1.5billion. After just 18 months, Novell then sold WordPerfect to Corel for a measly US$ 146million. … Continue reading

The naturalness in the evolution of desktop environments

Written by Bill Toulas on . Posted in Gnome, Software

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I’ve been browsing distrowatch.com lately noticing something that is happening for some time now, but maybe surprised me for the first time because it is still happening. What I am talking about is that there are more Linux distributions releasing … Continue reading

Linux Just Not Ready For Gaming

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, News, Software

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Until now, I have remained quite reserved about any serious Linux gaming, which seems to have gained quite some momentum thanks to Valve’s recent announcement to release game titles on the Linux platform. I should probably point out that I … Continue reading

Kernel Development Made Easy? Not yet.

Written by Chris Jones on . Posted in News, programming, Software

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If someone asked me “What is your favorite part of the Linux operating system?”, I would have to say the Linux kernel itself. And it’s much the same for Unix too. Having that source code of the kernel loaded up … Continue reading