Category Archives: Software

­Chrome netbook is not for you if …

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Chromebook; powered with Chrome OS, a web-based operating system, is the most highly anticipated device. Chromebook seeks to revolutionize the way we work with computers today. It will boot quickly in just 8 seconds, will automatically connect to your favorite … Continue reading

Wine 1.3.20 is released!

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Wine 1.3.20 is released, This is a bi-weekly snapshot in the 1.3 unstable series.

VirtualBox 4.0.8 is released!

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Oracle released VirtualBox 4.0.8, a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.0. It improves stability and fixes regressions. Important bugs were fixed in this release, for 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15, Mac OS X hosts: … Continue reading

Microsoft softens its journey to cancerous CentOS Linux

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Back in the bygone era of 2001, the CEO Steve Ballmer had claimed that Microsoft was being threatened by a cancer called Linux. Fast track to their interoperability strategy team’s general Manager Paoli (who co-wrote XML) to August 2010 as … Continue reading

Boot Linux in your Browser

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“Fabrice Bellard, the initiator of the QEMU emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linux in your browser, provided it is recent enough (Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 are reported to work).”

Post-Budapest UDS, where is Ubuntu 11.10 headed

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The roadmap for Ubuntu 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot was defined at the Ubuntu Developer Summit from 9th to 13th May. Important decisions, path defining in some ways, for Ubuntu’s future were made here, at Budapest.

Minitube 1.4.3 is Released! | PPA Ubuntu

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Minitube 1.4.3 is Released! This is a bug fix release that comes to fix some important bugs in the previous version. like  videos not starting, especially in languages different than English.Hide toolbar and playlist in fullscreen on mouseleave , Fixed … Continue reading

Find your favorite apps installed by default in PinguyOS 11.04

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PinguyOS 11.04 is released, Based on ubuntu 11.04 natty Narwhal, this new release is an optimise build of Ubuntu 11.04 Minimal CD with added repositories, tweaks and enhancements that can run as a Live DVD or be installed. It has … Continue reading

ubuntu

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True to form Ubuntu 11.10 is being fleshed up with several features while, some legacies that continued, are being removed. So, in comes the Deja Dup backup tools as default while the computer janitor is being removed as some of … Continue reading

Grab Flash Player 10.3 for Linux & Android

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Adobe has released new Flash Player 10.3; promising improved stability, performance upgrades and primarily enhancements in security and user privacy protection. Cross-platform, Adobe Flash player 10.3 will be available for Linux, Android, Mac OS and windows.