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GIMP 2.7.4 has been released!

GIMP 2.7.4 has been released, according to the announcement, this developement release is potentially the last testing version of GIMP before the upcoming 2.8...

Latest Spotify makes music for the FaceBook

Spotify the music sharing software now goes social. At last count, it had 15 million tracks and growing by the hour. With a collection...

Red Hat versus The World

What is in the title of a software company? Does the name resemble anything that the company offers? Or do you not care so...

Google’s iPhone [Funny]

It was not until today when I downloaded the Google Earth app and placed it on my Home screen on my secondary mobile set...

Microsoft Wins Over Novell in WordPerfect Court Hearing

Does anyone remember WordPerfect? Yes, there was a viable competitor to Microsoft Office at one stage. Back in 1994, Novell bought WordPerfect for $US...

Wine1.3.13 is released!

The Wine development release 1.3.13 is now available, this development release include tools to create MSI installers, clipboard improvements, support for PO files...

VLC 1.1.9 is released! Important security Update

VLC 1.1.9 is released! according to the announcement, "this was necessary because some security issues were found, and the VLC development team cares about...

Its now time to look at Argentinian Tuqito, Indonesian Blankon Linux...

Discovering new distros is the fun part of open source software. Here is a very brief list of three new releases and an even...

All Platform, All Device Terminal for System Administrators

There’s a general perception that Server System Administrators are short, overweight lonely men with overgrown beards who work in dark dungeon like basements, maintaining...

Script to Add Medibuntu ,Getdeb and Playdeb repositories to Ubuntu 11.10...

Script to Add Medibuntu ,Getdeb and Playdeb repositories to Ubuntu 11.10 Natty. This script will add for you Getdeb and Playdeb repositories to Ubuntu 11.10...

Oracle Vs Google-what next?

The last week saw as set back of...

Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 has been released! | Screeshots tour

Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 has been released, in this quarter update,  Enlightenment has been built from a fresh SVN pull from March 20th and the...

Chrome outshines Firefox, worldwide, this November!

Just as we predicted (even with our not-so-precise mathematical procedure) ‘Google Chrome will beat Mozilla Firefox after October 2011’; Google Chrome has, finally, surpassed...

Is Upcoming Firefox 4 inspired by Google Chrome?

Today, I installed Firefox 4 beta. My very first impression when the new browser opened was “How much like Chrome!” On exploring Firefox 4...

Android 3.0, the version for Android Tablets, to debut!

  Since Google posted an introduction video of Android 3.0 to its developers channel on YouTube there has been much of anticipation about this new...

The Challenge of Hardware Support

A very common problem Every operating system project meant to be run on generic hardware faces this issue, which is to support the widest range...

Tinycore3.5 comes with improved system boot time and user interface |...

Tinycore3.5 is released, this new release comes with many updates and some improvements, so boot times has been improved  with optimization of startup code....

Will Ubuntu make to Mainframes?

If you were to give it a thought, you will agree, that it is time for open source software to have a greater presence...