Anjal - Evolution Front-end for Netbook
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more »Gnome 2.26 Includes Many Updates
Mar 19, 2009After a several-month-long development period, Gnome 2.26 has been released. The Linux multi-platform desktop environment includes improvements to multimedia features and focuses on the stabilization and debugging of issues that plagued the software before the release of this version.
more »Parrot 1.0 Said to Speak Your Virtual Language
Mar 19, 2009After years of development, version 1.0 of the Parrot virtual machine has arrived for Perl, Python and other dynamic languages. Whether the Parrot will take a firm foothold in software development is still up in the air.
more »Tasmanian Devil Mascot for Kernel 2.6.29
Mar 18, 2009Linus Torvalds announced at the Australian Linux.conf.au that he wants to make the conference mascot, the Tasmanian Devil (considering that the conference took place in Hobart, Tasmania) the new logo for Linux Kernel 2.6.29.
more »Proprietary Driver for Ubuntu 9.04: Fglrx for X Server 1.6
Mar 18, 2009By Canonical's Bryce Harrington's account, AMD has delivered an ATI driver that should be compatible with the X Server 1.6 found in, among other places, Ubuntu 9.04.
more »Fedora 11 Seeks Testers on Way to Beta
Mar 17, 2009As planned, on March 10 the Fedora project hit a feature freeze for version 11. There are still a few test days left before the first beta appears next week.
more »Akademy and GUADEC co-located on Canary Islands
Mar 17, 2009In July this year, the KDE community conference (Akademy) and the Gnome Users and Developers' Conference (GUADEC) will for the first time be co-located on the Spanish Canary Islands. Registration for the event has already opened and KDE is calling for presentation submissions.
more »Sing into Spring: Songbird in Version 1.1
Mar 17, 2009The Songbird music player is now out as version 1.1. Next to some normalization enhancements, the free software includes a watch folders feature and optimized album cover downloads.
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