Ready To Charge: Foresight Mobile Edition 1.0

Sep 16, 2008

With the release of its Mobile Edition 1.0, Linux distribution Foresight has joined the race to dominate the netbook market.

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Unison's Unified Communications Server Ready

Sep 15, 2008

Unison is offering the first commercial version of it's software product combining telephony, e-mail, address book, calendar and instant messaging.

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Canonical Now Hiring Designers and Usability Visionaries

Sep 15, 2008

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, wants a more elegant and user-friendly Linux-Desktop for it's users. In a full blown statement at this year’s OSCON, Ubuntu grounder Mark Shuttleworth proclaimed: ‘'The great task in front of us over the next two years is to lift the experience of the Linux desktop from something that is stable and robust and not so pretty, into something that is art'’.

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The Virtualization Battle: News from Sun, Novell and Microsoft - and Red Hat joins in

Sep 11, 2008

The battle in the virtualization market enters a new phase: Sun Microsystems released new versions of its virtualization software Sun xVM. And a few days ago Red Hat announced its takeover of Qumranet, makers of the virtualizer KVM. Meanwhile Microsoft and Novell are teaming up to counter with their own Microsoft Hyper-V and Suse Linux Enterprise Server offerings.

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Beta 1: Opera 9.6 with RSS preview

Sep 11, 2008

RSS preview, Atom-feeds and improved bookmarking facilities are the new features in the upcoming version 9.6 of the Opera Web Browser.

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Ubuntu 9.04 is called Jaunty Jackalope

Sep 09, 2008

Ubuntu promoter Mark Shuttleworth took on the traditional role of code-naming the next Ubuntu version on the Ubuntu mailing list. Version 9.04 is henceforth known as Jaunty Jackalope.

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Google Chrome: Improved support in Wine 1.1.4... with a caveat

Sep 09, 2008

Free project WINE now offers the newest version (1.1.4) of its runtime environment. Among its features is better support for Google Chrome.

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Firefox Alpha with Video-Support

Sep 08, 2008

The second early Firefox 3.1 test version (code-named Shiretoko Alpha 2) provides at first glance a video tag, which allows audio and video to be played in free Ogg/Theora format.

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