Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Release: Fedora 13 Alpha Released!

Following a one week delay, the first alpha release for Fedora 13 is now available. The final release of Fedora 13 is not due out until May, but this is the only development release of Goddard before this Red Hat Linux operating system reaches its beta stage. Continue Reading »

Release: Kernel Linux 2.6.34-rc1 Released!

Following a two week merge window following the release of the Linux 2.6.33 kernel, Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate for the next kernel, to be known as the Linux 2.6.34 kernel. Continue Reading »

Release: PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 Released!

PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing up to 64 GB of memory support. In addition, ext4 support is also available. Continue Reading »

Release: Wine 1.1.40 Released!

Wine 1.1.40 is now available with a variety of improvements. The official highlights for this bi-weekly release of Wine include support for Wow64 registry redirection, increased coverage of MSI standard actions, various Wordpad improvements, many shell fixes for better IE support, improved support for typelibs, better OpenGL card detection, and the usual variety of bug-fixes. The better OpenGL card detection comes from now offering real GL vendor detection and adjusted quirk handling. Continue Reading »

Release: Kuliax 7.0RC1 Released!

Thursdays  (04/03) Kuliax development team successfully The first stepping stone to reach 7.0 (spring rolls) with the release of 7.0RC1 ISO image of CD-ROM # 1. Continue Reading »

News: Ubuntu 10.10 To Be Released on 28th of October

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will not even be released until next month towards the end of April, but Ubuntu 10.10 (with a codename yet to be announced) already has its release schedule available. Ubuntu 10.10 is scheduled to be released to the world officially on the 28th of October. Prior to this year’s release of Ubuntu 10.10 that is six months after the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (the “Lucid Lynx”) will be four alpha releases, a beta, and then a release candidate. Continue Reading »

News: Ubuntu Gets A New Theme and Logo for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

It’s been on the agenda for quite a while now, but the Ubuntu artwork team and Canonical have finally finished work on the new default theme that will be used in forthcoming releases of Ubuntu Linux, including the release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS “Lucid Lynx” that will be available next month. It’s not only a new theme that has arrived, but their brand with other visual assets have also been revised as well. Continue Reading »

Release: CodeWeavers CrossOver Office 9.0 Released!

CrossOver Office 8.1 came last year, but today CodeWeavers has announced the release of CrossOver Office 9.0. The 9.0 release of this popular software based upon Wine that allows running Windows applications on Linux and Mac OS X, brings a new user-interface and the ability to utilize installation “recipes” when installing new applications from their remote database. Continue Reading »

Release: KDE Software Compilation 4.4.1 Out Now Codename “Clara”

KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

March 2nd, 2010. Today, KDE has released a new version of the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC). This month’s edition of KDE SC is a bugfix and translation update to KDE SC 4.4. KDE SC 4.4.1 is a recommended upgrade for everyone running KDE SC 4.4.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. Users around the world will appreciate that KDE SC 4.4.1 multi-language support is more completebl . KDE 4 is already translated into more than 50 languages, with more to come. Continue Reading »

Release: Wine 1.1.39 Released!

Two weeks have passed since the release of Wine 1.1.38 and so now the 1.1.39 release is available to provide more fixes and improvements. This bi-weekly development update delivers on support for registry symbolic links, many MSI fixes, build process improvements, MSXML clean-ups and fixes, many MSHTML improvements, and various bug-fixes. Continue Reading »