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Release: Thunderbird 3.1 Beta 1 Released!

Mozilla has released the first beta of Thunderbird 3.1, code named Lanikai.

As expected, there’s nothing revolutionary in this release. Instead, it focuses on improved stability for the many changes Thunderbird underwent in version 3.0. Continue Reading »

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 »

News: Google Announces Public Data Explorer

Google re-announced new products in Google Labs, which is capable of presenting a series of visual data based on critical data from statistical agencies.

Google Public Data Explorer is the development of public features search data that Google made last year, which allows statistically significant results quickly. 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 »

News: Google’s Search Engine on TV

Google is testing its search engine services on television programs along with Dish Network. This is a new step in the field of Google’s unlimited internet.

Search engine services are embedded in the television programs tested on a limited circle, with a special television set-top box. Later these searches content from Dish programming guide, and also services a variety of video sites like YouTube. 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 »

Release: PHP 5.3.2 Released!

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 »