Mozilla Weave is no more -- at least in name. Firefox Sync 1.3 is now available, marking the official shift in name from Mozilla Weave, which had been the name of the application since it was created in 2007.

After installing Ubuntu 10.04, I realized that I was going to really miss my flying games. In an attempt to passify myself I downloaded and installed FlightGear, which is entirely free and I must admit it is pretty incredible.

A new tool plasma-runner-pisi has been added to provide easy package installation. Package Manager and PiSi have been optimized for better performance and improved stability. Default desktop environment is updated to KDE Plasma 4.4.4. Also included: OpenOffice.org 3.2.1, Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3, Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0.4, Linux Kernel 2.6.31.13.

So far, everything has worked as expected and, in some cases, worked better than expected. Audio/video deserves special mention

Back at Christmas I was speaking to John Graves about his Open Allure DS PhD project – a conversational interface written in Python. The project has moved wonderfully forward over the past few months, I’ll summarise some of the features of Open Allure here.

So here we are continuing our addiction with free and opensource wallpapers. Android operating system is spreading like wildfire. Let's celebrate this stellar success with some stunning android wallpapers.

The fifth update to the 1.5.x branch of the SystemRescueCd features new installers for Linux and Windows users to simplify installation onto a removable device, such as a USB flash drive

Telstra today revealed it would launch its Linux-based T-Box integrated media centre set-top box from mid-June at a stand-alone price point of $299, with a sledload of free and pay-per-view content available and an associated revamp of its broadband plans in the works.