The folks over at Linux Mint have just released their newest, latest and greatest, Linux Mint 9 “Isadora”. This time, though, instead of having a single LiveCD to Rule Them All, they offer a LiveCD, LiveDVD and an OEM CD that does not create a default user account. Since I don’t have immediate access to a DVD burner here, I’ll be using the LiveCD. Let’s take a look, shall we?

Have you guys already forgot Pidgin. I hope not. For starters Pidgin used to be the default IM client in Ubuntu up until Ubuntu Karmic was released. Then it was replaced by Empathy as you must have already noticed. Pidgin 2.7 was recently released with a number of improvements and bug fixes.

The next edition of the Ubuntu Linux distribution could come with added Google, with rumours circulating that Canonical is looking to replace Mozilla's Firefox with Google's Chrome browser.

In case you haven't noticed, we're pretty big fans of Gnome-Do around these parts. However, there's a new little app that, in some ways, might just be drinking Do's milkshake. Its Kupfer, and no, I have no idea how thats pronounced.

ARM based superphone N900 running the x86 wine binary via a statically compiled arm qemu binary, within an x86 chroot.

Solfege is free music education software. Use it to train your rhythm, interval, scale and chord skills. It is free software and runs on GNU/Linux, MS Windows 2000 and newer, Max OS X with some effort, and possibly other operating systems with the required tools. It should run wherever you can run Python 2.5, Gtk+ 2.12, PyGtk 2.12.

The gradual cleansing of Ubuntu-based distributions reaches farther than initially imagined; Google also benefits at Mozilla's expense

Kris Occhipinti shows us how to move our window buttons back to the right side in Ubuntu's latest release, Lucid.