I'm not the type to run alpha software. Even beta is too cutting-edge for me. I'm a bit better about release candidates, but I tend to wait for the official release (or preferably a few months after that) before I put something into my production flow. Not so these days.
Read more »Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS) Alpha 3 is here
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Mint Enlightenment
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A couple of weeks back I was talking with my Dad about what to do with his nearly-antiquated laptop (meaning from 2002.) Having had recent experience with lightweight linux distros and window managers, I decided to shop around a bit and see what else was out there.
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Beautify your Ubuntu desktop using the software center
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There is nothing wrong with wanting to spruce up your computing environment. Sure there are those who live and breathe more than comfortably in a console environment but if you function in a GUI then appearances can matter.
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Early peak into Gnome 3’s potential
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I am stoked to be designing a Gnome that kicks ass for hackers too. McCann is right: the ‘choice‘ between design for office monkeys and hacking monkeys is a false dichotomy.
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Fedora 13 Alpha Pushed Back By A Week
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The first alpha release of Fedora 13 (codenamed Goddard) was going to be due out next week, but that release is now pushed back by a week.
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Where is Mozilla Ubiquity?
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One of the most interesting Mozilla Labs projects has now stagnated. Is the project dead? Does it have a future? The Mozilla developer who led the project tells all.
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Alpha 3 Brings Nouveau and Thunderbird 3
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For this release, Nouveau has been assigned as the default video driver for Nvidia graphics cards, instead of the old nv one, and the popular Mozilla Thunderbird 3 e-mail and rss/news client has been included in the default software repository, replacing the old 2.x release.
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How to Turn Your Linux Box into a Home Theater with Boxee
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Boxee is a home theater PC software program that runs on Linux and has been designed to be used like an interactive TV, somewhat like the Xbox 360 interface. In fact it’s based on another program called XBMC which was originally created to run on the first Xbox consoles.
Read more »Best Android apps
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Looking for some cool apps for your Android phone? Google's Android phone OS is just a couple of years old but has already captured users' minds. And in the less that 18 months since the launch of the Android App Market, more than 30 000 applications for the platform have been added to the marketplace. This is not nearly as many as Apple's iPhone app store but it is increasing rapidly.
Read more »Galcon Fusion – Review
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When Galcon Fusion was released for GNU/Linux I thought it was another of those simple games that I will play for 10 minutes and lose interest very quickly – but I was so wrong…
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Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) alpha 3 released and Download links included
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The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04, bringing with it the earliest new features for the next version of Ubuntu.
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9 Free, Open Source Tools for Video and Media Playback and Encoding
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It wasn't that long ago that it was impossible to find good, free open source tools for working with and viewing video. Now that video runs rampant on the web, though, there are a whole lot of applications worth getting.
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Confirmed: Ubuntu 10.04 Supports iPhone / iPod Touch Out Of The Box
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Robin Nixon, an UbuntuForums.org user has reported that the latest Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 worked out of the box with his iPhone and he was able to browse everything using Nautilus. He also reports Rhythmbox "working like iTunes".
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Lubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 3 Released With 4 New Default Apps And New Artwork (Screenshots)
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The most important changes in Lubuntu Alpha 3 are 4 new default applications: Chromium for the browser, gnome-mplayer as the default media player, Wicd has been replaced with the Network Manager and Pcmanfm2 as the default file manager
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Applications to make your KDE more powerful and smarter
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KDE is a nice desktop manager for linux operating systems. KDE usually comes with almost everything you might need. But have you ever dreamed if you could make your kde better, smarter and powerful with more amazing applications? Here are a few.
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