By Arun, 11 months and 8 days ago

Intel plans to show Ultra mobile PC running Ubuntu

Intel plans to show ultramobile PC devices based on its upcoming Menlow chip platform running AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and the Ubuntu Linux distribution at the Intel Developer Forum today.

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By Arun, 11 months and 13 days ago

Out for next 2 weeks

I'll be out on Vacation all of next week and then I'm leaving on 23rd to attend an Oracle conference in Las Vegas. I'll be back on 28th and back to normal working schedule from October 01st.

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By Arun, 11 months and 14 days ago

Bloglines beta 1.0.2

Bloglines has added one more feature to it's Bloglines Beta. The new feature allows you to edit the feed details inline. While reading the feeds, you can click on Edit option at the top and edit the Feed Name or other settings as shown in the figure below.

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By Arun, 11 months and 14 days ago

Microsoft changes files without user permission

Scott Dunn of Windows Secrets reports that Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista even when the automatic updates are turned off.

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By Arun, 11 months and 16 days ago

AjaxWindows - Yet another Web OS

I read in CNet news today about AjaxWindows - another web based OS. I thought I would give that a try. Creating an account is pretty simple. All you need to do is, enter an email address, password and the security code and you are all set to go. This web OS differs from other web OSes in the sense that it provides you with an online office suite and it allows you to synchronize your data with GMail. This allows you to store the files in your GMail account. It also gives you an option window where you set your preferred email program like Yahoo Mail, GMail, Hotmail etc and your start page preference.

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By Arun, 11 months and 17 days ago

IBM joins OpenOffice

The OpenOffice.org today announced that IBM will be joining the community to collaborate and contribute to the development of OpenOffice. This follows the IBM support to ODF format in it's war against OOXML format proposed by Microsoft.

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By Arun, 11 months and 20 days ago

KDE 4.0 release schedule revised

KDE team has revised the schedule for release of KDE 4.0 Here is the updated schedule:

  • October, 2nd: KDE 4.0 Beta 3
  • October, 19th: Total Release Freeze, only critical bugfixes are allowed to get in.
    If in doubt, ask the release coordinator.
  • October, 30th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 1
  • November, 14th: KDE 4.0 Release Candidate 2
  • December, 11th: KDE 4.0

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By Arun, 11 months and 20 days ago

ATI driver to be open sourced - Strategies explained

You might have already read the news about the new release of ATI 8.41 Display Driver for Linux with better 3D support. The new driver was 50-90% faster than the old one in some tests.

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By Arun, 11 months and 21 days ago

KDE 4.0 Beta 2.0 released

KDE team has released KDE 4.0 Beta 2. This release marks the beginning of the feature freeze and the stabilization of the current codebase. For more information, take a look at KDE release page.

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By Arun, 11 months and 21 days ago

Geneva Public Library moves to Ubuntu

Geneva Public Library in Geneva, Alabama has moved to Ubuntu. They were using Windows 98 on older systems. Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 98 last year. The computers in the library are old, so they didn't have the capabilities to run XP or Vista. The library made a sensible decision to move to Ubuntu. This saved them lot of money and they don't have to worry about viruses. Watch the news on the local channel here.

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