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KDE 4.1 was released yesterday and I read a lot of good review about that release, so I thought I would install it in my laptop and give it a try. I tried KDE 4.0 when it was released, but it was not usable. KDE 4.0 was more like an alpha software than a final [...]

KDE team has released an upgrade to their new desktop environment, KDE 4.1. This release is the second feature release of the KDE 4 series, sporting new applications and newly developed feature. KDE 4.1 is the first KDE4 release to contain the Personal Information Management suite KDE-PIM with its E-Mail client KMail, the planner [...]

KDE has created a website KDE Utilities with a compilation of various desktop utilities that work under KDE. It currently has very few utilities listed (13 at the time of writing), but I hope it would a be a single point entry to get all KDE related apps.

My friend emailed this to me.

Ubuntu team has released the 3rd alpha version of Ubuntu 8.10 code named Intrepid Ibex. Alpha 3 has Xorg 7.4 and Linux kernel 2.6.26-4.11. This is an alpha version, so it’s not suitable for regular use. Here are some of the known bugs in alpha 3:

When using manual partitioning and configuring crypt+LVM, the partitioning will [...]

Google’s Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world’s malware hosted on the web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos.
The security firm claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious code, or simply posting links to infected websites in other bloggers’ comments.
Beware next time [...]

Installation of Guest Additions (enables seamless mouse movements between host and guest OSes, share folders between host and guest etc) used to be pretty simple and straightforward with the older version of Virtualbox. It all changed with the newer version (I’m not sure which version to be exact). I’m using the latest version available for [...]

I use Simple Backup program that comes as default with Ubuntu for backing up my home folder. I had problems with this software on and off for the past few months. It fills the var/backup folder sometimes when it can’t find the backup medium and that fills up my “/” (root) partition. I then have [...]

There could be more than one way to do this, but I found this easy to do. This method helps you to set specific persmissions like whether a specific site can load image or not, can open pop up window or not, can set cookies or not and can install extensions and themes or not. [...]

Mozilla has released the first incremental update after releasing the Firefox 3.0 browser a month back. Firefox 3.0.1 has the following fixes:

Fixed 3 critical security issues.
Fixed stability issues
Fixed an issue related to phishing database not getting updated on first launch
Fixed SSL certificate exception issue
Fixed the issue related to printing a content from the middle of [...]