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Practical Technology is reporting that Xandros is buying Linspire. According to Practical Technology, In an announcement that was sent out on June 30, to Linspire stockholders, CEO Larry Kettler wrote he had decided to sell all of Linspire's assets. This deal specifically includes Linspire, Freespire and the company's CNR (Click 'N Run) desktop installation platform.

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Ubuntu team has released the 1st alpha of Ubuntu 8.10, code named Intrepid Ibex. As of now, the alpha 1 contains re-merging of changes from Debian and the upgrade of the Linux kernel to a pre-release version of 2.6.26. Alpha 1 does not have a live CD. You have to use alternate installer to install alpha 1 or you can upgrade from Ubuntu 8.04 by issuing the command update-manager -d. We'll come to know about the new features as the work progresses.

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Google today released Google Gadgets for Linux which provides a platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux. Google gadgets for Linux is compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. Google Gadgets for Linux will be open-sourced, under the Apache License.

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KDE team has released 1st beta of KDE 4.1. This beta includes

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Mono, an open source project sponsored by Novell has released Moonlight 0.6 with profile 1.0 and profile 2.0. Moonlight profile 1.0 is based on Silverlight v1.0 and Moonlight profile 2.0 is based on Silverlight v2.0. Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to dethrone Adobe's flash player. Moonlight is Silverlight for Linux.

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Mozilla Messaging team has released the first alpha of Thunderbird 3.0 codenamed Shredder. It's built on Gecko 1.9 platform. Here are some of the new features in Thunderbird 3.0, according to Mozilla Messaging.

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This is my 1000th post after I started using Wordpress (I was using Nucleus before). Woof!!!

OpenOffice.org team has released the beta version of OpenOffice 3.0. You can download the beta version of OpenOffice 3.0 from here. Here are the new features or additions to OpenOffice 3.0.

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KDE team has released an alpha version of their next KDE release, KDE 4.1. KDE 4.1 brings the following news features:

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Canonical has released Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron today. You can download the latest version from here. Ubuntu site is having trouble at times trying to handle the bandwidth. If you get server error, go back and try again.

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