Yesterday, Mandriva has released its latest distribution, Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring.
Mandriva, the leading European Linux distributor, today announces the launch of Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring, the major new release of Mandriva Linux, featuring hundreds of improvements which make for a quicker and more powerful distribution that is easier to use than ever.
Here a list of improvements made:
- A new parental control utility
- The Elisa multimedia center,manage your photos, music and videos
- Easy synchronization with mobile devices
- Software updates include KDE 3.5.9, GNOME 2.22, OpenOffice.org 2.4, Linux kernel 2.6.24.4, X.org 7.3, Compiz 0.7
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On March 26, 2008, OpenOffice.org community had released a free and open source office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.4. This released will be the last of 2.0 version before the release of new OpenOffice.org 3.0 which is expected to be on September or October 2008.
The OpenOffice.org Community is pleased to announce the release of OpenOffice.org 2.4, the latest version of the leading open source office productivity suite. OpenOffice.org 2.4 includes many new features, enhancements, and bug fixes to all its core components.
Here are some improvements made to this new released:
Download: OpenOffice.org 2.4
Here are some great open source applications which I use most of the time. These applications can be installed in Microsoft Windows, Linux and OS X. I would like to recommend you to install and use it as your main applications. These open source applications can be downloaded for free and can be distributed. If you know programming, you can modify the source code and distribute it.
To know more about open source, go to OpenSource.Org
Mozilla Firefox.
I am pretty sure that you already knew about this great web browser called Mozilla Firefox. If you don’t have any idea about Mozilla Firefox, let me tell you a little bit about this web browser. Mozilla Firefox is a cross platform web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation which is secure and faster than Internet Explore. Mozilla Firefox includes pop-up blocking, a tab-browsing, a spell checker, incremental find, live bookmarking, a download manager and integrated Google searching. Mozilla Firefox also comes with simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively. Mozilla Firefox can be customized by adding add-ons which were created by third party developer. Click on the Firefox2 button below to download.
Mozilla Thunderbird
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