On Oct 30, 2008, the Ubuntu developers team have announced the availability of the official of Ubuntu 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex and is now ready for downloading.
Ubuntu 8.10 features a new version of the Gnome 2.24 which brings some new applications and a wide range of improvements for developers and end users such as support for tabs in Nautilus, a
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Novell have released openSUSE 11.0, the latest free version of its Linux operating system distribution which then will be the base for Novell's award winning SUSE Linux Enterprise products.
OpenSUSE 11.0 comes with the latest versions of KDE and GNOME, with KDE 4.0.4 replaced KDE 3.5 as the default KDE. With DVD installer, you can choose to install KDE or
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About a week ago, Canonical was demonstrating a reworked desktop image of Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Remix at Computex in Taiwan. Remix is not ready and still under heavy development. However, the source code is already available and can be installed on regular Ubuntu system. I managed to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix desktop environment running on Ubuntu 8.04 system under virtual
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On June 10, Banshee 1.0 was officially released to the public. Aron Bockover wrote on Planet Banshee :
It is my immense pleasure to formally announce the release of Banshee 1.0. After nearly eight months of vigorous, non-stop work (since the last major Banshee release), it's here - and we couldn't be happier!
I'm not going to highlight much of
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Robert Strohmeyer wrote on PC World website about two well known Linux distributions, Ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9.
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 8.04 is the best-assembled and most polished Linux distribution I've ever used. Ubuntu 8.04 performs well where Windows XP and Vista screech to a halt, particularly on older hardware. And since it comes with OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Evolution Mail, and a host
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Last couple of days before, I had posted two screenshots that showing Compiz Fusion Sphere and Cylinder Effect. The Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 that comes by default with Ubuntu 8.04 does not include this plugin. So you need to compile the plugin.For a new user, this not sound nice. However, there is an easy way to get this plugin and keep
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