The most popular of the free Linux distros, the latest release of Ubuntu Linux 9.04, termed Jaunty Jackalope is available for both servers and desktops. Both commercial & free download is available, suitable choice I made was 32-bit desktop edition on a 699MB ISO CD image.

Once I downloaded this, I created a Live CD disk [...]

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The Linux version of Adobe AIR, is now available. You can download Adobe AIR for Linux.

Adobe AIR 1.5, a key component of the Adobe Flash(R) Platform enables Web developers to use HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript and the free open source Flex framework to deliver Web applications outside the browser. Now with no additional efforts, developers can [...]

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It’s not even weeks that the Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was launched and now Canonical has launched the 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Alpha. Since it’s an alpha version so it’s not recommended for downloading. There will definitely be some bugs and the alpha version is directed more towards the developers and testers who want to contribute [...]

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I am not very fond of Facebook but I do use it regularly for networking. I have managed to get around 30 friends so far and that’s because I don’t collect friends like most of people on FB do. The thing why I am writing this is that there is one thing on Facebook called [...]

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Compiz fusion is a cool and awesome powerful extension to Gnome. As you can have multiple desktops /spaces in Ubuntu, Compiz can let you can switch between them via a three dimensional cube, which is actually very geekyand highly useful.
I have astonished my friends with Compiz fusion, check what it can do here.
Installing Compiz [...]

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Energy-efficient Linux desktop from Everex priced at just $198, TC2502 Green gPC, was launched at WalMart retail stores day before yesterday. It runs on a 1.5GHz Via C7-D processor and comes with 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, a DVD player, and an Ethernet port. This price is not inclusive of a monitor.

The next [...]

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Motorola has used Linux on the RIZR Z3 and have renamed it to ROKR Z6. It seems Z6 is the first phone that runs on Motorola Java-Linux OS and will get launched in USA.
Motorola has kept many elements from its previous OS in Java-Linux, including customizable home-screen shortcuts on the D-pad that can be [...]

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One of the leading developers of the Samba system, Jeremy Allison, has resigned from his job at Novell in protest of the agreement the company has with Microsoft.
Allison, who worked on the Suse Linux distribution at Novell confirmed that his beef is with the patent agreement that allows the two companies to collaborate on technologies [...]

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Novell today has released openSUSE 10.2, they claim that this latest version will become the most usable Linux distribution ever produced.
“The openSUSE project promotes the use of Linux everywhere, and openSUSE 10.2 is the world’s most usable Linux distribution,” said Carlos Montero-Luque, vice president of product management for open platform solutions at Novell.
OpenSUSE 10.2 features [...]

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The patent cross licensing deal unveiled by Microsoft and Novell on 2 November will be incompatible with the GPL3 licence and is likely to be incompatible with the current GPL2 licence, according to law professor and open source activist Eben Moglen.
Section seven of the current General Public Licence (GPL2) prohibits people or corporations from distributing [...]

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