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Canonical Drops Support for LPIA on Ubuntu 10.04
Two days ago, on November 24th, Canonical announced through Steve Kowalik that the LPIA architecture would no longer be supported, starting with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) operating system. At the moment, support for the LPIA architecture... [read more >>]

The Live CD/DVD of Scientific Linux 5.4 Is Out

Announced three weeks ago, the Scientific Linux 5.4 operating system brought improved support for Atheros wireless chipsets, the iwlwifi 5150 ucode fi... [ read more >> ]

Available Now: KOffice 2.1.0

The KOffice team announced on November 24th that, after six months of hard work, the final version of their KOffice 2.1 open source office suite was n... [ read more >> ]

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 72

Welcome to the 72nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: Parted Magic 4.6, Fedora... [ read more >> ]

Google Chrome OS Promises a 3-Second Boot

Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, announced on November 19th the immediate availability of the source code for their upco... [ read more >> ]

KNOPPIX 6.2 Is Available for Download

Klaus Knopper proudly announced on November 18th version 6.2 of the famous KNOPPIX Live Linux distribution. Being based on Debian Lenny (Testing and U... [ read more >> ]

ATI Catalyst 9.11 Has Initial Support for openSU...

Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD, announced on November 17th a new version of its versatile ATI Catalyst proprietary display driver for Linux users, for... [ read more >> ]

Fedora 12 Officially Released

After Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), Mandriva Linux 2010.0 and openSUSE 11.2, the time has come for Fedora fans to grab the final release of the Fed... [ read more >> ]

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Right after Ubuntu's fifth birthday it was time to celebrate once more, because a Karmic Koala was released, and it brought with it a lot of reasons to upgrade. If Ubuntu 9.10's smart looks haven't convinced you yet, maybe the fast boot times and ove... [read more >>]

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	1/10 Installing Ubuntu 9.10 How to Fix Windows 7 Sharing in VirtualBox How to Install KDE 4.3 on Ubuntu 9.04 How to Run Android Applications on Ubuntu How to: Fix Yahoo Problem in Pidgin How to: Easily Share Files with Dropbox How to Replace the Volume Control in Ubuntu 9.04 How to Fix VirtualBox USB Support How to Install OpenOffice.org 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 Installing Ubuntu 9.04
	Ubuntu 9.10, also known as the Karmic Koala, arrived exactly on October 29, 2009 and is the eleventh release of Ubuntu OS. We've created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.10 operating system on their personal computer. Therefore, it is ad... [ read more >> ] In my last tutorial about VirtualBox (the free virtualization software from Sun Microsystems) I offered a solution to fix the USB support, a problem that I think is fixed now, but... I have recently encountered another issue: sharing folders with a Windows 7 guest machine! The i... [ read more >> ] After six months of development, the K Desktop Environment 4.3.0 was launched on August 4th, 2009. It fixes over 10,000 bugs and brings about 2,000 features. Among some of the most interesting ones in the KDE 4.3.0 desktop environment we can mention the new Arora web browser that... [ read more >> ] When Google announced and released Android, back in October 2008, everyone knew that it would become the best operating system for mobile devices. Not only is Android open source, but it also comes with a Software Development Kit, which offers the necessary APIs and utilities for... [ read more >> ] Two days ago, Yahoo! Inc. did something to its messenger servers, something that practically blocked all the Linux IM clients, such as Pidgin, Kopete, Empathy or GyachI. While many of us thought it might be an ISP issue, some very smart people found out the truth: Yahoo! changed ... [ read more >> ] Online storage services became very popular in the last year or so... especially the ones that offered substantial free storage. Canonical and Mandriva also announced recently that they would offer such services for their operating systems in the next months. To be honest, Ubuntu... [ read more >> ] I have recently heard someone cursing Canonical for not implementing the highly acclaimed PulseAudio volume control into the new Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) operating system, a function that exists in the newly released Mandriva 2009.1 (Spring) distribution. First, let me tell... [ read more >> ] It is actually a known fact that there is an issue with VirtualBox and the attached USB devices that many of us are trying to use in the virtual machine. Here is a real-life example: I am a 100% Linux user and I have a photo printer that Linux can't recognize. Let's say that I w... [ read more >> ] After our famous "How to Install OpenOffice.org 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.10" guide and because the final versions of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and OpenOffice.org 3.1.0 are out for some time now, we decided to create a new tutorial, about how to install the fresh and improved OpenOffi... [ read more >> ] Ubuntu 9.04, also known as the Jaunty Jackalope, arrived exactly on April 23rd, 2009 and is the tenth release of Ubuntu OS. We've created the following tutorial to teach Linux newcomers how to install the Ubuntu 9.04 operating system on their personal computer. Therefore it is ad... [ read more >> ]

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rlwrap 0.33 rlwrap project is a 'readline wrapper' that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input. [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Good (3.4/5) 2,534 none available Terminals	November 26th, 22:13 GMT update

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Total Validator 6.1.1 An extension which performs multiple validations and takes screen shots in one go. [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	Other/Proprietary Li... Fair (2.8/5) 429 none available Firefox Extensions	November 26th, 20:56 GMT update

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SME Server 7.4 / 7.5 Beta 1 / 8.0 Beta 4 e-smith is a server-oriented distribution. [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Good (3.8/5) 13,113 none available Linux Distributions	November 26th, 19:08 GMT update

Snake 1.1.0 A Snake clone for Linux [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL NOT RATED 514 view screenshot Arcade	November 26th, 18:56 GMT update

2ManDVD 1.2 The successor of ManDVD [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Good (3.8/5) 3,351 view screenshot Video	November 26th, 18:34 GMT update

Business::SWIFT 0.01 Validate SWIFT/BIC Bank identifiers [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	Perl Artistic License NOT RATED 7 none available Perl Modules	November 26th, 18:19 GMT NEW

Business::OnlinePayment::BankOfAmerica 1.02 Bank of America backend for Business::OnlinePayment [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	Perl Artistic License NOT RATED 6 none available Perl Modules	November 26th, 18:05 GMT NEW

NmapSI4 0.1.1 / 0.2 Alpha 1 A complete Qt4-based Gui with the design goals to provide a complete nmap interface. [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Good (3.0/5) 516 view screenshot Networking	November 26th, 17:45 GMT update

RecordStream 0.9 Radio stream ripper for Amarok [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Very Good (4.0/5) 431 none available amaroK Scripts	November 26th, 17:16 GMT update

PyTowerDefense 0.4.6 An Open-Source Tower Defense Game [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Excellent (5.0/5) 77 view screenshot RTS	November 26th, 16:53 GMT update

Bank::Holidays 0.57 Perl extension for determining Federal Reserve holidays. 2006 - 2010 [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	Perl Artistic License NOT RATED 9 none available Perl Modules	November 26th, 16:37 GMT NEW

Parole 1.96 A modern media player for XFCE [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Excellent (5.0/5) 295 view screenshot Video	November 26th, 16:16 GMT update

Twisted Lore 9.0.0 Twisted documentation system [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	MIT/X Consortium Lic... NOT RATED 11 none available Libraries	November 26th, 16:03 GMT NEW

Sound Juicer 2.28.1 Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and automatic tagging of files. [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Good (3.2/5) 3,775 view screenshot Audio	November 26th, 15:59 GMT update

Win2-7 2.0 Win2Vista has Evolved into Win2-7 [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	Other/Proprietary Li... Excellent (5.0/5) 228 view screenshot Icons	November 26th, 15:49 GMT update

Humane 1.2 Humane is a theme that uses the colors of Ubuntu but with a better style [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	BSD License NOT RATED 63 view screenshot Themes	November 26th, 15:26 GMT update

gbRRDGraphix 1.6-1 RRDTool Graphical User Interface [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL NOT RATED 76 view screenshot Monitoring	November 26th, 15:12 GMT update

xl_cheeselooks_Rain 1.1 A GNOME theme based on the xl_cheeselooks engine [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL NOT RATED 119 view screenshot Themes	November 26th, 15:08 GMT update

EPUBReader 1.2.1 With EPUBReader you can read ePub files just in Firefox [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	MPL NOT RATED 56 none available Firefox Extensions	November 26th, 15:04 GMT update

Long Range ZIP 0.40 A compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Fair (2.6/5) 386 none available Archiving	November 26th, 15:04 GMT update

HandBrake 0.9.4 HandBrake is a GPL'd multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. [read more >]	License: Rating: Downloads: Screenshot: Category:	GPL Good (3.1/5) 6,906 view screenshot Video	November 26th, 14:52 GMT Editor's pick \| update

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Ubuntu 9.10 Review
Right after Ubuntu's fifth birthday it was time to celebrate once more, because a Karmic Koala was released, and it brought with it a lot of reasons to upgrade. If Ubuntu 9.10's smart looks haven't convinced you yet, maybe the fast boot times and ove... [read more >>]