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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 upcoming Chrome Operating System, under the name of Chromium OS. The actual Chrome OS, as Google said, w... [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 >> ]

Parted Magic 4.6 Runs Better on Netbooks

Yesterday evening, November 16th, Patrick Verner announced the immediate availability of Parted Magic 4.6, a Slackware-based Linux distribution that w... [ read more >> ]

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 71

Welcome to the 71th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: SystemRescueCd 1.3.2, DE... [ read more >> ]

Linux Mint 8 RC1 Is Based on Ubuntu 9.10

Clement Lefebvre, the father of the Linux Mint project, proudly announced earlier today (November 13th) on their official blog the immediate availabil... [ read more >> ]

openSUSE 11.2 Officially Released

First was Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), followed by Mandriva Linux 2010.0, and now it's time for openSUSE to take the spotlight. In other words, we are ... [ read more >> ]

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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 >>]

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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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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 >>]