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And brings many new featuresLast evening, May 12th, the Pidgin developers proudly presented the brand-new and improved Pidgin 2.7.0 multi-protocol, multi-platform, instant messenger client. The new version brings many fixes for the Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan, AIM, XMPP, MSN, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu and Bonjour protocols, but also some very nice and interesting features (see below for details). Among some of

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Lightweight PCLinuxOS desktopTwo days ago, on May 10th, the PCLinuxOS developers announced the immediate availability of another lightweight edition of the PCLinuxOS 2010 operating system. With a Linux kernel 2.6.32.11 (with BFS scheduler) on board, the new PCLinuxOS 2010 Openbox edition provides a full featured and fast desktop environment, powered by the Openbox window manager. "Internet

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With plenty of bug fixes and improvementsThe eBox Platform developers are announcing the release of the latest eBox Platform 1.4-2. The update is a bug-fixing release with just a few small enhancements. Still, there are plenty of fixes in a lot of areas and plenty of components got updated. “[W]e've done a lot of bugfixing and small improvements since the last 1.4-1 release. Those all

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Final Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more. Ubuntu is free software. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the

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Google and kernel developers have had a tense relationshipLinux enthusiasts have been keen to declare ‘the year of the Linux desktop’ every year for almost a decade now. But, while Linux offerings for the PC are as robust as they’ve ever been, in terms of market share the penguin hasn’t made much progress. That’s a completely different story on mobile devices, specifically mobile phones. Thanks

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Based on DebianVyatta has released the latest version of its router/firewall Linux operating system. Vyatta 6.0 is now ready for networking experts and businesses looking for an open-source alternative to put it through its paces. A big feature in this release is the new Remote Access API, which allows developers to create tools for controlling the router or include functionality in their

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Four Alphas, one BetaAnnounced by Mark Shuttleworth on the 2nd of April, Ubuntu 10.10 (codename Maverick Meerkat) will be released this year, on October 28th. Once again, it is our duty to inform you about the changes that appeared in the release schedule for the next Ubuntu operating system. Last year, in September, we announced that the release schedule for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) was

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Earlier today (March 17th), Canonical announced that a new kernel update was available for the following Ubuntu distributions: 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake), 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron), 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) and 9.10 (Karmic Koala). As usual, this security update also applies to the respective versions of Kubuntu, Xubuntu or Edubuntu. The update patches 5 important security issues (

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Comes with KDE 4.4.0Berry Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution based on Fedora and aimed mostly at the Japanese market. The latest update, Berry Linux 1.01, is based on the latest stable release, Fedora 12, and comes with updated packages, especially the very latest stable versions. It uses a customized KDE 4 environment, the latest version plucked from Fedora 12, KDE 4.4.0. Both Mozilla Firefox

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The project has been a part of Summer of Code since 2005Google's Summer of Code project has become somewhat of an institution, with hundreds of organizations applying for a spot on the program. Ubuntu has been a partner since the project started in 2005 and, this year, it's doing the same. The open-source Linux distribution is now looking for students who aren't afraid of getting their hands

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Codename TopazThe Elive developers finally unleashed last night the next major and stable release of their amazing and eye-candy Elive Live CD Linux operating system. Dubbed Topaz, Elive 2.0 is still powered by the Debian mammoth and the lightweight Enlightenment E17 desktop environment. The developers state that the new release is so light that it eats only half of the resources on a system with

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First maintenance release for Vine Linux 5Daisuke Suzuki announced yesterday, February 25th, the immediate availability of Vine Linux 5.1 ISO images for 32-bit, 64-bit and PowerPC architectures. Vine Linux is a free Linux-based operating system, for the Japanese community. It is designed for both workstations and server machines. The new version of Vine Linux brings only security updates and bug

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Codename Rousseau The openSUSE development team, through Henne Vogelsang, announced last evening (February 17th) the immediate availability for testing of the openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 2 operating system. In the new release, we can find bleeding-edge components, such as Linux kernel 2.6.33, KDE Software Compilation 4.4.0, GNOME 2.30 Beta 1, OpenOffice.org 3.2.0, lots of improvements over the first

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Based on Ubuntu 9.10A few minutes ago, Clement Lefebvre and the hard working community behind the Linux Mint community announced the immediate availability of two new editions for the Helena release: Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox and Linux Mint 8 KDE64! While the latter contains exactly the same amount of new features like the Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition, but compiled especially for 64-bit

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Includes all updates as of February 2ndThe Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the first Re-Spin DVDs for the Fedora 12 (Constantine) Linux distribution. The new Re-Spin ISO images are based on the official Fedora 12 installation media, including all the updates (about 437 MB of updates) released as of February 2nd, 2010. It is compatible with both the i386 and x86_64 architectures. If you

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Also supports new AMD and IBM processorsRed Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced on February 10th the immediate availability of the first beta version of the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 operating system. Besides the usual updates, improvements or bugfixes, this first development release of RHEL 5.5 is powered by a 2.6.18-186.EL5 kernel and it is

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Final version expected in JuneThe second Alpha release of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2010.1 (Spring) operating system, due for launch in early June this year, is now available on mirrors worldwide. Once again, bleeding-edge packages are at home with Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2, including Linux kernel 2.6.33 RC6, KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC3, GNOME 2.29.6, Mozilla Firefox 3.6,

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Now with VortexBox PlayerListening to the VortexBox, Sonos and SqueezeBox communities' requests, Andrew Gillis proudly announced on February 1st the new VortexBox 1.1 release, which includes a lot of great features. VortexBox will turn your computer into an easy-to-use and out-of-the-box music jukebox and server. With it, you can rip Audio CDs to the FLAC and MP3 formats, add ID3 tags, grab

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4th maintenance release to Hardy HeronDear Ubuntu 8.04 users, Steve Langasek announced a few minutes ago the fourth maintenance release of the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) operating system, which (in case you forgot) is supported with maintenance updates and security fixes until April 2011 on desktops, and April 2013 on servers. Once again, this new maintenance release brings to its

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Helena with KDE 4.3.4 and kernel 2.6.31Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint community are proud to present today (January 21st) the first release candidate of the upcoming Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition operating system. Powered by Linux kernel 2.6.31 and built on top of the KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4, Linux Mint 8 KDE RC1 comes with many improvements in various areas of interest. It is

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Ubuntu for electronicsWe are proud to present today a new Ubuntu-based (or Remix) Linux distribution, this time for electronics. Called Ubuntu Electronics Remix, or UER for short, it is based on the popular Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system and comes as a Live DVD ISO image with lots of free electronics software. Except for the electronics software, everything else is exactly the same

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Codename CorneliusA few minutes ago, the KDE community project announced the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming and highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4. This development version brings improvements and bug fixes in various areas, especially for Nepomuk and Plasma. The KDE Software Compilation is composed of the KDE Plasma Workspace, the KDE Applications and the

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Powered by Linux kernel 2.6.32 and KDE SC 4.3.4Jörn Lindau announced yesterday (December 6th) the new and improved Toorox 01.2010 Gentoo-based distribution, bringing the first 64-bit version of the Toorox operating system. Toorox 01.2010 comes with bleeding-edge packages, such as Linux kernel 2.6.32 and KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4. The installer was updated to create a separate partition for /

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Powered by Linux kernel 2.6.30The Elive team announced today another unstable release of their Elive Live CD Linux distribution, now at version 1.9.56. Being powered by Debian, the Enlightenment E17 desktop environment and Linux kernel 2.6.30, the new development version of Elive brings support for 3G phones, the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player and installer fixes. Without any further ado,

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3D support for ATI Radeon cards is also availableOn the last day of 2009, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann uploaded and released the latest version of the sidux Linux-based operating system (codename "Moros"). sidux 2009-04 ships with Linux kernel 2.6.32.2, KDE Software Compilation 4.3.4, and 3D support for ATI Radeon graphics cards. sidux is a full-featured Live CD based on Debian Sid, with a special

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