Great news from the Linux front! Debian has launched their newest invention/toy, the screenshot repository, which you can access on screenshots.debian.net. This new database is to provide screenshots (duh!) of all the applications in their packages repository. Before installing you will now be able to see how an application will look before you actually install [...]
Adobe has announced yesterday the release of a 64-bit version of their popular Flash player. Currently the player is in beta-phase. This version is currently only available for Linux users, and can be obtained here. This decission was made because 64-bit Linux distributions don’t ship with a 32-bit browser by default. Neither do they usually [...]
Wonderful news from the Open Source World… Ubuntu 8.10 has been released on Thursday. Using kernel version 2.6.27, Gnome 2.24 and Xorg 7.4, this new version has some cutting edge technology under the hood! On the software side, you can expect the usual goodies like OpenOffice (still version 2.x though), FireFox 3, The Gimp and [...]
The head Linux kernel developer & creator, Linus Torvalds, has added a large amount of patches into the main development branch of Linux. One of the patches allows the new file-system to present itself as ext4, instead of ext4dev, which suggests that this new Ext-version is finally getting out of development phase. However this does [...]
The new release for one of the most popular Linux distro’s, Debian, has been delayed. Debian Lenny, as this latest version is called, was supposed to be out last September. Developer Alexander Reichle-Schmehl states on his blog that this is due to too many release-critical bugs. Translated to normal english, this just means there’s too [...]
