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Twisted 11.1.0 Launched
Twisted Matrix Laboratories has released the new Twisted 11.1.0 with a lot of new features, a lot of improvements as well as bug fixes.
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GNOME 3.2.2 Released
GNOME 3.2.2 stable release has been launched yesterday. This is the third update to GNOME 3.2 which is the second of the stable release.
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Lazarus - A nifty little FireFox addon to restore your webforms.
Lazarus is a Firefox add-on that comes as a blessing to users who work on web forms frequently. Most often, the browser crashes or the internet connection gets disconnected after you enter data in the web form leaving you totally frustrated. The whole web form is lost and there is no way to recover it. In these frantic situations Lazarus comes to your rescue, helping you to recover the lost web form data.  
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Ubuntu Studio bids bye to Unity
Ubuntu Studio with its strong focus on multimedia applications has decided to go for the open source Xfce desktop for its next release instead of Unity. Currently, Ubuntu Studio does not use Unity as it will default to Gnome2 when the user logs in.
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Ubuntu Desktop 8.04 LT Support finally comes to an end | Time to upgrade guys!!!
Finally, the support for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS has come to an end. Beginning from 12 May 2011, the desktop edition of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS will not offer new updates, security updates and critical fixes. However, the Ubuntu 8.04 LTS’s server version will continue to be supported till May 2013.
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Slackware-based Linux distribution - Salix OS released
Salix OS13.37 "Xfce" edition has been released. Soon after the launch of Slackware 13.37 the fresh release of Salix 13.37 was made. George Vlahavas announced the release of the first of the Salix OS series that operates on various desktop environments and window managers. Salix 13.37 is based on the new Slackware Linux 13.3. With several changes and improvements, Salix Xfce 13.37 has brought a smile on the faces of all Linux enthusiasts.
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Enhanced apps from Chrome webstore | 95% revenue for Chrome-app developers
Sundar Pichai, head of Google’s Chrome browser, said that the browser has 160 million users presently when compared to the 70 million last year. Constant speed boosts and enhanced features have made Chrome popular. With enhanced features like Canvas 2D, and WebGL, Google Chrome delivered 100x improvements in rendering and this had enabled them to compete against Internet Explorer 9 in Microsoft’s Fishy test.
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Mozilla intends to reclaim the web by offering automatic upgrades to Firefox 4
Mozilla’s automatic upgrades to Firefox 4 have excited the Firefox users. In the very first month of its availability, there have been over 100 million downloads of the browser. Uptake for Mozilla’s Firefox 4 is very high.
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A new target - 200 million Ubuntu users by 2015
The man behind Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, has challenged the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest, Hungary to bring 200 million Ubuntu users by 2015. According to Canonical, Ubuntu has 12 million users currently and wants the figure to increase to 200 million in the next four years.
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$25 ‘Raspberry Pi’ runs on Ubuntu
David Braben, the popular game developer in the UK has created one of the smallest pocket PC costing just $25. Named as Raspberry Pi, this fully-configured pocket PC can be installed with Ubuntu and other open-source operating systems.
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Linux respawns in the Play Station 3
Homebrew developers have introduced a custom firmware update for the Sony PlayStation 3. This will restart the OtherOS functionality, which was banned from the company, for over 12 months. The new OtherOS++ firmware helps to set up Linux next to the PS operating system by Sony and is expected to be very easy for the developers.
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Linux Sabily 11.04 (‘Al-Badr’) Released
The Sabiliy team announced the launch of their latest release of Sabiliy based on Ubuntu 11.04, code named Al-Badr. This new version contains the new "Al-Badr" pictures and wallpapers as well as the latest Plymouth and GDM themes. Sabily is yet another distro based on Ubuntu and features a host of Islamic software. It was previously known as Ubuntu Islamic Edition.
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Mozilla says that Linux users will now get a Faster Firefox
Mozilla reports that its developers have put together Linux builds of its Open source browser, Firefox 4 with version 4.5 of GCC, or the GNU Compiler Collection.The latest builds are expected to function properly even when used with the earlier Linux platforms, be it Red Hat or CentOS 5. On the whole, they support GNU standard libstdc++ library from GCC 4.1.
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Peppermint OS |Another Ubuntu based Distro | Cloud centric |
Peppermint OS is yet another Ubuntu based distro. Based on Ubuntu 10.04 it is build to be web centic and focused on working in the cloud. This makes it extemely fast and responsive, giving it extremely fast boot times. With a less than 512MB HDD footprint, it can be easily run on a live CD or a USB.
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Linux not mentioned in the best practices sheet of NSA
The US spooks advice to businesses to adopt Vista or Windows 7, have upset all Linux enthusiasts. Though the suggestion is made considering the security factors, Linux has unfortunately failed to capture their attention.
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