Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 |
The next version of openSUSE is now available! Some of the new features and cool innovations in openSUSE 11.0 include updated desktops with new features, including the revolutionary new KDE 4; a new installer which makes the installation quicker and nicer; Live CDs so you can try openSUSE before committing; innovative new desktop effects, quicker and slicker software management, and many new applications to improve your daily life.
Sneak Peeks of openSUSE 11.0
openSUSE 11.0 includes a brand-new installer. The Sneak Peek series on openSUSE News shows off some new features, plus an interview with Stephan Kulow!
There have been many improvements and changes to ZYpp, openSUSE’s package management system, including the major improvement: it’s lightning fast! Features an interview with Duncan Mac-Vicar.
openSUSE’s Desktop Effects (Compiz) have been improved, and include many new effects and new features which make running and managing them better! Also includes an interview with Dennis Kasprzyk!
In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Take a look at the new KDE!
There are many improvements in the new version of GNOME. Vincent Untz talks about the GNOME desktop environment in openSUSE 11.0.
Are you a reviewer, or are you writing about openSUSE 11.0? Take a look at our 11.0 Reviewer Guide.
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 |
A Quantum Leap.
Since 2001, Mac OS X has delivered more than a thousand innovative new features. With Snow Leopard, the next major version of the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X changes more than its spots, it changes focus. Taking a break from adding new features, Snow Leopard — scheduled to ship in about a year — builds on Leopard’s enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X, enhance its performance, and set new standards for quality. Snow Leopard dramatically reduces the footprint of Mac OS X, making it even more efficient for users, and giving them back valuable hard drive space for their music and photos.
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 |
Download, burn, boot, and launch.
From dorm room to boardroom. OpenSolaris has everything you need to take your brilliant idea, build a prototype, test it, deploy it, and run it on production servers—out of a loft, or across your enterprise. And when your app goes viral, you won’t have to throw hardware at the problem, or switch to a different OS. OpenSolaris is industrial strength and built to scale from the get go.
The Live CD makes it simple to boot to a fully functional desktop environment, including Firefox and Thunderbird. Try it without fear — our instant rollback feature works like a giant undo button, so your system is always protected, and you’ll never lose work. And, you can load OpenSolaris 2008.05 easily in a variety of virtualization technologies including the open source VirtualBox hypervisor.
Experience it now!
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008 |
The latest version of the popular Linux distro packs a bunch of updated and new features. Like Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9 includes the latest updates to the KDE and GNOME desktop environments, PulseAudio, and Firefox 3 beta. But unlike Ubuntu, the Fedora 9 LiveDVD weighs in at a hefty 3.33GB. Ubuntu distros typically fit on a single CD.
Fedora 9 also has several other major improvements, including:
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Experimental support for the Ext4 file system
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Spins, which are different versions of Fedora built with specific groups of software
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You can now download installation media using
Jigdo
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Gnome 2.22, KDE 4.0.3 and Xfce 4.4.2 available on the LiveDVD
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Anaconda installer now supports resizing ext2, ext3, and NTFS file systems a well as creating and installing the OS to encrypted file systems
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Live USB installer now supports persistence, so you can run Fedora 9 from a USB flash drive and save your changes
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OpenJDK 6, an open source Java enironment is installed by default
Fedora 9 also comes with OpenOffice.org 2.4 and Firefox 3 beta 5.
Source : downloadsquad
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008 |
Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop screenshot
[ vs ]
Fedora 9 Desktop screenshot
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