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Cinnamon: Gnome-Shell with a twist

As we continue with the intense debate of Gnome Shell vs Unity, which is more user (un)friendly, a  new fork of Gnome 3 released by Linux Mint lead developer and founder is quietly gaining stability and maturity. The Cinnamon Desktop Cinnamon, that’s the name of the fork, was released with Linux Mint as Mint Gnome […]

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LibreOffice 3.5 beta 1 released

The Document Foundation (TDF) has made the first beta of LibreOffice 3.5 available for testing. This release will be followed by a RC1 release in late January . At the moment this office suite is recommended only for testing purposes. The 3.5 release will be a major release with a lot of changed planned to

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Firefox 8 released

Firefox 8, the latest version of the popular opensource browser has been officially released. The new version comes with a few enhancements but no noticeable visual changes. A quick look at the new features and improvements in Firefox 8: Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default Added a one-time add-on selection

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Lightworks releasing on 29th November

Image Courtesy: Lightworksbeta.com Here’s some good news for video editing enthusiasts and professionals. Oscar winning software, Lightworks, which will be going opensource soon is releasing its first stable release in November this year. The official announcement reads: On 29th November 2011, one year after the initial beta release, we will be officially releasing Lightworks.  Interestingly,

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Adobe Flash Player 11 RC released

Adobe has just released the Release Candidate for its latest Flash Player version 11. The release candidate has been released for all platforms Linux, Windows and Mac in both 32 and 64 bit versions. 32bit users will get updates from the Ubuntu repositories as and when the repositories updated. If you want to have automatic updates

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Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime | Security | ZDNet UK

According to a cable sent by the US embassy in Tunis on 22 September, 2006, Microsoft was so keen to get the Tunisian government to drop its policy favouring open-source software that it agreed to set up a “program on cyber criminality” to cover training. The deal also entailed the company giving the Tunisian regime,

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