Microsoft announced support for Linux-based operating systems on Windows Azure after months of working hard to improve Linux kernel support in its Hyper-V hypervisor. Now Canonical has announced that Microsoft will be offering Windows Azure users the chance to load virtual machines with Ubuntu 12.04 installed. Read More :
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Mozilla, the company behind popular open-source browser Firefox and mail client Thunderbird, on Tuesday, released version 13 of Firefox web browser. The 32bit version of Firefox is available to download for Mac, Linux and Windows from here. This new iteration brings a revamped interface for the start page (home screen). The new home screen gives
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LibreOffice 3.5.4 RC2 was released yesterday by The Document Foundation developers. This release, as usual, is a QA testing release and is not recommended for production systems. One important bug fixed in this RC release is the “No recent documents” bug, which was causing LibreOffice not to show any recently opened documents. Highlights of the
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Oracle released version 4.1.16 of Virtualbox yesterday. This is the monthly maintenance release and only fixes outstanding bugs without adding any significant new features. However, Solaris version gets support for Xorg 1.11 and 1.12 (new feature). The important fix for Linux hosts is that it has now fixed issues while compiling Linux kernel 3.4 and a
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS will be out in less than 18 hours from now. Will you upgrade? Take the poll by clicking on the Ubuntu logo below and let us know.
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Quicklist before adding bookmark Anyone wishing to add an extra entry to the Unity launcher quicklist (A quicklist is a short-cut menu which you get on right clicking any icon on the Unity launcher) needs to manually edit the .desktop files. This process becomes quite technical for anyone who just wants to use the computer
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Since everyone is using Unity these days, though it would be good to share some tweaking knowledge from AskUbuntu. The solutions to this particular question teaches you how to create quicklists for your favourite programs on Unity launcher. You can find one or two popular quicklists posted by me in the answers section! 🙂 Click
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Adobe released flash player v.11.2 for Linux a few days ago. The repositories of Ubuntu have started seeding the update for both 32bit and 64bit systems from today. Arguably, 11.2 is the best release of flash player from Adobe till date. This release is supposed to bring multi-threaded video decoding support. UPDATE : Here is the release notes.
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Hi everyone. This is a very quick screenshot post of how to install Microsoft Office 2010 in Ubuntu using PlayOnLinux. I have used the latest version of PlayOnLinux (4.0.16) running on a Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 ( updated 24th March) 64bit machine. The screenshots speak for themselves. Please post comments if you have any further
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The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 3.5.1, the second version of the 3.5 family, targeting private individuals and enterprises. LibreOffice 3.5.1 fixes the majority of the most-important bugs identified by users and is expected to be appealing for most enterprises. Read More >>
