The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu has just unveiled its new focus: A way to navigate the menu choices, without actually using any menus. The menus have simply been replaced by a so-called HUD (Heads Up Display), which allows you to search for what you are trying to find, without the ... Continue Reading

Facebook has begun testing an instant messaging application that currently only works on Windows 7. The  application gives you instant access to three basic functions: Facebook Chat, Ticker Feed and status updates. Facebook writes the following on the official website of the new application: Messenger for Windows is a new trial application ... Continue Reading

The web site DistroWatch.com ranks the most popular Linux distributions based on how many clicks each distribution get by visitors to the site. Ubuntu has been the most popular Linux version for the last several years, seemingly with no competition by the others. But now Linux Mint has sailed in as ... Continue Reading

Last Friday, Google released the first beta of a new extension to their browser Google Chrome. Chrome Remote Desktop Beta is a browser-based version of the remote administration programs that are already available for various platforms. These programs are generally used by IT managers to manage computers in businesses or ... Continue Reading

The KDE software Marble, which was originally an open version of Google Earth, has grown and become a complete GPS navigator. UPDATE: This info turns out to be incorrect, see comments to clarify.  Now it's just the finishing touches left and they need your help. KDE Marble is looking for a "radio ... Continue Reading

To keep up with hundreds of different Linux distributions, each distro needs something to seperate them from the rest. Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions at the moment, and they will try to increase their popularity further by mimicking the gaming platform Steam. This has been confirmed from ... Continue Reading

Last year, Mandriva had to cut their staff, and a large number of developers left the company to start a new Linux distribution based on Mandriva, which they called Mageia. Mageia is now available as a Beta1 release. The developers points out that this Beta1 is not intended for normal users, ... Continue Reading

The Gentoo Linux project has been very quiet for the last year and a half. But now the deveopers celebrates the good collaboration between themselves and the Gentoo users by releasing LiveDVD version 11. Gentoo Linux is proud to announce the availability of a new LiveDVD to celebrate the continued collaboration ... Continue Reading

Mandriva has just released the second alpha of Mandriva 2011, and so far the Linux distribution contains plenty of new software. Unlike many other Linux distributions, Mandriva still offers OpenOffice and has not yet made the move to LibreOffice. Mandriva has also chosen to use the new Red Hat developed system ... Continue Reading

The Ubuntu release team has announced that there has been some minor changes in the release schedule for version 11.04 (Natty Narwhal). According to the original plan, the final release was supposed to be preceded by a Release Candidate on April 21. This is no longer the case. The Release Candidate ... Continue Reading

The Linux distributions Fedora Linux and Ubuntu has decided to skip Open Office and replace it wiyh the competaor LibreOffice in the upcoming spring versions. By the end of 2009 a group of developers broke away from OpenOffice and started LibreOffice. After beeing in beta for a while, LibreOffice has ... Continue Reading

Before a Linux distribution is released, the developers stops to include new software. This means that a Linux user may have to live with old software even though there are newer stable versions. Now, Novell developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has announced that the project Tumbleweed will ensure that openSUSE users will get ... Continue Reading