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

Jolicloud is a Linux distribution, where most native and web applications are available for free. Jolicloud is based on Ubuntu, and the operating system is aimed at netbooks. The applications in Jolicloud is based on Chromium and HTML5, and also some other Gnome-based key components. Most applications are in fact ... Continue Reading

Version 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) of the Open-Source data recovery software toolkit based on Ubuntu is available now. Ubuntu Rescue Remix 10.10 is now available for download. The new version is based on Ubuntu 10.10. This is a command-based emergency toolkit that can be used to troubleshoot your computer. If you prefer to ... Continue Reading

The developers at Novell have put together a version of openSUSE, where Nokia's mobile operating system MeeGo is used. Nokia and Intel decided a while ago, to merge their two minimalistic operating systems Maemo and Moblin, that later became known as MeeGo. MeeGo was developed under the The Linux Foundation's umbrella, ... Continue Reading

More than ten developers has left Mandriva Linux the last few weeks. Mandriva as a true distro is dead... It is on the Mandriva mailing lists we can read that more than ten Mandriva developers has announced that they are leaving the Linux distribution. All that is left is an empty shell, ... Continue Reading

Linus Benedict Torvalds, a Finnish American software engineer, best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel has now become a U.S. citizen. Linus Torvalds moved from Finland to Santa Clara in California in 1997 to work for the company Transmeta. That company no longer exists, but Linus Torvalds ... Continue Reading

After much speculation the last few months, Valve has denied rumors about an Linux version of Steam. Shortly after the new version of Steam was released in May this year, it appeared files that appeared to belong to an upcoming Linux version of the program. This was not very unlightly, since ... Continue Reading

Uberstudent is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, which are specially designed for students. There are plenty of Linux distributions out there, and this is one of the many distributions which is essentially Ubuntu, but it has some preinstalled software that is specially usefull for students. Uberstudent was launched two weeks ... Continue Reading

The Linux distribution Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring is now available for download. After all the rumours about Mandriva, lately, this is good news for many of us. After a period of rumours and speculation, Mandriva has now released the Linux distribution Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. Among the news in Mandriva Linux 2010 ... Continue Reading

The Live CD or DVD from linuX-gamers is a good way to kill some time if you are bored. The DVD from linuX-gamers.net contains almost 5GB of free games in 35 various genres. The disc comes in two variants, as explained below. Lite ISO: Small CD image (700MB) containing a limited ... Continue Reading

Google Chrome has got a big update with support for a variety of HTML5 elements. Here are some of the news in Google Chrome 5.0. Google Chrome for Mac and Linux is out of the beta stage and has reached version 5. The same version number as the HTML standard that ... Continue Reading