Google Chrome for Linux and Mac Could Be Coming Soon, Sep 08, 2009

Google Chrome is beginning to look a lot more fleshed out than it was when it launched, though it's by no means perfect or even complete. But one year after the Windows version was released, public Linux and Mac builds still haven't been launched.

In a time when Microsoft is feeling the full impact of the global economic downturn, the open-source Linux operating system is flourishing.

A member of the SAM Linux Team announced a few hours ago the release of SAM Linux 2009. This distribution is based on PCLinuxOS 2009.1 and is fully compatible with its packages, but later releases will be based on another distribution, unspecified at this moment.

Microsoft gave rival Red Hat a taste of the real IP world on July 22nd, 2009, arguing that making contributions to open source projects while ensuring that intellectual property rights were respected by rivals were in no way business strategies that excluded one another.

Tiny Core Linux 2.1, a very small Linux distribution that is only 11 MB in size has been released.

It seems that some more details on the capabilities of the newly launched Palm Pre and on its webOS platform have made it into the wild, and among them the fact that the handset can easily run unsigned firmware. It all starts with the installation of a native Linux version of the FCEUltra NES emulator from within a Debian chroot.

The team behind the Puppy Linux project announced today, May 22nd, the first maintenance release of Puppy Linux 4.2 (Deep Thought). "I have just uploaded Puppy-4.2.1 final to ibiblio.org and Puppy-4.2.1retro is on its way up as well. [...] This is a bug fix update for Puppy-4.2 and includes very few changes from the original release[...]" was stated in the official release announcement.

Given the fact that an active rest is always better than a brain-dumbing, sit-and-do-nothing kind of rest, we thought it would be nice to introduce our PC to the Zen meditation techniques. And though in the end Zenwalk Linux 6.0 didn't help our test machine discover its Buddha-nature within, the experience was very pleasant and indeed relaxing.

The KDE community announced the immediate availability of the first maintenance release of KDE 4.2. This release is dubbed "Cream" and it brings many bug fixes and improvements, especially for applications such as Okular, Kopete, KMail, JuK, KGpg, KAlarm and KHTML.

The release of version 1.5.1 for the Adobe AIR runtime environment fixes several bugs and introduces two new APIs.

The Fedora Unity Project is proud to announce the first Re-Spin DVDs for the Fedora 10 Linux distribution.

Fast Lane and Bridge Education are now included in the program.

A new version of the ATI/AMD Linux display driver was released last night for both x86 and x86_64 platforms. This release is a bit special, as it includes support for Ubuntu 7.10.

W3Counter revealed that it took into consideration 33,640,022 unique visits to no less than 5,570 websites. In this context, both Linux and Windows 98 scored a usage share of 1.34%.

Back in 2001, the famous open source encyclopedia Wikipedia was just a website that provided access to a considerable amount of information.

.. if you ran a server based on Debian Sarge, you should definitely consider for an upgrade to Debian Etch, but if you want to use it as a workstation, I think you should get Ubuntu or Freespire.

I've just realized that all this software I use, made by the most talented people around the world, is FREE, it comes to me with no strings attached, so I will take my time to say a big THANK YOU and not take all this for granted, as maybe someday, God I hope not, they will disappear, and I don't want to then realize that I had all that powerful software for FREE and I didn't even care.