Linux

The merged compiz and beryl projects finally have a new name: "Compiz Fusion". The new name is a large step towards the ultimate unification of the two projects. I personally like the new name, almost better than beryl. For those ...

The KOffice team has released version 1.6.3 of their Office suite for the KDE desktop. This is the last maintenance release of the 1.6 series and contains mainly bug fixes. Highlights of this release are: Edit->Find action added, works ...

The Linux Mint team has released last night a light edition of their successful Linux operating system, Linux Mint 3.0 (codename Cassandra). This Light Edition was created especially for the users that live in countries where the legislation allows software ...

Metacity is a lightweight window manager written by Havoc Pennington from Red Hat. The first version was 2.3, which was released in 2001. Metacity is implemented with the GTK+ 2.x toolkit, and so integrates well with the GNOME 2.x platform. ...

Today Microsoft Corp. and Linux platform provider Xandros Inc. announced a broad collaboration agreement based on a set of technical, business, marketing and intellectual property commitments. These commitments provide customers with enhanced interoperability, more effective systems management solutions, and intellectual ...