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Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

Red Hat sponsored and community maintained Fedora Project has turned 9 years. This was just a few days after the upcoming Fedora 18's alpha was released with some major changes and desktop overhaul.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

Dice and The Linux Foundation have published an infographic which shows the state of Linux jobs in current market. The report looks interesting, and hopefully will encourage more people to choose Linux as their career.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

Canonical's global marketing expert, John Bernard has left Ubuntu to join Firefox. The news was reported by marketingmagazine.co.uk. Benard is among top ten marketers in UK and has a track record of working with big companies like Sony Ericsson and LG.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

Tears Of Steel is a short, animated film created wholly by using open source 3D engine, Blender. The film will be premiered on 28 September at Woodsbury University, hosted by ASIFA-Hollywood. You can also view it online at www.tearsofsteel.org and on YouTube from today.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

Unity already has a hell lot of lenses that makes the Unity desktop just wow. But one of the lens that is most helpful for new Ubuntu users is definitely the help lenses.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

The Gnome Foundation have announced the release of Gnome Shell desktop environment version 3.6. This is a test version not suitable for enterprise and business environments. Install it on your own risk.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

Following the release of Source Sans Pro Last month, Adobe has released another font as free in SourceForge named Source Code Pro. This is mainly because of high response of last font which was downloaded over 68 thousand times and appreciated by the community, mainly Linux users and free software lovers.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

Gwibber is a powerful and full-featured social client for Ubuntu, and though it supports a wide range of social services, its slow, buggy and also has occasional crashes. The good news is that developers have taken a note of users' mishaps and the backend is being completely rewritten. Sp hopefully we will see a faster, sleeker and robust Gwibber in Ubuntu 13.04.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

The recent inclusion of Amazon search results in the Ubuntu Unity Dash has got much criticism and user backlash, chiefly about privacy concerns of the users. While this is a good way for Canonical to earn some affiliate revenue, users are more concerned about a 3rd party site getting to know about their search activity.

Posted by Saurav Modak on September 25, 2012

After a long delay and a rumor that Chromium browser is being unmaintained, Canonical pushed an update of the browser silently today. Previously, Ubuntu 12.10 users had the old Chromium 18 browser running on their machines.