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Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on April 01, 2013

The much awaited evolutionary release of Gnome - 3.8 - arrived last week. In my opinion Gnome 3.8 is much closer to what Gnome team was aiming for as the 'next' version of this desktop environment after 2.x branch.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on April 01, 2013

Mandriva, the once most popular GNU/Linux based distribution, is slowly recovering from the turmoil.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on April 01, 2013

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, has finally listened to critics and EFF and said that the much controversial online search feature of Dash will be disabled by default in Ubuntu 13.04, which will be released later this month.

Posted by Syn Waker on March 30, 2013

If you are an iOS user, you know this feature, but for Android users, this is something relatively new (after the failed Samsung-only TeamViewer app that tries to do the same thing). So here it is, the Android-Desktop remote viewer BBQScreen!

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on March 29, 2013

Subsurface, the dive-tracking program written by none other than Linus Torvalds, is considering moving to Qt.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on March 29, 2013

ZFS is one of the many important open source projects and this project has reached, what Brian Behlendorf calls an important milestone, with the official 0.6.1 release.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on March 28, 2013

Google has announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. In it's pledge Google says that they will not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked.

Posted by Swapnil Bhartiya on March 28, 2013

The openSUSE team is now hiring 'a senior KDE developer that is willing to join the company to work on openSUSE distribution and customer products where KDE technologies are present.'