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Ubuntu 8.10 released

Another mile stone for Canonical teams. Good jobs!
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server, continuing Ubuntu’s tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Features:
Productivity tools: Ubuntu supports all of your favourite web-based mail programs like Yahoo(TM) or Gmail (TM). But for the [...]

WinSCP 4.17 have been released

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.
Main Features:
- Graphical user interface
- Translated into several languages
- Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons)
- U3 support
- All common operations with files
- Support for SFTP and SCP [...]

VMware plan to buy Redhat?

Are you serious? Are you kidding? VMware plan to buy Redhat?
According to MSNBC, open source software supplier Red Hat is racking up growth figures that much of techdom might envy. Sales rose 32%, to $157 million, in the quarter ended May 31, and profits climbed a respectable 7%.
One possible suitor is virtualization software company VMware [...]

KDE 4.1 Rocks!

KDE 4.1 was finally released to the public today. After all the controversy since the release of KDE 4.0, I’m happy to announce that KDE 4.1 simply rocks.

KDE 4.1 packages are available for Kubuntu and several other popular distributions. If there are no prebuilt binaries yet for your distro of choice, you can compile the [...]

Asus launches first laptops with Splashtop

ASUS confirmed it would be loading the quick-launch Express Gate Splashtop Linux OS onto all of its upcoming motherboards, the software developers behind the distro, DeviceVM, have announcedthat several ASUS notebooks will also include it.
The Asus M70T, M50V, M51T, F8Va, and F8Vr will be the first laptops on the market to include the “rapid-start platform.”

Splashtop [...]