Google, today released a new stable release of it’s popular web browser Google Chrome packed with all the beta goodies we have come to love. To add to the excitement, this will also be the first stable release of the browser for the Linux and Mac platforms.

What’s in it you ask?

1. HTML 5, Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. Make sure to try drag n drop in GMAIL!!

2. Improved sync. Bookmarks, themes, preferences, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page zoom settings.

3. Enable individual extensions in incognito mode.

Your Chrome browser should auto update but if you can’t wait grab a copy here.

via blog@ghrome

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• 60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
• 23 developer builds
• 2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
• 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code contributors

Google Chrome for Linux come is .deb for Ubuntu/Debian and .rpm for Fedora and OpenSUSE. Download Google Chrome for Linux Now!!.

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• What is Google Chrome OS?
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What is Google Chrome OS?

Google’s a year away from releasing Chrome OS but the code has already been made fully Open Source for the open source community start enjoying today.

Google hosted a Google Chrome OS event today to share their progress so far and the direction they’re moving in. Also, there’s demo of Google Chrome OS in action. Watch the webcast.

I’m excited about Chrome OS. It’s fast (7 sec boot), it’s simple, it’s clean, it’s secure, all your data sits on the cloud and so far the UI looks awesome!

We use the browser and not the OS so why keep the the OS?  That’s Google’s idea and I’m loving it so far.

Reality check though, they might just be taking over the world!!

Source: mattcutts

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VirtualBox 3.1.0 Beta 1 was just released. This is a major update bundled with quite a few cool and much anticipated features. The release also includes bug fixes for version 3.0.10.

Teleportation (Live migration) – You can now move VMs across machines.

2D video acceleration for Windows hosts.

Snapshot got smarter. You can now restore from any snapshot and not just the last one.

Network modules can now be changed while the VM is running.

Performance improvements for PAE and AMD 64 guests.

For the complete list of changes please check out the change log.

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• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is out!!

Ubuntu 9.10 codenamed “Karmic Koala” was released 2 days back.

Grab a copy from a local Malaysian mirror listed below or from the official download page.

OSCC

MMU

ByteCraft

alternatively if you’re a Kubuntu user, grab your copy here.

• Grab Ubuntu 9.04 whilst it’s still hot!!
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• Full Circle Magazine Issue 23
• Fedora 9 “Sulphur” released
• Downloading gOS

Here’s the breakdown of the update structure.

Bare Bones Price (RM 20) NEW!

* Full access to talks and side sessions
* No lunch and tea
* No shirts (although shirts will be on sale)
* Closing Date: 15th October 2009

Hobbyist Price (RM 60) NEW!

* Meant for individuals who paying for themselves
* Full access to talks and side sessions
* A proper lunch and tea (for both days)
* One shirt (additional shirts will be on sale)
* Closing Date: 15th October 2009

Professional Price (RM 88) Formerly “Early Bird”

* Full access to talks and side sessions
* A proper lunch and tea (for both days)
* One shirt (additional shirts will be on sale)
* Listed on our online Who’s Who (yourself and your company information). This list will be printed and given our to all delegates
* Closing Date: 23rd October 2009

Professional Group Registration

* Exactly same benefits as Professional registration, except that you get a group discount
* Group registration means that you can pay for 5 people and get 1 free pass (total: 6 delegates)
* Closing Date: 23rd October 2009

Walk-in Prices (RM 100) Used to be RM150

* Full access to talks and side sessions
* A proper lunch and tea (for both days)
* One shirt (additional shirts will be on sale)
* Listed on our online Who’s Who (yourself and your company information)
* Closing Date: 24th/25th October 2009

Source: FOSS.MY 2009

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FOSS.my 2009 is back and is coming your way this 24th and 25th of October .

The registration page is up and accepting registrations now. Check out the pricing below.

The price is slightly more then last year’s RM50 but it’s worthwhile I feel. Check out what you get, check out the schedule.

1. 32 Talks
2. 26 Speakers
3. Double track sessions all day long
4. Bird-Of-Feather side sessions
5. A Tee Shirt
6. Lunch, most likely Subs
7. 2 Tea breaks

Register for FOSS.my 2009 now!

Make sure to stay up to date with FOSS.my 2009 through either channels shown below;

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This surely comes as good news to all Ubuntu fans out there. Canonical today made Launchpad open source under the GPLv3 license. As promised.

If you didn’t already know, Launchpad is a project hosting and collaboration platform for software which provides access through its web interface or through its APIs.  Users simply need an account to enjoy the suite of services provided by the then close sourced platform. Bug tracking, code hosting, code review, packaging, translation and community support. Everyone has their project space and the ability to easily distribute their packages through PPAs.

Canonical has no plans to package Launchpad as of now for easy deployment. However, you can still download the source and compile it as always. Also, Launchpad will only run on Hardy and Jaunty so getting it to run on other Linux distros will certainly require some extra work.

New versions of Launchpad are released every month, in return users never miss out on new features. With the community being able to contribute now, development’s going to pick up and we can most certainly hope for a flood of new features to come out of Launchpad moving forward.

The Launchpad platform is something most of Canonical’s competitors don’t currently provide to their users. This puts it ahead of the competition. openSUSE is the pretty close  with their excellent build service platform but the general user base is smaller.

Follow the Launchpad community on IRC in channel #launchpad-dev on irc.freenode.net or at dev.launchpad.net.

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The long overdue, super fast, super secure, super cool Firefox 3.5 is out.

Just a few of the popular features to look forward to in version 3.5. Full feature list

1. Private browsing – porn mode for many

2. Performance improvements. Really!! Read here and here and test it out for yourself.

3. Support for HTML 5, CSS 3 and other cutting edge web technologies.

4. Support for open video and open audio. No need for video plug-ins anymore. Check it out.

Go grab it quick.

While downloading make sure to check out the “real-time Firefox 3.5 downloads” monitor page. It shows you in real-time how many people across the world are downloading Firefox 3.5. At the time of this post the magic number was 700,000 and out of that about 3000 were from Malaysia. Let’s see if they break a new record this time.

Download Firefox 3.5

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Source: Mozilla

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