Open Source - Part 16

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Google Earth for Linux

posted on April 24, 2008 in Internet, Linux, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

A spanking new release of Google Earth is out. The latest 4.3 release comes with Photo Realistic 3D modeling for buildings, “Swoop navigation” for an improved navigation experience, “Light and shadow” to catch sunrise and sunset from anywhere and finally the popular “Street View” which was previously a Google Maps only feature. Now something to [...]

100 opensource applications

posted on April 22, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

Here‘s a list of 100 popular opensource applications. From audio editing to 3d graphics, there’s an application out there for everyone. The list comes in handy for those new to Linux. Moving to Linux has never been easy for Windows users. The major reason being applications. Hopefully the list will make that transition smoother ans [...]

Firefox 3 beats IE7 in memory consumption

posted on March 19, 2008 in Mozilla, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

Firefox 3 Beta 4 is out and it’s beating Microsoft’s IE7 in the memory consumption arena. As browsers improve so do their hunger for memory but to what limit is the question. The competition will eventually boil down to which browser uses the least amount of memory to accomplish the general requirements of a browser. [...]

Deluge BitTorrent Client 0.5.8.5 released

posted on February 29, 2008 in BitTorrent, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

A new verison of Deluge is out. Version 0.5.8.5 Changes made to this version shown below, Fix force recheck auto scraping of tracker if it doesn’t report number of peers on reply fix web seed proxy preference Fix adding of duplicate torrents Fix timers for saving fastresume and uploaded memory Fix rechecking on start PnP [...]

PlexyDesk coming to your desktop soon

posted on February 17, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 0 Comments

PlexyDesk is the latest project to come out of Sri Lanka. The project team consists of a group of Sri Lankan developers and the project is only a couple of weeks old. PlexyDesk is a Desktop but not a full desktop environment like KDE and Gnome. The goal for Plexydesk is to simplify and improve [...]

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