Good news to all Fedora fans. Fedora 9 codenamed “Sulphur” is out.
The new release comes with quite a few new features. To start off. Fedora 9 runs on the latest 2.6.25 kernel. There’s a new package management system included called “Packgeit” which uses Yum for it’s backend. Gnome Desktop 2.22 and KDE 4.03 are the [...]

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OpenOffice.org 3 Beta is out. The Beta is available to all those who wish to test, evaluate and report bugs about the next major release scheduled to be released in September.
The new release is packed with tones of new improvements. See the full feature list.

New “Start Centre”.
New icons.
Zoom capabilities.
Improved spreadsheet features. Columns now increased from [...]

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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 excite [...]

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Oracle, big boy of the Database world. There’s no enterprise in the world today that does not know or use Oracle products in some way.
Their strategy over years has been to acquire their competitors to retain market share. Siebel (CRM), Innobase (InnoDB), PeopleSoft just to name a few.
Oracle has a full page dedicated to it’s [...]

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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 give [...]

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