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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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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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 the [...]

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Switched over from Math Comment Spam Protection to reCAPTCHA. Spam has still been coming in despite the Math Comment Spam Protection plugin. I decided to take reCAPTCHA for a spin for a few weeks. Hopefully it helps.
What is reCAPTCHA?
You need a CAPTCHA differentiate human from computers. There are many other CAPTCHA programs [...]

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openSUSE 10.3 is now available in the form of live cd. Both the KDE and GNOME live cds contain the same software as the single cd installation versions. Both are distributed in 32bit versions and only available in US english.
openSUSE is currently my favorite desktop distro due it’s speed, clean interface and superb community support. [...]

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