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The 2.6.33 kernel is out

Last Updated on Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:10 Written by Michele Petrecca Thursday, 25 February 2010 18:06

"The most noticeable features in 2.6.33 are likely the Nouveau and DRBD integration (and a _lot_ more people will notice the Nouveau part of that). And the Radeon KMS parts aren't considered experimental any more. Oh, and the AS IO scheduler is gone, since keeping it around and just causing confusion seemed to not be worth it any more. You're supposed to use CFQ instead!". At last, Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.33 kernel. The best place for information on new kernel releases is KernelNewbies, and the KernelNewbies 2.6.33 in this case.

OO.org thumbnail plugin version 1

Last Updated on Monday, 18 January 2010 23:22 Written by Michele Petrecca Monday, 18 January 2010 23:15

OpenOffice.org Thumbnail plugin is a plugin for KDE file managers (Dolphin and Konqueror) to preview OpenOffice.org files (Open Document Format, odf extension the default file format since OpenOffice.org 2, not the old binary file format ) as thumbnails. You do not need to install OpenOffice.org for it to work (it only uses KDE API). For more information and download about this plugin click here.

Thunderbird 3 is out!

Last Updated on Wednesday, 09 December 2009 14:04 Written by Michele Petrecca Wednesday, 09 December 2009 14:03

The Thunderbird 3.0 release is out. New features include a number of search improvements, tabbed windows, a new message archiving mechanism, an improved address book, Gmail integration, a number of performance improvements, and more. Click here to see the release notes and details.

KDE 4.4 beta 1 is out!

Last Updated on Friday, 04 December 2009 21:49 Written by Michele Petrecca Friday, 04 December 2009 21:46

On the 3rd December, KDE's team has released a first preview the KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) version 4.4 Beta1. The first beta version of KDE SC 4.4 provides a preview and base for helping to stabilize the next version of the KDE Desktop, Applications and Development Platform. In this version there is a long list of changes. For more informationa about this new version, read here.

The 2.6.32 kernel is out

Last Updated on Thursday, 03 December 2009 23:51 Written by Michele Petrecca Thursday, 03 December 2009 23:45

Linus Torvalds announced the release of a stable Linux 2.6.32 kernel. Major new features include the implementation of kernel-based mode setting (KMS) plus 3D graphics support for new Radeon cards, plus new kernel shared memory (KSM) technology for KVM virtualization, power-saving and performance improvements, and a faster "Devtmpfs" boot technology.

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