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Enlightenment, also known simply as E, is a stacking window manager for the X Window System which can be used alone or in conjunction with a desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE. Enlightenment is also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager.

IceCat3.6 is released and is available for download. IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser, it is fully free software, as it removes the non-free Firefox artwork.

For most users, Firefox doesn't use an abnormally large amount of memory. For others, however, Firefox's memory consumption is a major problem, in some cases memory usage in Firefox is due to other sources, like number of plug-ins, themes and extensions

The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of US hardware and software vendor Sun Microsystems Inc. by Oracle Corporation, a US enterprise software company. After an in-depth examination, launched in September 2009

GNOME Activity Journal is not a File Browser but an Activity Browser. It uses Zeitgeist to get information on what files/websites/contacts/etc. you worked with and Tracker to get information about the current state of the files and all sorts of meta-data

I compiled a VMware image of Chromium OS Zero for testing out in your virtual machine environment, this is a Chromium OS Zero image converted to VMware .vmdk file. Find also our first screenshots of Chromium OS Zero.

By installing GuestAdditions in the Guest OS, you will be able to run the fullscreen Mode on virtualbox Guest OS (for example ubuntu)

Announced today the release of Openoffice3.2 RC2, the new release comes with new features and improvements. Note that the final release of Openoffice 3.2 is planned for XX January 2010.

Another week, another example of how Microsoft is being forced to react to the increasing adoption of OpenOffice.org as the 2010 office software of choice. Clearly worried by OpenOffice.org’s increasing market share,

We know that we can adjust Openoffice to our needs by adding more functionality with the help of extensions. In this article is listed five useful extensions for Openoffice.org with installation guide.

Chromium OS Zero is released , is what announced Hexxeh in his blog, The new update comes with many improvements , newer version of ChromiumOS code, Major speed improvements for many users ,reduced Broadcom delay ,new artwork for the boot process ... Find also the download links and the installation instructions for Linux.

One of the big advantages of The GIMP is the fact that it can be easily extended with new functionality. So with sufficient addons (particularly plugins), you can achieve a lot of functionality found in other editors. Here are 5 usefull plugins for Gimp, 1- Watermark : A hidden watermark to protect your photos. and last 2- autosave : Periodically saves any open files in the current GIMP instance.

VLC is the favorite media player for most people because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. so see which more things vlc mediplayer can do

If you are for example in windows machine and you want to access to your linux partitions, then you will need Ext2Fsd ,an Open source ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows (NT/2K/XP/VISTA, X86/AMD64)Ext2Fsd will give you acces to EXT2/Ext3 Linux partitions from the windows machine.

This tutorial shows how to install some google applications on Fedora 12 like Picassa , Google Chrome ; Goolge Earth, Google gadgets, Google Desktop

Freeciv is a turn-based strategy game, with some real-time elements, in which each player is the leader of a civilization, fighting to obtain the ultimate goals of a nation: The extinction of all other nations, being the first nation to plant a colony in another star system, or survival to the end of the game.

SHOUTcast is server software for streaming media developed by Nullsoft. It allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or HE-AAC format, see how to use shoutcast server to create your own online radio

Announced today the release of Openoffice3.2 RC1, the new release comes with new features and improvements. Note that the final release of Openoffice 3.2 is planned for XX January 2010.

Everytime there is an update for the kernel, the new kernel is installed while the old one is not automaticaly uninstalled, after several kernel updates, you will find a large list of old kernels in the start grub menu.

Announced today the release of GnoMenu2.2, the new version comes with new features and improvements , the big improvement is that GnoMenu now use 60% less Memory.