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GWoffice (Google Web Office ) is a nice application that bring you google drive to your desktop without using a web browser. It allows you to use google docs at it was installed in your computer by offering a nice interface to its editing abilities, also gives you basic syncing for offline use.

Alexandre Julliard announced on July 3rd that a new development version of the Wine app is now available for download, bringing assorted bugfixes and improvements.

The Chakra Development Team, through Anke Boersma, proudly announced last evening, July 3rd, the immediate availability for download of the Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.07 operating system.

The most popular mobile operating system is Android. One of the most popular non-Windows operating systems is Canonical's Ubuntu. And, Google's is really pushing its Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks in the retail market. What does all this have in common? Each operating system is based on Linux and neither Google nor Canonical is mentioning that fact.

You’ve seen the next generation design of Gnome apps like Docs, Web, Boxes, Contacts etc. All these are based in what Gnome calls content selection.

A happy bit of news today from Android developer Jean-Baptiste Queru, the CDMA variant of the Nexus S (more commonly known as the Nexus S 4G) has officially been reinstated as fully supported by the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

This article will show you some of the top Android apps available out there so that you can see what's going on all the time right from your phone. These apps are optimized for your phone's screen so it makes it a lot easier to get around and get all of the info you need.

This distro is simply beautiful! A picture is worth a thousand words and we have for you 25+1! Also I made this review a bit more special for our friends from China, running the popular Deepin in its very native language :)

To some surprise, Gentoo FreeBSD -- the port of Gentoo running with the FreeBSD kernel rather than the Linux kernel -- is progressing...

Power consumption at Hetzner Online's data centres jumped by "about a megawatt" in the night from 30 June to 1 July due to a kernel bug which resulted in many Linux systems reaching 100% processor usage in dealing with the leap second added at midnight. The problem is described in an email sent by the web hosting company to customers, asking them to check their systems' CPU usage and, where necessary, to restart their systems in order to restore processor usage to normal levels.

In recent weeks, it's become fashionable for pundits and market watchers to alternately eulogize Research In Motion as a fallen pioneer and demonize management for not chopping up the company to sell for parts.

Here are two interesting gaming news for Linux users, as Valve director confirmed Steam for Linux, and Blizzard started banning Diablo III users who use Linux.

Cast the Nets!

I thought we'd gone native this month and were going to show how to work nets and fish like the penguins do. I had a double-fisted, sheep-shanked, overhand cinch loop to teach you, along with the proper way to work your net in a snow storm.

GNOME Shell weather extension by Neroth features multiple locations, no WOEID required, a symmetrical layout and a settings panel. Installation instructions for Ubuntu and Fedora included.

Reading the articles about Blizzard banning Linux users for using wine and not giving a refund made me think that the main problem once again, is the number of users using wine to play Diablo III. If the percentage was 15% for example, Blizzard would never ban them because they would love to keep them around buying more extra stuff when they release it.

While it's been less than two weeks since Wine 1.5.7 was released with dynamic device support, Wine 1.5.8 has already been released...

The Fuduntu team has released the latest version of their distro – Fuduntu 2012.3. This release comes third time in their quarterly release cycles which gives some minor updates to keep the system stable.

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Pinta, a raster image editor, is the app equivalent of a diamond in the rough. Years of testing and reviewing open source and commercial software taught me never to assume that a relatively new application is not worthy of attention. That lesson proved true with this youngster of an app.

Like all previous Fuduntu releases, this release follows our tradition of making small incremental distribution improvements that don’t sacrifice the stability of our Linux distribution. Existing Fuduntu users have already rolled up to 2012.3, as all of the updates available are released to our stable repository. This cycle focused on many improvements under the hood, including core platform updates like GCC 4.6.3 and Anaconda 16.