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Task management tools are a branch of computer software which enable users to create a list of tasks to be completed. This list is sometimes known as a to-do list or things-to-do.

The Pear OS Linux is completely looks like MAC OS X. Here Pear OS 4 beta 1 is available for 32-bit as well as 64-bit users. In this version they fix many bugs and it based on latest Ubuntu 12.04 alpha version. Its only available on GNOME desktop environment but gives you a out-of-box experience because it gives you most of media codes in-built.

Alan Baghumian announced last night, February 11th, the immediate availability for download of the Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7r2 operating system. Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7r2 is the second and most probably the last update for the Parsix GNU/Linux 3.7 9 (Raul) distribution.

One of the many items that Intel developers have been working on for the rapid ascent of Wayland is GPU video decoding support...

This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 11.10 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

CodeWeavers announced a new versions of the popular CrossOver Games software which enables users to run Windows games on Linux and Macintosh platforms.

For those wanting to do some technical exploring this weekend besides thinking about the Linux beer possibilities, version 2.8.5 of the Gujin GPL boot-loader was released a few days ago...

Get Aero-style transparent windows in KDE 4.8!

LXer Feature: 12-Feb-2012

If we look back at failures of Linux on Desktops till today and analyze the technical part, it was due to hardware support and the software quality (GUI) that general computer users could use.

After thoroughly testing the VMware graphics driver stack yesterday and providing benchmarks, there's some new "vmwgfx" developments to report on...

The recently announced KDE Spark Tablet has an ARM Mali 400 as its graphics processor, which right now is backed by a closed-source user-space driver but that's changing thanks to the Lima driver that's providing a reverse-engineered open-source ARM Mali driver. Here's a demo of the Lima driver's Limare stack running on the KDE Spark Tablet hardware...

Why would I do such a thing -- go back to Icedove (aka the Mozilla-coded Thunderbird e-mail client) version 3.0.11, which shipped with the now-aging Debian Squeeze, after months of using version 5.0 from the Debian Mozilla team APT archive?

Tivoization is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to refer to what they believe is a violation of the GNU Public License’s (GPL) spirit, if not it’s actual wording. In response to Tivoization, as well as a few other concerns, the Free Software Foundation released a third version of the GPL in 2007. The wording of the GPLv3 is considerably stricter than that of the GPLv2 and other software licenses, and has been criticized by many in the open source community. The stricter language of the GPLv3 has even been blamed for the current migration from the GPL to less restrictive licenses such as the BSD or Apache licences.

I know I am pushing these updates out fairly quick but I wanted to announce that I just released version 1.4 with 2 new feature enhancements corresponding to bugs #2 and #4 on the http://bugs.rapiddisk.org bug tracker. Read more here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116869691296916480289/posts

Miguel de Icaza presented this weekend at AltDevConf where he heavily promoted Mono and using C# for game developers...

CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver Games, version 10.3.0 change log with some of the many changes made in this releases is provided below

Canon is the world’s largest printer manufacturers, and has been selling various kinds of series canon printers. but very unfortunately canon only provide printer driver for platform Windows and Machintosh. Canon did not include a printer driver for platform Linux/Ubuntu on every product we buy, and this is a problem for linux users who use acanon printer

After trying the openSUSE beer at FOSDEM, which is specially brewed at a small Bavarian brewery near the Nürnberg SUSE office and where many of their developers reside, I began wondering if other Linux distributions were represented by beer, what beers would they be? Continue on for this enjoyable weekend article where the leading Linux distributions are described in terms of beer.

Guayadeque is a fully featured Linux music player that comes with smart / dynamic playlists, iPod and portable device support, automatically downloads album covers, lets you play and record shoutcast radios, Mpris v2 support and many more interesting features.

Game changers that show up in life often do not show up in the way and the when we expect them.? ?That often leads us to not accuracy see them for what they are.? ?This is going to be a year of game changing in? ?2012,? ?and most of us do not yet see it.