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Ubuntu 9.10 Unleashed, Amid Windows 7 & Snow Leopard

The latest Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala gets reviewed, along with the GNOME 2.28 desktop environment.

SubConf 2009 – A Report (Day 3)

The talks in day-3’s agenda was mostly concerned on Software Configuration Management and general concepts.

Ubuntu Karmic Koala Preview — A Great Fusion with Gnome 2.28

If you’ve been following the Ubuntu release cycle you know that the .10 release is forth coming. Slated to hit the World Wide Web on October 29th, 2009, 9.10 promises to have quite a number of new features that should please even the most discerning of Linux users.

SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 2)

Oct 29, ‘09, marked the Day 2 of SubConf 2009 in which there were plans for many talks by prominent subversion developers and others.

SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 1)

1st day of the Subversion conference, 2009 — 2 events planned were the “Subversion Hackathon” and “Subversion Developers RoundTable”.

Software Freedom Day ‘09 Celebrations @ Jaya Engineering College, Chennai

Software Freedom Day (SFD) is an annual worldwide celebration of free and open source software held during third Saturday of September every year. SFD 2009 was celebrated around the world with great zeal and vigour on the 19th September this year.

Hackfest @ Shaastra ‘09, IIT Madras

I was never into coding/development for FOSS. Though I had decent coding skills in some languages, I had never gotten the opportunity to develop mainstream FOSS. When I was told about HackFest at Shaastra ‘09, I decided to give the event a try.

WACOM Launches Interactive and Multi-Touch Tablets with Bamboo

It has been a while that WACOM is noted as a leading tablet manufacturer, among the graphic designers. However, this is the first time they launched a series of products that could not just be used by the designers, but by the “aam junta” as well, with equal ease.

ZOHO launched Discussions

Web-based productivity suite Zoho has focused in creating plenty of social tools to make the discussions more engaging and has recently launched a brand new product called Zoho Discussions.

Jolicloud: The New Social OS for Netbooks

Jolicloud is an OS based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix and designed specifically for netbooks. The beta version gets released, very soon.