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For those who are anticipating the release of Firefox 3.5, wait no longer because it will be officially released June 30th (tomorrow for those living in the West-Coast region of the globe).
(update)
You can download now your Firefox 3.5 here
Now that Ubuntu 9.04 has been officially released, we can now customized it’s look to better suit our lifestyle. Unixmen.com has posted a number of Great Themes for the Ubuntu 9.04 distro. If you haven’t heard about Ubuntu 9.04 you can read all about it on my previous post.
Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope was release just days ago and someone already have customized the desktop to look like Apple’s Mac OS X. If you like to “Apple”-fied your Jaunty Jackalope Desktop then you might wanna visit this blog post by Big Bovar.
Six months after the release of Ubuntu 8.10, Canonical Inc. has officially released their latest version of Ubuntu (9.04) dubbed Jaunty Jackalope.
To download or request a CD copy for free , you can visit the Ubuntu website.
For an in-depth review of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope , Lifehacker.com has an extensive “firstlook” review of the distro
This post is all about reducing the amount of abnormal memory that Firefox uses. Typical memory usage of Firefox 3 reported on Windows OS is around 50MB-100MB depending on number or quality of active plug-ins or themes. But Firefox memory usage depends on your hardware. If abnormal memory usage of Firefox is important for you and you’re interested in optimizing it, just follow the link below.
The 8 Great tips to Reduce Firefox 3 Memory Usage>>
Ubuntu 8.10, the latest version of a phenomenally popular and successful distro and will be release hopefully by Octpber 30, 2008, but for those of us who can’t wait what’s in store with the newest version of Ubuntu called “Intrepid Ibex”
For those of us who are patiently waiting for OpenOffice 3.0 which now supports MS Office 2007 formats (docx, xlsx, pptx, etc.) you can now download your own copy on the following servers and mirrors listed below. You can read the official release announcement here.
OpenOffice Utah Server
More Downlaod Mirrors here
For features on OpenOffice 3.0 you can read Lifehacker.com’s first look review post
Here’s an excerpt of an article that I read on Digg.com which elaborates about Linux’s superiority over the the big propriety operating systems.
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