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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.
Google still isn’t saying publicly that they’re going to deploy Android as a desktop Linux, but HP, ASUS, and other major computer makers are apparently in talks with the company about deploying Android on netbooks
According to a Wall Street Journal report, Satjiv Chahil, a vice president in HP’s PC division, declined to comment on whether the world’s largest PC maker will sell either netbooks or smartphones running Android but confirmed that HP is “studying” the free operating system.
We already know that Android will work as a desktop operating system, because it’s already been done. And, it was done not by some hackers whose second language is C++, but by a pair of journalists. If we can do it, anyone can do it.
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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I recently read an post from Jon Reagan’s Blog that Ubuntu has becoming “equal” to Linux. Personally speaking, Ubuntu’s popularity has been a major factor for consumers to choose linux as an alternative operating system for their computers in place of Windows or Mac.
Also other Linux distribution didn’t make much of an effort to promote their own respective products because, in my opinion, they don’t want to their product to become more mainstream.
Last April, Ubuntu.com has announced the release the latest version of the Ubuntu Linux distro aptly name “Hardy Heron”. Here’s the lowdown of the new release:
New Features:
- Firefox 3 is the new default internet browser
- New Gnome Desktop system (Gnome 2.22)
- New Default CD/DVD burner sofware (Brasero)
- Transmission, a newly popular BitTorrent client. This replaces the old standard BitTorrent utility
- As a new security feature Hardy Heron now has PolicyKit which allows fine-grained access control, and helps you allow or deny users access to specific parts of applications. This allows for a system to be locked down completely except to a group of trusted users.