A desktop screensaver available from Gnome-Look.org was reported to be a malware which downloads an unauthorized script.

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx will see the first release of its Alpha version sometime today. This next Ubuntu, version 10.04 Lucid Lynx will see a final release on 29th April, 2010.

Fedora has managed its source control with CVS from its birth but is now deciding to switch over to GIT. This decision was made at the FUDCon this week.

The cherry OS has many advantages over the default Chrome OS. It has a small size of 300 MB. Cherry fits into a USB drive of size 1 GB and has Wi-Fi support.

Christmas is arriving and now would be the time to gear up your Ubuntu system with a Christmas theme for Ubuntu. As always, I am providing a wallpaper, a login screen an icon pack and a theme for the window manager.

Firefox has started working on the availability of this support on Firefox 3.7. Direct 2D will allow the browser to use the GPU power.

The Ubuntu developer community has decided to discontinue providing GIMP as one of the default applications in the distribution, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

Adobe Air 2 beta has been released, following the success of Adobe Air 1. The Adobe Air platform provides developers with a rich app development platform, especially for the desktop.

Firefox tweaks and settings found on the ‘about:config’ make little or no-sense to first time visitors to the page unless of course, you are really smart. In Configuration Mania, the different settings from ‘about:config’ have been divided into five easy sections namely: Browser, Security, Network, UI and Debug.

The Jetpak gallery features a properly customized and organized add-on gallery where add-ons are tagged and categorized by author, reviews, popularity and alike.

Linux Mint is the best Linux distro for those switching over from Windows. It is easy to use and has extra GUI for common tasks.

The Chomium blog says, it came up with new ideas of web-browser and server interactions, in an attempt to speed up the browsing experience. The SPDY protocol delivers faster than HTTP and delivered 55% faster.

With Sun Microsystems going down so badly, will preventing the acquisition help MySQL in any way? What is the open-source community’s response to this? Where are the MySQL developers and what is their take on this?

Zembly, a web-application to develop other Web 2.0 applications like Facebook Apps, Orkut Apps, RSS widgets and numerous other applications will be shut down on 30th November, by Sun Microsystems.

Go, reportedly runs at the speed of C. Other existing languages have not been optimized to run on modern day multi-core processors. The learning curves of Go are comparable to that of Java.