Today the Ubuntu Developer Conference for Ubuntu 11.10 has kicked off in Budapest, Hungary. It will be a while till we get a clear picture of what is in store for Ubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”. But we already have some interesting details.

Today the KDE team has released the third maintenance of KDE SC 4.6. The release – KDE SC 4.6.3 – is a minor update and brings with it only bug fixes and translation updates. KDE SC 4.6 includes updates to Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks. There are no [...]

If you have used Unity in Ubuntu 11.04, you would have noticed the large icons in the Unity launcher. On smaller screens, like on netbooks, it could be too large and get in the way.

Unity has divided the Ubuntu users into two groups – those who like it and those who hate it. If you are in the second group, read on.

Two days ago, Mandriva 2011 Beta 2 was released and in the release, the Mandriva developers have decided to go with LibreOffice rather than OpenOffice.org.

Today the first beta of Fedora 15, codenamed “Lovelock” has been released. This is a very important release for the Fedora 15 development cycle because it represents the final feature list that will make it to Fedora 15.

Replying to a bug report, Mark Shuttleworth has mentioned that classic GNOME desktop fallback will not be available in Ubuntu 11.10.

Today, the Kubuntu developers have announced that Amarok 2.4.1 Beta 1 is now available in the Kubuntu PPA. Read on to know what has changed and how to install it.

Last November, the developers of the popular Nautilus-Elementary announced that the Nautilus-Elementary project has been discontinued. Today, they have taken an u-turn and has announced that they are reviving the Nautilus-Elementary project again.

In November last year, we reported on a patch for the Linux kernel that does wonder to the performance of the kernel under heavy load. This patch has been finally merged with the kernel in the latest release of the Linux kernel (2.6.38).

After a two days delay, the Mandriva team has released the first beta of Mandriva 2011 yesterday. This is a release meant for testing before the final version is released in June 2011.

Today Mike Coley, the same person who developed the Unity integration, has said that the next step after Thunderbird Unity Launcher is to get Ubuntu One Contact integration in Thunderbird.

The Thunderbird Unity Launcher extension provides a really cool integration of Thunderbird into Ubuntu’s Unity launcher. With the extension installed, the number of new unread messages in Thunderbird is displayed at the top-left of the Thunderbird icon in the launcher. Not only that, right clicking on the Thunderbird icon brings up a context menu item. From the context menu, users can easily open the contact list or compose a new email.

It looks like openSUSE is looking to drop its current naming scheme in favor of a new one which is easier to follow. Traditionally openSUSE has a naming scheme which is confusing at best.

Dassaults Systemes has just released the first beta of an AutoCAD clone called DraftSight. Unlike AutoCAD which does not work on Linux and which cost a bomb, DraftSight is a free software and it works on Linux as well.