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.

The domain is an extremely business specific domain, with a dictionary word and is short and authoritative. At the present scenario, the Sun domain is valued at nearly $2 million.

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.

Even after such expertise and so many achievements, Sun Microsystems made one wrong business move after another after the dot com bubble bust.

The team behind Jolicloud has announced that they are giving Jolicloud a new identity. Earlier, the name “Jolicloud” referred to the operating system. Now we have Jolicloud and Joli OS.

Fedora 15 Alpha was released yesterday. In this article, we take a look at the new features it brings.

Canonical has announced that it will ship just one product named Ubuntu, that will be fully featured, and will have support across both netbooks and regular PCs.

Ubuntu 11.04 will include a microphone volume slider in the unified sound menu along with the speaker volume slider in the unified volume menu.

Red Hat is right in its own place. This will prevent Oracle and Novell from providing RHEL support. However, in making this change, Red Hat is ignoring the fact that it just killed a number of developers and small businesses based around the Red Hat kernel releases.