Newteevee has recently reported that Google will possibly open-source the VP8 video codec next month. VP8 was developed by On2, the company which Google acquired in February.

Cassandra is widely popular and is used in services like Cisco WebEx, Cloudkick, Digg, Facebook, Rackspace, Reddit, and Twitter. Facebook is an integral part in the development of Cassandra.

Download and test Fedora 13 Beta “Goddard” and check out the new features it comes with.

Want to try out Wubi installation for Ubuntu 10.04 beta 2 ? Here’s a small guide.

I’ve owned couple of mobile phones now, all in increasing number of features. But the one thing that remained common amongst all of them, was the ability to use a tethered Internet connection in both Windows and Linux. Until I got the iPhone, that is. With the iPhone, I could no longer use the iPhone [...]

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Beta 2 is now available for download. Although it has some small changes, it does not have any striking difference from the earlier Beta 1.

KGB says best linux for beginner is Ubuntu or Fedora. What do you think is the best Linux for beginners?

Rick Spencer said Ubuntu was entering a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo!. Now, we know that a similar deal with Google gives much better financial returns.

In 2005, IBM promised of not using it’s patents to trouble Open-Source. But now, it is acting otherwise. IBM said, TurboHercules violates 173 of IBM’s patents.

At a strategic time just before the release of its Lucid Lynx, Canonical has released data relating to the number of Ubuntu users worldwide. This report estimates Ubuntu users at 12 million. That is a major 50% increase over the last 18 months.

The guys over there at GNOME have come up with a amazing mockup for the System Status Area. The mockup is based on the color black, which is going to be the default color of GNOME Shell.

Canonical, the company behind the popular linux distro Ubuntu, has teamed up with Funambol to provide Mobile Phone syncing support with UbuntuOne.

Songbird says goodbye to Linux.

The upcoming release of Ubuntu, i.e Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, is already showing signs that it boots fast – very very fast if you are using SSD. The Ubuntu developers will probably not be able to achieve the 10-second boot that they were aiming for in Ubuntu 10.04, but an Ubuntu Developer, Benjamin Drung, has managed to boot Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx in 3.6 seconds using SSD.

The Amarok team has decided to put in some cool new features for the next release, Amarok 2.3.1. Three of the most exciting new features that is coming in Amarok 2.3.1 are CoverBling, Similar Artists & Upcoming Events and Smart Playlist.