Linux is often considered as a geeky OS when compared to Windows and Mac OS X, however, over the past few years it has become much more easier to use and almost emulates a desktop environment which is similar to Windows and Mac.

If you ever need to get on the internet quickly, you might want to give this operating system a try. Their motto is “Splashtop – the fastest way to the web”. It’s free and it installs inside of Windows.

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, Nokia launced the next generation business communicator in India – the Nokia E7 for Rs 29,999.

Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS, the second maintenance release of Ubuntu 10.04, is now available for download.

The openSUSE project announced the release of the sixth milestone of openSUSE 11.4 for testing. One of the most exciting changes in this release is the complete removal of HAL.

Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal” is scheduled for release on 28th April 2011. Read on for the complete release schedule.

At GUADEC 2010, the GNOME Release Team have decided to delay the release of GNOME 3.0. The new release date has been set to March 2011.

If you need a simple, fast, secure and sweet looking OS on your netbook, Jolicloud will be hard to beat. This is good news to netbook users who don’t want to be chained to Microsoft Windows.

Damn Vulnerable Linux is a security distro, which can be an excellent learning tool. The distro includes older version of popular software like Apache web server, MySQL, PHP and others. The objective to create such a distro is to let users try out known hacks and vulnerabilities on these technologies and hone their skills.

The openSUSE Project have announced the release of the final version of openSUSE 11.3 today. openSUSE 11.3 includes a number of changes, updates and improvements over openSUSE 11.2 which was released in November last year.

Pinguy OS is a new linux distro based on Ubuntu. It aims to provide more eye-candy and more user-friendliness than Ubuntu.

MeeGo 1.0 which was released for Netbooks and Nokia N900 last month has been updated to fix bugs and add new features. The core MeeGo OS for netbooks has been updated to MeeGo 1.0.1 and only supports netbooks running on the Intel Atom processors.

Moonlight 3.0, the open-source implementation of Silverlight, takes one step towards a stable release with the availability of Moonlight 3.0 Preview 7.

Canonical has released the first of four Alphas of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. As it has been released just after weeks after the Lucid release, it is not very much different from Lucid from the outside.