LPI approves new training partner in SA
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has approved South African company Jumping Bean as an official LPI Training Partner. The LPI qualifications are an internationally recognised Linux industry certification.Cloud computing to drive open source
With the cloud computing wave poised to reach the world market in the next 12 to 18 months, open source software and coding techniques are about to hit the big time.Ubuntu releases second alpha of Karmic Koala
The Ubuntu team this morning released a second alpha of the upcoming Karmic Koala operating system, also known as Ubuntu 9.10. While it is still early days for Karmic, this release does give some insight into plans for the final release, scheduled for October this year.KDE 4.3 beta 2 released for testing
The KDE community has released a second beta for its upcoming 4.3 release. The beta release includes a number of new features including the integration of new technologies such as PolicyKit and Geolocation services.Fedora 11 roars with potential
The Fedora team yesterday released latest version of its Linux operating system, Fedora 11. The much-anticipated release from the Red Hat-backed community team promises to be one of the best Linux releases to date with Fedora's reputation for making Linux as easy as possible increasing with each new release.Google releases Linux, Mac versions of Chrome browser
The Google team yesterday announced the release of Linux and Mac OS X versions of its Chrome browser. The pre-beta developer builds of the browser can be downloaded now but the developer teams warns that the browser is not meant for general use.KDE ships 4.2.4 update release
The KDE community today announced the release of KDE 4.2.4, the latest in the group's monthly maintenance releases. KDE 4.2.4 is the last release planned for the KDE 4.2 series, which will be followed up by KDE 4.3 at the end of July, six months after KDE 4.2 was released.Jumping Bean releases updated version of OpenBill
OpenBill 1.2, a Java-based invoicing and contract management application, has been released by South African developer Jumping Bean. The new release includes both a number of bugfixes as well as a few key feature additions.Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS get new mags
Fans of PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu have some reading ahead of them. The two teams behind the Ubuntu Full Circle and PCLinuxOS magazine have released new editions of the popular community magazines.KOffice 2.0 unleashed on world
With more than three years of development behind them the KOffice team today announced the release of KOffice 2.0. During the three years the team ported the KDE-based office suite to Qt4 and the KDE4 libraries and it says the new product improves integration between KOffice components and reduces duplication of functions between components.Linux Mint 7 boosts usability
Clement Lefebvre of the Linux Mint development team has announced the release of Linux Mint 7. Codenamed Gloria, the seventh release of the user-friendly Linux Mint distribution is based on Ubuntu 9.04 but adds a number of its own tweaks to make the distro easier for users.How to
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