Let’s sum up and see what were the biggest Linux moves in the year 2007.
GPLv3
Asus Eee PC
OpenMoko
Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10 = lots of fork distros
GNOME 2.20
Pidgin 2.0
KDE 4.0(postponed to Jan 2008)
Xfce 4.4
Google Desktop
Fedora 7, Fedora 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Mplayer 1.0 RC2
Adobe Flash Player 9
OpenOffice.org 2.3
Linux is preinstalled in Dell, Lenovo and HP PCs
Wallmart [...]
Do you use Mozilla Firefox? Or its variants?
Here’s my firefox plugins, they help me a lot and save lots of time. What are your plugins? Please leave in the comments.
The new version of Ubuntu was released recently, code named Gutsy Gibbon. I haven’t downloaded the ISO image but have upgraded the previous Ubuntu version. It’s all good. Especially I liked the ability to install LAMP, Mail, DNS servers as a stack. I hope it will make Ubuntu easier to install and easier to get [...]
Instantbird is a new project launched by Mozilla Foundation, a foundation behind popular web browser Firefox and E-Mail client Thunderbird.
Instantbird will be based on Mozilla technologies and use Pidgin’s libpurple to deliver you a brand new messenger.
Just like Pidgin(prev. Gaim) Instantbird will support:
AIM
Gadu-Gadu
Google Talk
ICQ
MSN
QQ
XMPP
Yahoo!
I’ve tried Instantbird v.01 myself and I think it’s very light, default [...]
I’ve blogged about Zimbra here and here. When I was thinking of migration our Exchange Server it was one of the options, but I didn’t go for it because it had way too many features. Many of them we just wouldn’t use it at all, at least in my previous company.
Ok, so Yahoo! bought Zimbra [...]