Spotify Streaming Music Player Comes to Linux
Linux: Spotify, our favorite not-officially-available-in-the-U.S. music player, has just released a version of their desktop player for Linux users...
Facebook Built Walled Garden With Open Source Software
Facebook supports its social network of 500 million users with LAMP software infrastructure. This open source approach, also used by...
Google Aims To Democratize Android App Development
Today, Google is out with a free software framework called Google App Inventor for Android, which promises to make it easy for anyone to create applications for Android smartphones. This move from Google is a shrewd one, and falls right in line with open source principles and the power of crowdsourcing...
DuckDuckGo: A New Search Engine Built from Open Source
DuckDuckGo is a new search engine focused on relevant results and respecting user privacy. Actually a mash-up of several other sites like Wikipedia, About, Bing, and Yahoo, DuckDuckGo also uses it's own web crawler, the DuckDuckBot...
GIMP 2.6.10 Fixes Crashing Bug
Less than one week after the release of version 2.6.9 of GIMP, the GIMP project has issued the tenth point update to the 2.6.x branch of GIMP to fix a bug that caused the open source image editing tool to crash when clicking on a scroll bar...
Open Source Financial Analytics Startup OpenGamma Comes Out of Stealth Mode
Kirk Wylie, CEO of London based startup OpenGamma, has announced the company has come out of stealth mode and in the coming months, will be presenting its open source financial analytics platform to the world...
Alfresco Gets an Extensions Incubator
Alfresco has created a community incubator for extensions - the Alfresco Community Committer Program (ACCP) as part of a plan to raise the quality of extensions for its open source ECM...
Burning Brighter: The Future of Firefox, Browsers and the Web
Remember the Browser Wars of the Aughts? Internet Exploder gripped the web. Firefox 1.0 challenged the king. Six years later, IE is waning. (But still strong.) WebKit rules smartphones. Where does Mozilla, and the web, go from here? More » Mozilla Firefox - Firefox - Browsers - Clients - WWW...
Get Faster Download Speeds for Ubuntu Packages with Synaptic
Ubuntu has a great network of mirrors all over the world, allowing you to download updates from a server geographically close to wherever you are. However, in the age of broadband, the speed of your connection and how close you are to a server has less to do with the speed of downloads than the speed and capacity of the server you are downloading from....
Mozilla Stokes Firefox 4 with First Beta Build
New look tabs get Windows-only view on world for now Mozilla has released a first beta of Firefox 4, which comes loaded with lots of fresh features and a distinctive new look.…...
About Me
kimus
kimus AT ubuntu-pt.org
Launchpad Profile