Operating Systems News and Articles

Clients for Linspire's Click'n-Run Warehouse exist for Ubuntu, Freespire, and of course Linspire. Now, the Ubuntu derivative Linux Mint joins the ranks of supported Linux distributions.

Long-standing Debian developer and former Project Leader Anthony Towns has said that he is withdrawing from current projects. The reasons seem to be a disagreement on distribution of tasks within the free Linux distribution.

The Ubuntu security team has released an update to close a vulnerability in the Vorbis Tools for editing music files in Ogg-Vorbis format.

The Open Office project is now looking for beta testers to put the next generation of the popular, free Open Office 3.0 suite through its paces.

In preparation for the first stable version, the WINE project has now frozen the current state of development ("Code Freeze").

The Opensuse Team has just released the second beta of version 11 which is scheduled for June.

A new version of the VirtualBox virtualization software has just been released: the major update 1.6.0 supports Solaris and Mac OS X as host systems.

Unfortunately, there are two bugs contained in the Ubuntu version included on the Linux Magazine Issue #90 DVD Virtual Distro Sampler. For more information and suggested workaround, please visit the Issue 90 DVD page.