Imagine Internet without Firefox
In my previous post I analyzed the browser market share and trends prevalent for last 2 years. The analysis yielded interesting facts; firstly Google...
How to Secure Your System
The world of computing and the internet is a very normal and accepted entity to most geeks. But to some unknown, unsuspecting and unfamiliar...
Browsers Growth Analysis 2010-2012 [Infograph]
Gradually our computing trends are changing in favor of cloud. Today we tend to do most of our works in the cloud via our...
Clementine 1.1 RC1 is available!
The Amarok 1.4-inspired Clementine music player, is about to release a new exciting version - the first major one after the stable 1.0 that...
Google Patents Object Tagging Software
While I know it’s not Unix or Linux news, I thought this was pretty interesting. Google has applied for a patent on software that...
Oracle Linux Pavilion at Oracle OpenWorld 2012
There has been demand for Oracle to reinstate the Oracle Linux Pavilion at the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 convention. Oracle is stating that the booth...
VirtualBox4.2 has been released! PPA
VirtualBox4.2 is out, according to the announcement, the release builds on previous versions by adding new features such as VM Groups which are designed...
Open-Source Software Licenses
To some people’s surprise, even open-source software has a license attached to it. And with that license comes a description and agreement for what...
Wine 1.5.13 has been released!
Wine 1.5.13 has been released, this bi-weekly developent release comes with some new features and bug fixes.
What`s new in Wine 1.5.13?
Client-side window rendering using...
Exclusive Interview | Alasdair Lumsden
At Unixmen, we were lucky enough to score an exclusive interview with former Project Leader of the OpenIndiana, Alasdair Lumsden.
Since Alasdair’s resignation, it has...
OpenIndiana Project Leader Resigns
On August 28, the Project Leader and Founder of OpenIndiana, Alasdair Lumsden, resigned from his position effective immediately. OpenIndiana was the fork of which...
Enterprise Desktop for the Home Office
For the home office, I’ve been searching for a new stable enterprise class operating system to replace my current desktop. I thought it might...
Red Hat Forum 2012 (Brisbane, Australia) – Summary Part 2
This is the second and final part of our Red Hat Forum 2012 summary, which was held in the city of Brisbane QLD, Australia....
Red Hat Forum 2012 (Brisbane, Australia) – Summary Part 1
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Red Hat Forum 2012, which was held in the city of Brisbane QLD, Australia. I...
Wine 1.5.11 released!
Wine is a free and open source application that allows users to run Windows software on other operating systems. Wine is always under heavy development...
NVIDIA 304.37 released
Yesterday released the first certified series Nvidia 304.37, the new Long Lived release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes. If you...
Pixar goes open source
A few days ago at SIGGRAPH 12 conference, Pixar presented their latest hot technology called Open Subdiv. This is what Pixar uses in all...
Microsoft Wins Over Novell in WordPerfect Court Hearing
Does anyone remember WordPerfect? Yes, there was a viable competitor to Microsoft Office at one stage. Back in 1994, Novell bought WordPerfect for $US...