Making the leap to Linux? Trick out your freshly installed desktop OS with the free software programs listed in our guide. In a few steps, you’ll have a machine worth leaving Windows or Mac OS X behind for.
Every Firefox user spends a lot of time dealing with tabs. Thus, improving the tabs directly adds to the browsing experience. You can make them better, faster, beautiful and lot less ovewhelming. So here you go, 6 powerful addons to improve your tabbed browsing.
Sprout is a browser-based, WYSIWYG editor for Flash with an interface reminiscent of Photoshop or Dreamweaver. Designers can use it to create, publish and track Flash widgets, websites and mashups, thereby obviating the need for them to work with programmers who would cost time and money, and who might not execute designs satisfactorily.
On Thursday, Canonical, the London-based company which acts as Ubuntu’s commercial sponsor, released version 7.10 of the software. This latest release, dubbed “Gutsy Gibbon,” proves that Ubuntu Linux can compete with and, in some cases, trump Windows as an everyday desktop system when it comes to pure usability.
While the developers’ main focus lies on finishing KDE 4.0 a new stable version 3.5.8 was released. The main focus of improvements for KDE 3.5.8 are: improvements in Konqueror and its web browsing component KHTML, lots of fixes in KDE’s PDF viewer and Kolourpaint painting application, the KDE PIM suite has, as usual, seen numerous stability fixes.
Experienced Ubuntu users know what to expect from this Thursday’s release of Gutsy Gibbon, the love-it-or-hate-it code name for version 7.10 of the popular Linux distribution. It’s not a major “Long Term Support” release, it’s not a radical re-thinking of the system, but it is another step toward a Linux system that “just works.”
What’s new in this release:
- New scheme for OpenGL support in child windows.
- Lots of fixes for regression test failures.
- A Tahoma replacement font.
- Lots of bug fixes.
This review is a summary of practically all the features and changes in the latest version of Ubuntu. It covers such stuff as: major improvements on a desktop; compiz fusion overview; screen, graphics and driver preferences improvements; new default desktop search instrument; changes on printing service; Firefox 3 features.
