The New version of Google Presentations

There's a new version of Google Presentations that has both a new interface and new features that bring it on par with the other Google Docs apps. To try the new version, go to the settings page, select the "editing" tab, enable "Create new presentations using the latest version of the presentation editor", go back to Google Docs and create a new presentation.

Google Presentations has an HTML5 rich-text editor created from the scratch by Google and initially available in Google's online word processor. The editor supports character-by-character collaboration, transitions and animations, rich tables with merged cells, drawing charts and diagrams within the presentation and using shapes to link to other sides. Google Presentations also includes some new themes.

"At this time, it's only possible to create new presentations in the new version of Google presentations. Older presentations will remain in the old format for the time being, and we'll eventually upgrade them to the new format to give you all of the benefits of using the new version. You can copy old presentations into the new version by using the import slides feature or by copying and pasting slides using the web clipboard," explains Google. "With today's launch, the Google Docs suite is now built on a single, solid foundation. Now that the groundwork is in place, you can expect more useful and collaborative features, delivered faster than ever before," promises Google.

{ Thanks, Andrew. }

Windows 7 surpassed XP in market share. Mac OS still far far away.

According to new StatCouter figures, it took two years but Windows 7 has surpassed its older brother XP in market share. In April, Windows 7 passed XP in the U.S., but the international count stood at 46.8 percent for XP and just 31.5 percent.for 7.

That number has now quickly reversed, with Windows 7 gaining to 40.15 percent and XP falling to 38.78 percent.

Vista also gained a bit to 11.14 per cent.

Apple's Mac OS X saw another uptick to 7.26 percent.

VirtualBox 4.0.8

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

Download: VirtualBox 4.0.8

New features in Easy Peasy 2.0

Work on the blueprint for Easy Peasy 2.0 has started, but before it’s released we’ll release 1.* releases. We’re working to get one out every month. I’m working on a daily-image-server which creates up to date images to keep the development running :) Anyway, here’s what you can expect from Easy Peasy 2.0 released sometime after April.

• Built on Ubuntu 9.04
• Better looking
• More net / netbook features
• New file system which brings faster booting, loading and work flow
• A whole new notification system, as shown in the movie below
  
• A simple new menu which can be used to set preferences for notification icons, such as where they pop up on the taskbar
• File synchronization through Dropbox

PcInuxOS2009 is out !!!

Written by texstar

Wednesday, 11 March 2009

Ripper Gang is pleased to announce the final public ISO release of PCLinuxOS 2009.1. This release features kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Ktorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more. We decided to use kde3-5-10 as our default desktop as we could not achieve a similar functionality from kde4. We will however offer kde4 as an alternative desktop environment available from the repository once we stabilize it. PCLinuxOS is an rpm based distribution utilizing apt-get with a Synaptic Software Manager frontend. In addition to the above PCLinuxOS comes with mklivecd GUI, a nice utility to build a custom live CD from your install. Install or remove what you want then remaster your own cd. Great for backups or to give to friends. PCLinuxOS is also known as as rolling release distribution. What that means is you install once and update it when new applications become available from our repository. Special thanks goes out to gettinther, Sal, Linuxera, Neverstopdreaming, Davecs, gri6507, Stumpy842 and etjr. Also to Enki Consulting for hosting the website and ibilio.org for hosting the software packages. Download Links Also the pclos-gnome team are proud to the announce the 2009.1 release of pclos-gnome. Featuring: kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, Gnome 2.24.3, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7, Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.17, Gnome office apps, Brasero, Gnome Power Manager, Exaile Music Player and many more! Almost 2.5 gigs of software compressed on a single self bootable livecd that can be installed to your hard drive provided it is compatible with your system and you like the distribution. Over 8000+ additional packages available after hard drive install through the Synaptic Software Manager. More Information

Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?

Sabayon Linux 4 is OUT !!!

Press Release: Sabayon Linux x86/x86-64 4 Out-of-the-Box Rolling Release

dedicated to Alan Fox

Ho-Ho-Hooo! Merry Christmas! On the behalf of the Sabayon Linux team, we're pleased to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon Linux 4. The foundations of our new way of doing Linux Desktop are now ready. Bringing a more accessible, easy to use and fast way of doing business and home computing in a Web 2.0 flavour is what we are going to achieve by the beginning of the new Year. New approaches, new ways of facing user-related issues start today. So, don't wait any longer, bring this magic to your PC and get ready for the future!

For you, Sabayon4 offers an easy to use and attractive desktop coming with thousands of tools and applications, such as effortless connections to any kind of wireless network, Web and Multimedia applications (Java, Flash Player, Google Earth, Picasa, etc), browsers (Firefox, Opera, Konqueror, etc), instant messaging clients (Pidgin, Kopete, aMsn, etc), multimedia and playback tools (Elisa Media Centerl, GeeXbox, VLC, Smplayer), productivity tools (OpenOffice, Abiword, Gnucalc, Kontact, Adobe Reader).

Technically, Sabayon4 has been completely rebuilt on top of GCC 4.3, for i686 (32bit) and x86_64 (64bit) architecture. As you can read, the 32bit flavour switched from i586 CHOST to i686, unleashing a further boost for all the supported Processors.

Take a Tour - Booting
Take a Tour - Installer

Distribution Features:

• Music by: Pornophonique - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (from: http://www.jamendo.com/it/album/7505)
• Boot speed improvements, 25% gain
  - Boot services optimisation
  - Services now started in parallel
• Entropy Package Manager 0.24.6, featuring User Generated Content, Website integration and 100+ bug fixes
  - 8500 applications available
  - No compilation required
  - Easy and fast security and general system updates
  - Fully compatibile with Portage 2.2 (EAPI2 compatible)
  - User Generated Content, make your vote and comments count on our development!
  - Textual and Graphical advanced clients, Equo and Spritz
  - Fully reliable Updates Notification Applet
  - 15% of speed gain over 0.23 (in 3.5.1)
• Ext4, NTFS, AUFS and UnionFS Support
  - Ready for the future today, Ext4, the future Linux Filesystem is now a reality!
  - Does your Windows(tm) system contain music and photos? We support it out of the box!
• HAL-based GPU and Input devices detection thanks to X.Org 7.4
  - Supporting AMD Catalyst Drivers 8.11 and Open Source RadeonHD
  - Supporting NVIDIA Drivers 180.11, 173.14.12, 96.43.09 and 71.86.07 through an automated selector
  - One click 3D Desktop Effects support
• Incredible set of ready-to-use applications and Desktop Environments:
  - KDE 3.5.10 (Classic mode)
  - KDE 4.1.3 (Advanced mode, available through our repositories)
  - GNOME 2.24.2
  - XFCE 4.4.3
  - LXDE 0.3.2.1
  - Openbox 3.4.8 RC1
  - Fluxbox 1.1.1
  - OpenOffice 3.0
  - Firefox 3.0.4
  - aMule 2.2.2
  - Wine 1.1.10
  - Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916 and Picasa 2.7.3736.15
  - Adobe Flash 10
  - Java 1.6.0.11 and IcedTea6
  - VirtualBox 2.0.6
  - and other 1000 applications available!
• Sabayon Linux Installer:
  - Customizing your installation is now easier and faster
  - Ability to choose between 5 different pre-configured installation profiles
  - Faster post-installation configuration
• Media Center functionalities:
  - GeeXbox 1.2
  - Elisa Media Center 0.3.5
• For the future:
  - KDE 4.2 ready!
  - Can be upgraded to any 4.x Sabayon releases without a hitch!

Requirements
Minimum requirements:
- an i686-compatible Processor (Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Celeron, AMD K6-2, Athlon)
- 512Mb RAM
- 16 GB of free space
- A X.Org supported 2D GPU
- a DVD reader
Optimal requirements:
- a Dual Core Processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or better, AMD Athlon 64 X2 or better)
- 1024Mb RAM
- 32 GB of free space
- A X.Org supported 3D GPU (Intel, AMD, NVIDIA)
- a DVD reader

Resources for Sabayon Linux 4:
Kernel Configuration:
- Sabayon Linux x86 4 2.6.27.10 kernel config
- Sabayon Linux x86-64 4 2.6.27.10 kernel config
Packages list:
- Sabayon Linux x86 4 Packages
- Sabayon Linux x86-64 4 Packages

Download It!
Our Mirrors Page:
- http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mirrors

Bittorrent:
- Sabayon Linux x86 4 Torrent Download
- Sabayon Linux x86-64 4 Torrent Download

UbuntuEEE is now Easy Peasy

Ubuntu Eee was started last December. It was just a script which fixed some of the issues that came with Ubuntu when installing it on an EeePC. In June was Ubuntu Eee released as a whole operating system. There was a new release already in September which really showed the potential of Ubuntu Eee. Softpedia ranked Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 “The perfect operating system for your Asus Eee PC!”.

The script back in 2007 was downloaded about 3 000 times, the first release of Ubuntu Eee was downloaded about 60 000 times and Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 has been downloaded over 225 000 times!

With this is Ubuntu Eee ready for it’s next leap. We want to bring the ease of Ubuntu Eee to all netbooks.
Because that’s what it’s been about: it’s easy. It’s the operating system you install and start using, real plug and play. The new release will be rebranded and released on January 1st. We wanted Easy in the new name. We’ve gone over it for several months, though the answer was right in front of us: It’s an Easy (operating system for a) PC - Ubuntu Eee will be rebranded as Easy Peasy.

Some loves the new name while some think it sounds childish. That’s why we have to make a really good looking and professional logo and webpage.

Link | Ubuntu Eee