KDE SC 4.4 was released few days back and it came with lots of improvement and some interesting new features including the much talked about and much anticipated - introduction of ‘Tabs’ (similiar to what we have on every modern day browsers) in to mainstream desktop window manager. Recently, the Kubuntu guys added this smoking hot KDE SC release into their Beta PPA. [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala has a lot of beautiful wallpapers. These were picked through a competition, which had a lot of very good submissions. However the CD restriction meant that only 19 had been picked.
However, the good thing it that you can now get a lot of those amazing wallpapers which did not make it [...]

getdeb has for a long time been a place from where debian users can get the .deb files of the latest softwares before it has been added to the official repository (which usually takes quite some time). Uptil a short while ago, to use softwares from getdeb, users had to go to the site and [...]

KOffice 2.1 RC 1 was released some time back. While KOffice has always been an inferior alternative to Open Office, the new release has seen some improvements, most notably in the handling of Microsoft Office documents. In this article, we show you how to install KOffice 2.1 RC 1 in Kubuntu 9.10 (or Ubuntu 9.10).
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Recently, we wrote an article giving you a visual tour of Gnome 3 Shell. If you want to experience it first hand, we will tell you what you how to do it in this article. Just to start off here is a screenshot of the Gnome 3 Shell:

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In Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, there is a new notification system, called Ayatana Notification, in addition to the KDE Notification. The Ayatana Notification is better than the KDE Notification in several ways.By default, however, the KDE Notification is enabled and the Ayatana Notification has to be enabled manually. In this article, we will show you [...]

Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala has been out for a little more than a week now. It is a very solid release and comes with a host of new impressive features – one of them being the Ayatana Notification. Basically, the Ayatana Notification is an alternative to the KDE notification that we are used to by [...]

As you may be aware, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala comes with the Netbook Plasma Shell. This is not an actual release but rather a technical preview. The Netbook Plasma Shell will officially be released with KDE 4.4, that is with Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. However, we decided to try it out in Karmic and it [...]

Chromium is the open source browser on which Google Chrome browser is based. Except for the logo, which is of a slightly different color, Chromium is almost identical to Google Chrome. In this article, we will explain to you how to install Chromium browser in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
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This is a part of a series of articles called “Getting Ready For Karmic Koala”. You can read the other parts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
As the date for the release of the final release of Karmic Koala approaches, a big question with everyone is “Do I do a clean install or upgrade from [...]

Earlier today we reported about the release of the Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Release Candidate. Now, the release candidate of all the official *buntus, that is Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Mythbuntu and Edubuntu, are now available for download. If everything goes well these release candidates will go on to become the final version to [...]

This is a continuation of our series of articles “Getting Ready For Karmic Koala”. The first article can be found here.
Today is the day the release candidates of Karmic Koala is going to be released. And before everything else it seems that Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is the first one off the block.
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Nepomuk/Strigi is a very powerful desktop search in KDE. Strigi is the file indexer which allows for search not just by the file name but by the content of the file as well and Nepomuk is allows for the tagging and rating of the files and it is integrated along with the desktop search.
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A lot has been said regarding the upcoming release of Ubuntu, that is Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, – its new looks, new features etc. However, understandably, its KDE counterpart, Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, has been largely ignored and not a great deal of noise has been made about it. Here, in this article, we look [...]

In the build up to the final release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, the final alpha version i.e. Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha 6 has been released a couple of days ago with a very pleasant change – They have done away with the Usplash!
As you might be aware, Canonical is aiming for a 10 seconds booting [...]