Google Chrome in the stable and beta channel has been updated to version 6. It is available for Linux, Windows and Mac. If you are using either the stable or beta channel, a simple update should get you Google Chrome 6.

Diaspora becomes available to developers from September 15. Users will, however, have to wait for the alpha in October.

Google Chrome 7 is now available in the development channel for Windows, Linux and Mac.

After the one week delay, KDE Software Compilation 4.5 has been finally released. This is a release meant for stability not new features. About 16,000 bugs have been fixed in this release. It is not to say there are no new features. KDE SC 4.5 has an absolutely gorgeous looking blur effect and some very [...]

KDE SC 4.5, which was supposed to be released today, has been delayed by a week. A lot of changes were made after the third release candidate and the release team was not comfortable with releasing it without some more testing. This is what the announcement in the kde mailing list says:

It was originally scheduled to be released last Friday, but got delayed due to last-minute quality assurance check. Nonetheless, the second beta of Firefox 4.0 is now here. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, although the features are not uniform throughout (more on that later).

Opera has just released Opera 10.60 for Linux, Windows and Mac. It is basically an improvement over Opera 10.5x. They claim that Opera 10.60 is 50% faster than Opera 10.50, making it the fastest browser.

Frank Karlitschek has just announced the release of ownCloud 1.0, What is ownCloud? Here is Frank’s very own word: ownCloud is a central place where you can store your files and documents. You don´t have to upload your personal data to central closed services like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One.

Although both Ubuntu and Fedora replaced Pidgin with Empathy, the Pidgin developers have been hard at work and has released a new version of Pidgin – Pidgin 2.7. This version of Pidgin brings  a lot of new features and improvement:

Google’s browser, Chrome has a new beta release, Chrome 5.0.375.29 Beta. While Linux and Mac users are already using the Chrome 5 Beta series, this is the first beta of the series for Windows users. Google is already boasting that this new release, with its V8 JavaScript engine, is 30-35% faster than the previous release. [...]

For those of you who are anxiously waiting for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS a.k.a Lucid Lynx to release today, might have to wait for some more time. Why? Because a bug in GRUB2 has managed to creep through into the final release of Lucid Lynx. There has been a series of events in last couple of [...]

Shutter is a great application to take screenshots for the linux desktop. The new version of Shutter that is Shutter 0.86 has been just released. Shutter allows you to not only take screenshots but also gives you a lot of features like, taking screenshots of specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a [...]

The digiKam team has just released a new version of digiKam, digiKam 1.2.0. digiKam is an excellent image editor and organizor for KDE SC with a lot of features. digiKam 1.2.0 comes with a lot of bugfixes and some new features. The new features includes:

The final build of Opera 10.50 is finally out for Windows. Opera claims that this is the “fastest browser on earth”. Opera 10.5 features a new JavaScript engine, Carakan and a new graphics library called Vega. Opera claims that this has resulted in a browsing speed increase of 700% from the Futhark JavaScript engine used [...]

The first alpha release of Fedora 13 Goddard was going to be due out next week, but that release is now pushed back by a week. Fedora lives on the bleeding edge of Linux development with many new features going into each release. It gives Linux enthusiasts a taste of what is to come in [...]

After about two years of development, the Gnumeric developers have announced the release of version 1.10.0 of the spreadsheet application. The first stable release in the 1.10.x series includes several changes, updates and improvements. This release removes the 65,536 row restriction on spreadsheets and includes many new functions, better OpenDocument Format (ODF) support, new statistical analysis tools, [...]

Today KDE announces the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, “Caikaku”. The new release brings major new technologies, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework.

Windows 7 Release Candidate was released way back in May, 2009 with an expiry date of 1st June, 2010. So that means we still have 4 odd months left, right? Wrong! Come March, the systems running Windows 7 RC will automatically shut down every two hours without prompting and saving your work. And the systems [...]

Canonical has just released the final maintenance of Hardy Heron, that is Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS. Although this is the final maintenance release, support on Desktops will continu till 2011 and in servers till 2013 through online updates. This release includes updated server, desktop, and alternate installation CDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

All new Mozilla Firefox 3.6 has been finally released. The release event was done by John Lilly (CEO of Mozilla) himself at this place! This version is available for Linux, Windows, Macintosh in multiple languages and can be downloaded from here.

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 [...]

The Ubuntu Museum houses screenshots, screencasts and virtual images of each of the Ubuntu releases which are no longer supported or used. All these discontinued releases form an important part of the Ubuntu history.

Ubuntu has made a small change to the way you access the Ubuntu Release Portal via FTP and RSYNC.

Microsoft has finally released its much awaited ….ahem…. anti-virus, anti-spyware solution today. Codenamed “Morro” during its development stages, this piece of software has been in development for almost a year and now it is known as ” Security Essentials “. We earlier reported to you about the beta release of this software, and this time [...]