In the Ubuntu Developer Summit which starts today, Mark Shuttleworth surprised a lot of people by announcing that Ubuntu 11.04 will have Unity as the default desktop interface.

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A couple of days back, the Opera team announced that Opera 11 will have extensions. Today, they have released the first alpha of Opera 11 and as promised it has the extensions. The first thing you will notice is the installation – it has been simplified a lot. It took maybe 2-3 clicks only.

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Edubuntu is an official Ubuntu derivative meant for educational purposes. Unlike Ubuntu, it comes as a DVD not a CD. If you want to try it out you have to download the ISO of the DVD and use the Live Session. Well, this is what most of the Linux dristros offer so that users can…

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According to reports, Dell is likely to begin shipping Netbooks with Ubuntu Light. Ubuntu Light, also released on 10th October with Ubuntu 10.10, is an instant-on Operating System for internet browsing, email etc. on the go. It is not meant to be a replacement for Windows – rather Dell may install it alongside Windows 7….

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A little known feature of the Unity interface in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 is the support for multi-touch. Sure Unity feels a bit beta-ish, but with uTouch and the UI with large icons, it is works quite well on a touch-screen device. (Well there is no on-screen keyboard yet. But that is another thing.)

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Google Chrome 8 has hit the Dev channel for Windows, Linux and Mac. One of the main features with this build is the addition of GPU acceleration option in the labs. You can access it by entering about:labs in the omnibar. The GPU acceleration uses the graphics card to render the HTML5 canvas elements. This…

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is off to a good start with positive reviews everywhere. However the same cannot be said of the Netbook specific version of Ubuntu – Ubuntu Netbook Edition. UNE 10.10 is off to quite a bad start – because of the Unity interface. Unity is a new interface introduced in Ubuntu Netbook…

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Yesterday we published screenshots of the changes in Ubuntu 10.10. Today, we take a look at KDE-based Ubuntu derivative Kubuntu. So, what are the new things you may expect to see in Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat? Read on. As in our Ubuntu post, we will only look at the visible changes.

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has already been released. Many of you must have installed it and other will be looking install it in a few days. In this post, we list the must have applications you will probably want to install after installing Ubuntu 10.10. You might also like to take this screenshot tour of…

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