Debian has announced that they are introducing support for multiarch in Debian Wheezy. Multiarch support means that that a Debian system will be able to install and run applications built for a different target system.
Oracle has acquired Ksplice. With the acquisition, Oracle will no longer provide Ksplice Uptrack as a separate product. It will be included as a part of Oracle Linux Premier Support.
A while back, Adobe has finally delivered on its promise and released a native 64-bit Flash Player for Linux. If you are on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit and want to update to Flash Player 11, here is what you have to do.
Adobe have just released Flash Player 11 and it includes native 64-bit support for Linux as well as promised when they discontinued the experimental 64-bit Flash Player 10 for Linux.
Chris DiBona, who is the Open Source Manager at Google, has said that Android is the Linux dream come true. He described Android as “the ultimate success story of Linux”.
According to proposals for Fedora 16, Btrfs will be the default filesystem used in that release. The proposal has been approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
The Faenza icon set is one of the best looking icon set available for Ubuntu. It is a very complete icon set and has icons for most of the applications. In this post, we will tell you how you can install it in Ubuntu 11.04.