 | A couple of days back, the ninth beta of Firefox was released. It boasts of improved performance and support for hardware acceleration which did not make it to Linux. The lack of hardware acceleration in Linux was disappointing to say the least. So, we decided to benchmark Firefox 4 beta 9 in both Linux (Ubuntu… |
 | Last week, Bill Filler from Canonical created a flutter when he announced Unity 2D for computers which cannot run the normal Unity 3D. Unity 3D requires Compiz and thus requires computers capable of 3D-acceleration to run. Unity 2D, technically known as Unity-Qt, is based on Qt/QML and has been designed to run on the slower computers…. |
 | Yesterday, Mozilla released the ninth beta of Firefox 4. It has a lot of improvements both in the UI and performance. One major new features added in this release is hardware acceleration. Hardware acceleration uses the GPU whenever it is possible instead of relying solely on the CPU. This can give a performance boost for… |
 | Steve Chang, the Chairman of Trend Micro, has kicked up a controversy by claiming that open source software are inherently less secure. When talking about the security of smartphone, Chang claimed that the iPhone is more secure than Android because being an open-source platform, attackers know more about the underlying architecture. Android is open-source, which… |
 | Ok, there is no confirmation about this and Mark Shuttleworth is generally the one to announce the new name, so take this with a pinch of salt. So, apparently Ubuntu 11.10 will be called Oscillating Ocelot. This fits the naming convention that Ubuntu follows, but so does about 50 other names. This was tweeted by… |
 | Wiley Online Library is one of the best content platforms out there for scholars, researchers, scientists, clinicians, business professionals and information specialists. One good thing about the Wiley Online Library is that it lets you export citations and use them in your projects. However, the format in which Wiley provides the citations are somewhat un-user-friendly to be converted to LaTeX format. |
 | Aside from Unity, the Software Center is one of the main areas of development in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narhwal. It is getting a lot of new features like support for user ratings, reviews etc. Another feature – search suggestion – has quietly landed in trunks. The search suggestion suggests the correct package name in case… |
