LibreOffice Rolls Out Version 3.5 Calls Its “The best free office suite ever”

The fantastic free and open source package LibreOffice has this week rolled out a new update to its suite of software, that brings with it a number of new features and tweaks, improving the package even further.

LibreOffice developers Document Foundation have announced the launch of their latest version

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$265 Spark Linux Tablet Announced

A new Linux tablet has been announced, the Spark which will retail for $265 and will run the KDE Plasma Active interface, the tablet was announced by KDE plasma Active team member Aaron Seigo.

The Spark tablet comes with a 1GHz AMLogic processor, with Mali 400 graphics and it features a

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$265 Spark Linux Tablet Detailed And Launch Dates Revealed

Following on from the unveiling last week of the new $265 Spark Linux Tablet. The developers Spark project has today revealed more details about their new tablet which is expected to start shipping in May, with pre-ordering starting this month.

Spark project reveals that the new Spark Linux Tablet will be equipped with a 1 GHz AMLogic

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Linux Mint 12 Launches, Now Available To Download

This week the development team behind the popular Linux Mint operating system, have announced the arrival of their latest creation in the form of Linux Mint 12. Linux Mint has been chasing the Ubuntu Linux operating for sometime. But the development team

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Ubuntu Arriving On Tablets, TVs And Smartphones

This week Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has unveiled that the company is currently working on a new versions of its Ubuntu operating system for smartphones, tablets and televisions

However the launch of the new operating system is still a few years

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Linux Kernel 3.1 Update Brings Range Of New Features Including Support For NFC And Nintendo’s Wii Controller

After a few weeks delay due to a security breach at the kernel.org website, Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 3.1 update which brings with it a range of new features. The new Linux version took around 3 months to develop and includes

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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Arrives, And Ready To Download

The latest version of Ubuntu 11.10 has now arrived and is ready to download in its final release version, and includes some great new features. Including the new Ubuntu Software Centre which gives you instant access to thousands of apps. Where you can compare and

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Ubuntu One Now Offers 5GB Of Cloud Storage For Free

In celebration of reaching 1 million users Ubuntu One has this week announced it has increased the capacity of its free Ubuntu One online cloud storage from 2GB to 5GB. Ubuntu One Basic will become Ubuntu One Free and users will get 5GB of free storage when they set up an account, and existing users of Ubuntu One Basic will automatically increase to the new 5GB limit.

You can claim your 5GB of storage from the Ubuntu One Free website,

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Galaxy Tab 10.1 Running Ubuntu On Android, Becomes ‘Tabuntu’ (video)

A great demonstration of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 running Ubuntu on Android has been putt together to show whats possible on Android. Ubuntu has been loaded on to the Tab without replacing the Android OS and runs in the background, “chrooted” or like a virtual machine.

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Talking Point: Should Distros Stick to CDR Size?

It's starting to look like the end of an era for Ubuntu users as Canonical mull the creation of an ISO that won't fit onto a CDR. The question is, does it matter?

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The GNOME Desktop Project Unleashes GNOME 3.0

After five years of planning and design, GNOME 3.0 has been officially released. The totally rewritten desktop has had its share of both praise and condemnation in recent months due to what the project describes as "its most significant redesign of the

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Munich Linux Migration Project LiMux Reports Success

LiMux, a project to convert local government institutions to Linux and open source software in Munich, has exceeded initial expectations. The project has done slightly better than projections of 8,500 and now boasts 9,000 Linux migrated workstations. The progress and evolution of this project that began in 2003 is well worth examination.

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Linux Heavyweights Develop Secure Boot Strategy

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement.

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LibreOffice Developer Glimpse Proves Balance

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources.

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The Open Source Office Software Sector Heats Up

The world of LibreOffice and OpenOffice(.org) has been heating up recently with several exciting and, at times, bewildering developments. The Document Foundation remains very active as is LibreOffice development, but Oracle has given up on OpenOffice

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Ubuntu 11.04, Unity Released to Mixed Reactions

Ubuntu 11.04 was released on April 28 with a brand new interface and a couple default application changes. But all the talk is about Unity, that brand new interface. As one might predict, reactions are all over the spectrum.

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Linux

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Linux is a complete operating system that is similar but not identical to UNIX. It runs on a wide variety of hardware, ranging from 386's/486's/Pentiums/Pentium II's to more exotic hardware such as Digital Alpha computers, PowerPCs, and Silicon Graphics

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Ubuntu

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Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge

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81 reasons why Linux is better than Windows

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Many a times Windows users talk about what Windows can do but Linux can’t. To be fair, they also need to know what Linux can do but Windows can’t.

After Reading this article: 101 things that the Mozilla browser can

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