Posts Tagged ‘opensource’

windows7sins.org, a new cool website

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Free Software Foundation launched a campain against Microsoft’s new Operating System Windows 7 and other proprietary software, website www.windows7sins.org with modified badvista image on the website. As we all know proprietary software is a threat to our future & to our children so it is high time to re-think about stanse on open-source vs proprietary.

The main highlights of this campain are

  • Poisoning Education
  • Invading Privacy
  • Monopoly behavior
  • Lock-in
  • Abusive Standards
  • Enforcing DRM
  • Threatening user security

More features include windows7sins mailing list, donations, widgets and more. You can view the entire information by visiting the website http://windows7sins.org.

How to install KDE 4.3 on Jaunty

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

KDE 4.3 (Codename: “Caizen”) is the latest release of KDE v4 bringing many improvements to user experience with around 2000 feature implements. But it takes some time before it is oficially supported by Ubuntu and include in it releases, so if you want to install and try, here it is

  • Open sources list
    sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list
  • Add the following ppa line at the end of the file
    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main
  • Update the system
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

Mozilla releases Firefox 4.0 Interface Mockups

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Mozilla released Firefox/4.0 Windows Theme Mockups, most of them look nice. In this mockup there are 2 versions, one with tabs on top (which resembles Google Chrome web browser) another with tabs on bottom. Mozilla released Firefox/3.7 Windows theme mockup few days earlier. These changes certainly encourage more UI lovers to use Firefox, which laged behind some browsers in UI design.

Chick here for Firefox/4.0 Windows Mockups

Chick here for Firefox/3.7 Windows Mockups


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