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2011 in review

harbhag — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:07:04 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 74,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 3 days for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

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Fedora 15 is out now with GNOME 3

harbhag — Wed, 25 May 2011 02:27:32 +0000

Fedora 15, a new version of one of the leading and most widely used Linux distributions on the market, has been released. Some of the many new features include support for Btrfs file system, Indic typing booster, redesigned SELinux troubleshooter, better power management, LibreOffice productivity suite, and, of course, the brand-new GNOME 3 desktop: “GNOME 3 is the next generation of GNOME with a brand new user interface. It provides a completely new and modern desktop that has been designed for today’s users and technologies. Fedora 15 is the first major distribution to include GNOME 3 by default. GNOME 3 is being developed with extensive upstream participation from Red Hat developers and Fedora volunteers, and GNOME 3 is tightly integrated in Fedora 15.”

Source:Distrowatch( http://www.distrowatch.com)

Filed under: LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS Tagged: Fedora, Fedora 15, Fedora15, harbhag, Linux, Redhat, sohal

Wait is over and Ubuntu 11.04 is here.

harbhag — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:30:10 +0000

Ubuntu 11.04, a new version of the popular Linux distribution for desktops and servers, has been released: “The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.04, code-named ‘Natty Narwhal’. 11.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. For PC users, Ubuntu 11.04 supports laptops, desktops and netbooks with a unified look and feel based on a new desktop shell called ‘Unity’. This version supersedes Ubuntu Netbook Edition for all PC netbooks. Developer reference images are provided for select Texas Instruments (TI) ARM platforms, specifically the ‘PandaBoard’ and ‘BeagleBoard’. Ubuntu Server 11.04 has made it easier to provision servers, and reduce power consumption.”

Release Announcement: Here

Release Notes: Here

Source : Distrowatch

Filed under: LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS Tagged: Canonical, harbhag, harbhag singh, harbhag singh sohal, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 11.04