Mandriva has released the XFCE version of its OS. XFCE is a popular linux desktop environment which targets old pcs with less capacity and power in terms of Ram, Processor and Space on Hard drive. Most linux distros try to release their remixes with Gnome, KDE and XFCE. But the latter one is not to much highlighted. Ubuntu has a similiar version called Xubuntu but these XFCE powered distros are less frequently used as compared to normal distros composed of Gnome or KDE.
Banshee is my favorite music player on Ubuntu. It is written in C# and Mono and its interface is in GTK. I personally think it as the only competitor of Amarok, the popular music player of KDE. Banshee has progressed rapidly from a buggy piece of code to a full and matured music player. And now the banshee team has announced the release of version 1.4.
There are lots of new features added in this version. Some interesting are the support of new devices including google's G1, a version for Mac OS X and enhancements in interface of now playing and menues.
The downloads area of official website offers packages for various popular distros. Mine, i.e. Ubuntu is also there in the form of PPA repository where 1.4 is now available. Check if yours is also there.
Gnome, a very popular linux desktop, is now getting support from google and nokia, two giants of IT and Internet. They are going to contribute 20,000 USD to gnome mobile project. Gnome 3 will get benifit as a whole as well.
After the release of KDE 4 and then 4.1, Gnome 3.0 was announced, but as usual in a very steady way it is coming just after 2 years of development in 2010 approximately. So let us see what they are going to do for us. I am hoping that many little things missing on the name of simplicity will be there in gnome 3.
Qt Software has released Qt Creator and IDE to develop Qt based applications. Qt, formerly called Trolltech, is now a subsidiary of Nokia, the cell phone giant of the world. This piece of software is available for Mac, Linux and Windows intially, althogh the license is not GPL yet, but it will be a GPL (like) license in final release. Some nice screen shots you can see.
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A more detailed and user oriented review is published on dot.Kde.
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