The History Of GNU Hurd [Video]

Hurd is the original kernel of the operating system GNU project founded by Richard Stallman.

The development of Hurd started in 1990 but never released its final version, expected in 2002.
The following video produced by codeswarm who makes all the contributions repository Hurd from 1991 to 2010 and converted into a 3D animation:

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Blender 2.57 is stable after 4 years of work

After several years of redesigning and development, Blender Foundation and its community of developers have announced the release Blender 2.57.

Blender 2.57 offers a new graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a new set of icons, a new design, support for addons, and access to brushes - including an animation editor nonlinear.

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Add the PPA using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

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20 years of Linux [Video+INFOGRAPHIC]

Linus Torvalds made a courageous decision to share his code to the world of the operating systems, and soon after, he chose the GPL license agreement as publisher.

Currently, Linux has gone deep into every aspect of our lives, exist in your phone, ATM machine, your desktop, movies, cars and so many of our places and fields.

The following video of the Linux Foundation, summarized 20 years of history of Linux in 3 minutes. starting at how Linux virtual domination of the computer.



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Gimp Paint Studio 1.5 Final Release Available

Now the final version available of Gimp Paint Studio, with a new set of brushes and other tools for Gimp that will be very useful for designers.

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Upgrade To Ubuntu 11.04 Beta

The Ubuntu developers are rapidly moving forward with the Ubuntu 11 project. The Ubuntu 11.04 Beta release is now available as an Ubuntu upgrade. In this post we will tell you how to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04.

Press ALT+F2, type update-manage –d and click Run.

Update Manager show up with a message explaining that the New Ubuntu 11.04 is available as an upgrade. Click Upgrade to continue.

Before you can continue further, you will be provided with the Ubuntu release notes.

Shortly after continuing, you will be prompted to enter your password, after which the upgrade process will proceed further.

After the upgrade is complete, you will be prompted to restart your computer.

This will upgrade your system to Ubuntu 11.04

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Simpleton Theme [Modified]

Simpleton the theme, modified a bit but really in a smart way.

Controls: Simpleton
Window Border: Elementary-borderless
Icons: Faenza-Dark
Typography: Ubuntu size 9
Panel size: 35 pixels with DockBarX (theme DBX)
Wallpaper: Hook line sinker

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Enable support for LibreOffice in Global Menu [Ubuntu 11.04]

As simple as running:

Sudo apt-get install lo-menubar

and restart LibreOffice.

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Ubuntu 11.04 official wallpapers

Canonical choose the 17 wallpapers that will form Ubuntu 11.04, you can see the preview of the wallpapers below.

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Hotot Google Chrome extension

Hotot is popular Ubuntu Twitter Client, now is available as a Google Chrome extension.

Hotot’, a HTML-friendly Twitter Client even on the desktop version, has long been many users’ preferred way to tweet, dent and follow. By transitioning a version of the Client into the web browser users can experience of its usual feature set but sans the OS limitation.


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Hotot for Chrome is a free. The extension, like the application itself.

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Install Firefox 4 for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users Via PPA Rerository

Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users can upgrade to Mozilla Firefox 4 the latest release, just by adding the Firefox Stable PPA to their system sources.

This step is very easy, launch Ubuntu Software Center, click Edit > Software Sources and click the ‘Other Software’ tab. click ‘Add’ and then paste ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable.

You will be prompted to update your sources. After that you can head to System > Administration > Update Manager to perform an upgrade.

Alternatively you can add the PPA by using the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox ubufox

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