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Proxal - an open source icons collection

Proxal is a 99 open source icon collection that is targeted to all the web 2.0 designers out there.

This is the second such collection , the first one which theme is Instant Messaging you can find here. The collection includes all the icons and their PSD versions so you can easily edit and work with them.

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Before TrollTech, now Qt Software

Since today Trolltech is renamed to Qt Software.
That decision of Nokia was made after they bought Trolltech.

In the meanwhile Qt 4.4.3 was released.

Google become 10 years old

You can see the 10 years history of Google on the specially made 10 years google website!

Happy Birthday Fedora Core

Say happy birthday to the Fedora Core project. It's been 5 years since the Red Hat decided to split the project.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2 released

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.2 has been released. Click on read more to see what it includes.

Share My Apps

There is a new service, it's called Share My Apps and it allows you to share information about your GNU/Linux system with other people.

It's a site that allows you to create a profile and display information such as installed packages, the amounts of memory, processor type, the Linux distribution in use, the wallpaper and many more similar interesting things.

KDE Community Stabilizes Desktop with KDE 4.1.1

KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.1 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

September 3, 2008. The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.1.1, the first bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.1.1 is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. It ships with a basic desktop and many other packages; like administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

Google browser challenges Microsoft

The browser war is back on.

This time, Microsoft's opponent is Google, a familiar foe.

On Tuesday, Google will release a free Web browser called Chrome that the company said would challenge Microsoft's Internet Explorer, as well as the Firefox browser.

In a curious twist, Google made its online announcement after its plans appeared as a digital "comic book" that was posted by Google Blogoscoped.com, a Web site that tracks the Internet search giant. Google said it had accidentally sent the comic book to the blog.

The browser is a universal doorway to the Internet, and the use of Internet software and services is rapidly growing. Increasingly, the browser is the gateway to the Web on cellphones and other mobile devices, widening the utility of the Web and Web advertising. Google, analysts say, cannot let Microsoft's dominant share of the browser market go without a direct challenge.

The Linux kernel became 17

Yes, 17 years ago Linus Torvalds posted the first piece of information related to his open source project.The message was posted in the russian google group on 26/08/1991, 09:12 by Linus Benedict Torvalds and you can see it here.

So this is quite an important date for the community that supported and still supports the idea behind open source.At the current moment 85% of the Top 500 most powerful computers in the world are running Linux - how cool is that:)

Microsoft Gives Apache Cash to Promote Open Source

Microsoft on Friday expanded its support for the open-source community by giving money to the Apache Software Foundation, the first time it has given money to the long-standing open-source project.
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