Samsung Planning To Merge Bada OS With Tizen

Samsung will be merging their homegrown Bada OS for smart phones with Tizen. No time frame has been set for the merger however, it is expected that Samsung will be releasing at least two new smart phones this year(2012) itself running on the Tizen platform.

PC-BSD 9.0 - Isotope Edition - Released

PC-BSD 9.0 (Isotope edition) has been released. PC-BSD is a FreeBSD variant operating system that is targeted specifically at desktop users / end users. One of the uniqueness of PC-BSD is its PBIs or Push Button Installers that allow you to install and uninstall applications just like you are used to in Windows.

FreeBSD 9.0 Released

FreeBSD engineering team has released FreeBSD ver 9.0. This is the first release from the stable/9 branch, which improves on stable/8 and adds many new features.

GIMP 2.7.4 Released As a Precursor To Stable 2.8

A new version of GIMP - the free graphics suite par excellence - has been released. GIMP ver 2.7.4 , which is termed as an unstable release leading to a stable version 2.8 sometime in January next year, brings a lot of new features.

HP Contributes webOS to the Open Source Community

HP has contributed webOS to the open source community. webOS is a mobile OS  originally created by Palm. It uses HTML, CSS, and JavaScript heavily in the application layer of the stack. This is an obvious advantage for developers as applications can be easily built using standard web technologies.

And webOS is based on Linux.

How To Customize Your GNOME Shell Easily using GNOME Extensions

GNOME team have unveiled GNOME Shell extensions. These are small bits of code that help you customize different user interface aspects of your GNOME 3 desktop.

VectorLinux 7.0 released after a gap of 2 years

VectorLinux is a fine Linux distribution originally based on Slackware. A new version of VectorLinux (version 7.0) has been released after a gap of 2 years.