GIMP 2.7.4 Released As a Precursor To Stable 2.8

December 15, 2011
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

December 13, 2011
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

December 04, 2011
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.