Two weeks ago Wine 1.1.43 was released and it brought many Direct3D fixes, among other improvements, but this Friday Wine 1.1.44 has superseded that release. Wine 1.1.44 does carry more Direct3D 9/10 work, but it also packs a fair amount of other changes.As mentioned at WineHQ.org, Wine 1.1.44 offers up many new icons, support for ...

Slackware Linux 13.1 Beta 1 come with an update to the latest KDE SC 4.4.3, and the addition of support for ConsoleKit and PolicyKit which have been enhanced to use shadow authentication. Thanks to Andrew Psaltis for doing some great work on polkit-1, and to Robby Workman for spending months following ...

There are still using Windows 98? Not? What about Windows XP? Still a lot? If Windows 7?In the world of the operating system, Microsoft’s reign. But which ones triumphed? Windows 7? Or Windows Vista? Many people who say Windows 7.There is no doubt that Windows 7 could surpass sales of Windows Vista. During this operating ...

The presence of the Apple smartphone in Japan grew more than doubled compared to last year, with a mastery of approximately 72 percent of all smartphone sales in the country.As quoted from Businessweek, Thursday, April 29, 2010, MM Research Institute Ltd.., Based in Tokyo announced they report about smartphone market in Japan.Mentioned, Apple has sold ...

Opera Software has just released an update of their popular web browser Opera for the Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh operating system. Opera 10.5x installations should pick up the update automatically. Users who do not want to wait for that to happen can check for updates manually by clicking on the Opera icon in the ...

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server for Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) and Amazon’s EC2, as well as Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook edition. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any ...

Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta, the next generation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 blurs the lines between virtual, physical, and cloud computing to address shifts taking place in the modern IT environment. Featuring updated core technology, from the ...

PCLinuxOS 2010 is now available for download. Features: Linux kernel 2.6.32.11-bfs for maximum desktop performance; full KDE 4.4.2 desktop; NVIDIA and ATI driver support; multimedia playback support for many popular formats; wireless support for many network devices; printer support for many local and networked printer devices; addlocale allows you to ...

Now this is something that I find really interesting. We all know and love Google Chrome/Chromium (and if you don’t, you’re demonstrably wrong), but Google recently made a change in the developer version that ruffled some feathers: the URL field will no longer show the “http://” ;. This made a lot of people very upset.For a ...

Firefox 3.6.4 has been in the talks lately because of the intention of the Mozilla developers to add out-of-process plugins to that version of the web browser which basically means that popular plugins run in their own process instead of the main browser process. This is beneficial in case of a plugin crash as ...