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Event Date: Event Title: 12/10/2009 Alpha 1 01/14/2010 Alpha 2 02/25/2010 Alpha 3 03/18/2010 Beta 1 04/08/2010 Beta 2 04/22/2010 ReleaseCandidate 04/29/2010 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

We are seeing an invasion of netbook offerings from lot of vendors Acer,dell,hp,Intel, the list goes on with the impressive battery backup times. But everything boils down to either Intel atom processor with Intel chip set or ARM processor package. State of Intel offerings Many of Intel partners are competing against Intel using Intels own hardware. So to neutralize this threat and to make Intel offerings look much more attractive Intel is supplying hardware locked at lower frequency to its partners. If you own an Atom based netbook with Intel hardware you may try GMABooster to remove these limitations. Get GMABooster State of Intel graphics Every chip-set of Intel works well on Linux except chip-sets that use PowerVR based graphics acceleration. Since PowerVR doesn't have any track record of releasing open source video drivers, GMA 500 has very primitive driver support in Linux. These are the things that I am able to uncover about Intels offering of netbooks. If you...

QT is officially available under LGPL and as promised Nokia opened up their repositories to outside people. You can now checkout QT code using git. Use following git command to get QT code. git clone git://gitorious.org/qt/qt.git Official QT git repository.

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Gimp 2.6 just released and you can install it right away. For hardy deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/getdeb.packages/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/getdeb.packages/ubuntu hardy main getdeb.net has latest gimp 32bit deb packages for ubuntu hardy. 32bit GIMP 2.6 packages for ubuntu hardy. For intrepid deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu intrepid main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu intrepid main Paste above repo section that corresponds to your Ubuntu version inside file /etc/apt/sources.list . Make sure you add these lines at the top of sources.list . Then do an apt-get update and reinstall gimp.

This ubuntu wiki page describes steps for setting up JeOS virtual machines with out using iso images. Please test these steps and give your feedback to ubuntu developers. Ubuntu JeOS VM Builder

Gimp has so many usability issues and GIMP team is going to address some of them in 2.6 version. Gimp 2.6 will have only one menu bar One of the primary usability issue that confuses newbies is two global menu bars (One in tools palette & second one in image window). Now Gimp is going to get rid of tools palette menu bar and display only one menu bar in image window. So image window is always open and its background defaults to gray if there is no image in use. GEGL support Current implementation of GEGL is going to pave a way for future CYMK support. CYMK is important for professionals to accurately print images with exact colors. This is not much important for web developers & home users and they can live without CYMK. Dockable dialogs Another much awaited GUI improvement. This is really useful to people who switch between different tool dialogs. There are many more improvements to Gimp 2.6 and lets see whether its going to be interesting to use.