Linux FormatPostNuke Powered SiteReiser leads police to wife's body- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Hans Reiser, the filesystem programmer who was recently found guilty of murder, has revealed the location of his wife's body to police in California. With this development, Reiser's sentence could be reduced to 15 years to life, rather than 25 years to life before he cooperated with the police.http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid... Firefox 3 goes download crazy- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Mozilla has scooped up an award from the Guiness World Records team -- the most downloads from a website in a 24-hour period. During Firefox Download Day, 8,002,530 users snagged a copy of the new 3.0 release of the open source browser. According to online metrics company Net Applications, Firefox 3 already has a 6% bite of the browser market share cake.http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid... Five Ubuntu 8.10 features to watch- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Just when you thought the post-8.04-release hype had died down, now Ubuntu 8.10 (the Intrepid Ibex) is raising eyebrows around the net. Linux Loop summarises five planned changes for the October-bound release, such as better Flash support and per-directory encryption.http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid... Xandros snaps up Linspire- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Linspire, Freespire, Click 'N Run -- they're all going to Xandros following a decision by Linspire's shareholders. In the last six months, Xandros has seen a large surge in popularity thanks to Xandros Linux being pre-installed on the Asus Eee PC, so it'll be interesting to see what funky new tech the buyout will bring.http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid... KDE 4.1 beta released- (Found July 23, 2008 ) Hoping to "fully replace KDE 3 for end users", KDE 4.1 is approaching with a planned July 29 release. Major changes in the first beta release include an overhaul of Plasma, the return of Kontact and more KDE 4-native applications.http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid... |