Surgical Robotics experts at the University of Washington and the University of California, Santa Cruz have completed a set of seven identical advanced robotic surgery robots, called Raven II, designed for medical research laboratories. After final testing, five of the systems will be made available to medical robotics researchers at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, [...]
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Sparkleshare – the open source Dropbox alternative to securely store, sync and share files is now available for Android. The Android version is released after stable releases for Linux and Mac. You can download Sparkleshare from the Android market. For now, the app can only be used to view or download files. The team is [...]
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Linux Mint Founder and Lead Developer Clement Lefebvre has announced that the upcoming release of Linux Mint will be of the GNOME 3 edition. The Open Source GNU/Linux distro Linux Mint 12 to be due out in November will continue supporting for GNOME 2.32
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Spakleshare- the open source alternative to Dropbox has finally released Sparkleshare 0.2 for Linux and Mac. It is the first stable release of the software. They have made a few changes to 0.2 RC1 and the stable version is out after no critical bugs were reported. Sparkleshare provides almost all the features of Dropbox and [...]
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Ubuntu derivative Linux distribution, Linux Mint has released yet another version of its open-source distribution. Code-named “Katya“, Linux Mint 11 is based on the latest Ubuntu distribution, “Natty Narhwal” and includes other upstream components Linux 2.6.38, Gnome 2.32, Xorg 7.6. Unlike Ubuntu 11.04, it uses the old Linux Mint desktop layout. Ubuntu 11.04 released this April, brought [...]
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Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed Natty Narwhal is finally out, introducing a major update to its interface and a lot more. The latest version 11.04 was released on Thursday, as a part of Ubuntu’s release cycle to make users available a new updated distro every six months, maintaining its philosophy for simplicity, user-friendliness and to be always a Free and Open Source [...]
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A maintenance update to the stable PHP interpreter, PHP 5.3, has been released. PHP development team, Today announced immediate availability of PHP 5.3.6 as a maintenance update with over 60 bug fixes, mainly security related problem fixes. The release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3. x branch. Multiple format string vulnerabilities in phar extension [...]
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The first stable of version of LibreOffice – an open source office suite has been released after 4 months of development. LibreOffice 3.3 brings several new features including SVG graphics files, a console for those creating presentations, and a Microsoft Works import filter. Its features also includes all the new features set to be released [...]
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After the long gap of the release of Joomla 1.5 new version of opensource CMS Joomla 1.6 is now available. The 1.6 update from 1.5 doesn’t seems to be nice selection of the version number. I personally think that the version name should be 2.0 instead of 1.6. Whatever, It is in hand of the developers of [...]
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Updates are available on Ubuntu on regular intervals. But if your machine is not connected to the internet or you have a slow connection, updates can be difficult. Many people especially those in developing nations are struck with dial-up connections. For them, a tool named “Keryx” has been developed which allows you to update your [...]
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