21 posts tagged “desktop”

Pardus is a Turkish GNU/Linux distro.

Pardus aims to

• provide full Turkish support by making the character structure compatible to Turkish (UTF-8 compatibility) and by making all the messages and documents visible to users into Turkish.
  
• ensure that it is an operating system which can be installed and used more easily than the existing Linux distributions and other competitive operating systems.
  
• to be designed in a modular configuration which can achieve the required flexibility and high performance with a task-based and human-focused approach rather than a tool-based and technology-based one.

Pardus links:

• home page http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/info.html
• wiki http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Main_Page
• flickr http://www.flickr.com/groups/pardus/
• frappr http://www.frappr.com/pardus
  
• ftp ftp://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/pardus/
• svn http://svn.pardus.org.tr/
• bugs http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/
• mail list http://liste.pardus.org.tr/pardus-announce/2008-June/000037.html

Xcerion icloud is all about giving you a greater computing experience and the comfort of always having your own desktop accessible wherever you go. All settings, icons and documents will stay exactly where you left them.

You use icloud through your web browser or cell phone. After you sign up on icloud you will receive your own highly customizable desktop, get access to plenty of useful online applications and a secure online file system.

You can use icloud the same way you use your existing desktop.

and developers can get an icloud developer beta account today !

Zimbra Desktop beta is an open source next generation email and calendar application. It’s like other email clients but it incorporates the latest features and experiences popular on the web to create a totally new and more powerful tool.

Zimbra Desktop supports:

• POP & IMAP
• Google Mail &Yahoo Mail Plus
  
• Large mailboxes (>2G)
• Calendar
  
• Web Mashups !

See also:

• http://www.zimbra.com/products/desktop_features.html
• http://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Zimbra_Desktop
  
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Run Zimbra webmail locally:

• http://localhost:7633/zimbra/desktop/gmail.jsp
  

ZCS

• Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) Open Source Edition !

PCLinuxOS | The distro-hopper-stopper

Not only a great catchphrase but a great selection of support sites as well !

• http://www.pclinuxos.com/
• http://pclinuxoshwdb.com/index.php
  
• http://www.mypclinuxos.com/doku.php
• http://www.linfx.com/
• http://www.lortal.org/software.html
• http://beautification.mypclinuxos.com/cpg/
  

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

Songbird is a desktop media player mashed-up with the Web. Songbird is committed to playing the music you want, from the sites you want, on the devices you want, challenging the conventions of discovery, purchase, consumption and organization of music on the Internet.

http://developer.songbirdnest.com/

Ubuntu Open Week is taking place from Mon 22nd Oct - Sat 27th Oct on IRC in #ubuntu-classroom.

Ubuntu have organised a week long menu of IRC events that touch many different areas of the Ubuntu community.

Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can:

• learn about the Ubuntu landscape

• talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project

• find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical

• participate in an open Q&A with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu

• much more...

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/294156

The Tango Desktop Project defines an icon style guideline to which artists and designers can adhere. A sample implementation of the style is available as an icon theme based upon a standardized icon naming specification. In addition, the project provides transitional utilities to assist in creating icon themes for existing desktop environments, such as GNOME and KDE.

or find even more icons @ http://www.iconfinder.net/

Xcerion Internet Operating System/3 (XIOS/3) the clean, carefree, zero-footprint XML-based OS, running within the browser. Since the OS and its applications executes in the browser it also works offline.

The Internet OS boots itself (takes around 3 seconds) and runs in the primary memory of the computer. As soon as the browser is shut down, the OS disappears from the computer.

Using XIOS/3 you never has to think about installing patches, updates or new versions of software again.

The OS updates itself and you can access your applications and documents from any Internet connected computer.

To receive the latest news on Xcerion sign up and apply for a BETA account.

"Xcerion has a possibility to beat both Microsoft and Google to the punch by delivering the world’s first 'cloud' Web OS" according to their blog @ http://xidezone.com/

I have just tried CentOS 5 and am a bit disappointed

1. The LIVE-CD gives me a blank screen on my IBM Thinkpad
2. The INSTALL-DVD still doesn't have a graphical installer
3. I asked for a desktop build and (unless I misread something) its only created a root user and I first have to log in as that

I'm afraid I'm going to stick with gNewSense & Xubuntu for the moment at least for my desktops and notebooks !

Now you can buy an Ubuntu open source desktop or notebook from DELL UK !

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/alliances/en/linux?c=uk&cs=ukgent1&l=en&s=gen

Unfortunately most of the links on this page take you to the US site but here's where you can start buying a Ubuntu PC in the UK !

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/emea/segments/gen/client/en/ubuntu_landing?c=uk&cs=ukdhs1&l=en&s=dhs