It's no secret the Chromium development is proceeding nicely on Linux. It's been easy to install via Launchpad for quite some time, and is very usable in its alpha state. That progress has opened the door for SRWare to bring Iron to Linux as well. The German-based crew first released the privacy-enhanced Iron for Windows back in September of last year.
Iron is built on Chromium 2.0.180.0, and, of course, everything that's been working in Chromium works in Iron as well. That also means that there's plenty of functionality still missing from Iron as well - most notably plugin (like Flash) support and the options screen.
Other than that, Iron works very well. It's speedy, stable, and it doesn't apprise Google of your browsing activities. Personally, I'm more excited about Iron's progress than I am about Google's official release of Chrome.
[by Lee Mathews]02.06.2009. 15:41
Moovida is a cross-platform, open source media center application that runs on Windows, and Linux. A Mac version is in the works. Up until recently the project as known as Elisa, but the team behind the application have given it a new name and a new look.
Some of the new features in Moovida include auto-completion of your media library using the Yes.fm plugin, and the ability to show fan art for media files.
The interface has a sleeker, more professional look, that frankly looks a lot less like Apple's Front Row than the original Elisa user interface. Like Elisa, Moovida provides a 10 foot interface for managing your music, movies, and pictures. You can also use it as a media browser for internet video, music, and photos from a handful of sites.
[via downloadsquad]02.06.2009. 14:38
KOffice is the open source, cross-platform office suite that isn't OpenOffice.org. You may not have heard much about KOffice unless you've used a Linux distribution using the KDE desktop environment. But KOffice and KDE have come a long way in recent years. You can run KDE apps like KOffice in Windows, although installation is still a lot simpler in Linux distributions like Kubuntu or OpenSUSE.
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