Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins. Continue reading
Firefox is an open source browser for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 is available in more than 45 languages as a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as improvements to performance, memory usage and speed. Continue reading
I’ve been playing around with KDE4 flavoured Linux distributions for a couple of weeks now: I’ve tried various betas and release candidates of Kubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. And I must admit, I like openSUSE the most. Downloaded the live cd, and installed from there on without a hitch. Installation was very easy and straightforward. The only thing I did afterwards was installing Pidgin as instant messaging program, and the VLC media player. openSUSE is much more vivid and responsive on the same sytem than Kubuntu and Fedora.
On a side note: this was the first time I installed a 64 bit operating system, and I’ve had zero problems so far. Flash was easily installed from the non-oss repository and runs smoothly.