KDE (K Desktop Environment) project provides Desktop Environments for Unix based systems. It is also one of the most popular Desktop Environments other than GNOME out there and so is there applications. However if you think that these applications can run on Linux only, think again. Because they’ve made available an ambitious project called “KDE on Windows”, which lets users run KDE applications on Windows platform.

Thu Ubuntu team today announced the release of Ubuntu 9.04(aka ‘Jaunty Jackalope’) Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. This also marks the 9.04 releases of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, UbuntuStudio, and Mythbuntu as well. It is interesting to note that Canonical people have come up with special edition for netbooks with Netbook Remix.

Red Hat sponsored Fedora Project has announced the Beta release of their upcoming Fedora 11(Leonidas), which is scheduled for release on end of the May, 2009. This Beta release comes with many new features, most notable of them are New volume control in GNOME using PulseAudio, GNOME 2.26, Ext4 file system, Btrfs file system, KDE 4.2.1 and Xfce 4.6.0. Also it is going to have 20 second startup and shutdown feature.

On February 13th 2009, a very special moment for UNIX lovers will occur. UNIX will be celebrating its 1234567890th birthday. Wondering how? Here’s its explanation.

For all the Linux newbies, Ubuntu is the great place to start with. This Debian-derived Linux distribution shares 30% of desktop Linux installations in 2007, making it the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop. This clearly states that it’s intuitive for average users.

Linux has a motto-Freedom to choose. Unlike other operating systems, Linux gives its users each and every option to tweak it as they wanted. So, the Desktop Environment. Those who are new to this term, a Desktop Environment is more than just GUI. It comes with tools, applications, games etc, to make the computing more easy with Linux. Thus they make you perform a Linux Terminal commands by GUI, which is quite useful for newbies.  

Installing a Linux with Windows was never been so trouble-free. With Wubi, anyone can install Ubuntu alongside Windows just like any other application. No more GRUBing, no more messing around your partitions and no more Live CDs. Wubi will do it for you in just one click. It’s free, open source and safe.