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Eric Turgeon has announced that GhostBSD 1.0 will be released next week, and will have FreeBSD 8.0 as its base. The release will feature the new green theme.

Green is not really my colour, and the same applies to Ubuntu’s brown colour scheme (though it’s going to be light in 10.04), but colour schemes and themes [...]

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After having tried and reviewed FreeBSD 8, Jesse Smith has now taken PC-BSD 8 for a spin, and he’s overall very pleased with the speed, ease-of-use and the hardware support for his desktop PC. He is also very impressed with the PC-BSD Installer and its Package Manager.
He concludes his review with:
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When it comes to Intel’s X.Org driver for Linux, xf86-video-intel, the most recent release was version 2.10 and it arrived in early January complete with Pineview (their next-generation Intel Atom systems) support, X-Video improvements, and various other features. The xf86-video-intel 2.11 driver is now emerging as their next quarterly update that brings in the KMS page-flipping and DRI2 swap events support. However, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, which is set to be released in April, will not be shipping with either of these drivers. Instead Canonical has decided to stick with the xf86-video-intel 2.9 driver that was released last September…

GE Intelligent Platforms announced a rugged COM Express module with an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. The Linux-ready bCOM2-L1100 offers soldered processors and memory, shock and vibration protection, an extended temperature version, RAID support, and an optional carrier board, the company says….

…that this part of my desktop could feel so sleek: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, we are ready for you.

Avalue announced a 3.5-inch SBC (single board computer) using Intel’s dual-core, 1.66GHz Intel Atom D510. The ECM-PNV accepts up to 1GB of DDR2 RAM, has CompactFlash and Mini PCI Express slots, includes six serial ports, and has two SATA interfaces, the company says….

Access subsidiary IP Infusion announced a new Linux-ready & stateless tunneling& product that enables the coexistence of IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Based on the IETF’s & 6rd& (IPv6 rapid deployment) specifications, ZebOS Rapid Deployment forwards IPv6 traffic though existing IPv4 networks, enabling carriers to more easily transition to IPv6, says IP Infusion….

I just released pcmanfm 0.9.2 + libfm 0.1.5 alpha.
The main change beside bug fixes is the ability to set default web
browser and mail client.
This is achieved via a new gio module. Now you can execute
libfm-pref-apps to see it.

By default it’s hidden from applications menu if you’re in Gnome, KDE, or XFCE.
I think it should work [...]