Finally after more than 2 years of development and announced the launch of the final version of XFCE 4.6. This much anticipated update includes new developments such as a configuration manager, a new sound mixer, large improvements in the session manager, and other important changes in the rest of its major components.

In the visual tour Xfce 4.6 we can find some other news, some very welcome, such as:

The new Application Finder to quickly find and launch applications using only keywords:

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There was a sixth and at the same time last alpha version of the new release distribution Ubuntu 8.10, code name Intrepid Ibex.

The new test is based on the latest Ubuntu becie GNOME (2.23.91), which appeared, including the long-awaited feature papers in the Nautilus file manager, and Roller gained support in the archives formats ALZ, rzip, CAB and TAR.7Z. System with the successful start-up, backs running kernel, creating an installed bootloaderze an entry allowing him to run in the previously saved state. Supplied by default while dkms allows you to automatically build a new driver at the time of publication. Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 is also a new version of Samba 3.2, support for IPv6 and network encryption. The entire works under the control of an unstable kernel 2.6.27.

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Mandriva Linux 2009.1 Alpha 2 is the result of the merger of Mandrake and Conectiva, two distributions based on Red Hat and have managed to differentiate themselves over the years.

This new version offers a single CD with a full Linux KDE and the latest editions of the most known and used, such as Firefox, OpenOffice, Amarok, K3b or Gimp.

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Linux Foundation, non-profit organization that supports the development of operating systems GNU / Linux, announced for September of next year, the event LinuxCon.
This meeting to be held in Portland, wants to be (and become) an annual conference, to 360 degrees, about the world of Linux and open source.
Completely open to the public and strictly managed by non-commercial reality, the event will host previews technology, technical sessions, meetings, debates etc ...

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