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Just as we predicted (even with our not-so-precise mathematical procedure) ‘Google Chrome will beat Mozilla Firefox after October 2011’;Google Chrome has, finally, surpassed Mozilla Firefox Globally for the time period November 2009 – November 2011 on a monthly basis

The hottest news in GameWorld now, is not a new game, but the perplexing issue of using Desura or USC (Ubuntu Software Centre) to download games. Up until last week, when Desura moved the Linux client out of beta and launched a full release, users were waiting up for the 65 games that it would bring to Linux-using gamers.

As HTML5 is creating circumstances for the death of Flash, a group of creative developers have launched a special project known as Occupy Flash. The goal of this project is to abandon the Adobe Flash Player.

Opensuse 12.1 has been released! This release bring awesome improvements include the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop as well as the newest from KDE, Xfce opensuse-logoand LXDE; your own Cloud made easy with mirall; Snapper-shots of your file system.

Linux Mint 12 RC comes with two option of desktop environment: One built with GNOME 3.2 and MGSE and other with GNOME 2.3 and MATE. In this post we will show how to Gnome shell extenstion Mate and MGSE for LinuxMint in Ubuntu11.10.

LinuxMint RC 12 Lisa is available for download through and unoficial download Link, the official RC release should be available in the next few hours. Find in this post some screenshots of this upcoming release from LinuxMint.

There is a fresh mint(ed) flavor on LinuxMint now. In the last one month, it has scaled the distro charts and is now the number one distro for opensource users. Distrowatch, the unofficial platform for all Linux distros, shows that LinuxMint has been has had the maximum number of hits in the past few weeks to become the most popular distros today.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) 7.0 has been released, Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that provides you with the steps necessary to build your own custom Linux system. Building an LFS system teaches you about all that makes Linux tick, how things work together, and depend on each other. And most importantly, how to customize it to your own taste and needs."

Here is an understated Gentoo-based project Calculate Linux with its just release version 11.9. It is a source-based distribution aimed at businesses

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta has been released! If you have ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal or older version installed on your system, and you want to upgrade to this new release, then follow these instructions.

There have been rumors that the secure boot of MS Windows 8 would replace BIOS with UEFI, thereby locking out Linux. This would even lock out the earlier Windows versions from new computers. This rumor was disturbing for people who wanted both Windows and Linux on their systems

Wunderlist has finally descended on the Linux platform. And though it adorns a minimal looking frame, with its sorting, listing, and managing features, it will handle all your to-do things.

"OpenIndiana oi_151a has been released, this release comes exactly one year after the first release, oi_147. This build brings a wide variety of enhancements,openindiana including being the first build based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes KVM

It seems that Google has got a sweet tooth. The company has developed almost a tradition ever since it launched Android for the smart phone market. Every new build of its increasingly hot operating system for smart phones and tablets is named after a dessert. Its versions are named alphabetically, and the latest one is Ice cream sandwich.

This is a nice script that will allow you to install Nvidia driver in Debian Squeeze the easy way

WikiLeaks and the recent Egyptian political revolution are two great examples of what Anonymity software can do. Tor is a unique virtual tunnels network, which ensures online activities and location remains undetected. The Tor Project was awarded the Free Software Foundation’s for 2010 for being the most influential Social Benefit Project.

Have you ever wondered when would Chrome finally surpass the usage share of Microsoft Internet Explorer? Or when will Chrome exceed the usage share of Mozilla Firefox? At what instant of time will Chrome become the ultimate browser with (approx) 100% usage? When will Internet Explorer vanish from the browser market? In this post we shall attempt to answer these questions by mathematically studying the browser % usage graph.

Google is well known when it comes to programming circles as to redefine words so that it could suit its ideas. It can be an open source because it was released under Apache 2.0 software license but at the same time, it fails to meet other two points.

Ventrilo is a lightweight VOIP server used not only for voice communication, but it also acts as a chat room of sorts. It is extremely simply to install and configure. Used widely by gamers around the world Ventrilo allows conversations with multiple users with just the tap of a button. The advantage of the Ventrilo client over many other VOIP clients is that you can chat to anyone using your keyboard shortcut while other applications are running in the foreground.

If you need more honey in your food, you aren’t the only one. Honeycomb came around in December and we had a lot of questions. This was the first OS that was especially made for Android tablets. Here are some things that I found out about Honeycomb.