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Welcome to the 181st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Ubuntu Binary Clock Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin which displays the current time in a binary format, directly in the Unity Dash. For more details about how a binary clock works, check the Wikipedia article.

Jeff Bilyk announced last evening, January 4th, the immediate availability for download of the third point release of the Alpine Linux 2.3 operating system. Alpine Linux 2.3.3 is powered by Linux kernel 3.0.14, containing a patch that resolves OpenNHRP and MTU issues reported in previous releases.

Today, January 5th, the KDE development team unleashed the second and last Release Candidate version of the upcoming and highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.

Among the new features incorporated in Linux kernel 3.2 we can mention better support for large files by supporting for EXT4 block sizes bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, upper limits of CPU time can now be set in the process scheduler, lots of Btrfs improvements, and much more.

Canonical announced last night, January 3rd, that it will present the latest in Desktop, Cloud and Ubuntu One demonstrations, as well as an exclusive Ubuntu concept design, at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) event, in Las Vegas, US.

David Tavares, the French developer behind the jaw-dropping Pear OS Linux operating system is proud to announce today, January 3rd, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Alpha version of Pear OS Linux Debian Edition.

Being powered by Linux Kernel 3.1, it provides a featureful Xfce 4.8 desktop environment, and the powerful Softmaker office suite, which includes Planmaker, Presentations and Textmaker components but also provides Microsoft Office documents compatibility.

The Dreamlinux developers proudly announced yesterday, January 1st, the immediate availability for download of the Dreamlinux 5.0 operating system.

The following tutorial will teach all Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) users how to update their systems to the Mozilla Firefox 10.0 web browser.

Welcome to the 180th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Alexander Tratsevskiy proudly announced earlier today, December 30th, the immediate availability for download of the Calculate Linux 11.12 operating system, all editions.

Copy Plain Text is a very useful add-on for Mozilla products, especially for Firefox, when you deal with lots of text copying from web pages on a daily basis. The old Copy Plain Text, created by Jeremy Gillick, died at version 0.3.3 and it dosen't work anymore with current versions of Firefox or Thunderbird.

Today we've tested the Ubuntu Razor-qt Remix distribution, which is actually an early Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) build, from October 2011, featuring KDE Software Compilation 4.7.1.

Ricardo Villalba proudly announced today, December 29th, the immediate availability for download of the SMPlayer 0.6.10 media player frontend for Linux. SMPlayer 0.6.10 comes after a few months of development and it brings interesting features, such as...

Ubuntu Calendar Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin which allows users to quickly search and access their calendar directly from Unity, by accessing the calendar lens icon. The results are automatically filtered in Upcoming and Recent categories, and users can also manually filter the events by Personal and Birthdays & Anniversaries, and by time range.

Today we're announcing that the unreleased PHP 5.4 scripting language for web development will be included in the final version of the Fedora 17 Linux distribution. The build will include ZTS extensions and modules, as well as other features.

EeeMC 12.04.24 is now based on the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system and includes the latest MythTV 0.24 open source digital video recorder (DVR) and the powerful XBMC Media Center 11.0 Beta, the award-winning, free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media.

Ubuntu Gwibber Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin that will allow users to quickly search for social networking posts from your very own Twitter, Facebook or Identi.ca accounts, which are sign-in in the actual Gwibber client app.

Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP at Linaro, announced last week that an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) ARM port of the OpenJDK 6.0 package for Ubuntu is available for download and testing.