It sure has been a while since GIMP 2.2 was released. It’s actually been three years since the GIMP team has released a major update to the open source Photoshop program. This week, GIMP 2.4 was released, with a new icon set, and a whole bunch of other features:

Redesigned crop, selection, and align tools
Scalable bitmap [...]

Mozilla’s calendar programs Sunbird and Lightning have some how become even better. Sunbird is a standalone application for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and Lightning is a calendar plugin for the Thunderbird e-mail client.
Sunbird and Lightning 0.7 were both released today, and they feature a new event/task dialog, a new event summary dialog, and many other [...]

As you may have already started to notice Mozilla keeps building more applications. We have Firefox web browser, Thunderbird e-mail client, Songbird music player/browser, and now we’ve got a Mozilla-based instant messaging client.
Instantbird is still in very early beta. But version 0.1 already shows us assurance. The program is much like popular instant messaging services [...]

Kubuntu 7.10 was released today. Many improvements have been made over the last release. Some that we noticed were, improved hardware and driver support, 3D Desktop graphics, and integrated desktop search.
Kubuntu is really just Ubuntu with the KDE interface instead of Gnome. It is not hard to turn Ubuntu into Kubuntu all that is [...]

Opera Browser just keeps getting better. Today the Opera team released Opera 9.24, which is really just a security update to Opera 9.24. And next week public beta of Opera 9.5 is being released.
Opera 9.24 fixes several vulnerabilities that could leave your computer open to attack. Updates are available for the Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix [...]

Vixta is a Fedora-based distro with a custom KDE-based interface. Just like Vista there are widgets, a start menu and taskbar. Without looking close at the desktop many would mistake it as Vista. Though it looks like Vista we believe very few windows users will make the switch.
You can’t run Windows programs without the help [...]