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With Feisty Fawn due this 19th, the stage is all set for the next player to show its trick.  Strange enough, the next release of Ubuntu is named Gutsy Gibbon.  A treat for the code monkeys, i guess.

Unfortunately, Gutsy will not be an LTS (Long term support) release. This  is Mark’s letter to the community.

(FYI : i never knew that zeroconf is configured by default in Feisty Fawn. Meaning, file-sharing will now be a breeze)

Tags: gutsy gibbon, Ubuntu

It is common for many projects to be renamed, following lawsuits by proprietory companies.  Linspire is what comes to my mind immediately. 

But it is very rare for a project to be renamed the second time :-)  Gaim has earned this special reputation.  Following the lawsuit by AOL, the GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger was renamed as Gaim.

Now that AIM is trademarked by AOL, Gaim was (force) renamed to Pidgin on April 6, 2007.  The libraries “Libgaim” was renamed to libpurple, while “gaim-text” became “Finch”. 

The newer version, Pidgin has a lot of fixes and features in it which includes voice/video (I was waiting for this).

Here is the screenshot.

For non-linux users,  here is your info.  Pidgin is  a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols (meaning you can run YM, AOL, Gtalk etc at the same time using one single client). Intially developed for Unix-like operating systems, Pidgin now runs on a variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, SkyOS and Trolltech’s PDA system, Qtopia.

Tags: gaim, pidgin

Is this true? I am planning to try it out this weekend. But here is the link.

Boot Mac OS X on a normal PC - Guidelines

Windows based steps are here

If you are looking for the easiest installation steps,  here is the Linux (Ubuntu) based installation.

Tags: mac, os x

Hi guys,

    Sorry for not informing you people. I just happen to come to Florida for doing the same work that i did in Chennai — Keyboard massaging.

    Will be back to blog work from tomorrow. 

Ever yours,

Arun

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