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Desura client for Linux may go open source. At the moment, there is only one developer who is working on the client and he shared his thoughts on making Desura Linux client open source in a recent forum post. No decision has been taken yet but he has invited comments from the community and there has been a hugely positive reaction. If all goes well Desura client for Linux can be open sourced eventually.

The distribution forked from Arch Linux, the Chakra Project based on K-I-S-S [keep it simple stupid] principle. It comes originally with KDE desktop manager and PLASMA desktop. Here some of its screenshots are there.

Motorola's $300 Droid Razr is pricey, and its non-removable battery doesn't last long. But in every other way, this thin, cutting-edge design breathes new life into its manufacturer's legacy, according to this eWEEK review....

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu Linux 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Unity desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

In this Floss4Science interview we bring you the leaders of the MAGMA (Matrix Algebra on GPU and Multicore Architectures) project: Jack Dongarra and Stanimire (Stan) Tomov. MAGMA is a set of linear algebra libraries with a strong relationship to the venerable LAPACK and ScaLAPACK libraries.

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, announced a few days ago that the upcoming Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) operating system will feature a new desktop interface built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

This week we look at the ascension of HTML5 in the wake of the Adobe Flash announcement, Google's OAuth playground and the life of a MLB CIO.

In the six years The HeliOS Project has been in business, we've applied various and sundry wallpapers to our outgoing computers. Some, we've just picked stock work from what is already available, some we've found on the Interwebz, and I've even tried my hand at creating an "official" wallpaper for our machines. Think six year old with dull crayons when you envision my renderings. That being said, we are hosting a contest and asking our readers to submit their work for consideration as the wallpaper that will go out on our HeliOS machines.

If you find yourself interacting with a database system such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, Oracle, or even SQLite, sometimes you find that some of the tasks you perform are more conveniently executed using a GUI rather then using the default management utility (usually run from a CLI) provided by the database system itself. Some of you may already use other tools such as phpMyAdmin, or phpPgAdmin. This article will talk about another web based database management tool known as Adminer. Adminer allows for the management of all the database systems mentioned above.This article covers Debian (& Ubuntu), Fedora, and ArchLinux.

As we head into the holidays, thoughts of 2012's Linux shows might take a back seat to more festive activities. But according to Larry the Free Software Guy, the SCALE 10X team is busy working on what's expected to be a landmark show on the expo's 10th anniversary.

Remember Apache Harmony? The Apache Software Foundation led effort to build a fully open source implementation of Java? Guess what? The project is now (mostly) dead and that's not good news.

I have confessed several times that KDE is my favorite Desktop Environment. And even more, that I prefer KDE3 to KDE4. That's why every time I approach Linux distribution with KDE3 on top, I am full of awe.

Chakra 2011.11 is the second maintenance release of Chakra Edn, a KDE distribution that was originally based on Arch Linux, but is now an independent distribution. This release is powered by KDE 4.7.3. In previous versions of KDE, there was a “Users and Groups” management application in Systems Settings, the KDE control center. However, in this version, it is missing (from Systems Settings).

Running a server on a local network opens a whole new world of possibilities. You can access your files and documents from multiple machines, stream media, host your own photo gallery or blog, and much more.

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.

Ken Starks is, by all standards, a normal guy. He lives in the Austin, Texas area, worked hard his entire life, raised a family, and has lived a mostly good life. Around 2005, Ken was pressure washing a building 38 feet in the air, when the lift failed. He came crashing to the ground, fracturing his spine at the neck. Thus ended one career, and began a new one.

The Humble Voxatron Debut has added some more games with not much time to spare, with only 4 days left you need to pay more than $5.20 to unlock all the games!

The GNOME developers are working on new application designs for Music, Photos, Chat, Transfers, Weather, Web, Mail, Calendar, Videos, Maps, Boxes (application for accessing other computer systems or images) and Notes as well as a redesign for Documents and Contacts. Here are a few very interesting mockups:

lodle writing on the Desura forum has asked for opinions and help in making the Desura client partially open sourced (I say partially as it will use some sort of dual licensing as they are a commercial company).

The init Daemon The init daemon is the system and service manager for Linux. It is the first true process Linux starts when it boots and as such, has a PID of 1 and is the ancestor of all processes. The init daemon has been around since the early days of UNIX, and many people have worked to improve it. more>>