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Ikey is the author of the Linux Distro, SolusOS. Solus has caused quite a stir even in its infancy. Born from the immense dislike for Gnome 3 and Unity, Ikey has set his goals on creating a distro that uses Gnome 3 technology with full backwards compatibility with GTK2. In short, people are getting their old Gnome 2 Desktop back, with some great added function.

It's not been an easy feat, but Ikey forges ahead because people like his work. A lot of people. Thousands use his work....some of them on mission-critical work stations and servers. It's just that good.

But the whole thing almost went up in smoke 24 hours ago. No, I mean really up in smoke.

I sat down with Leslie Hawthorn, Community Manager at Red Hat, and chatted with her about the 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference that was held in Baltimore, Maryland this year. She confided that the theme, Are we there yet?, is a reference to the idea that while women have made many strides for equality in terms of equal pay, equal work, and so on, the group still feels like women in tech have a long way to go. The idea behind the Grace Hopper conference is to provide a gathering place for women in technology to be able to network, knowledge share, and enhance their technical skill sets; with the general conclusion being that we are going to get there, through mutual support and collaboration.

Unity unveiled

The latest release of the open source audio framework includes ALSA Use Case Manager (UCM) support, support for Bluetooth sources out of the box, configuarble device latency offset and several other optimisations

The CyanogenMod developers have released nightly builds of the Android 4.2 based CyanogenMod 10.1 for several devices. For some devices, the developers have also started over-the-air updates to this version

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.2 on a headless Ubuntu 12.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

HTML 5.1, Canvas 2D specs also announced The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has moved ahead with plans to develop the next two versions of the HTML web markup language, having released new draft specifications of HTML5, HTML 5.1, and related standards.…

Both Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) are building their public clouds on OpenStack, the emerging open source platform for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). But that doesn't mean the public clouds will be identical. Here's why.

The Btrfs file-system updates for the Linux 3.8 kernel will feature performance improvements among other work. Btrfs RAID 5/6 support is also to be published this week...

The point of this article is to highlight improvements that have been made and to make people aware of Slacko Puppy who perhaps did not read the first article.

The Linux Foundation has released a video of what it sees as the 2012 highlights for Linux - but the presence of decent video-creation and editing software running on Linux does not seem to be one of them.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that voting for the 2012 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open. The Members Choice Awards allow the Linux community to select their favorite products in a variety of categories.

DBLabLite 12.04 has been released. DBLab is an desktop Linux distribution incorporating features from Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Pear Linux and Lubuntu and available in GNOME 3, Cinnamon and Openbox flavours.

You can write shell scripts in mere seconds, hack the kernel in your sleep and perform other feats of Linux wizardry—but can you teach? I love teaching Linux. Whether teaching introductory-level courses to people new to Linux or teaching advanced best-practices courses to experienced administrators, I hear common feedback. Most Linux instructors are good, but we can be better. There are common problems with Linux training that most of us have experienced or will experience at some point. I'm convinced that there also are common solutions. After hundreds of hours spent in the classroom, there are a few key concepts I'm convinced will make committed Linux instructors as awesome as the operating system we teach.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has officially announced that the HTML5 and Canvas2D specifications are now complete and are now candidate recommendations. This does not mean that they are now a standard, but the W3C has moved on to the phase where members, businesses and developers can use the specifications for "implementation and planning".

Gauchito returns after 35 years! LinuxBBQ “Argentina78? is featuring the brand-new MATE 1.4.2 desktop environment and kernel 3.7. “Yo’ Mama is so fat she even has her own distro” If you have no Xmas present yet for your mum, grab this copy and customize it, with a “Me as toddler” wallpaper and her favourite radio stations in the tray. Add some ebooks, her wedding photos from 1783 and you are good to go.

An interview with Debian Developer Paul Tagliamonte, which includes an interesting discussion of why it's important for software to be free (as in freedom) but also accessible to different technical expertise levels.

The popularity of Arch Linux, combined with the project's philosophy that appeals to more advanced Linux users, has resulted in an explosion of Arch-based distributions with a variety of desktop environments and user-friendly features. One of them is Cinnarch, a live distro that marries Arch Linux with Cinnamon (Linux Mint's ambitious fork of GNOME Shell). The result is an interesting rolling-release distribution which is still undergoing rapid development, but which has a potential to deliver a traditional desktop user interface built from cutting-edge software.

2013 is just around the corner and it’s time to wrap up the Linux world’s happening for 2012. So let’s start with a most obvious thought “Which Linux distributions made to the top?!”

If you still think MySQL is too entrenched to be moved from its spot as the number one, open-source DBMS, you might to look at what Wikipedia is doing.