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GDM3Setup: GUI To Change GDM3 Wallpaper, Theme, Logo And More

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jul 11, 2011 11:15 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora, GNOME
GDM3Setup is a simple GUI tool to tweak GDM3 (GNOME3 login screen). Using it, you can change the following GDM3 settings: wallpaper, GTK3 theme, icon theme, logo, disable the login screen user list or restart buttons.

Red Hat clone CentOS 6.0 arrives late, but with security updates

The CentOS community released its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.0 clone, promising continuous release updates to support RHEL 6.1 security features. In addition to supporting RHEL 6.0 improvements such as faster virtualization, and better scalability, power efficiency, and resource management, CentOS 6.0 is said to offer a completely rebuilt build system and library checks to confirm upstream binary compatibility.

Why a Devout Capitalist Loves Free Software

In order for a capitalistic system to work however, people must be allowed to own what they earn. And ownership of a thing means that you must be able to make all of the choices...

Nichi Vendola and Free Software in Puglia: communication struggles and unanswered questions

  • Stop!/Zona-M; By M. Fioretti (Posted by mfioretti on Jul 11, 2011 8:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
8 months ago Nichi Vendola, governor of the Italian Region of Puglia, signed in the same week a proposal for a Free Software regional law and... a partnership with Microsoft, worrying local FOSS activists to the point that they sent Stallman to Puglia to explain what Free SW is. This morning, Vendola declared that the law was recently approved by the Puglia Regional Council, with a press release that, after defining Free Software as "Using computers without licensing costs",leaves unanswered all the questions about FOSS in local schools and businesses asked last year.

The 10 best open source apps you never heard of

There are thousands of excellent open source programs to choose from. Here are 10 of my favorites that rarely get breathless buzz or make top 10 lists, presented in no particular order, rhyme, or reason.

Maximize Your Screen Real Estate in Fedora 15

  • xjonquilx; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on Jul 11, 2011 6:22 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora, GNOME
By default, Gnome 3 in Fedora 15 doesn’t leave you with much screen real estate with its huge title bar and persistent menu bar. These settings certainly don’t like the tiny 10 inch screen of my netbook. But with a little tweaking, you can remove the title bar and auto hide the menu bar, maximizing your screen real estate like my screenshot below (yes, that is my WHOLE screen):

FOSS and the Freeloader Factor

The GPL "needs to be replaced with 'free for noncommercial use' so that the hackers can still have a 'free as in beer' OS to hack on, the poor can also have a free OS, but those corps that are actually making money on Linux will HAVE TO contribute some of their profits back into the community," opined Slashdot blogger hairyfeet. "... Many of these companies wouldn't be enjoying their massive profits if it wasn't for Linux."

CentOS 6.0 Released, It's Based on RHEL 6.0

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 11, 2011 4:27 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The CentOS development team, through Karanbir Singh, proudly announced last evening, July 10th, the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 6.0 operating system.

Linux Gaming: OpenClonk

Until recently, I had presumed that a Clonk was the sound that my hard drive made just before I realized that I hadn't backed it up properly. However, in this case, a Clonk is a tiny chap who can jump, climb and fire weapons in the service of reaching his goal. OpenClonk runs on Linux and is the latest in a series of side-view platform games that started life as a DOS shareware series.

Fedora 15 Configuration Series: A Review Of Ailurus

  • xjonquilx; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on Jul 11, 2011 2:33 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora
Ailurus is a great little program to add on to a fresh installation of Fedora 15. I would compare it to something along the lines of Ubuntu Tweak, in which the user is presented with a set of clean up tasks, system information, a package manager, and even a good solid set of repositories to choose from. I only wish I had found it a little earlier than I did as it would have made adding the initial repositories a breeze when I first installed Fedora 15.

Process Photos with digiKam’s Batch Queue Manager and a Bash Script

  • Scribbles and Snaps; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by dmpop on Jul 11, 2011 1:36 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
One of digiKam’s lesser known features is the ability to link scripts to notifications. At first sight, this may seem like a rather obscure functionality, but it can be put to some clever uses.

The Core HTTP Module in Nginx

  • Packt Publishing; By Dipankar Sarkar (Posted by naheeds on Jul 11, 2011 12:39 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Nginx is an open source high-performance web server, which has gained quite some popularity recently. Due to its modular architecture and small footprint, it has been the default choice for a lot of smaller Web 2.0 companies to be used as a load-balancing proxy server. It supports most of the existing backend web protocols such as FCGI, WSGI, and SCGI.

Scientific Linux 5.6 Live released

Just over two weeks after the official release of Scientific Linux 5.6, the Scientific Linux (SL) developers have announced the arrival of the LiveCD and LiveDVD variants of version 5.6 of their Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone. The LiveCD/DVD versions allow users to run the distribution directly from a CD or DVD drive without having to install it. Alternatively, it can also be installed to the local hard disk or users can run the LiveCD image from a USB flash drive.

Share your music library with your local network

  • Go2Linux; By Guillermo Garron (Posted by ggarron on Jul 11, 2011 10:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Slackware
If you have a big music collection, and you want to have it in only one place, and be able to listen to it using Linux, Windows or Mac clients. Use mt-Daap Linux server. Slackware in this case.

CentOS 5.6 Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Jul 11, 2011 9:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on CentOS 5.6 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

This week at LWN: Echoprint: Open acoustic fingerprinting

Acoustic fingerprinting has been given a tremendous boost by the mobile smartphone business. You have probably seen the basic scenario in television commercials, if not in person: a user holds up a phone to capture a few seconds of audio playing nearby, and the application computes a "fingerprint" of the track, which is then used to query a remote database for the mystery artist and track name. The space has been dominated by proprietary software, but a new — and open source — project was unveiled last week, named Echoprint.

13 fun Android apps for Linux/Unix fans!

You will find almost any app in the Android Market to suit your requirement. In this post I have compiled a list of apps that will particularly interest Linux users! Some apps are intended for mere fun while you will find others helpful for referencing.

Displaying Google Gadgets in Gnome 3 with Screenlets

  • Brighthub; By Matthew Casperson (Posted by mcasperson on Jul 11, 2011 6:28 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora, Linux
One of the cool features of Screenlets is the ability to display widgets from a wide range of tools, including Google Gadgets. With its simple conversion feature, Screenlets allows you to easily place Google Gadgets on your Gnome 3 desktop. The following instructions show you how this can be done.

Mesa Gets OpenGL 3.0 Floating-Point Depth Buffers

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 11, 2011 5:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Yet again Marek Olšák has made another great improvement to Mesa. Recently this independent developer has been working quite a lot in implementing OpenGL 3.0 support for the open-source Mesa stack. Ending out this weekend, he now has working OGL3 floating-point depth buffers per the GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float extension...

Cairo Dock Installation And Effects

After only one day using Cairo Dock I was totally amazed by the jaw dropping effects. I have heard of this great application before, and now I’m confident that this is most likely the last dock or panel I will ever use.

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