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I was reading an article in Information Week cleverly titled "The OS Mess". The article raises the issue of the technology world becoming flooded with a plethora of different operating systems. I think having a variety of different platforms available is a good thing. Competition stimulates innovation and market growth.

Fluxbox is a fast, lightweight, very customizable window manager for X. Fluxbox is a great choice for Linux users who favor speed and efficiency, and setting up their working environment just the way they like. Today we'll look at some super-saver speed tricks such as grouping applications with tabs, tear-off menus, sticky buttons, the infamous slit, and more.

I have this weird idea about computers. I think that we should control them, and that they should serve a higher purpose than being high-tech TVs feeding us a steady stream of drivel. We don't even get good drivel anymore — it's drivel lite.

Thanks to a great application list made by Carla Schroder I’ve discovered this software: Game Editor. Game Editor is the open source game design software that gives you the power to create the games of your dreams, and, unlike other game creation tools, gives you the chance to get and change the source code of the game creator and design and develop 2D games for personal computers as well as mobile devices.

Bodhi Linux is yet another attempt to convince users that you don’t have to pay 54£ (Windows 7 Home Premium) in order to use your computer for basic tasks like writing emails and browsing the Internet. Based on the ever-so-popular Ubuntu Linux, Bodhi pushes the boundaries a bit further in ease of use, resources required and “ohhhh prettyyy” factor.

du is a disk usage command allows you to easily know file and directory sizes, also you can view file and directory sizes decreasing starting by biggest file, otherwise increasing by smallest file.

Bacula is one of the most widely used enterprise backup solutions for Linux, allowing systems administrators to automate backups using an array of tools. Bacula allows administrators to backup files from multiple clients to several different types of storage devices, including tape, raid, removable storage and networked storage. Webacula is a web application which allows you to monitor and control your Bacula jobs from a browser.

Google has filed a motion [PDF] asking leave of the court to supplement its invalidity contentions regarding Oracle's patents, invalidity contentions it claims "it has now determined are among its strongest in the case". It has found prior art, in one instance going all the way back to Multics..

Ubuntu, as of now, lacks a dedicated font installer. While this may not be a big problem for seasoned Linux users, but for new users who want to install some font that is not in the repositories, it could be quite an annoyance. Here’s a simple way to install new fonts in Ubuntu without doing a lot of hard work.

When you want to reuse functions in multiple scripts you can create a library which allows you to access those created functions.

Linux Desktop articles are all over the place. I can hardly open up a browser without tripping over one. Most of them are negative whine-fests, complaining that Linux is too hard for new users, or has become too dumbed-down for technical users, or the fonts are ugly, or the next generation desktop environments are too different, or... well I could go on, but I think you get the point.

The KDE team has announced on July 11th the second Release Candidate version for the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.7 environment.

'Eventually, there comes a time to give us more money' Microsoft continued its campaign yesterday to convince stuck-in-the-mud Windows XP customers to upgrade to Windows 7, the company's current operating system.…

Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' Alpha 2 has been released. This release sees many parts being upgraded to Gnome 3.1.2 stack but not all. Ubuntu 11.10 comes with Unity as default session and Unity 2D as fallback mode with Gnome Shell and Classic Gnome both installable from repositories.

Today, KDE has released a second release candidate of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing last-minute showstopper bugs and finishing translation and documentation that comes along with the releases.

Up for review today is a low-end NVIDIA Fermi graphics card, the GeForce GT 520. The low-end graphics processor it uses, the GF119, was released back in April. The graphics card only has 48 Stream processors and uses DDR3 memory with a 64-bit bus, except the cost on this creation is just around $60 USD.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.6 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

It is not often that people from within the free and open source software community speak frankly about the problems within.

I've been excited about the moving of the Linux Mint GNOME (though there is still a main Ubuntu-based Linux Mint GNOME edition), Xfce, and Fluxbox editions, but less so about the KDE edition moving similarly.

Google announced that iRiver's Story HD e-reader will be available July 17 at Target, and will be the first device to offer Google eBooks support via Wi-Fi. In related e-reader news, the Philadelphia Media Network will offer deeply discounted Android tablets to Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News subscribers, and e-reader/tablet vendor Augen appears to have gone under....

Unix systems may not be all the rage that they were two decades ago, but in nearly eight out of 10 data centers based on them, their use is either holding steady or increasing. That's the assessment of a recent survey of the HP, IBM, and Oracle Unix customer bases by Gabriel Consulting Group, which has just finished up its fifth annual slicing and dicing of Unix customer sentiments.