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Fedora 15 beta released as GNOME 3 backlash grows

The Fedora Project announced the beta release of its Fedora 15 "Lovelock" Linux distribution, featuring the new GNOME 3 desktop, the Systemd initialization system, and a new dynamic firewall feature. Meanwhile, though, GNOME 3 has received mixed reviews from the GNOME faithful, many claiming the project went too far in simplifying the interface....

Fedora's Lovelock Linux is beta ready

Gives GNOME a big hug The Fedora Project has released the first and only beta for their next Linux distro, fully embracing the GNOME desktop that rival Ubuntu will shuffle away from later this month.…

My journey updating to natty

In my case, I wanted to update because I was having a small glitch with my intel graphics related to refreshing of the screen on my Samsung N150P plus netbook. Sometimes I had to switch to a different virtual desktop and come back in order to force the refresh of the whole screen to see things right... and I was tired of it.

Thoughts on the Unity Desktop

  • Thoughts on Technology; By Jeff Hoogland (Posted by Jeff91 on Apr 20, 2011 5:27 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: GNOME, Ubuntu
I understand Ubuntu wanted to get away from the old Gnome 2.x desktop, but so did Gnome! Now I could see the need for the fork still if the two groups had two radically different ideas, but from what I have seen, read, and used they are fairly similar...

Atom-based Qseven module ships with optional SSD

Aaeon announced a Qseven-format CPU module with an Intel Atom N450 processor as well as PCI Express, LPC, and SMBus expansion. The AQ7-LN module ships with up to 1GB of DDR2 memory and up to 4GB SSD storage, and offers dual display capability, plus SATA, gigabit Ethernet, and USB connectivity, says the company.

9 Steps To Happiness in Linux Mint XFCE

Linux Mint team works hard on making Linux as much user-friendly as possible. They even managed to improve usability of Ubuntu which holds position because its high degree of userfriendliness. Linux Mint is not just one system. I would say that Mint is more like approach to interface building which can be applied to a range of systems/desktop environments/windows managers. Sure enough, most known Linux Mint version is based on Ubuntu with GNOME. That was just a beginning. I have already written my thoughts about this Linux Mint version. But every beginning has its own story. Mint team also released KDE, LXDE and XFCE remixes. All of them were based on Ubuntu. Were... Until recent.

Cairo Dock 2.3.0 Released With New Applets, Better Compiz And Kwin Integration

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Apr 20, 2011 2:36 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
Cairo Dock (also known as GLX Dock) is a launcher / task manager like Avant Window Navigator or Docky and its major advantage is the huge list of applets it comes with: menus (MintMenu, Cardapio, etc.), Drop to Share applet, Ubuntu Me Menu and Messaging Menu applets, keyboard indicator, netspeed, network monitor, notification area, power manager, stacks, terminal, weather, weblets, system monitor and many many more.

8 Android Tablets for 2011 to be Excited About

  • Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose (Posted by kiterunner on Apr 20, 2011 1:39 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Back in 2009, Android was not even considered a competition for Apple and it's iOS based devices. But in 2010 itself we witnessed the emergence of Android OS as the preferred smartphone platform for a number of major players like Motorola, HTC, Samsung and LG. And towards the end of 2010, Android even went on to overtake iPhone in U.S. for the very first time[comScore mobile subscriber estimates]. But Android is yet to make its mark in Tablet market which is currently dominated by Apple iPad. We might see that change in 2011 itself.

Backport python-virtinst 0.500.6-2 to Scientific Linux 6

  • Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris; By Boris Derzhavets (Posted by dba477 on Apr 20, 2011 12:42 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Red Hat
Primary target is to get virt-install supporting options “--graphics spice”,”--video qxl”,”--channel spicevmc”. One drawback has been noticed. Virt-manager requires “Add hardware”->”Graphics”->”VNS Server” before you can proceed with normal VNC installation. Obvious workaround via option “Customize configuration before install”.

Tails 0.7 Screenshot Tour

Tails: The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System is a Debian-based live CD offering complete Internet anonymity for the user. Version 0.7 was released today and is available for free download. Tails 0.7 Screenshot Tour

Test Driving The QEMU-KVM KMS Driver

Just hours ago a new Linux KMS driver entered the world for the Cirrus GPU. Yes, as in that from Cirrus Logic for an ancient CL-GD5446 ASIC, this was a 2D-only 64-bit VisualMedia accelerator. But, fortunately, it is not for the actual hardware itself but rather the virtual incarnation that is emulated by QEMU and QEMU-KVM. Those running a Linux KVM virtualization stack with QEMU and the Cirrus adapter can now benefit from a kernel mode-setting driver.

No Ubuntu Default Extras Install

The Ubuntu Technical Board has voted not to install the non-free extras package by default during a standard Ubuntu Install. This an option that, if selected, installs proprietary software including hardware drivers, media codecs and the Flash player. It has been opt-in rather than opt out since its first appearance.

Capturing screen shots and program interaction on UNIX and Linux systems: Part 2, Simple graphical screen and window capture

Capturing screen images of applications is something that all technical writers, most graphical application developers, many technical marketing staff members, and even many users need to do. Modern UNIX® systems provide a number of different tools to capture graphical screens and single windows. This article, the second of three, focuses on tools that are present on every Linux® and UNIX system that uses the X Window System. These tools make it easy to capture graphical portions of the screen to help illustrate both proper and improper program behavior.

Mac and Linux Users Run Power BibleCD in Minutes

Welcome Mac and Linux users. You have probably stumbled upon this page because you want to run Power Bible CD for Christian Bible study, but Power BibleCD is widely known as an easy-to use Windows only application. And you don't have Windows. Well fear not.

LDR 1.06 Screenshot Tour

LDR (Linux Done Right) is an Arch-based Linux distribution which has many software components pre-configure. LDR is based on the Open Source (GPL v2) distribution Arch Linux. All modifications made are also available under the same license, so I'm sure even Rich Stallman himself would agree LDR is open and free! LDR 1.06 Screenshot Tour

Sonos adds Android app, Apple AirPlay

Sonos today released several enhancements to its Linux-powered streaming audio player devices. The new capabilities, all delivered via free apps and software upgrades, include the first Android app for remote control of Sonos gear, new support for Apple AirPlay audio sources, and the introduction of iOS 4 multitasking capabilities into the remote control apps.

Find Your chakra Linux 2011.04 | With screenshots Tour

Phil Miller proudly announced the last milestone for Chakra the GNU/2011.04 a powerful Arch Linux distro last week. The Chakra Project, today, remains a milestone for Arch Linux and is as important as Ubuntu has become for Debian.

GNOME Shell Atolm - Another Beautiful GNOME Shell Theme By Half-left

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Apr 19, 2011 2:29 PM EDT)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
Half-left (who has created the amazing Smooth Inset Gnome Shell theme) has created yet another beautiful theme for Gnome Shell called Atolm (based on Atolm by SkiesOfAzel).

Fedora Needs Your Help Testing GNOME 3.0

With Canonical ditching the GNOME 3.0 Shell in favor of their custom-developed Unity Desktop, one of the first Linux distributions where you'll see GNOME 3.0 shipping in full "out of the box" is Fedora 15. Fedora 15 is set to be released at the end of May, but a beta release happens to be coming out today. Additionally, this Thursday they're looking for your help in testing out GNOME 3.0...

Can Ubuntu 11.04 Give Cloud Partners a Lift?

When Ubuntu 11.04 debuts later this month, Canonical will work hard to engage cloud service providers (CSPs) and hosting providers. But can Ubuntu really catch on with paying cloud customers? Here are insights from TalkinCloud.

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