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Many articles have already been written about Ubuntu’s HUD, or Head-Up Display, a feature that is expected on future versions of the popular distribution. It is intended to replace the menu as we know it, with voice capabilities built-in. You may read the original article by Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, here. If you use a distribution running the K Desktop Environment, there is an application that offers HUD’s promised functionality, minus the voice part, that you can install now. That application is called Appmenu-qt. This article shows how to install it on Linux Mint 12 KDE.

Like a good fantasy? Well, when you look at the battle going on today for the very soul of the Internet, it has all the elements of any epic fantasy including titans and trolls and back room deals and secret treaties.

A new 3D science fiction adventure game Cradle will be released this spring. Based on Unigine game engine, Cradle will feature beautiful surroundings and rich 3D graphics. The game is made by indie game studio Flying Cafe. The developers team have lots of experience as they have worked on games like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Heroes of Might and Magic 5, Allods Online, Ascension to the Throne etc. Cradle will be available for Linux users.

Although current discussion of the Linux desktop tends to focus on the disharmony around Unity and the GNOME shell, the true revolution on the desktop is taking place out of sight of users. The Wayland display server is expected to reach version 1.0 later this year, and is seen by many as the long term replacement for the X Window System, with real potential to improve and transform the performance of the desktop for Linux users.

Yorktown, Virginia is on the leading edge of technology with their secondary school’s “Bring Your Own Technology” program and policy.

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to serve the Icinga Web interface from an nginx server on Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu 11.10 (the tutorial might work for Debian Squeeze as well but I didn't test; Squeeze's Icinga version is a lot older than the versions for Wheezy and Ubuntu 11.10, so there might be small differences).

Dia is an application designed for quick creation of structured diagrams such as simple, line-based illustrations, flowcharts, UML charts and network diagrams. Being a vector based tool, there is some overlap with other applications such as Inkscape, but Dia's focus is on diagrams that are more functional than aesthetic.

JetBrains' Andrey Breslav using IntelliJ IDEA to write Kotlin code.

Here's another installment of the Linux CLI basics series. This time we will deal with other interest-worthy tasks, like setting up your keyboard layout or using utilities to find files on your drive(s). We hope that the series will help you become a keyboard/terminal guru.When you're using some fancy desktop environment, changing the layout of your keyboard is simple and easy. A few clicks, you choose your preferred layout and maybe other localization settings and that's that. But what if you find yourself at a command-line-only machine and you have to use the machine, but the layout is set to French?

The list of changes is smaller than I expected after finally experimenting with Xubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot. In fact very little has changed, but things are running better than ever. Some of the default applications have been replaced, but nothing major. That being said, I certainly have high hopes for 12.04.

NVIDIA this morning formally released the 295.20 display drivers for Linux x86/x86_64...

The return of the 7-inch form factor tablet brings with it an Ice Cream Sandwich and some improved specs

Canon CanoScan LiDE 100 Scanner by default unknown in the system Ubuntu 11.10/Linux Mint 12, But do not give up, because in Linux Mint/Ubuntu ”Everything is possible” and ”We Love Hacking”

If all the code in the upcoming release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution were to be written today, it would cost $17 billion, according to an analysis by free and open source software consultant James Bromberger.

The open source Mozilla Firefox 10 web browser is the first of a new era for Firefox. Firefox 10 is an ESR (Extended Support Release), with at least 42 weeks of support. In contrast with Mozilla's new rapid release cycle new non-ESR releases are out every six weeks.

Barely two weeks after being released, Mozilla is already updating Firefox 10. Firefox 10.0.1 was released late Friday with no advance notice from Mozilla.

I think they have done a very good job with Gnome 3. Gnome 3 was an effort to figure out how they can substantially improve the desktop. One interesting thing they did with the shell was that they made it possible for end user to script the desktop in a very easy way with Javascript extension.

The Chakra Project Linux is originally forked from Arch Linux and follow the principles of KISS [keep is simple stupid]. Here Chakra LInux 2012.2 has been released with KDE 4.8 and Qt 4.8 and many new packages. They introduce new "Ronak" theme for this version with attractive and stunning design and looks.

Relational DBMSes 'too rigid' The companies peddling NoSQL databases, which are increasingly needed for web applications that have a scale that breaks relational databases, are drooling over the prospects of their products going mainstream this year.…

I cannot say that my previous attempt to run DreamLinux was successful. It was the version 3.5, and there were issues with font size which prevented me from running any tests at all. Since then, DreamLinux team released another version of their distribution, version 5.0.

IT is transforming from a top-down dictatorship to a service catalogue and it's not an easy transition, but if you saw how some perceive you as obstructionist, you might want to accelerate the change.