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Thanks to an unofficial Compiz plugin, you can now move the Unity (only works with Unity 3D!) launcher to the bottom of the screen. Sooner or later, this just had to happen since this was probably the most requested Unity feature.

It's no secret that I am a huge fan of the Enlightenment desktop. I recently got into contact with the project's lead developer "Rasterman" and we did a little bit of a question and answer session.

Procedure is standard Debian’s network PV install. Download configuration file from following location. Debian and consequently Ubuntu still consider Libvirt and virtinst tools like virt-manager and command line utility virt-install as way to manage RH’s Xen domains like F15,F16,CentOS 6 either to be utilized with Qemu-kvm Hypervisor.

KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, is the up-and-coming enterprise virtualization contender. It's lean, mean, fast, and runs unmodified guest operating systems with ease. In this crash course we'll quickly get KVM up and running on Ubuntu Server, install multiple guests, manage storage, and migrate guests to new hosts.

Among the new features of Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), there's a tool called Orchestra, which automatically installs Ubuntu across sets of computers.

eWEEK magazine announced that its content will soon be available via apps written for Windows Phone 7, Android, and iOS phones, plus other devices including iPad and Android tablets. The move by our sister publication will coincide with the discontinuation of a print version as of January 2012, according to parent company Ziff Davis Enterprise (ZDE).

Ubuntu Desktop 11.10, code-named Oneiric Ocelot, is the latest stable release of Ubuntu, a Linux distribution whose development is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a Linux software provider with headquarters in the UK.

This article provides a detailed review, using material from test installations of the graphical installer, the alternate installer and the DVD editions.

To date, Ubuntu Linux has been the reference platform for OpenStack. For those enterprises that need or want the enterprise support and certifications that SUSE has (think SAP and 10 years of support, which are both things that Ubuntu does NOT have) there is now a viable choice.

Google Chrome and Chromium open-source web browsers version 15.0.874.106 has been released. Latest stable release of Chromium web browser brings many improvements, performance enhancements and fixed several security bugs. The new tab page has been redesigned to easily access your mostly visited websites, web store applications and customizable website speed dial.

I never really considered myself a GNOME user. Though I am. I've used Xfce, Fluxbox, Fvwm2, LXDE, even JWM (Joe's Window Manager) in Puppy and FLTK/FLWM in TinyCore. But most of the time I stick with the default desktop environment offered by a given distribution.

Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu) and SUSE already compete in the Linux market. Now, they’ll increasingly compete in the cloud computing world. Both SUSE (owned by Attachmate) and Ubuntu are getting cozy with OpenStack, the open source cloud standard initially promoted by Rackspace and NASA. On the flip-side, Red Hat is marching forward with its own cloud standards. Here's the showdown.

Firefox with Bing is not the default Firefox and it's not a replacement for Google either. Heck, even if it was the default, it's trivially easy to replace the homepage and the default search provider too (just ask Ubuntu). In January of 2010, Ubuntu tried to switch out Google for Yahoo as the default provider.

So, Ubuntu 11.10 is here and GNOME2 is gone... Even if you had an option to run GNOME2 in previous release of Ubuntu 11.04, there is no more this option in 11.10. It is only shipped with Unity interface. Does it mean GNOME is fully gone? No, it is still here... But that's not GNOME2. That is GNOME3, updated version which follows (or creates?) new wave of user interfaces. Let's have a look at Ubuntu 11.10 with GNOME3 interface and check whether it is better than Unity.

This week we have an interview with Richard Holland, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of Eagle Genomics, a bioinformatics company that leverages scientific open source software to support its business model. Enjoy the interview!

This week, SUSE announced that it had joined OpenStack and today the company announced a development preview of SUSE Cloud which is powered by OpenStack. With the green team at SUSE behind OpenStack, along with Canonical, does that make OpenStack the de facto open source cloud? Not so fast – I wouldn't count Red Hat out just yet.

Leader International announced two Android tablets, both with full-sized USB ports and microSD slots. The $179 Impression 7 (I7) runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz processor, and provides a seven-inch 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen, while the $349 Impression 10 (I10) runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird, adding a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 capacitive IPS touchscreen, an HDMI port, and a two-megapixel camera....

WordPress plugins are a great way of customizing and improving the usability of your blog. I am a firm believer that selecting the right plugins can go a long way towards getting your niche site above your competitors in the search engine rankings. I have experimented extensively with this and will happily share with you the list I install for nearly all of my niche sites.

Storing your App data to Apple’s iCloud is very convenient. A little too convenient maybe. Find out how to manage your iCloud backup data before you spend money on storage you don’t need.

Video can be a powerful tool to deliver information over the Internet for marketing, corporate training, or social media purposes. Most people who think of Internet video probably think of YouTube first, but sometimes public hosting is not the best option for your video.

Despite having issues using Sabayon Linux on a USB stick with persistent storage (unable to install packages), I was so impressed by its speed that I decided to go ahead and install it. Surprisingly I have found that most of the software I use is already included, including Gnome Tweak Tool.