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"I'm serious. The upcoming GNOME 3 release will be making some controversial changes, such as removing the Window List from the panel making for a more "task-based environment" as they say, they're also removing the Minimize and Maximize window control buttons and Desktop icons (at least at the moment that's what it seems like.)"

Clement Lefebvre has announced the code name for Linux Mint 11 and has stated that it will be using Gnome 3 but without the Gnome Shell as its desktop environment.

Scientific Linux (SL) is a Linux distribution produced by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). It is a free and open source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and aims to be 100% compatible with and based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Ikey Dhorety was hired to work full-time at Linux Mint last month. As a result the "new bugs" have been taken from four-hundred and fifty and reduced to zero. Overall bugs are reportedly also seeing additional focus now as a result of Ikey working full time.

Just a few days after I had brought back my Fedora computer to life, the last updates in kernel, nVidia driver from RPMfusion and what not made working impossible again. Here's how I (kinda) fixed it, and some kde/gnome cohabitation problems I noticed along the way

Offering real-time collaboration tools within a company is becoming a must-have if a company is serious about getting their employees to work as efficiently as possible. Having the ability to instant message fellow employees cuts time down by making communication more efficient. Instead of picking up the phone or walking to someone's office, all that is necessary is to send a message. Don't want to rely on a public service? Check out OpenFire.

China Unicom announced its own Linux-based, Android-like WoPhone operating system, with initial phones to be offered by Huawei and Beijing Tianyu Communication Equipment. The WoPhone announcement follows last week's news that China Unicom rival China Mobile will offer four Asus smartphones and a tablet running the carrier's new OMS 2.0 (OPhone) Android variant on a new TD-CDMA-ready Marvell PXA920 processor.

Google has released version 9.0.597.107 of its Chrome browser, which fixes a total of 19 security vulnerabilities, 16 of them rated as high risk. It was, for example, possible to crash the browser using JavaScript dialogues and SVG files, or to use the address bar for URL spoofing. Also fixed is an integer overflow when handling textareas. As ever, Google is keeping full details of the vulnerabilities under wraps until the bulk of users have switched to the new version.

Cedric Bosdonnat has been tracking contributions to LibreOffice since its announced fork from OpenOffice.org. He uses Git Data Miner to gleen results from the main branch of LibreOffice Git repositories. Git Data Miner is more commonly known as the tool used by Jonathan Corbet in his periodic kernel code reports.

An update to the Ubuntu 11.04 installer (Ubiquity) finally brings upgrade support to the Ubuntu Live CD. That means that for instance if you use Ubuntu 10.10, when you'll boot the Ubuntu 11.04 Live CD you'll have an option to upgrade (without losing your documents and installed applications).

Often, we forget how things came to be the way that they are. In our case, this means we may forget the origins of computing. I am going to take some time to go through our origins step by step.

Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced on the last day of February the immediate availability for testing of the second Alpha version of the upcoming Mandriva 2011 Linux operating system.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Debian Squeeze server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Looking for the best web experience on your Android device? We look at some of the Android browsers available.

You can do a lot of think through ssh, you can play music, you can execute remote commands, you can mount disks, and a long etc. Here you will find some of my favorite tips.

IPTState is a top-like interface to your netfilter connection-tracking table. Using iptstate you interactively watch where traffic crossing your netfilter/iptables firewall is going, sort by various criteria, limit the view by various criteria. But it doesn’t stop there: as of version 2.2.0 you can even delete states from the table!

The Ubuntu development community is racing ahead with Unity, including creating a 2-D Unity variant which will work under VirtualBox, which I must use since I don't have a spare system upon which to install Ubuntu Natty Narwhal for testing. When you get the login screen you will see the option for Unity 2D. Select it, log in.... And Behold! Unity! (insert angelic choral wha-aaaah here)

opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM Version 1.5 offers a unique open source ERP + CRM solution that can be deployed easily in the cloud on the Amazon EC2 platform. This combination offers ease of deployment, low cost, and flexibility to businesses worldwide, from small startups to midsize manufacturers to Fortune 500 companies.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

At last here are the final two parts of this series. Today we learn how to tell rsync which files to include or exclude, set up passwordless login on the backup server, and safely test everything. Tomorrow we put it all together and completely automate wakeup, backup, and shutdown.