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Hardware compatibility, ease of use, the size of a software repository. These three attributes are unique to each Linux distribution. But at the same time, each Linux distribution is at liberty to take and mix whatever it wants from any other. This creates a rather unique situation, where good ideas quickly spread, and bad ones fail. And as a result, there are dozens of distribution updates each month, hundreds each year, in a race to leap-frog each other in the race to the top of the DistroWatch.com charts.

Cybernet announced a "zero footprint" computer built into a keyboard, featuring a dual-core Atom processor and a multi-touch trackpad. The Linux-ready ZPC-D45 is under one inch thick, but it provides features such as a CD/DVD drive, both VGA and HDMI outputs, stereo speakers, and dual Mini PCI Express slots, the company says....

What's better, a graphical interface or the Linux command line? Both of them. They blend seamlessly on Linux so you don't have to choose. A good graphical user interface (GUI) has a logical, orderly flow, helps guide you to making the right command choices, and is reasonably fast and efficient. Since this describes a minority of all GUIs, I still live on the command line a lot. The CLI has three advantages: it's faster for many operations, it's scriptable, and it is many times more flexible. Linux's Unix heritage means you can string together commands in endless ways so they do exactly what you want.

Good documentation matters...

In the end, I chose to do what most people suggested: I'm sticking with what I know works, and that is Linux Mint 9 LTS "Isadora" GNOME.

Here it is time for a new q4wine release tagged by the 0.121 version.

Check out Fedora's respins including Fedora Games, Fedora Design-suite, Fedora Electronic Lab, Fedora Security Lab and the LXDE/XFCE/KDE versions of Fedora.

TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromium. TermKit has been originally designed for Mac OSX, but there is a TermKit fork which you can install and experience in Ubuntu right now! Read on.

We already know that Ubuntu Server developers are heavily invested in the cloud, a focus that continues during the current development cycle. But that’s not all to expect next fall: Ubuntu Server will also add support for ARM architectures. Here’s a look at exactly what to expect.

Yesterday we delivered the news that PathScale was open-sourcing their high-performance EKOPath compiler suite, which in previous days was talked about on Phoronix under the Dirndl codename when showing how fast this compiler was in relation to GCC. The community indeed is excited for EKOPath now being open-source (GPLv3) and in the Phoronix Forums are currently 15+ pages of comments. In this news posting are some more EKOPath details from the forums and some of what Christopher Bergström, PathScale's CTO, has relayed in our community portal.

Canonical's role in the effort arises from the fact that Calxeda has selected Ubuntu as the official OS for its 120-node, 2U server box. Each of the Calxeda server nodes contains a single quad-core ARM chip, a bit of memory, and some interconnect hardware that, all told, consumes about 5 watts. Calxeda can cram 120 (480 cores worth) of these into a single 2U rackmount server chassis, which makes for an incredibly dense cluster of cloud compute resources.

An industry group has formed to try to establish a common set of standards on which companies can judge cloud purchases. It's a worthy goal, but getting cloud vendors on board might help.

Helena the 3rd is an action platforming game available on Linux and Windows. Helena uses varying viewpoints within the game e.g. 3d, fps, 3rd person and 2d. You take control of an upgradeable hi-tech tank, Helena the 3rd travelling over rough terrain and battling hostile enemies. You will need to leave your tank to access areas Helena can't reach in search of upgrades and other treasures needed to progress further into the game.

Has it really been twenty years? Yes, yes, it has been twenty years since Linus Torvalds announced that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” Twenty years of Linux later, The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating Linux’s growth, has announced the program for this year’s LinuxCon North America taking place in Vancouver, B.C. August 17-19, 2011.

The Sourcefabric developers have released an update to their open source Airtime radio software that adds a number of improvements which make it easier to install and upgrade to new versions. Airtime is a server application which allows users, from any modern web browser, to upload audio, create playlists with drag and drop, incorporate track transitions, build complete shows and then schedule them for transmission.

Love it or hate it, the command line is here to stay. Sure, there are new options emerging like TermKit but it’s unlikely that the command line will ever really go away. Those who take the time to master it can run productivity circles around their peers, but with the astonishing assortment of CLI tools available, where do you even begin? We’ve compiled a few of the most useful tools and tricks into this guide to help new users gain some new knowledge, and old pros learn some new tricks.

Bodhi Linux 1.1.0 is a relatively new lightweight distribution based on Ubuntu and uses Enlightenment Window Manager, it comes with very few applications installed by default, allowing users to customize system according to their needs by installing applications they need. There is focus on making things simple for users and keeping things to minimal.

It might have come as a rude shock to Linux fans everywhere when Adobe decided to drop Adobe AIR for Linux. Well, it wasn’t as if it was popular on Linux but still, no one expected Adobe to do that. The reason they gave was ludicrous, stating that only 0.5 % of AIR users were on Linux platform. But as a longtime Linux user I consider this as good riddance. In fact, I think that the Linux community will actually benefit from this decision. Here’s how.

Bitcoin, the decentralized virtual currency whose value has skyrocketed in recent weeks, faced a key test Monday as a veteran user reported that Bitcoins worth hundreds of thousands of dollars had been stolen from his computer. ...

The news that Oracle was proposing to donate the OpenOffice.org (OOo) code to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) came as a surprise to many, though it probably shouldn't have. Many optimistically hoped that Oracle's plan to turn OOo over to an "organization focused on serving that broad constituency [the OOo community] on a non-commercial basis" meant that it would turn to The Document Foundation (TDF), which forked OOo into LibreOffice (LO) in September 2010, as the obvious repository for the code. But, for a number of reasons, that was probably never a very likely outcome; some discussions evidently took place between Oracle and the TDF, but there seems to be enough bad blood—along with licensing differences—that another home for OOo was sought.