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By design Unity launcher is placed at the left side of Ubuntu desktop and has remained immovable ever since it was introduced to the public in 2010. Ubuntu users who wanted to have Mac OS X-style launcher have had to either replace Unity launcher with an alternative dock such as CairoDock or Docky, or even switch to a more customizable desktop environment such GNOME.

Today we would like to inform you about the first maintenance release of the GTK+ 3.20 toolkit for the recently released GNOME 3.20 desktop environment.

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at Toonz animation software's open source release, Apple's CareKit, a GNOME usability study, and more!

While the GNOME desktop environment has its fair share of detractors, there are some who appreciate its simplified approach, so the recent release of the latest version is an eagerly anticipated event.

As an alternative to the Raspberry Pi 3 for a low-cost 64-bit ARM (AArch64) development board is the PINE 64, which was successfully Kickstarted as a "$15 64-bit single board super computer" that generated more than 1.7 million dollars. The PINE 64 is still shipping out in limited quantities for now, but the folks behind this project were kind enough to send over a sample of their PINE 64 1GB SBC for some benchmarking.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core products. You can now move the launcher bar from the left side of the screen to the bottom. It requires a hidden terminal command, but it’s now an officially supported feature! Terminal: gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Launcher launcher-position Bottom

In Ubuntu Linux ‘notepadqq’ is the alternate of notepad++. In other words we can say that notepadqq is Notepad++ for Ubuntu Linux.

eInfochips has opened pre-orders on a tiny, wireless-rich “Eragon 820” COM and development kit that run Linux or Android on a Snapdragon 820 SoC. The eInfochips Eragon 820 is the second computer-on-module we’ve seen based on Qualcomm’s high-end quad-core 64-bit Snapdragon 820 system-on-chip after Intrinsyc’s 82 x 42mm, SODIMM-style Open-Q 820 COM, which similarly comes with a development kit.

Something I have been speaking about with Topware since 2013 is finally going to happen! Two Worlds II is getting a major engine upgrade, with new DLC and SteamOS & Linux support too.

ValentFX is Kickstartering an open source FPGA-based and Linux-driven “KiwiSDR” BeagleBone Cape, that does 10KHz to 30MHz software-defined radio processing. ValentFX has surpassed the 75 percent mark on its way to raising $50,000 on Kickstarter for its $199 KiwiSDR cape, which is due to ship in October. The campaign is also offering a $299 kit […]

While Facebook and Google work to better identify you by your typing skills and Red Hat counts the bucks from its best ever year, Ubuntu finally makes it possible to launch from the bottom.

Seco’s Linux-friendly COM Express Basic Type 6 module supports 6th Gen Intel Core and Xeon processors and offers GbE, quad SATA, and triple display support. Seco’s “COMe-B09-BT6” COM Express Basic Type 6 module is listed as “coming soon, and no photo is available, but a data sheet has been posted.

We've already reported on the availability of the final Beta builds of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and all the opt-in flavors that participated in this release, so it's time for a screenshot tour.

The ODROID-C2 is a very solid competitor to the Raspberry Pi model 3 B, and is anywhere from 2-10x faster than the Pi 3, depending on the operation. The software and community support is nowhere near what you get with the Raspberry Pi, but it's the best I've seen of all the Raspberry Pi clones I've tried.

KDE today announced the release and immediate availability of the Beta of KDE Applications 16.04, the next-generation software suite for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment.

The Verizon Partner Program is expanding to the Asia-Pacific region, where Verizon hopes to add new networking, managed security, cloud and professional services offerings.

In this week's Top 5, we highlight alternatives to Dreamweaver for web design, Mattermost for high school chat, ageism in tech, OSCON's 18th year, and the director of Google.org on unconscious bias in the workplace.

If you want to find out whether the Linux OS is running inside a virtualized environment or on a real hardware computer, there are various heuristics you can try, depending on the type of hypervisor/container used underneath. Different hypervisors and container technologies may introduce different fingerprints within their instances (e.g., processor manufacturer, special file in /proc, virtualized NIC driver name).

I got a great letter from a reader with a puzzle to solve, so let's dig in, shall we? Here's what he wrote:

Love your column in Linux Journal. I've read it for years and learned a lot about shell scripting, but not quite enough to solve a puzzle on my own.