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This is a step by step guide to customising Cinnamon. The guide shows how to manage panels, applets and applets as well as how to customise the login screen.

Derived from Fedora 21 and powered by the pursuit of perfection, dedication and freedom, the final version of Korora 21 computer operating system is here, available for download in four separate editions with the Cinnamon, KDE, GNOME, and Xfce graphical desktop environments, as announced by its developer Chris Smart on the project’s website.

Amazon currently accepts limited number of ebook formats that you can directly send to your Amazon Kindle. In this config we are going to show few Linux tools which may assist you with the conversion between various Document and eBook formats.

I have come to the realization that SCST definitely stood out as the most superior of the bunch and with good reason. It is also the most storage industry supported of iSCSI Target solutions. Acquired by Fusionio and now part of SanDisk, SCST continues to remain at the top of its SCSI Target competition. Although, with that said, I must note that it does come with its fair share of issues.

HTTP/2 to take its place Google has decided to mothball its home-grown SPDY internet application-layer protocol in future versions of its Chrome browser, in favor of the Internet Engineering Taskforce's HTTP/2 spec.…

Linaro has launched an open-source spec for ARM SBCs called “96Boards,” first available in a $129 “Hikey” SBC, featuring a Huawei octa-core Cortex-A53 SoC. Linaro, the ARM-backed not-for-profit engineering organization that has aimed to standardize open source Linux and Android software for Cortex-A processors, is now trying to do the same thing for hardware.f Linaro, […]

I recently wrote about how much I’m enjoying my Kindle Voyage ereader, but there’s one thing about it I really don’t like at all: the screensavers that come with it. Yes, screensavers. The ones that come bundled with Kindle ereaders are either flat out ugly or just downright stupid.

After two years of development, Offensive Security, the creator of the famous BackTrack Linux distribution, has announced today, February 9, that the first point release for its Kali Linux computer operating system designed for penetration testing and digital forensics operations is now available for download.

An installation of the Cinnamon desktop, which shipped with Cinnamon 2.2, was especially bad. Out of the box, it was unusable. When PC-BSD 10.1.1 was released (on February 2 2015), I knew I had to take another look at a Cinnamon installation.

Some news sites claimed earlier that the Ubuntu Phone Aquaris E4.5 smartphone will ship today, February 9. It turns out that the information is completely false, as BQ immediately posted on their Twitter account that the device will be available this week, but not today.

One of the best ways to improve the security of a distribution, is improvements in the compiler for detecting bugs that could potentially lead to exploits. At Fedora, whenever a new compiler check gets written we like to rebuild the entire distribution finding and fixing these issues.

Merrii announced a high end, Android- and Linux-ready “H88 Hummingbird” SBC based on the octa-core Cortex-A15/-A7 Allwinner A80 SoC.

Embecosm combines work on open source CPUs and system-on-chips, with cutting edge research on superoptimisation in compilers

The world's first Ubuntu Linux phone is now available, two years after the effort to bring Ubuntu to phones was first announced by Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor of Ubuntu Linux. The new Ubuntu phone is actually not new hardware; it's an Ubuntu Linux edition of the BQ Aquaris E4.5 device that is already in the market as an Android smartphone.

In today's open source roundup: Linus signs off on Linux kernel 3.19. Plus: Korora 21 released, and FocusWriter provides distraction-free writing.

Years ago, I worked for an automotive IT provider, and occasionally we went out to the plants to search for rogue Wireless Access Points (WAPs). A rogue WAP is one that the company hasn't approved to be there. So if someone were to go and buy a wireless router, and plug it in to the network, that would be a rogue WAP.

The recent purchase of a Chromebook for my son got me thinking about a new opportunity for Linux on the desktop. This is not an idea for getting a standard GNU/Linux desktop to automagically replace all existing Windows desktops, but to leverage the cloud computing paradigm with a bulked­-up Chromebook-­like system that would be workable for 80 to 90 percent of personal, school, and business needs.

So, are you a person who got a raspberry pi (aka "pi") and want to start building something with it but don't know how to go about it? If yes, then this tutorial is for you. Here in this howto, we go about installing the Raspbian OS and initiating a desktop environment.

I've been designing and developing commercial software for more than 30 years, and I'm pleased to announce that for the first time, some of my software has been released as a new open source project. For open source at Dell, it's a Java project called Mensa. read more

Three days after the official announcement of Manjaro Linux 0.8.12, a point release that brings only a couple of changes, such as out-of-the-box support for Microsoft’s exFAT filesystem and Pacman 4.2 package manager, the Manjaro community released today the LXQt edition of the acclaimed Arch Linux-based computer operating system.