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The two extensions are the Taskbar (by zpydr), which displays icons of running applications on the top panel, showing thumbnails of those applications on hover, and Workspaces to Dock (by passingthru67), which transforms the workspaces of the overview mode into an intellihide dock.

The Linux Link Tech Show (TLLTS), LinuxCon Japan, Texas Linux Fest, and Southeast Linuxfest each present opportunities to learn about the Xen Project between now and June 9.

With a brand new PC certified for Microsoft Windows 8 and shipping the OS, even if you don't plan to use the operating system, it can be difficult to bypass the Windows license agreement before wiping it to install your favorite Linux distribution...

Frank Bergmann, founder of ]project-open[, talks with us about the open source project management solution and how the company strives for an open culture at the office. He says maintaining communication is essential, and it entails complete transparency and honesty. The community will quickly punish you if this doesn't happen. This is at the core of open source. Frank also tell us who his open source hero is. Read on for more insight into ]project-open[ and how this open company operates.

The Australian government, which had previously decided to mandate the Microsoft-driven Office Open XML format within its departments, has now proposed requiring instead that any office suite used by the government should, at a minimum, support Open Document Format 1.1.

Really? I gotta wonder what (internal) forces mandated this. I have many people I consider friends Down Under and to a (wo)man they all agree that Australia is a Microsoft-owned continent. At least in Government and the Enterprise.

We'll watch and see what happens.

Although a command line isn't a necessity anymore in modern desktop Linux distributions, it is still being used very often. And with various text-based applications, you can perform a lot of tasks within the terminal, from just running some basic commands or edit some text files to more complicated tasks like irc chatting, browsing the internet or even watching media. And just like any other Linux application, there are a lot of Linux terminal emulators around to choose. I've used quite many and here is a list of my favorite Linux terminal emulators.

An interesting technical history of the migration of the Xen Hypervisor onto the ARM-based Chromebook.

The following tutorial will teach any computer user how to install the Arch Linux operating system on their personal computer or laptop.

The GNOME 3 edition features the latest release of the GNOME 3, which is GNOME 3.8. While the default GNOME Shell is still the same that I’m not a very big fan of, there are some useful and very user-friendly features that factor nicely into my desktop computing needs. The calendar is not one of those features I like, but the clock, me likes!

I’ve been thinking a bit too much lately about GitHub and Drupal.org. More broadly, I’ve had my mind on open source + community. Sometimes this is called social coding. Social coding can take on a variety of shapes and sizes but is short-hand for what I can describe as loosely coupled, sometimes geographically distributed collaboration and coordination around open source projects. Civic coding is a form of social coding focused on municipal projects. Civic coding is a big part of what we do in the Brigade and why we’re running The Great American Civic Hack this summer.

The Wine development release 1.5.31 is now available.

Wind River announced in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) software for integrating iOS devices into IVI systems based on the company’s IVI-oriented Linux OS offering. The Connectivity Solution Accelerator for Linux enables a car’s infotainment head unit to be used for viewing and playing content streamed from late-model iPhones, iPads, and iPods. Wind River says its Connectivity Solution [...]

Linux Advocates Dietrich Schmitz turns up some data on Canonical Ltd. which puts their financial status into question. Read why.

SelekTOR 2 for Linux allows you to watch online content provided by UK TV companies from anywhere in the world, so for those travellers that have paid their license fee and suddenly find they can't get the latest depressing episode of Eastenders from their hotel room then this is for you.

The AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for supporting the Radeon HD 7000/8000 series of graphics cards now has GL Shading Language 1.30 support exposed by default...After adding in a few other RadeonSI commits, including supporting new TGSI opcodes, Michel Dänzer enabled the RadeonSI GLSL 1.30 support unconditionally in the AMD open-source driver, per this commit.

Well folks it's that awesome time again, time to get your game on! Humble Indie Bundle 8 is live and with a really amazing selection too.

While Apache is the predominant open-source web-server software currently used by Linux systems, including Ubuntu, NGINX continues to rise in popularity. NGINX continues its push with high performance while having a smaller memory footprint and carrying a BSD license. The NGINX server might be included in future releases of the Ubuntu Server and part of the Ubuntu "main" repository...

Fedora 18 was slow to arrive, but Fedora 19, “Schrödinger's Cat," Red Hat's latest community Linux, is on schedule. It's official. Red Hat community Linux, Fedora 19, code-named “Schrödinger's Cat," is now available in beta.

It's already time for another Humble Indie Bundle to get your hands on more multi-platform DRM-free games at whatever price you want. All of the games this time around are compatible with Linux via native clients except for a CrossOver/Wine-based copy of Dear Esther...

Ten years ago, SCO decided to sue IBM and started a series of legal attacks on Linux. Their cases were pathetically weak, but CIOs and CFOs didn't know that. Thanks to paralegal turned legal journalist, Pamela "PJ" Jones and her Website Groklaw, executives who wanted to know what was really what with SCO's multitude of lawsuits soon learned of the FUD behind SCO's claims. SCO and its silent backer Microsoft hopes for profits and slowing down Linux's corporate success would come to nothing, and SCO ended up in bankruptcy.