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I have always liked GNOME as my Desktop. I can not remember the last time I looked at openSUSE. I have to say that openSUSE 12.2 GNOME has a great looking desktop interface. Nice window management as well as the ‘Green’ colouring is rather pleasing to the eyes. Take a look at the video review below and enjoy.

f your like me, no Linux distribution or desktop environment suites you just right. I always seem to have to work around something or with something that just doesn't suit me.

Well this is how to have Linux your way.

After a beta and four release candidates, VirtualBox 4.2.0 (stable) has been released today, bringing support to start VMs during system boot on Linux, experimental support for drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests, improved Windows 8 support and more.

I have not been a fan of Unity and I had a hard time accepting it. I am a full time Linux user since Red Hat 3 which was around 1996 and had a hard time with the new user interfaces Gnome and Ubuntu were introducing.

JonDo 0.9.28.1 is released! JonDo Live-CD offers a secure, pre-configured environment for anonymous surfing and more. It is based on Debian GNU/Linux. The live system contains proxy clients for JonDonym, Tor, I2P and the remailer Mixmaster and Mixminion. Firefox is pre-configured for anonymous web surfing, Thunderbird with Enigmail for e-mails, Pidgin for anonymous instant messaging and chats, VLC media player, Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit for cleaning documents and images and more application are part of the live-cd.

This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on CentOS 6.3. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.

The Debian and Ubuntu MailScanner packages have not been maintained for a long time. Recently both distributions dropped support for MailScanner within their repo's.

The Baruwa project provides up to date deb packages for both distributions.

ICT team at NHS trust roll out next phase of open source patient record system developed in-house. Moorfields will invest £3.5m in the project over four years, but plans to recoup its investment by delivering cost savings of £4.5m over the same period.

I'm happy to release to everyone our first scheduled update release of Bodhi Linux's 2.x.y branch - version 2.1.0.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has approved of Opus as a new audio codec standard via RFC 6716...

Whether you love Apple products or think they are abominations, it's hard to beat iPods when it comes to audiobooks. They remember your place, support chapters and even offer speed variations on playback. Thanks to programs like Banshee and Amarok, syncing most iPod devices (especially the older iPod Nanos, which are perfect audiobook players) is simple and works out of the box.

Today we share with you an interview with Jan Erik Solem, author of the book “Programming Computer Vision with Python“. Jan also works at Apple doing computer vision. How cool is that! Enjoy!

Those of us that follow +Fedora on Google Plus got a handy dandy invitation to Fedora 18 Test Day – Power Management. On October 11th, those who have accepted this invitation are invited to use there laptops and report their experiences back to the Fedora team directly in an attempt to socially corral bugs and improve the Fedora experience.

One of the latest initiatives out of the Khronos Group -- the industry consortium that leads various open industry standards like OpenGL, OpenCL, and WebGL -- is SPIR. The goal of Khronos SPIR is to provide a Standard Portable IR for the OpenCL kernel language...

Tip Number 4: Every tip in this article is important, but this is even more so. When attempting to dual-boot on a computer with one hard drive, do not install Linux or make the mistake of installing Linux on the same partition that Windows is installed on. That is the same thing as deleting your C drive. So look before you install.

While LLVM can be used with Clang for compiling the Linux kernel and LLVM can be used in very innovative ways, one of its long-standing disadvantages has been the lack of supporting OpenMP. Fortunately, OpenMP support is finally materializing within LLVM...

We've covered Audacity on a number of occasions. Audacity is an audio production platform that compares very well with software used in professional environments, including tools for silencing ambient noise, combining, cutting, moving, and mixing tracks. Its mixboard and equalization features are awesome, and it's also a great podcasting platform. A few very useful, free guides and workbooks are now available that can help you master this awesome audio program quickly. Here is how to get going.

Plan out your time at the upcoming openSUSE Conference with the handy schedule that also covers the events sharing the venue, such as Linux Days and Gentoo Conf

After a disappointing version 12.1, openSUSE is back with version 12.2, and I find that it works really well!

For better or for worse, the modern web relies on JavaScript. That's why JavaScript engines are critically important in modern web browsers. For years, browser vendors have competed on JavaScript benchmarks (originally just SunSpider) and apparently they will for years to come.