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More than two months ago, we took a look on the 29 new things that this Google summer of code would bring to the Gnome desktop environment and its various components.Today it is the “pencils down” for everyone as we finally reached the end of this magnificent program. Interns and mentors have done a great job providing new exciting things to the Gnome users benefit.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: August 21, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org) and its affiliate, LPI-East Africa (http://www.lpi-eastafrica.org/) will host a "Linux Essentials" exam lab during Software Freedom Day (SFD: September 1, 2012) at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya. LPI-East Africa is also co-sponsoring an "Open Source Developer Challenge" during the event with the Linux Professional Association of Kenya (http://lpakenya.org/).

The SFLPhone team and Savoir-Faire Linux, a Montreal Open Source consulting company, are pleased to announce the availability of SFLPhone 1.2.0, the first version since the KDE client was moved to KDE infrastructure. Our team is proud of joining the KDE family as part of Playground, and looking forward to being part of Extragear soon. SFLPhone KDE and SFLPhone Qt have been in development for the better part of a decade, aiming to provide the KDE environment with a professional software phone app. Recently, we have been working hard to bring the application to the status of KDE first class citizen. Thank you to the Oxygen and l10n community members for showing such an interest in our application and helping us improve it.

Here is my easy and quick way to install Oracle Java on Debian / Ubuntu.

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to "unofficially" update their systems to the Mozilla Firefox 15.0 web browser.

HDMI doesn't work with Optimus hybrid graphics chipsets under Linux for most laptops, even if you use Bumblebee, but there is a way to get HDMI to work: by using a separate session.

Did you know that Disney is actually a major player in Open Source?

Neither did I. Read on...

An interview about GNOME OS, the consequences of Canonical leaving, the purported removal of features and the future role of Linux distributions.

Sensing mounting frustration that Linux ISOs aren't downloading fast enough, the IEEE has announced a new group that aims to bring wired Ethernet speeds up to 1Tbps by 2015 and as fast as 10Tbps by 2020.

When I started using computers, you could still find the schematic at the back of a computer reference manual. Back then, the intro to computer programming looked like this:

10 PRINT “COMMODORE 64” 20 GOTO 10

Literally, look it up! While I was learning how to write simple programs, I picked up a key piece of information that has served me very well over the years:

If you take the extra time to understand how a computer works you will understand how to program it.

Greg Kroah-Hartman proudly announced last evening, August 20th, that the 3.4 branch of the Linux kernel will be maintained for at least 2 years.

This guide explains how you can use mod_mysql_vhost to create simple virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Squeeze. With mod_mysql_vhost, lighttpd can read the vhost configuration from a MySQL database. Currently, you can store the domain and the document root in the MySQL database which results in very simple virtual hosts. If you need more directives for your vhosts, you'd have to configure them in the global section of lighttpd.conf, which means they'd be valid for all vhosts. Therefore, mod_mysql_vhost is ideal if your vhosts differ only in the domain and document root.

The fear of failure factor is one reason why potential newcomers to the Linux operating system never complete the switch. After all, when was the last time you saw a sign in a big-box computer store identifying the aisle labeled "Linux Loaded?" Most desktops and laptops come out of the box with Microsoft Windows preinstalled.

Version 2.1 of PowerTOP has been released with improvements for not only Intel hardware running Linux but ARM assets as well...

In going through the list of available extensions, I came across three that are good candidates to either replace or complement the Activities button. Like all extensions, they are free and easy to install.

With the recent interest regarding Link-Time Optimization support within the Linux kernel by GCC, here are some benchmarks of the latest stable release of GCC (v4.7.1) when benchmarking several common open-source projects with and without the performance-enhancing LTO compiler support.

A recent episode of the Disney channel “sitcom”, Shake It Up, included a rather odd comment regarding open source software. The exchange between the youngsters essentially suggests that using open source code can lead to software being infiltrated by viruses or other malware, and being a “rookie mistake”:

Cloud efforts move forward as KOffice fork continues to evolve.

Few days ago I was talking with Jack -Scionicspectre- Gandy, who is a new Gnome contributor, and he was explaing me about the work he does together with Cosimo Cecchi for improving GTK2 Apps look. Two-three days after, he pushed his work in the Gnome-Themes-Standard Git. The result is just impressive!

BlankOn is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed by the Indonesian Linux Mover Foundation and BlankOn developer team. A few days ago the development team of BlankOn released the new version 8.0, that features their own desktop shell for Gnome 3 called Manokwari. That sounds interesting but is it really? Let’s find out!