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Prior to commencing the weekend, the Enlightenment crew released a new round of alpha releases for EFL 1.7...

Which is most popular Desktop Environment on Ubuntu? Check out an analysis of real data to know usage pattern of Ubuntu users.

In the week ending 11 August - the CDE desktop was open sourced, plans were made for GNOME OS, Linux Mint forked Nautilus, and Damn Small Linux reappeared. Also, Digia acquired Qt from Nokia and LibreOffice 3.6.0 arrived

Following the news shared today that Ubuntu's delayed their Wayland System Compositor adoption from Ubuntu 12.10 to at least Ubuntu 13.04 there was the more positive news that there's an updated third-party spin of an Ubuntu derivative running Wayland. This article has some more information on that new "RebeccaBlack OS" release along with screenshots that provide a glimpse of where the Wayland adoption is at today.

10 things to do after installing Fuduntu

An interview with RedMonk's Stephen O'Grady about his Linux setup. He's an Ubuntu user who dreams of a more functional cloud and sees a space for Linux to offer that kind of cloud integration.

The Microsoft-powered police surveillance system being installed in New York City is an impressive bit of innovation... The system, dubbed the Domain Awareness System (DAS), sounds like science fiction: Part Minority Report, part 1984. It connects thousands of security cameras in the city owned by the NYPD and private businesses, collecting and archiving up to 30 days worth of their archival footage at a time.

What a KDE does in a Gnome blog? Normally it gets FUD, but this time we are going to praise it! I got double hit from KDE yesterday. First by the awesome news that Digia Committed to Thriving Qt Ecosystem and secondly by trying Rebecca Black.

No doubt that they will eventually go mainstream, but for now, these boards are a hacker’s delight.

Banshee media player is one of Gnome’s most popular and important applications that ensures the seamless playback of audio and video files in harmony with the Gnome DE. Bertrand Lorentz who is one of the main developers, offered to give us a snapshot of what is going on right now for the project and what was discussed on the recent major conferences that he was present.

Ubuntu 12.10 will not be shipping with a Wayland-based system compositor as was once hoped for, but the experimental system compositor can be enabled from a PPA in a very primitive state.

A Plasma crash marred the experience for me, and there was nothing else outstanding to compensate for that.

Insync is a Google Drive client for Mac, Windows and mobile devices that recently got support for Linux (beta). Besides full sync support for Google's cloud storage service, Google Drive, which includes Google documents (unlike Grive) that it downloads as .doc, .xls, .ppt, etc., Insync for Linux also comes with Nautilus integration, tray / Ubuntu AppIndicator support that displays recent changes, errors and the sync status and support for multiple accounts.

I just pushed #RapidDisk release 2.4 to the git repo. The changelog can be found here: http://rapiddisk.org/index.php?title=Changelog

Based on the events of recent weeks, it very much looks like Microsoft is heading to make Windows a closed ecosystem (a la Apple). They want to make both the hardware and the OS and third-party applications can only be sold with their approval and only through their App Store (with a 30% commission to Microsoft).

Google is introducing new packaged apps that will break out of the browser, work offline by default, and enable richer, more immersive experiences. These packaged apps will be supported on Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS.

In the past couple of years, we’ve seen huge interest in the reviews we’ve published of the different versions of Ubuntu. The popular free operating system has a massive following, and rightly so. It’s a fully fledged operating system, complete with office software and a host of useful tools and utilities. And Ubuntu, which has now reached version 12.04, is now a usable, mature operating system.

The kernel driver for NVIDIA graphics chips is undergoing a major overhaul. KVM is now available for MIPS. The new "lslocks" lists locked files and displays the programs that locked them

WriteType 1.3.163 is now available! WriteType is a word-processor designed to help elementary school students write better. It gives students who have a hard time writing an easier approach in putting their ideas on paper. In addition to fixing many bugs, the latest WriteType release has several new features to help students succeed.

NVIDIA doesn't usually show up at the annual X.Org Developers' Summits/Conferences, but for some reason at least one NVIDIA employee will be trekking to Germany for meeting with the open-source developers...