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You all know this issue in Gnome 3 that you can’t even change the icons by default. Thousands of people are grumbling for that and of course they have any right. But let’s see what the Official Gnome says about it.

Sometimes is useful to sync automatically files over the net between 2 or more computers, maybe you want to keep some configuration files aligned on different servers or maybe you have a cluster of web servers and you want to keep their document root aligned so your customer will always see the same result.

You could do this with a network filesystem like NFS, GlusterFS or Coda File system. But why do complicated things when you could easily do this just keeping in sync the local filesystem ?

In a former article I’ve talked about Unison to do a work like that, and it works, the limit of Unison is that you can have just 2 nodes, but if you have more nodes you have to use a different solution like the one i present you today: csync2

In the last seven days: a Linux leap-second bug caused systems to freeze, the John the Ripper password cracker added GPU support, and DNSChanger victims will lose internet on Monday. Also, a roadmap for RHEL 7, a look at Clojure, and the Kernel Log on filesystem and storage changes coming in Linux 3.5

Puppy Linux is a great lightweight LINUX distribution that comes in multiple forms. Which is the best? Wary, Slacko or Lucid. In the 3rd and final part of the series I review the power of Lucid Puppy and make a somewhat shocking confession.

Mozilla are pulling resources for new development work from the Thunderbird email client, putting it into a "stability/security fixes" only mode while inviting any future innovations in messaging to come from the community

How to add watermark to documents using GIMP and LibreOffice Writer

Internet security researchers said Thursday they may have been mistaken about claims that mobile devices powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system were hacked and used to send spam emails. Redmond's in there too, busily ramping up the spam label on Android.

Robert Shingledecker announced a few hours ago, July 7th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.6 Linux operating system.

Verizon pressed its argument against the Federal Communications Commission's new network neutrality rules on Monday; filing a legal brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. The company argued the FCC's rules not only exceeded the agency's regulatory authority, but also violated network owners' constitutional rights. Specifically, Verizon believes that the FCC is threatening its First Amendment right to freedom of speech and its property rights under the Fifth Amendment.

Verizon believes that Congress has not given the FCC the power to impose network neutrality regulations on the nation's ISPs. Last year, the firm sued to stop the implementation of the rules the FCC adopted in December 2010.

Will licensing licentiousness rile Free Softies? One of the principal authors of version 3 of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) has spun off his own version of the license without the participation of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), in a move that could ruffle feathers in the often-cantankerous free software community.…

Screencasts have a wide variety of uses. This type of software is often deployed to describe software projects, report bugs, and for evaluating technical skills. Plain text screencasting lets you explain and perform commands at the same time, simultaneously offering a tutorial and showcase. Further, plain text screencasting uses less bandwidth than flash video, and provides a powerful educational tool.

Mozilla will be announcing Monday that they will be basically stripping away their resources towards the advancement of the Thunderbird e-mail client. In a private email sent to Mozilla employees today, Mozilla shared that on Monday they will be announcing their plans to restructure Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird isn't being killed, but they will basically be making it more community-based with Mozilla employees being re-tasked to other projects.

Well folks - Duke Nuke'em Forever might have beat them to a release, but E team is prepping for a major (stable!) release themselves.

The Chakra development team is proud to announce the final 'Archimedes' release, this codename has followed the KDE SC 4.8 series. With this release a big move to /usr/lib has occurred to prepare Chakra for a complete move to systemd, Linux kernel is updated to version 3.4.3, udev to 182, new initscripts used, kmod is at 8, mkinitcpio at 0.8.8, to name a few of the newer base packages included.

If you've gone the custom ROM route, ROM Manager Premium is a fabulous product that automates and streamlines maintenance. It is ideal for those who don't eat, sleep and breathe code, and file naming conventions -- or don't choose to be around the command line.

In Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any other Linux distro that uses Gnome, if you close the terminal while some script or command is running within it, a window will appear to ask you to confirm the action. This article shows how to disable this feature.

It will be really embarrassing for Microsoft if it turns out that the spam botnet was actually running on Windows machines and not on Android devices.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 17 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

Amazon is working on its own Smartphone running a forked version of Android. Amazon already has its own Kindle Fire tablet which runs on Android.

Mandriva S.A., through Charles Schulz, posted a very interesting announcement on their blog, asking users to vote for the new name of the Mandriva Linux distribution.