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SING is the first distro released by Todd Robinson for his 31 Flavors of Fun ( there are 4 available distros already). Here is a quick review for SING with some screenshots of this distro in live CD mode.

After Cinnamon, Muffin and MDM, the Linux Mint team works on yet another fork: Nemo, a file manager forked from Nautilus 3.4.x.

Sometimes, human minds get stuck without a reason between two options, jumping from the one to the other, never finding exactly what they are looking for. This is what happens to most people with today’s browsers. Almost no one completely likes Firefox and Chrome for their own personal reasons, but everyone keeps trying both when a newer version becomes available. Time to make a step towards something “greener” and give Midori a try!

MediaBox is the most simplistic media player you’ll ever use. It uses GStreamer and is able to playback all the files supported by it.

This means that you can play both music and video files using MediaBox to do it, using very little resources and a very simple way to choose the files you want to playback.

Let’s be realistic for a moment here. I believe that there is not a single Fedora user who doesn’t use repositories that conflict with Fedora’s policy and default selection ideology. Not even the most hardcore Fedora developers can use the completely useless system that Fedora is out of the box, without adding third party sources and pieces of proprietary software.

Android is based on the Linux kernel, same as other Linux based operating systems, however is quite easy to use for many.

Linux on the other hand, has seen usability vastly improve over the years. However, it looks like usability is yet to become a critical factor in Linux development, yet remains a stumbling block for many adopters, despite being free. This leaves Linux a preserve for technical users who can figure out the many configurations that need to be tweaked time and again.

Android is proof enough that a more usable linux experience would lead to more Linux users. How long before we get there?

Todd Robinson from On-Disk.com is trying to create and release 31 different usable and complete Linux distros everyday in August 2012. Three distros have been released, they are named SING, SOHO and Debian_live_VTWM.

MATE Desktop Environment 1.4.0 has been released and announced by Mate Desktop Developer team. MATE Desktop Environment is a traditional looking desktop environment derived from Gnome 2, specially designed for Gnome 2 Fans who did not want to switch to Gnome 3 for several reason.

Urban Terror is one of the most popular multiplayer FPS games for Linux. Created by Frozen Sand studio, the game features realistic weapons, gameplay and maps based on real world environments.

I installed Linux Mint 13 LTS "Maya" Xfce on my personal laptop today, and it seems to be working really well in replicating my old experience. So far I'm pretty happy with it.

Instapaper is finally available on the Android platform. If you're unfamiliar with the iPhone-originating app, it's an offline reader with a difference. I've always had a problem with offline readers. Offline readers, like the good-looking Pulse, function by pulling in XML feeds online.

Adobe has announced the release of Source Sans Pro, an open source font aimed at software UI use. The font comes in a variety of weights, includes all sources used in its production, and is available from Google Web Fonts

Sadly, just the name. Someone else says they own it Microsoft has dropped "Metro", the name given to the squaretastic user interface for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, claiming it was just a code name all along.…

The second release candidate includes numerous bug fixes and updates as the distribution heads towards its delayed mid-September release

The X.Org Developers' Conference 2012 is happening next month. Unfortunately, continuing to reflect the hastily-managed organization, the board has now come up with a call for presentations...

Canonical announced a couple of days ago, August 1st, that the sponsorship for the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit 2012 event is now open for submissions.

Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1 today, which includes some major improvements, like improved Windows 8 support, an expert mode for wizards, experimental support for drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests and more.

This week, we look at 15 free or low-cost iPad code editors, endangered IT jobs and how HTML5 video works.

Even though the processor in the Pi is fairly weak, it can decode HD video using it's GPU chip if you use the proper media player. This means that your old favorites like VLC and mPlayer will not work, so we must turn to a tool designed just for the Pi: OMXPlayer.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 31 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes MATE, KDE SC 4.9, Debian 8 Jessie, Bodhi Linux for the Raspberry Pi, Stella 6.3, ProxBash, Minecraft, ScummVM and more...