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The installer in this technical preview gives you the option to install a KDE desktop (default), a GNOME 3 desktop, LXDE and Other desktop. I hoped to show screen shots from test installations of supported desktop environments, but the GNOME 3 installation was too buggy to use. As a result, only screen shots from the KDE, LXDE and Other desktops are featured.

The rumours of the Unity game engine being ported to Linux have been confirmed true as Unity Technologies opens pre-orders for Unity 4

Linux creator Linus Torvalds may call Nvidia “the single worst company” the Linux community had ever dealt with. But the chipmaker makes no apologies for its approach to the open source operating system.

While Intel's original GMA500 "Poulsbo" hardware is now more than four years old, this Intel Atom platform with PowerVR graphics continues to be a bloody mess under Linux...

In future, developers will be able to deliver JavaFX applications as zip, exe, msi, dmg or rpm native packages, making their applications easier to install and run; however, there are a number of drawbacks to the new delivery mode

Samsung's forthcoming Galaxy S III smartphone will be the company's first device to be officially branded and sold under its new SAFE program. SAFE stands for "Samsung Approved for Enterprise." The Galaxy S III will be available in the U.S. from Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular in July.

For those that didn't hear yet, Intel's getting ready to ship the Larrabee-derived "Knights Corner" co-processors and they will be marketed under the name of Xeon Phi...

Last week I shared results from the Phoronix 12-core ARM Linux mini cluster that was constructed out of six PandaBoard ES development boards. Over the weekend, a 96-core ARM cluster succeeded this build. While packing nearly 100 cores and running Ubuntu Linux, the power consumption was just a bit more than 200 Watts. This array of nearly 100 processor cores was even powered up by a solar panel.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is on something of a mission: reducing the grumpiness factor among kernel developers, and maintainers in particular. His keynote at LinuxCon Japan was meant to help the audience understand what the maintainers do, and how contributors' actions can sometimes result in grumpy maintainers. But, if contributors can follow the rules and make things easier on him, there are a number of things that he will promise to do on their behalf.

In Linux Mint 13, when you insert a USB drive into your machine, a popup window will appear to show the files and folders you store in the USB. If you find this popup window annoying, here is how to disable this feature.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 17 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

Microsoft appears to be trying to build a tablet that's IT-friendly, but in the Bring Your Own Device era, users tend to be choosing their own devices, and this could be an outdated strategy.

A picture is worth a thousand words!

Good news and updates from the Google Summer of Code are out everyday, and we have our eyes and ears open to inform you of everything that worths your attention. Today we had an interesting blog post from Zan Dobersek who was happy to announce that the Gamepad API support patch for GNOME is coming round the corner.

GNU/Linux is the greatest global and collaborative effort in the history of computers. Everyone should be able to use it, and to help in the development of it no matter what disabilities or special abilities one has. This week we talk with Mobeen Iqbal from Vinux Project, who gives us an insight on how a distribution for the visual impaired is developed and loved by its users. Enjoy!

Is the windows tablet disruptive innovation ? Will it change the world ? Will it anger the PC manufacturers ?

There is a rather nasty RAID bug in some released versions of the Linux kernel. It won't destroy your data, but it could make it hard to access that data.

Artyom Zorin proudly announced yesterday, June 18th, the immediate availability for download of the Zorin OS 6 Core and Ultimate Linux operating systems.

Version 4 of the Unity 3D game engine will have native Linux support.

This shouldn't come as a big surprise since the Unity game engine coming to Linux has already been brought up previously and we've known it was being worked on, but now with Unity 4.0 it's finally materialized.

[not to be confused with Canonical's Unity or Unity Linux distribution]

A quick tip for Debian users who want to install and stay up to date with the latest Oracle Java 7 (JDK7): the WebUpd8 Java 7 PPA works on Debian too since the package is just an installer and all you have to do is manually add the PPA repository to the Software Sources.