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MATE Desktop 1.2 for stable version has been release by MATE team, It’s a fork of Gnome 2, provides classic gnome style UI for people feel uncomfortable with Gnome 3 gnome-shell desktop

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is psutil. psutil is a module providing an interface for retrieving information on all running processes and system utilization (CPU, disk, memory, network) in a portable way by using Python.

It's almost good enough to make me want to keep it, but a few minor gripes continue to hold it back slightly for my own use. Nevertheless, it's awesome!

Though the default disk partitioning scheme works, you may find yourself in a situation that requires creating partitions manually. At such times, you need to have a good knowledge of disks and disk partitions in Linux to create the partitions you need.

If you did not know how already, this tutorial gives you a step-by-step guide on how to proceed.

Patents were developed to create more incentives for people to invest time and money in research and development, which in turn would advance technology. However, some argue the current patent wars are limiting innovation as more and more money is spent on patent lawsuits instead of technological advancement.

Time to get our hands on three of the most representative music players for the linux platform right now and see which one is the “biggest” player of all. The distribution I will be using is Fedora 16 64-bit.

True, you don't need to know Linux shell commands these days; you can get along just fine with a GUI interface. But the command-line tools can still come in darned handy sometimes. Here’s the commands with which Linux desktop users should be most familiar, and guidelines about when to use them.

SliTaz 4.0 was released in stable version on the 10th of April 2012. The ISO image grew in size a little bit since last time, but remained absolutely tiny - only 35 Mb. It means that you can download and burn it to your disk in no time.

The new vSphere 5.0 virtualization software and underlying technology are available as training. Take it but be ready for it.

Integrate Prozgui Download Accelerator with Mozilla Firefox on ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot very easy, we did just installed the firefox addons called “FlashGot ”

In general a file manager is a program that gives some kind of interface to the file system and that show in a graphical or textual way the files and directory, usually a file manager allow to do some standard operations such as delete, rename copy/paste and other typical operations that you can do on files.

I have been looking around lately at all the old hardware I have lying around and thought what could I do with it all? Media center? Web server? Hardware Firewall perhaps? Then I came across Untangle Linux Firewall and thought why not give this a try!! Next thought was why install on the old hardware and increase my energy costs when I can install it on Virtualbox on my main Linux server instead? So I have installed Untangle Linux Firewall on Virtualbox running on a Linux Mint 10 File and Print Server and below will outline how I did it.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.0 has been released today, bringing some important new features, especially for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin which will be released tomorrow. As you probably know, starting with version 0.6, Ubuntu Tweak had lost some of its main features. Well, with the latest 0.7.0, some of these features are back: App Center, Source Center (which is a PPA database that you can easily enable/disable from Ubuntu Tweak), Templates and Scripts.

Valve isn't only porting Steam to Linux, but also the Source Engine game engine and the Left 4 Dead 2 game and this time, there are photos to prove it.

Fedora 17 ‘Beefy Miracle’ hits Beta, showcasing the next version of Fedora, as well as the future of open source software. Rob Zwetsloot takes it for a spin…

The latest Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin, goes head-to-head with the previous Long-Term Support version of the Linux-based operating system

The Wireshark network protocol analyzer can zero in on just the network traffic you want to see to tell you things like whether your encryption is working, or find infected hosts on your network.

The Debian Project produces an entirely Free operating system that empowers its users to be in control of the software running their computers. These days, more and more computing is being moved away from user computers to the so-called cloud – a vague term often used to refer to Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. We are concerned that, without the needed care, this trend might put in jeopardy most of the freedoms that users enjoy when running (on their computers) software that is Free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

Text editors that get out of the way and minimize complicated features can be desirable, depending on what you're doing and how you like to work. But Advanced Easy Editor takes "bare bones" to a painful extreme. Both strains of the app are reminiscent of sitting at a terminal running Unix. Perhaps they're just what's needed for a certain kind of job, but without so much as a text wrap feature, their appeal is highly limited.

Ubuntu 12.04 is released on 26th April, and Canonical’s Precise Pangolin will be the biggest Ubuntu yet. Here are five reasons why…