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There are a few things that are absent that mean that I cannot use it daily, but oh my goodness it is polished!

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.3 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.2 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come.

While both editions just work out of the box, they leave a very important feature disabled by default. That feature, is the firewall. The really bad thing about this distribution is not just that the firewall is not configured, but that there are open ports that leave your computer wide open for Black Hats to mess with.

Gimp is an advanced image editor application, it works on many operating system including Linux, MAC OS X and Microsoft Windows. We have seen earlier on the development series 2.7.x many features which lands on the final release Gimp 2.8.0. Now, the final release is available to Download. So, let’s check out its highlights and download links.

The news has been quick to spread today that Electronic Arts will be making a brief presentation at the Ubuntu Developer Summit next week...

"Ubuntu 12.04 is at the very least among the best Ubuntu releases so far, and definitely represents an improvement over 11.10."

Helena the 3rd is a 3D action platforming game. Guide your tank Helena over rough terrain, battling hostile enemies, and occasionally needing to leave your tank to access areas Helena can't reach in search of upgrades and other treasures.

The Financial Times of London recently took the unusual step of shutting down its iOS app in favor of a HTML5-only approach. It works for them, but would it work for your company too?

With word this morning of Electronic Arts making plans with Ubuntu and now the release of GIMP 2.8, some may think that hell has frozen over...

GIMP 2.8 has been finally released after being in development for more than three years. New features include single window mode, layer groups, on canvas text editing and many more.

Well there's a new kid in town here in the Linux blogosphere, and it's already caused quite a stir. It's one of the Ubuntu clan, as its nickname makes clear, but that's as far as the foolin' goes. With five years of support and a scaly, tough hide, this one's here to stay. With time on its side and its eye on the prize, it may just blaze a new trail. Can freedom take hold in a world that's been dominated for so long?

Open Source is bad for small developers, bad for business users and amazing for big software vendors. As far as innovation for humanity is concerned, the jury is still out. As far as I can tell, so far, most innovations were produced by proprietary/closed innovation organizations. Examples are the computer mouse, graphical user interface, iPhone, all NASA and government agencies innovations etc…(An oldie but goodie-- TC)

GIMP 2.8 has just been released, bringing with it a load of new features, such as grouped layers, rotatable brushes, and a much sought after single window mode

Some Linux distribution are born to be big. Like Debian, Ubuntu and RedHat. Other Linux distributions are born to die, because only limited set of developers are self-interested in them. And there are distributions which are born to live small. They are changing maintaners and developers, but don't change the supporting idea. The example is Kongoni GNU/Linux. This is one of the few distributions born with an idea of freedom. This is one of the distributions approved by Free Software Foundation.

After more than two years of development, GIMP 2.8 stable is finally available for download. The new version brings the long-awaited single-window mode (optional; you can still use multiple windows) as well as some other cool new features like on-canavas text editing, multi-column dock windows, a new set of brushes and many other features and improvements.

Now that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) has been released, we are proud to announce today, May 3rd, the immediate availability for download of the GNOME Shell Remix 12.04 Linux operating system.

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

While it's improved a lot recently, in the past setting up a multi-seat computer has been a pain in the ass with a lot of manual configurations needed and other peculiar steps to get the hardware/software combination working right. What if the process were a lot simpler? What if new seats could be added to a computer at a very low cost and the setup was effectively "out of the box" to the point that it's truly plug-and-play? Well, we are now effectively at that point on the Linux desktop and there is a new Kickstarter effort to help in that initiative.

The GNOME Project, through Frederic Peters, announced last evening, May 2nd, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first development release of the upcoming GNOME 3.6 desktop environment.

The very latest edition, Linux Mint Debian 201204, was released on April 24. Installation images for 32- and 64-bit platforms for the Xfce and MATE/Cinnamon desktop environments were released. The MATE/Cinnamon edition has already being reviewed. This article is a review of the Xfce edition,