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I was really impressed by the system. The only issues, which I noticed in my test, were minor ones - the absence of English translation to one of screen elements, and non-standard icons for some applications. They are not that important, are they?

The level of the distribution produced by ALT Linux team is impressive.

One of the common issues facing Ubuntu users after installing or upgrading Ubuntu is the nosound problem, there are many reason for this issue, sometime is related to a volume setting configuration, misconfiguration or can be that you have a new hardware that is not supported. In this post will try to list some solutions to nosound issue on Ubuntu.

Linus Torvalds officially released the Linux 3.3 kernel on Sunday afternoon...

Motif, a leading global BPO and KPO services provider, organizes many philanthropic events throughout the year, such as the Motif Charity Walk, Blood Donation Drive and Christmas Celebrations for the underprivileged.

It turns out there's a rather serious issue for some systems when having Wayland support within GTK+ exposed, which may hinder the Wayland GTK+ availability in the near-term...

Mobeen Iqbal has announced the availability of the Vinux 3.0.2. This Ubuntu based operating system is specially developed for blind and visually impaired users. Hence it contain screen-reader, full screen magnification and support for Braille display.

Arriving this weekend for the open-source Intel DRM graphics driver for the Linux kernel were new -- nearly re-written -- hardware context support patches...

In our previous post which you can read here, we mentioned that Gedit, Totem, Remmina and Brasero received quicklist support. Well two more applications have been added to that list.

Back in January I wrote about how open-source compilers are quickly maturing for Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs and offering early support for Intel Ivy Bridge and Intel Haswell processors. Both GCC and LLVM have been quick to take advantage of the new instruction set extensions and other capabilities of these latest -- and very impressive -- Intel processors. With the release of GCC 4.7 quickly approaching, here is an updated set of GNU Compiler Collection Fortran/C/C++ benchmarks from the Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition test-bed.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Work on diagram auto layout feature in Umbrello 'Create new class' dialog for Ruby support in KDevelop Work on object custom dimensions tabs and support for Matlab's .mat format in Kst KStars gains a horizontal coordinates grid read more

Anne Nicolas has announced the availability of second beta version of Mageia 2 Linux on 15th Mar, 2012. This version include KDE 4.8.1, GNOME 3.3 and Linux Kernel 3.3-rc7 with many other new updates. This version is specially for testing and bug fixing.

Chromium OS Lime builds have been updated and now they have new Aura based interface. If you were waiting to try the new Aura based Chromium OS desktop, this is the right time as Lime builds come with extra hardware and java support.

Cinnamon 1.4 has been released and announced by Cinnamon Development Team. Cinnamon 1.4 bring a few changes, the major change in this release is a new hot corner behavior which can now use either workspace selection (like Compiz “Expo”) or window selection (like Compiz “Scale”).

An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. It offers services such as management of large distributed systems, data services, load balancing, transaction support, and network security. Many application servers support the Java platform, but they can be found in other environments.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.2 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

When I was a teenager, I was very interested in computers. I looked forward to and really enjoyed my Information Technology classes. But it wasn’t just the computers that I was interested. The more I got involved with them, the more I wanted to know about what goes on to make them work. Or to be precise, the operating system.

In this special edition of The Linux Week In Review, I will discuss the coming growth of GNU/Linux running on tablet computers. GNU/Linux on tablets was indirectly predicted by various devices on Star Trek years ago.

I recently purchased a Toshiba Thrive Android tablet. It is a wonderful device! The only thing that I can fault it for is not having access to the rich repository of GNU/Linux software. In this article, I will detail my dream tablet: a tablet running Linux.

The Linux Mint team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 LXDE. Linux Mint 12 LXDE comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. This is the first release of Linux Mint using hybrid ISO images. Traditionally, tools such as 'Startup Disk Creator' or 'UNetbootin' were needed to install Linux Mint via USB. With hybrid images, you can simply use the 'dd' command or a graphical front-end to make a bootable USB which acts exactly like a live DVD.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KDevelop gets sessions data engine and plasmoid, also memory usage optimization and various fixes In Calligra, fixes for mouse events; Kexi switched to a new optimized SQLite database compacting tool; multiple bugfixes Implemented ResourceWatcher signals for added and removed types in Nepomuk read more