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After more than one year of hard work, the Xfce development team proudly announced a couple of days ago, on April 28th, the immediate availability for download of the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment.

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is SlimIt. I previously wrote about the minification of CSS files, the Slimit package is used for minification of Javascript files.

Ubuntu Builder allows you to create your own Ubuntu based distribution in clicks. You are free to choose your own desktop environment, window manager, packages etc, and customize Ubuntu the way you want.

Businesses that want to transition to hosted virtual or cloud-based technology should listen to this podcast.

The Linux 3.4-rc5 kernel was released on Sunday with an increased number of changes over its predecessor, which Linus Torvalds describes as annoying, but it shouldn't be "hugely scary" for those testing it out...

These small commands are not so known, but i think they can do miracles for you when you have to work from the terminal on text files and you need to compare them, or do operation on lines inside 1 file or merge 2 files applying some criteria.

In this article I’ll show you the most common options for these commands and some practical examples on how to use them.

WiFix is an application aimed simplify wireless card detection and driver installation on linux by downloading to a computer then compile and install the wireless driver that is suitable for the wireless card users.

... As a homeschool parent once told me, she would never allow her children on the Internet without her or her husband present. ... I think I might have an answer for that homeschool mother and other homeschooling parents in a similar situation. The answer, of course, involves Linux and FOSS.

On April 27, 2012 Ubuntu released its new operating system Ubuntu 12.04. Since then I have been playing around with it, and I’ve got to say that although I had my doubts about Unity it is turning out to be quite a nice desktop environment. So without further ado let’s take a look at what’s new in Ubuntu 12.04!

If you happen to be an unfortunate soul still using an old ATI Rage graphics processor, the "R128" driver now has EXA acceleration support after about a decade and a half of the hardware being around...

First off, Application Menu has not any similarity with Unity’s Global Menus. While Global Menus copy the Window App Menu from the usual spot (inside App) into Unity’s top panel -the Mac style-, Application Menu, is one single menu that steals some elements from Window App Menu and places them in a drop down – no submenu-ed – menu over Shell panel.

The Moose File-System was updated in March with new features and capabilities...

This upgrade is directly inspired from an article by Joey Sneddon over at OMG! Ubuntu. Joey upgrades a 10.04 installation to 12.04 and gets some really great results. The jump from Lucid to Precise is a significant one, so seeing his success, minus the loss of his wallpaper, is great news for those of us that are able to stick with this Jurassic release.

The latest Phoronix Test Suite 4.0-Suldal improvements are now available and there's also some new test profiles for those interested in measuring the OpenCL/GPGPU performance under Linux along with NVIDIA's VDPAU video decoding speed...

Writing the piece on FOSS design, it made me think about past experiences in various communities and brought back memories to the point when I decided to put down some thoughts on Mozilla browsers (won't cover other apps today) design history as I saw it, both as an user and from my involvement with its community. Even if the screenshots below are taken mostly from Wikipedia (try to run 10-15 years old binaries on a current Linux desktop), all the experiences are mine.

A benchmark is the act of running computer programs in order to assess the performance of computer hardware and software applications. Hardware benchmarking assesses many different attributes such as the performance of the processor, memory, graphics card, hard disk, and the network. There are two different types of benchmarks: synthetic and application. Synthetic benchmark stress a component, such as continuously writing and reading data. Application benchmarks measure the performance of real-world applications, such as databases and servers.

After a week of interesting Valve Linux news on Phoronix, Friday afternoon there was a special Linux delivery at Valve's offices for their "Linux cabal" -- the team of Valve developers that are working to provide the Linux versions of the Steam client and various Source Engine-powered games natively on Linux.

Typing the wrong command can severely cripple your computer. A wrong switch or wrong option is all it takes. One command that I learned to avoid a long time ago, based on what experienced users told me, is rm -rf /. The rm command is what you use to remove or delete a file or directory.

By itself, rm will delete a file. With the -r or -R option, it will recursively delete a directory. The -f option will force the action. So, you can imagine what rm -rf / could theoretically do to you your system. But will it?

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is cssmin. Minification has recently gained prominence in the web 2.0 world due to the need to optimize web application performance.

The cssmin package is used to minify css files.

We're going to set up a free, full-featured mail server on CentOS 6.2, all mail service related components are free and open source, and you have control over your own data. The installation process is extremly easy and smooth.