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This article is a list of several frustrations that I experienced in the first 30 minutes, nothing major just small issues. Overall the desktop is nice to look at and works efficiently. Part of if is simply getting used to the changes.

Like a loud and bossy sibling, Microsoft will continue to dominate the minds of the market and ability to access their purse strings. Perhaps one day we will see some hope for Linux, but there is probably still no chance for this until we see some real marketing efforts.

Pear Linux is a relatively new community project that publishes several versions of Linux desktop distributions. While I am still working on a review of the standard and netbook editions, here are a few screen shots from a test installation of the NETBOOK edition.

Those following the openSUSE development closely probably know that the 2nd milestone on the way to openSUSE 12.2 was planned for the beginning of this week. And indeed you can now download it. As usual, a list of the most annoying bugs is being maintained and you can see the list of bugs and/or file a new one in Bugzilla.

After a year when there was just a single candidate, the incumbent, standing for the post, 2012 will see three developers slug it out for the post of leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Project.

GNOME 3.4, the latest major update to the GNOME3 desktop, is set to be officially released on Wednesday. Here's a look at some of the most interesting features of this biannual GNOME update.

While Linux gamers are experiencing perhaps the best time of Gaming on Linux ever, there is still no official Steam client for Linux Desktop.

CrunchBang is a Linux distribution, which definitely deserves the attention of people who have known Linux for some time. It may be too steep a learning curve for newbies, but once you get comfortable with text-style configuration files and command line interface, then OpenBox can be a good alternative to more popular desktop environments. And given that CrunchBang is based on rock-solid Debian, you are unlikely to miss any important application, or feel any instability.

Philip Newborough of CrunchBang Linux talks about his desktop setup and why he's grateful for Debian.

This article should acquaint you with basic Arduino programming and show you how to write programs that interact with objects in the real world. (A mandatory disclaimer: the last time I really studied electronics was way back in high school, so this article focuses more on the programming aspects, rather than the electronic side of things.)

The Snuggle Truck game has been added today to the current Humble Bundle For Android 2 and Linux, and Mac, and Windows.

Pear OS 4, now known as Comice OS 4, has been released again after issues with the original release. Netbook and beta KDE flavours are also now available

The Zorin OS team is proud to finally release Zorin OS 6 Lite, the latest evolution of the Zorin OS Lite series of operating systems, designed specifically for Windows users using old or low-powered hardware. This release is based on Lubuntu 11.10 and uses the LXDE desktop environment to provide one of the fastest and most feature-packed interfaces for low-specification machines. New features and refinements include a more lightweight version of the Software Center which makes it much easier to install applications in Zorin OS Lite and update programs.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few days ago, on March 23rd, the immediate availability for download of the thirteen maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 series.

Pear Linux is a relatively new community project that publishes several versions of Linux desktop distributions. While I am still working on a review of the standard and netbook editions, here are a few screen shots from a test installation of the standard edition.

Iceland has kicked off a migration project to put its public institutions on a strict diet of free and open source software. The move will affect a wide variety of institutions, and it could result in savings for the country's cash-strapped government. However, just because software is free as in beer and free as in freedom doesn't mean maintenance will come at no cost.

A new version, simply labelled "2012_3_24", of the Parted Magic open source, multi-platform partitioning tool has been released. According to lead developer Patrick Verner, the update fixes a number of issues related to interaction between the BusyBox tool collection and Clonezilla, and upgrades a number of the included applications.

More than 50 percent of the world’s largest corporations have open source applications with security vulnerabilities. That’s because more than 80 percent of software applications built in-house by enterprise developers incorporate open source components and frameworks that may be vulnerable.

LXer Feature: 26-Mar-2012

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