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This entry is somewhat mis-titled. What I did with xmodmap wasn't exactly fun. Maybe mildly rewarding, finally. But also a bit perturbing.

antiX is very fast and light-weight Linux distribution for older PC like 64 MB or 128 MB of RAM. It is based on MEPIS and debian comes with IceWM desktop environment. It can also be used as a rescue disk by its LiveCD.

It's not gravity that makes the Linux Planet go around, it's the continuous process of never-ending code development. This past week saw three major milestone development releases for three of the biggest Linux efforts

Wine software allows you to run Microsoft Windows applications on Linux/Unix operating systems. Recently many release candidate of wine 1.4 released in the past few weeks, and here comes the final stable release of Wine 1.4 after 20 Months of development. The latest stable release Wine 1.4 brings several improvements to graphics rendering, added a new DIB graphics engine, improved Direct3D, support for many new applications and over than 16,000 individual changes. Check What’s new in Wine 1.4 and installation instructions down below.

Hello, I am going to guide you through the install version 1.1 of the Porteus Linux distribution. A light weight (under 300megs), fast and modular distribution based on Slackware.

Linux Deepin is a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, but using a modifed GNOME 3 shell, not Ubuntu’s Unity desktop. It was founded by Liu Wenhuan, who is also a co-founder of Wuhan Linux User Group (LUG), a LUG in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China.

Like most desktop distributions today, Linux Deepin is made available for download as a Live ISO installation image. Deepin’s, both the 32- and 64-bit images, weigh in at about 650 MB. Thus they are Live CD images.

While I remain somewhat skeptical about the ability to produce a truly cheap smart phone running the Boot to Gecko system, it's hard not to root for a standards-based approach running an extremely light-weight Linux kernel. Developers tired of developing apps for multiple platforms should also like it.

Zuck's lads poke around superpower's backdoor Facebook has drilled into China’s burgeoning software development industry to expand its range of apps despite the social network being banned in the country.…

If you are a open source software developer or a content writer you can use Zanata to translate your software strings, User interface text/String, software documentation and localized into any languages.

On March 6, 2012, Codeweavers team has released an update for Crossover!

The major graphics chip manufacturer joins Fleundo, Lineo Solutions, and Mocana to be welcomed to The Linux Foundaton...

Audience is a new media player written in Vala that "brings the lessons learned from the web home to the desktop".

CodeWeavers, throught Jon Parshall, proudly announced last night in a press release that CrossOver XI software has been officially release for both Linux and Macintosh platforms, bringing initial support for Microsoft Office 2010.

The mega interview of Mark Shuttleworth is here. Text version coming in a few minutes. It was great to meet him again after a long time. He hasn't changed much -- still a great individual with passion and vision for future.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

I have to be honest here and admit that my intention for this article was to spend 1 week using and solely relying online and cloud applications for my work and productivity. But only 2 days in to my experiment, things changed and many things become apparent to me.

Every once in a while there is some news on Unity3D Linux web player support. Sometimes it excites us and most of the times the situation seems all the more dismal. Few months back, we also reported that Unity3D Linux support is not a priority and that the chances are bleak. The question is, How do we convince them to bring the game engine to Linux?

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux Release 5 Update 8 for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) architectures. Oracle Linux 5.8 ships with following three sets of kernel packages: Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (kernel-uek-2.6.32); Red Hat compatible kernel (kernel-2.6.18); Red Hat compatible kernel with bug fixes added by Oracle (kernel-2.6.18).

This week we talk about the upcoming space game "Ensign-1" by Only Human Studios. Our guests are Brandon Smith (aka."Onion") the lead programmer, and Kevin Pears (aka."Rusty") the artist and level designer. They have taken the time to answer some general questions about where the game is heading and how it will get there:

Doha, Qatar: March 6, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced an innovative LPI certification and training project in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU: http://www.itu.int) throughout the 22 countries of the League of Arab States (LAS: http://arableagueonline.org/).