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Samsung may be rethinking its decision not to bring Android 4 to the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab (hat tip to The Verge). After the company's announcement that neither device could be updated due to the size of Samsung's TouchWiz interface, the company is reportedly considering backing down on its decision due to "strong customer demand."

Gnome 2 has this excellent feature to create custom launcher from simple right click menu option. Unfortunately this ability has been removed from Gnome 3 and there is no easy GUI way to do it in both Unity and Gnome Shell. However, there are two methods that can be used to make custom launchers in Gnome 3.

This screencast shows you how to change the LightDM login background in Ubuntu 11.10

So what is going on? To be honest, I don’t know. I don’t follow the KDE development community as closely as I used to (which may be an indication that KDE is just not generating any excitement in its user base any more). However as a KDE user, I worry. I worry that KDE is no longer moving forward. I worry that somehow its developers have lost their passion, their drive and their way.

Ensign 1 the awesome in development space shooter I have covered a few times has reached it's goal of hitting $1000 on Kickstarter, infact it's actually smashed it hitting currently $1273 with 68 hours to go!

Just shortly Mozilla has released Firefox 9 according to its rapid release development oscillation. This rapid release has increased concerns about add-on firefox iconcompatibility and revamped interface that is confusing for consistent browser users. Mozilla has already been criticized for its rapid release program particularly in enterprise sector. Nevertheless, there are benefits of rapid release program too; that we seem to negative. Lets investigate them.

After a week of testing the hardware, Larry the Free Software Guy found only one glaring downside to the ZaReason Limbo 5440 desktop: having to return it back to ZaReason after the review. The Week in Limbo series wraps up with this epilogue, which includes a new-found love for Linux-based hardware and deep thanks to ZaReason CTO Earl Malmrose and his engineering staff for making such great Linux hardware.

A business card is not just a piece of paper you give to your clients containing your contact details. Business card is your ad, a billboard much larger than billboards in high traffic areas despite it is actually physically smaller. And it needs to get attention, to turn your clients into advocates. So here is a great tutorial with step-by-step instructions how to create a simple geeky business card with GIMP and gedit.

What is Comp-Scale?

Comp-Scale is an Enlightenment module that uses compositing features to allow you to switch between active windows and your current virtual workspace in a fancy method.

The performance of the dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 OMAP4460 configuration as found on the PandaBoard ES is quite commendable and in this Phoronix review the dual-core 1.2GHz ARM system with PowerVR SGX540 graphics is being compared to several Intel Atom, Pentium M, and Core Duo configurations running Ubuntu Linux throughout. To spice things up, the pre-production OLPC XO-1.75 was also thrown into the testing mix with its single-core ARMv7 800MHz Sheeva processor.

Announcing BoF open registration for the SCaLE 10x. Got a passion you'd like to share? Have a community you'd like to connect with? Want some open discussion on a topic? Create or join a BoF session on either Friday or Saturday night at SCaLE 10x.

Ubuntu Gwibber Lens is a Unity Launcher plugin that will allow users to quickly search for social networking posts from your very own Twitter, Facebook or Identi.ca accounts, which are sign-in in the actual Gwibber client app.

Gartner deconstructs the mega-vendors. CIOs should be wary of any claim by a large IT vendor that their set of products can combine to form an ‘integrated suite’, according to analyst group Gartner. In a highly informative session at Gartner Symposium on the Gold Coast yesterday, analyst Dennis Gaughan gave a broad overview of the strategic direction of the world’s largest application vendors IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP, with some strong recommendations as to how CIOs should engage with each of them. Combined, the four vendors have US$100 billion at their disposal to influence CIO decisions, he said, but end users needed to ensure they mastered their own destiny by using each of the vendors selectively.

Please give a warm welcome to 0 A.D. Alpha 8!

Procedure following bellow set up Qemu-kvm 1.0 & Spice 0.10 & Spice-Gtk 0.7.159 & Libusb 1.0.9-rc3 (official) on daily build of Ubuntu Precise (kernel 3.2.0-6).There is only one change to official libusb 1.0.9~rc3

There are something like a squillion and one different Avery® and Avery-compatible address labels you can buy, and with the open source LibreOffice productivity suite you can easily create your own custom fancy return address labels.

Today we are going to learn how to create a page of custom return address labels, with images and custom fonts.

The decline of Ubuntu and the corresponding rise of Linux Mint is one of the bigger Linux controversies of 2011. Ubuntu's introduction of Unity alienated a non-trivial portion of the Ubuntu user-base which then went looking for a new home – and found it in Linux Mint. How big was the exodus from Ubuntu to Mint?

This tutorial describes how to control your Android phone or tablet through your browser by using AirDroid.

Find out what the top 3 IP scanners for Linux are and how to install and use them.

Christian Robottom Reis, Engineering VP at Linaro, announced last week that an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) ARM port of the OpenJDK 6.0 package for Ubuntu is available for download and testing.