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There are not so many distributions in the Linux galaxy which have names directly showing the purpose of the distribution's creation. I honestly do not think that Bodhi is going to enlighten anybody or Fedora can stay on your head. As opposed to these, PCLinuxOS directly says that it is a Linux operating system intended to be used on PCs.

NautilusNav-icon With the ever-changing world of Linux, you can expect things to be different for no apparent reason. Some changes are good, and some just cause trouble for users. In this case, it can just flat-out be annoying. Most people will instinctively look to the left of the file manager for navigation links, such as back and forward. In Nautilus 3+, that’s not where you will find them. Instead, they were moved to the right side of the address bar. That’s not a very natural place for them to be, so today, I’ll show you one way to move them back to the left.

The European parliament is currently consulting on a wide-ranging draft European Commission regulation on European standardisation. Voting in the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, which is spearheading the legislation, is set to take place in March. The initiative is intended to create a comprehensive, effective, broadly applicable standardisation system. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has criticised the proposal as paving the way for standards which are poorly compatible with open source software.

The proper fsck utility for the Btrfs file-system remains M.I.A. while a contribution from an independent developer introduces LZ4 compression support to this next-generation Linux file-system.

This is the inside story on a Linux distribution known as SimplyMEPIS. Like a lot of stories, there is more to it than meets the eye. And while on the surface, this is a story about a Linux distribution, there are some life lessons that can be found in it.

Over the last several months, we’ve seen indications of a good faith effort by Hewlett-Packard to become a positive contributor to the open source software development community, in the form of a commitment by the company to release their webOS operating system as open source under the Apache license.

VLC 2.0 “Twoflower” has been released, this is a major release of VLC that comes with faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware, ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs.

Google’s Latest release of Android version 4.0 typically referred to as Ice Cream Sandwich has definitely changed the way in which people visualize smartphone. Essentially the most spectacular thing concerning the Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich is it provides almost as good consumer experience in smartphones as in tablets. There are numerous smartphones manufacturer already on the verge of launching their latest version of smartphone with Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich. For e.g. Samsung Galaxy s, Motorola Droid Bionic etc. It’s well known the constantly rising need for the first tablet to get shipped with Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich i.e. ASUS Transformer Prime.

Aaron Seigo, the lead of KDE project, has announced the pre-order registration for the first 'pure' Linux tablet Spark

The fourth Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.3 is available for download and testing, as Linus Torvalds announced a few hours ago, February 18th.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 16 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

Boot time has a real impact on the first impression of the speed of a system. The time taken for the computer to be ready for use is also important in realising a positive experience for the user. One of the most dramatic ways to improve boot times is to install a solid state drive. However, if you are not looking to replace your mechanical disk drive, there are a number of tools available for Linux that can also help to significantly improve boot times. A word of caution. Before using this type of software, we would strongly recommend that you backup your system as there is always a slight risk of data corruption. In this article, we also identify software to help you customise the boot loader, and to create bootable live USB drives without burning optical media.

Cinnamon 1.3 released, according to Clem announcement, this is a major update of Cinnamon that comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes. In this post will show you how to install Cinnamon on Mint/Ubuntu/Fedora and Opensuse

The VideoLAN organization proudly unleashed a few minutes ago the final and stable release of the highly anticipated VLC 2.0 media player.

For almost three months, versions of three widely distributed open-source applications from Horde.org contained a backdoor that allowed attackers to remotely execute malicious PHP code on systems that ran the programs.

New patches have turned up for the Intel Linux kernel DRM driver to implement hardware context support...

The Linux 3.3-rc4 kernel was released this Saturday evening after a peculiar 32-bit kernel bug had led to the release being delayed by a few days...

Sabayon Linux is a Gentoo based distribution that is geared towards novice users and uses the lighter weighted XFCE 4.8 desktop. It is amongst the few that uses Gentoo as a base for its distribution and only one that is geared towards novice users.

My experiences using Ubuntu Linux to prepare an SD card with the Android OS to be run on Barnes and Noble Nook Color tablet.

After laying out plans earlier this month at FOSDEM for releasing Wayland 1.0 this year, Kristian Høgsberg has now written a more detailed message to the Wayland developers that outlines some of the TODO list and other plans for making Wayland 1.0...