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ABLEconf's early bird deadline for the call for proposals is Sunday at midnight ( UTC-7 ).

The proposals committee appreciates early bird proposals because they make it easier to plan the schedule.

ABLEconf is a FLOSS business conference in Arizona.

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This guide describes how to search for text inside files using Linux command line and the commands find and grep.

t’s some time that i don’t do a roundup of games, and so today i want to present you some of the best FPS available for Linux. Like i always say, the time where Linux games were not comparable with the Windows counterpart is past, and now , with the right hardware, you can play some great games also on your Linux box.

Let’s take a look at : Warsow, World of Padman, Urban Terrror, Open Arena and AssaultCube

After playing with Gnome 3 under Fedora 16 and openSUSE 12.1, which made me a happy GNU/Linux user. I tried to see the issues people have with Gnome 3, most issues are not about 'status-quo' these issues are genuine so I looked at the alternative and tried to see how suitable is the second most popular Desktop Environment, KDE, for a Gnome user. I am writing this review as an average user. Advanced users know what they need - they are like mountaineers, they don't much care about such things. So, let's see how good is Fedora 16 KDE for an average Gnome user.

In The Linux Week in Review 25, I will reveal my thoughts, both good and bad, about Apple’s extremely popular tablet. I will also reveal how the GNU/Linux community could create a hardware/software ecosystem that could dethrone the Ipad.

In this write up, I describe how I managed to get Apache read my .htaccess files and perform URL rewriting correctly.

KDE is honored to be chosen again this year to be part of Google Code-In. Pre-university students aged between 13 and 17 are offered a great chance to contribute to KDE by choosing from a large pool of tasks, depending on their skills—code, translation, videography, user interfaces, research and more. Spread the word about the contest to any students and parents you know. read more

The GNOME 2011 User Survey is still going on, so be sure to participate. For those wanting to know what other Linux desktop users are saying about the GNOME3 desktop environment, here's one thousand more comments.

Kubuntu 11.10 is the latest stable release of the desktop Linux distribution sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a Linux software provider based in London, UK. It is based on Ubuntu, but uses KDE, the K Desktop Environment.

Like Ubuntu, Kubuntu comes either as a CD image with a graphical installer, a CD image with an alternate installer, and a DVD image that offers access to a graphical and alternate installer. This review is based on test installations of 32-bit images of the CD and alternate CD installer editions.

Since I spent some time running Fedora 16 with GNOME 3/GNOME Shell via a live image, and I judged it as working well but not as polished in the design department as Ubuntu 11.04/11.10 with Unity, I figured I should give Ubuntu 11.10 a try with its live image and see what I thought.

A little over a year ago I fired up the then latest version of Fedora (13) and found much that I liked. Ultimately though, it just wasn't the right tool for the job and I ended up going back to Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Fast forward another year, a few more releases have come out from Fedora, and Canonical has been making some choices that, while likely great long-term for Ubuntu, are a bit awkward currently for some of its user base.

One of the major differences between various Linux distributions is package management. Many times, this is the reason somebody steers away from one distribution to another, because he/she doesn't like the way software is installed or because there is software needed that isn't available in the distro's repositories. If you are a beginner in the Linux world and are wondering about the differences between distributions, this will be a good start. If you've only used one or two distributions for some time and you want to see what's on the other side of the fence, this article also might be for you.

A long-time member of the FOSS community believes that men need to do much more about increasing the participation of women in the community and improving their experience of being part of the community.

Well it has been a long time coming since the last update but the huge smash hit indie game Minecraft will today have it's biggest update yet.

Weekly development version wine 1.3.33 for running Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris, and MAC OS X has been released. The new version includes improvements to bidirectional text layout for writing Arabic, WinHTTP proxy fixes, new version of Wine Gecko 1.4 based on Mozilla Gecko layout engine, and several bug fixes.

It actually does a really good job of making GNOME 3 "Pinguy-ish", and it's quite a bit more usable than stock GNOME 3. The rest of it is the same Pinguy OS I've come to know and love.

I've traditionally used stand-alone FTP clients like FileZilla and gFTP to interact with the servers I use. Only recently have I decided to start using the GNOME Nautilus file manager's FTP/SFTP capabilities to manage the content in some of my servers.

Desura unleashed last night, November 17th, the final and stable Linux client for its Desura service, providing 65 game titles installable with a single mouse click.

This week we look at agile slaves, how to count mission critical apps and a Flash programmer's view of the Adobe announcement.