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Thanks to Yes, Minister, the idea of bureaucrats running the country is embedded in the nation's imagination. Governments change and ministers come and go with barely enough time to master the jargon. Public policy is quietly made in private, and while the media focuses on the elected government, the real one, our bureaucracy, quietly goes about its business. How true is this, really?

Greg KH is not happy with Gnome 3. When I met him during LinuxCon and interviewed him (the interview is coming soon), and asked about Gnome 3, he said he was still running Gnome 2. Now, he has tried Gnome 3 and he is not a happy user. He was not as 'harsh' as was Linus Torvalds when he called Gnome 3 Shell a holy mess and said someone should fork it.

During the Ubuntu Development Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Jason Warner, Ubuntu Desktop Manager at Canonical, gave an interview to Amber Graner, an Ubuntu contributor involved in the community since February 2009.

Ubuntu has been at the top of the Linux popularity contest for much of the past five years, but that's starting to change as Linux Mint's popularity grows. As the sands of Linux popularity shift, development on other distros and key components of Linux continued to move forward last week.

I thought I'd hate GNOME Shell, but I actually ended up liking it. The Fedora 16 live environment was responsive. I could really be productive here. If only it wasn't so darn ugly.

Today marks the one year point from our first Bodhi Linux "0.1.0" release. I feel we have come a long way in such a short time and I am happy with everything the team has accomplished thus far. Would you believe that I first started Bodhi simply because I was tired of having to recompile E on each of my half dozen systems every week?

Desura Linux client is now out of beta after being in testing for more than 2 months. The final build can now be downloaded from Desura website. The Linux game catalogue includes more than 65 titles across different genres. Desura supports multiple Linux distributions and allows automatic installation, updating and patching of games. Projects that are currently actively under development are also supported under Alpha Funding initiative.

After the release of Mandriva Linux 2011 FREE Edition, Mandriva proudly announced the immediate availability of Mandriva Powerpack 2011, the complete edition of the Mandriva Linux operating system.

Ubuntu Software Center had a complete makeover recently. But I have to admit, even with all those changes, it still feels unfinished. In our earlier Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot review, we did shared our concern with the unfinished nature of Ubuntu Software Center and had promised a more elaborate take on the issue. So here is it, things I would like to see improved in the next iteration of Ubuntu Software Center. Read on.

The OpenSUSE project released version 12.1 of its enterprise-focused Linux distribution, featuring Linux 3.1, GNOME 3.2 and support for KDE's & OwnCloud& cloud platform. OpenSUSE 12.1 introduces the SystemD configuration utility and Google's Go programming language, and further integrates the Btrfs file-system with a & Snapper& tool for rolling back system updates and configuration changes....

An important field where GNU/Linux is gaining ground is that of schools, both primary and secondary. I think it’s important to teach children and young people that there is a whole world of open source software to explore, and that not everything that is connected to a computer means Windows and/or proprietary systems. There are specialized distributions to help teachers in making their students know at this world, in this article we’ll see an overview of these distributions.

What you're reading is only the first of the many articles from the "Learning Linux commands" series. Why would we want to do such a thing? Because it's useful to you to have every option and possible use of a widely used command all in one place. You will find some options or even some commands that you didn't even knew existed, and your life as a Linux user / admin will become easier. If you're not afraid of opening a terminal and know the basics of using a Linux system, this article is for you.

The government is now mulling plans to popularize FOSS within the government and beyond. DIT (The department of information technology) of the center government is now seeking advice from the International Center for Free and Open Source Software, Kerala.

What’s on your big wish list for 2012? A new gadget? A new car? A better job? Think bigger.

The Turkish company's prototype uses a 10-inch Android Honeycomb-based tablet to power a 65-inch LCD with 1080p support for basic gestures, like pinch and zoom. The display currently has two touch sensors, but a version with four sensors is on the way, which will bring multi-touch support.

The openSUSE Linux distribution is out with a new release today, providing users with new desktop, cloud and backup features. One of the key new features in the openSUSE 12.1 release is the Snapper tool that helps users to take full advantage of the Btrfs filesystem.

Amazon's Kindle Fire is the world's smallest vending machine disguised as a tablet. In other words, according to this eWEEK review, it's really a dedicated media device, not something you should expect to use for work....

Take one tablet and call me anytime.

For those wondering about the impact that AMD's Cool 'n' Quiet and Turbo Core technologies have under Linux for the latest-generation Bulldozer processors, here are some tests illustrating the changes in performance, power consumption, and operating temperature.

PandaBoard.org's community-driven PandaBoard is the first device to run Android 4.0, according to Texas Instruments (TI) and the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). Based on TI's dual-core, 1GHz OMAP4430 processor -- similar to the OMAP4460 available in the soon-to-ship Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- the PandaBoard has been demonstrated on YouTube running an experimental build of & Ice Cream Sandwich.& ...