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Google Chrome and Chromium open-source web browsers version 15.0.874.106 has been released. Latest stable release of Chromium web browser brings many improvements, performance enhancements and fixed several security bugs. The new tab page has been redesigned to easily access your mostly visited websites, web store applications and customizable website speed dial.

I never really considered myself a GNOME user. Though I am. I've used Xfce, Fluxbox, Fvwm2, LXDE, even JWM (Joe's Window Manager) in Puppy and FLTK/FLWM in TinyCore. But most of the time I stick with the default desktop environment offered by a given distribution.

Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu) and SUSE already compete in the Linux market. Now, they’ll increasingly compete in the cloud computing world. Both SUSE (owned by Attachmate) and Ubuntu are getting cozy with OpenStack, the open source cloud standard initially promoted by Rackspace and NASA. On the flip-side, Red Hat is marching forward with its own cloud standards. Here's the showdown.

Firefox with Bing is not the default Firefox and it's not a replacement for Google either. Heck, even if it was the default, it's trivially easy to replace the homepage and the default search provider too (just ask Ubuntu). In January of 2010, Ubuntu tried to switch out Google for Yahoo as the default provider.

So, Ubuntu 11.10 is here and GNOME2 is gone... Even if you had an option to run GNOME2 in previous release of Ubuntu 11.04, there is no more this option in 11.10. It is only shipped with Unity interface. Does it mean GNOME is fully gone? No, it is still here... But that's not GNOME2. That is GNOME3, updated version which follows (or creates?) new wave of user interfaces. Let's have a look at Ubuntu 11.10 with GNOME3 interface and check whether it is better than Unity.

This week we have an interview with Richard Holland, Chief Business Officer and Co-Founder of Eagle Genomics, a bioinformatics company that leverages scientific open source software to support its business model. Enjoy the interview!

This week, SUSE announced that it had joined OpenStack and today the company announced a development preview of SUSE Cloud which is powered by OpenStack. With the green team at SUSE behind OpenStack, along with Canonical, does that make OpenStack the de facto open source cloud? Not so fast – I wouldn't count Red Hat out just yet.

Leader International announced two Android tablets, both with full-sized USB ports and microSD slots. The $179 Impression 7 (I7) runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz processor, and provides a seven-inch 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen, while the $349 Impression 10 (I10) runs Android 2.3 on a 1GHz Samsung Hummingbird, adding a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 capacitive IPS touchscreen, an HDMI port, and a two-megapixel camera....

WordPress plugins are a great way of customizing and improving the usability of your blog. I am a firm believer that selecting the right plugins can go a long way towards getting your niche site above your competitors in the search engine rankings. I have experimented extensively with this and will happily share with you the list I install for nearly all of my niche sites.

Storing your App data to Apple’s iCloud is very convenient. A little too convenient maybe. Find out how to manage your iCloud backup data before you spend money on storage you don’t need.

Video can be a powerful tool to deliver information over the Internet for marketing, corporate training, or social media purposes. Most people who think of Internet video probably think of YouTube first, but sometimes public hosting is not the best option for your video.

Despite having issues using Sabayon Linux on a USB stick with persistent storage (unable to install packages), I was so impressed by its speed that I decided to go ahead and install it. Surprisingly I have found that most of the software I use is already included, including Gnome Tweak Tool.

Some of you may wonder what is the purpose of this article. First, because hardware nowadays is pretty cheap, you don't need older hardware anymore. Second, there are some articles across the Internet dealing with this already. The answer to the first problem is: well, you'll see in the article. The answer to the second is we have some experience with older hardware first-hand, and we found it to be very useful to this day, so we want to share this with you.

Here are 4 beautiful, light GTK3.2 compatible themes: Evolve, Sonar, Elegant Brit and Elements.

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last night, October 25th, the immediate availability for download of the stable and final release of the Google Chrome 15 web browser for Linux platforms.

Security researchers at ESET and Sophos have discovered that hackers have gone out of their way to port an old Linux backdoor Trojan to the Apple Mac OS X platform, extending their reach of computers that they can use as part of their botnets.

Repeated online harassment, all of it based on her sex, has forced a prominent female open source developer and community organiser to quit the tech industry and also rethink her participation in LCA 2012.

All keynote sessions from the LinuxCon 2011 Europe conference held in Prague this week are being made available for free public streaming today through Friday (Sept. 26-28). Live streaming of the keynotes is available according to a fixed schedule, but you can also watch them later via the conference’s video archive.

The Linux deployment tool m23 is now available for download in version m23 rock 11.4. In comparison to its predecessor, the new version offers support for Debian Squeeze to be installed on the client computers and Trinity Desktop Environment is now among the available desktops. Many more smaller changes and improvements have been made - go to the website for download and more information!

As businesses are forced to process more and more data, it's becoming more of a curse than a blessing, and that's why finding ways to make sense of that data is becoming big business.