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Canonical announced that lots of new games, books and magazines will be available in the Ubuntu Software Center for all Ubuntu users.

"OpenIndiana oi_151a has been released, this release comes exactly one year after the first release, oi_147. This build brings a wide variety of enhancements,openindiana including being the first build based on Illumos. Notable changes to the kernel and core userland since OpenIndiana's oi_148 release includes KVM

Making delirious dictators worldwide quake in their boots, the Tails Project recently announced numerous improvements to its anonymity-obsessed Linux distro, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, aka Tails. more>>

On Monday the BBC reported that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been asked to push 1 million euros into development of ReactOS, the open source Windows clone. Evidently, the request came from a student at a high school where the president was visiting.

GNOME Shell is at the very beginning of its long treacherous journey. As we saw in our earlier post, it is now possible to easily install GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot, whose final release is scheduled to happen next month itself. Meanwhile, I have been using GNOME Shell in Ubuntu Oneric beta for sometime now and one thing I am really unhappy about is its default theme. But third party GNOME Shell themes are already pouring in. Here is a collection of top 10 GNOME Shell themes(installation instructions towards bottom of this post).

Aaeon announced a 3.5-inch single board computer (SBC) with dual display support and a touchscreen controller. The GENE-LN05 Rev.B offers a choice of Intel Atom N455 or dual-core, 1.8GHz D525 processors with up to 2GB or 4GB of DDR3 memory, respectively, and features CompactFlash, SATA, gigabit Ethernet, USB, serial, Parallel, and expansion interfaces, says the company....

Hypervisor hammering in the Cloud Foundry VMware's SpringSource unit has released Java tooling making it faster and easier to build big clouds using its parent's Cloud Foundry project.…

The following article is part of a series I’m writing on the various configuration tools available in Fedora 15. Look at the bottom of this article for links to the rest of the series.

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced a few minutes ago, September 16th, the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 14 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.

This week, we explore 10 differences between HTML4 and 5, 4 agile requirements levels and dealing with stupid clients. And as an added bonus, a cartoon from the always brilliant xkcd.

Further to my previous post about Dungeons of Dredmor, Gaslamp Games have now stated Linux support will be in the next version!

Jesse Vincent is taking a hard look at where Perl 5 is headed. Vincent, who's at the forefront of maintaining Perl 5 these days, says that the Perl Porters are doing "a stellar job" of getting Perl 5 "back into a reasonable groove." But Vincent says there's more to do and that Perl 5 will continue to evolve.

NoMachine, creator of NX remote access software, showed their support of the Open Source software community on September 10, 2011, as a sponsor of the ninth annual Ohio LinuxFest in Columbus, Ohio.

The Dutch company Medialine anounced several 10.1-inch Honeycomb 3.2 tablets & adds several features the iPad doesn't have.

This tutorial shows how you can use basic HTTP authentication with Nginx to password-protect directories on your server or even a whole website. This is the Nginx equivalent to basic HTTP authentication on Apache with .htaccess/.htpasswd.

It seems that Google has got a sweet tooth. The company has developed almost a tradition ever since it launched Android for the smart phone market. Every new build of its increasingly hot operating system for smart phones and tablets is named after a dessert. Its versions are named alphabetically, and the latest one is Ice cream sandwich.

After years of being held in capital cities, Australia's national Linux conference, the LCA, is set to be held in a regional town for the first time in 2012.

NVIDIA has created a new branch of their proprietary Linux graphics driver. This new driver is for the "long-lived" series. The purpose of this series is to provide just bug-fixes and other minor updates for non-legacy hardware. In other words, like their legacy drivers where they just receive minor updates, but for those just wanting these fixes for newer hardware while not exposing any new functionality...

DickMacInnis.com would like to thank everyone who has helped make Dream Studio 11.04 a resounding success, having quadrupled our user base in the 3 weeks since it's release. Thanks to community suggestions, we're proud to release our first fully 64-bit version today!

As the Fuduntu Linux distribution has grown over the past 10 months, our processes and procedures have matured helping us deliver a relatively painless upgrade process. Fuduntu users are able to enjoy many of the latest technologies including the latest Chromium, Firefox 6, and Kernel 3.0.x without sacrificing the stability or security of our base platform.