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The Desktop Summit is beginning at the end of this week as the joint conference between the GNOME and KDE communities. This year's Desktop Summit is taking place in the wonderful city of Berlin and will go from the 6th to 12th of August. At Humboldt University there will be a number of interesting Linux desktop talks and other events...

Few Ubuntu users may have noticed, but GNOME 3 has been officially released now for several months. How does this open source desktop environment, so long in the making, compare to its competitors? Here's the analysis.

Wind River announced a new version of Wind River Platform for Infotainment, its Genivi-compliant automotive stack designed for building Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) systems. The new version adds support for ARM processors, as well as Apple iPhone and iPod integration, Wind River Hypervisor support for multi-OS virtualization, and a new application and GUI framework, says the company....

Link-Dead is a side-view multiplayer only combat game placed in a post-nuclear war setting. You can pick one of two teams. One is an advanced elite warrior faction calling themselves the Ubermen. They walk in full body armor and possess futuristic guns that can be modded with a range of gun attachments. Ubermen's goal is to hunt Mutants which are a race of post-war people adapted for living underground. They don't have any advanced technology but use guerrilla tactics like building improvised bombs with laser tripwires and using predator-like camouflage to hide.

At the request of our readers, the following tutorial will teach Ubuntu and Kubuntu users how to install the KDE SC 4.7 on the Ubuntu/Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system.

Sometimes using Windows applications is unavoidable, so in this tutorial we will make use of Wine to show you how to run Windows applications seamlessly within Linux…

I got a comment from a fellow redditor the other day that got me thinking: Awesome. This was my dream for quite a while. I thought every company should release PC games using a LiveCD, so Linux and Windows users would get equal opportunity to play them. (n2dasun) If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense!

One part of the Deskolo project is to estimate the electricity consumption by considering only activity indicators of a computer. The solution proposed by CEA-LIST consists in using some Machine Learning techniques which are able to construct a predictive model from a dataset of examples.

At the CompTIA Breakaway conference this week, Canonical is outlining seven potential profit opportunities for partners that back Ubuntu Linux. What are the opportunities? The are outlined here.

Mandriva Desktop 2011 will be the next stable release of the popular desktop Linux distribution developed by Mandriva, a Linux software publisher based in France.

Though the second release candidate still spots some bugs, the installer will not change when the stable edition is released on August 29, 2011. This article shows how to install Mandriva Desktop 2011, using a release candidate 2 installation ISO image, on a btrfs file system.

Subversion (svn) is an open-source version control system (VCS), used in the development of many software projects. This tutorial shows how to install Subversion on Debian Squeeze and how to configure it to allow access to a repository through different protocols: file://, http://, https://, svn://, and svn+ssh://.

The numbers show that less than half of Android users surveyed (47%) say they plan to buy another Android phone. That means user dissatisfaction with the platform is so high that the majority of people currently using an Android have already given up the on the platform. Aside from the kind of tech geeks who desire an overly complicated Linux-based phone, most current Android users are explainable either by the fact that the iPhone wasn’t on their preferred carrier at the time or an instance of a salesgeek promising them that Android would be “just like iPhone but better.”

The Android market now boasts of more than 200,000 applications, 70 % of which are free. It is clear that there’s an ‘app’ for everyone, even for hardcore book lovers. With the rise in e-reading, more and more people are ditching the paperbacks for this rapidly evolving platform. So, if you’re one of those bibliophiles, here are the 5 best apps that you must install on your Android device.

Apple Australia is demanding that Samsung send the entire stock of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets to be destroyed and the case will reach the Australian courts later this month. Competition between Apple and Samsung has now reached the point where the two firms are suing each other in no less than nine countries.

Every year there are articles published about this being the "Year of Linux". I read many of them and I realized that there is no specific "Year of Linux". I also wrote my own article arguing that every year is the year of Linux and as the Linux market share grows, one day we will realize that Linux is everywhere.

Humble Indie Bundle #3 just launched last week Tuesday and in its first day it grossed more than $100,000 USD and before even starting the weekend it raked in more than $650k USD. Now on Monday evening, this collection of multi-platform DRM-free games where you "pay what you want" is approaching the million dollar mark...

The Linux utility sed provides a great way to substitute text strings in a file. Using the "s" option and by listing the current string and the string to use as the new text allows sed to perform this task.

Many scientists cheered last year when a federal judge ruled that human genes couldn’t be patented... But now the courts have reversed themselves again.

(includes a link to free Perl code to check the BRCA genes in a non-patent infringing way)

One of the long sought after features of X.Org and the Linux graphics stack has been the ability to run multiple X Servers from a single graphics card. While this wouldn't be used by many, there are still many interested in seeing this feature request become a reality...

Canalys tracks smartphone sales in 56 countries around the world, and released a summary of its data for Q2 2011 on August 1. According to the firm, Google's Android operating system led in 35 countries and achieved a global market share of 48 percent....