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Find out what’s better than KVM or OpenVZ. It’s Proxmox. And, it combines both technologies into the ultimate hypervisor.

Adobe has resuscitated Flash Player for 64-bit Linux, drawing cheers from penguins across the planet. On Wednesday, the company released a beta version of Flash Player 11 for the desktop, and this included a 64-bit Linux beta. In June of last year, Adobe murdered an experimental version of Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux, but it promised the penguin population it would revive the 64-bit Linux player in a future Flash release.

Will Toyota's membership in The Linux Foundation spur it to contribute to FOSS? Thoughts on Technology blogger Jeff Hoogland hopes so. "At the very least I think it is a sign that Meego will be appearing at some point as an in-car operating system," he said. "Here is to hoping Meego can eventually give the pseudo-Linux Android a run for its money."

As we’ve mentioned several times before, a few of us here at MakeTechEasier are big fans of Gnome 3. Sadly, since the project is still fairly young, it’s not nearly as configurable or feature-rich as its 2.x cousins. At the moment, the standard install provides no quick and obvious way to change many of the settings, so applications like the Gnome Tweak Tool have been created to give users a few more options. Even those tools, however, still leave many desirable options out – such as the ability to manage your workspaces by hand. Initial builds of Gnome Shell showed a linear or grid-based approach that this author, for one, prefers to the current automatic approach. Here’s how to get some of that back.

Sam Spilsbury has just tagged Compiz 0.9.5 for release as the latest development milestone for this compositing window manager...

Quite a few years ago, a popular Linux site began displaying ads from Microsoft on their home page. Big ones, at a prominent location above the fold. Some were fancy Flash ads, attention getters, mainly for branding purposes. Others were FUD, “independent” TCO studies bought and paid for by Redmond that “proved” it was cheaper to hand MS a wheelbarrow of money to run a Windows server than to run a free Linux server.

That's right folks, another ten best! But this time I'll wager you're not familiar with any of them, or at best one or two. The free/open source software world is vast and full of excellent applications for all occasions. An interesting trend is the growth of large distributed projects such as OpenTox and AMEE. FOSS presents a natural platform for building large distributed projects because of the low barrier to entry-- open code, open standards, and freely-available robust, high-quality high-performance software.

And now I shall cease nattering, and invite you to enjoy the following best unknown open source software projects.

The renowned remote desktop sharing application, Mikogo, makes the move to its third platform with the announcement of its native Linux client. This release now enables businesses to host and join free desktop sharing sessions from any three of the major platforms – Linux, Windows and Mac computers.

Here's a list of what to expect in GNOME Shell 3.2 (to be released on September 28), according to Allan Day, one of the main GNOME Shell developers:

Garnet Games is offering their puzzle game, Puzzle Moppet, free for 24 hours. Linux version available.

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an OpenSUSE 11.4 GNOME desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8100 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

Review of the popular CERN-made distribution

If you are a small or even medium-sized business on the market, you know that every dollar, pound, euro or yen saved could help you grow as an enterprise. Young companies struggle to survive in this highly competitive market as much as possible and we all know that in this day and age a solid IT infrastructure is a prime factor in holding a business together, no matter the size or the profits.

PayPal announced a peer-to-peer (P2P) near field communications (NFC) solution for Android, designed to support direct payments between Samsung Nexus S owners. Due late this summer, the technology will be followed later this year by an expanded NFC solution that will compete with Google Wallet by supporting retail payments, PayPal says....

Tribler is one of the more innovative BitTorrent clients available today. Tribler is developed at the Delft University of Technology and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and has introduced a number of impressive features such as truly decentralized BitTorrent downloading, and more recently algorithm changes that improve download speeds.

Tribler provides installation packages for Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu, as well as the source code which can be used on other Linux distributions.

Sony offered the press a glimpse of its upcoming S1 and S2 tablets, which will enter an already-crowded market at an unannounced point later this year. Both run Android, but the S1 features a single 9.4-inch display, while the foldable (and pocketable) S2 features a hinge connecting a pair of 5.5-inch screens....

Linux isn't just for servers anymore.

Adobe has released Flash Player 11 beta, the new version being available for both 32bit and 64bit.

In a world where getting a USB wifi device to work could be painful, I review the IOGear GWU625 in which it installs in a snap without configuring a thing.

Android 3.2 has begun rolling out to selected tablets, starting with the Wi-Fi only Motorola Xoom, bringing support for seven-inch displays and native hardware support for SD cards, says an industry report. Android 3.2, the source code of which has been partially released, also features an automatic zoom-to-fit resizing feature tipped by Google earlier this week....

A sneak peek for LightDM ” Light Display Manager ” which replace GDM ” Gnome Display Manager ” in Upcoming release of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. Let’s check few screenshots and video preview.