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Its time for some extensive customization of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal's look and feel through a bunch of cool looking themes. Following is a collection of some of my favorite GTK themes for Ubuntu 11.04/GNOME 2.0 based desktops.

Building your own Python web applications provides you with the opportunity to have great functionality, with no restrictions. However, creating web applications with Python is not straightforward. Coupled with learning a new skill of developing web applications, you would normally have to learn how to work with a framework as well.

I should have been more patient last time, and this time after reading feedback I was able to get SimplyMEPIS 11.0 to work! Honestly, though, it isn't really anything special.

The time has come for software vendors to deliver virtualization-optimized operating systems.

ActiveState just opened a developer preview for Stackato, an in-house, open source development environment built on VMware's Cloud Foundry. But instead of using Ruby as the default as Cloud Foundry does, it lets you build web applications with Python and Perl.

The Linux utility nl is an easy tool to use to number lines in scripts or flexible enough to create headers, body and footers in your documents.

Those of us who have been using Linux for a long time all know the joy of silly programs like xeyes. One of my favorites, however, is good old xsnow. Whether you love the cold weather or live in Florida and like to ski on occasion, xsnow will add some winter fun to your desktop. The xsnow program has been around forever and is surely available for your distribution.

Linux gaming has been improving over the years. Today, we have a great selection of games that will keep any gamer occupied for a very long time. Check out this list to see all the cool games that run on the Linux platform. Linux is slowly but surely gaining on the desktop where large game selection is essential in order for people to change over to the free and open source operating system.

Results matter, whether you are a mathematician, scientist, or engineer. The time that you spend doing tedious mathematical calculations could be spent in more productive ways. Sage is an open-source mathematical software system that helps you perform many mathematical tasks. There is no reason to compute integrals or perform algebraic manipulations by hand when software can perform these tasks more quickly and accurately. In this article we will take a look at some tips and tricks for working with Sage and using Python more effectively</p>

LinuxCertified, Inc. announced its next two day, hands-on course that provides attendees with experience in creating Linux kernel source code within various subsystems of the Linux kernel. This course teaches attendees to acquaints developers with the fundamental subsystems, data structures, and API of the Linux kernel

This class is scheduled for May 25th - 26th, 2011.

Intel announced it will roll out a 22-nanometer (nm) version of the Atom processor in 2013 codenamed & Silvermont,& followed by a 14nm & Airmont& Atom in 2014. The company also promised 10 Intel-based tablets for the upcoming Computex show, and showed off a concept smartphone running on its 32nm Medfield Atom -- but also warned that phones based on its processors will be delayed until next year....

We are proud to announce today, May 19th, the immediate release of the highly anticipated Linux kernel 2.6.39.

The issue which your Internet provider may have is that their DNS servers may be down for whatever reasons. Technical glitch, software or hardware upgrade, whatever else. If your provider's DNS servers are down, you cannot use domain names to get access to Internet sites. Is there any alternatives to your provider's DNS service? Yes!

Based on a reader comment, we take iotop for a spin to see if it can be used for monitoring the IO usage of individual processes on a system. The result? It has some interesting capability that we haven't found in other tools.

As expected to happen this week, the Linux 2.6.39 kernel has been officially released. This major kernel update provides some exciting new features and drivers, but not without some notable regressions too...

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 11.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

Microsoft Corp. struck a deal with San Francisco officials to provide an online email system for the city's workforce, beating out competing products from Google Inc. and IBM Corp. Company and the city representatives said the new tool, Microsoft Exchange Online, will reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve stability. Most of San Francisco's roughly 23,000 workers are currently using desktop versions of Microsoft Exchange and IBM's Lotus Notes, with seven different installations running in various departments. The city will pay the Redmond, Wash. software company a little more than $1 million per year for the new product. There will be some up front migration costs, but the city expects to save money in the second year of the deal.

Attachmate named Nils Brauckmann president of its new SUSE business unit -- and also affirmed its commitment to SUSE Linux, the OpenSUSE project, SUSE Studio, and SUSE Manager. Aside from shedding the Mono project, all SUSE projects will be continued, and there are no plans to change packing or pricing, says the company.

The Japan Prize, one of the highest honors awarded for outstanding contribution to science and technology, was awarded jointly this year to Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for the creation of UNIX. The prize is normally given to the recipients at a lavish banquet in Tokyo attended by the emperor. However, due to the April earthquake and tsunami, the prizes this year were distributed at the honorees' place of work. I was able to attend the ceremony for Ken Thompson, held at Google headquarters, where he currently works. After the ceremony, he consented to this exclusive interview.

BoxeeBoxTips.com has launched its first "Win a Boxee Box" contest. The contest, which continues through June 30, will award a D-Link Boxee box to the submitter of the most popular Boxee Box tweak, how-to, or tip aimed at helping users get the most from the iconic Linux-based devices.