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Yet we are doing everything in our power to create silly artificial walls between developers and users. I wish there was a Wikipedia-alike way to develop (or at least quality check) an OSS desktop. Lets face it, there's a lot of people out there who cannot code but who have much better UI taste than the average OSS GUI developer. We are just not making use of that potential and that's a big lost opportunity no matter how you look at it.

There are a lot of desktop background switchers available, but Gnome 3 has changed it's interface just enough to stop most of them from working. But a little project from Dhananjay Sathe provides a fairly easy way to setup a Gnome 3 desktop background slideshow.

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Oneiric Ocelot development release is out and available to download, check release notes, download options and what’s new in Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Here.

This tutorial is supposed to show new Linux users how to handle Linux without having to browse through your desktop to edit files. The core commands to do this are the same on every Linux distribution, however there is a large variety of commands that differ from distribution to distribution, as does the install command.

PC and mobile users often need video conversion tools because of the restrictions placed on various devices. While one device may play H.264 perfectly well, another may insist on MPEG2. These limitations are not insurmountable. With the proper video conversion tools, you can make videos that play everywhere from...

Minitube it’s an application to watch youtube movie without using Flash or your browser, i’ve talked about it in a former article.

But from some time there were problems and the app was not able anymore to load properly the youtube video (this was with version 1.4.3 from around 1 month ago).

Flavio released on 5 of august a new release, the 1.5 that fixed this problem

There's more news this weekend out of Berlin about the Linux desktop. Beyond KDE on Wayland and primitive talk about GTK4, at the joint KDE-GNOME Desktop Summit, plans for KDE Frameworks 5.0 were announced...

Ontario Superior Court [Canada] grapples with legalities of anonymous postings on the Net.

We all know that file stores our information in many types of formats. But do you know that we can use it as a storage device too. Surprised? Let’s go through the crazy process We are going to create a empty file in Linux, format it and then mount it as if we are mounting a partition. This process is long , So to understand it easily I am dividing it into 4 steps.

All packages required are already in PPA “Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10?. Spice-gtk-0.7 has been done for Oneiric as two builds. First one with python, gobject-introspection enabled and --with-gtk=”2.0?(GTK2). Second one --with-introspection and --with-gtk=”3.0? (GTK3).This builds actually are the core builds in PPA, which bring RH’s technologies to Ubuntu 11.10. Notice, that option --with-audio=”pulse” is also used by both builds and appears to be working fine.Patched virt-manager and virtinst also support spicevmc channel. Following bellow is brief description of PPA "Spice-Gtk-0.7 on Ubuntu 11.10"

The Pronet Wifi USB adapter is based on the Atheros chip, as evident from its hardware properties displayed in Windows and Linux OSes. This tutorial provides help on installing it on Ubuntu Linux.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.0 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

Google Earth has received so much press coverage that many users will appreciate that it is one of the coolest applications to download. In brief, it is a feature-laden 3D virtual globe, map and geography browser which lets users zoom in on their world with fantastic detail.

Today marks two years to the day since the first version of Dancer micro web application framework for Perl hit CPAN! In these two years, the project had countless valuable contributions from a large list of contributing users, gathered over 300 watchers on GitHub, had 84 people fork the repository on GitHub, had 620 pull requests submitted… amazing stuff.

The SSL system helps to protect secure communications across the Internet. It's also a technology that relies on trust; specifically, the trust of the SSL Certificate Authority (CA), which may not always be trustworthy, according to security researcher Moxie Marlinspike.

Speaking at the Black Hat security conference, Marlinspike detailed issues with the current CA system and proposed a new system to replace it.

The need to replace the CA system according to Marlinspike was highlighted by the recent attack on CA provider Comodo in March. Marlinspike noted that Comodo is the second largest CA in the world and the attack was able to do a lot of damage. Comodo officially blamed Iran for the attack.

Welcome to the 159th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly! The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Oracle Linux 5.7 and Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3. In other news: The Document Foundation company announced the release of the LibreOffice 3.4.2 open source office suite; Google released the final and stable version of the popular Google Chrome 13 web browser; Linus Torvalds hates GNOME 3 and switches to the Xfce desktop environment. For this week we've also prepared a very nice tutorial about how to install KDE Software Compilation 4.7 on the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system. The weekly ends with the video clip of the week, the new and updated Linux distributions, and the development releases.

Okay guys so because this bundle is just that awesome i have a copy of the bundle up for grabs for one lucky winner.

Tiny Core is one of the most smallest Linux distributions, using Busybox as a user interface and comes and Kernel 2.6 based. Tiny Core comes 3.8 comes along with Micro Core and Multi Core. So let’s check the release announcements, changelog and download options.

While the dream-cat is still in Alpha I figured it would be nice to test it out and see how it behaves. I haven’t used an Ubuntu distro since 8.04 and there’s a good reason for that… it was a tad slow. But a friend said to try it out now, arguing that it has come a long way, therefore I am!

Usually I try not to overdo the Linux evangelism. I'd rather Linux succeeded on its own merits than from the fumbling insights that come from the mouths of believers. But last month I read an article and it left me feeling a little down. It was titled Is Linux Finished? and the author outlined what he thought were the reasons for the distinct lack of success Linux has had on the desktop.