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Welcome to the 153rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

How to debug and create crash logs on GameTree Linux! Sometimes, a game just doesn't wanna run or install. And sometimes, it gives an error, which could help you identify the problem about running or installing the game. How? Well, when the game crashes, it usually gives an error, and GameTree Linux helps you showing "# new alerts", where # is a number.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 15 desktop (GNOME) 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.

This summers install apps on your android and make the most out of your phone whether at work or on holidays! In this post I have gathered some interesting apps that will make your summers peaceful and enjoyable!

"We recently received an e-mail from a lead developer of a certain popular GNU/Linux distribution (we can't say which one), questioning our ethics in relation to sales of Live Flash Drives. With permission, I will share with you what the concern was and our opinion and solution"

Mozilla recently made headlines by saying (in no uncertain terms) that they would not be providing security fixes for the recently released Firefox version 4. This has caused some concern in the enterprise, who are no doubt aware (thanks to the recent activity of Lulz Security and Anonymous) that security is not something that can be taken lightly. Microsoft also took the opportunity to remind system administrators and CIOs that IE will be supported for many years to come.

"People sometimes ask me why I’m so adamant that Wikipedia must always use free software, even when in some cases it might be the case that proprietary software might be more convenient or better suited for some particular need that we have. After all, the argument goes, our primary mission is to produce free knowledge, not to promote free software, and whlie we might prefer free software on practical grounds (since it is generally best of breed for webserving applications), we should not be sticklers about it."

I am no longer using GNOME but Xfce and this has nothing to do with GNOME Shell. I already switched a long time ago. But as the (co-)maintainer of several terminals in Fedora, I wondered how to enable users to easily switch their default terminal emulator in GNOME 3

This Tux was born far-far away from many of you: in country of football, beef and tango. Do you know which country I mean? Yes, that is Argentina. This Tux likes music very much, that's why parents named it Musix. Of course, music is not his only hobby, but...

I'm extremely excited to announce that exactly 11 years ago today I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org. Since then LQ has exceeded my expectation in every way. 4,382,316 posts and 457,176 registered members does not even begin to tell the story.

It's a better live distribution than before, but the installer crashed, so I'm hesitant to recommend it for daily use.

The Wine development release 1.3.23 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Yesterday I mentioned what Anton Altaparmakov of Tuxera had recently said about their NTFS kernel driver being the fastest Linux file-system, which erupted into a large debate in our forums. Within that mailing list thread was also another interesting comment by Linus Torvalds. "Userspace filesystem? The problem is right there. Always has been. People who think that userspace filesystems are realistic for anything but toys are just misguided."

Last week at Google's offices in London there was a gathering of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) developers to discuss various topics from C++0x and GDB to the compiler's plug-in API. There are notes from this 2011 GCC Gathering on the GCC Wiki for those interested, but perhaps most interesting was their discussion surrounding the planned migration to C++. GCC itself is largely written in C at this point, but there's an effort under-way to switch more of this compiler code to being more C++ based...

Norco announced a barebone, 1U rackmount network security appliance that supports Intel's & Pineview& generation of Atom processors. The FW-7874 offers up to 2GB DDR3 memory, PCI and mini-PCIe expansion, CompactFlash and SATA storage, and four gigabit Ethernet ports with LAN bypass, among other I/O....

Today I’m going to write about my experiences of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. I’ve been running it as my main desktop for about a month. The last version I properly reviewed was Ubuntu 9.10, and though I’ve used the other releases in the meantime, there’s still a lot of changes to talk about with Natty. Most notably the complete shift to the new Unity interface, which feels very different to Gnome 2. I’d heard a lot about it but how would I fare? Let’s find out…

Wine 1.3.23 has been released this afternoon with more Direct3D/DirectX 9.0 functions being implemented by this popular free software project...

The following article will list some of the most important panel applets, also called indicators, for Ubuntu 11.04's Unity interface.

The N9 is the first truly modern smartphone that Nokia has unveiled since the start of finger-friendly interface revolution. Although it's a significant technical achievement, it's sadly a pyrrhic victory for Nokia—the device has arrived a year too late. The Finnish phone giant has already abandoned its Linux platform in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system.

The Mageia project has announced the arrival of a first preview of a Mageia port for ARM processors. According to the developers, the Mageia ARM port, code-named "arm eabi", will use the hard float feature of Cortex family processors. It currently includes several development tools, basic network services, Firefox and LibreOffice and a full GNOME desktop environment – a minimal version of KDE is also included.