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GTK+ 3.2, the first major update since the release of GNOME 3.0 with the overhauled GTK+ 3.0 tool-kit, is coming along nicely in preparation for the September release of GNOME 3.2.

Your computer is running Windows. Hope, only temporary. And you want to try Linux on that machine. Or you are already in Linux and want to give a go to another distribution. For some reason, CD/DVD drive is not available or not working. Do you have any chance to get what you want?

Image of Dariolynx Of course! Solution is very simple. Instead of running Linux from CD, you can create Live USB with iso image. There are different methods to achieve the task. Let's look at some of them

Disper-indicator for Ubuntu provides a simple user interface for Disper display switching utility. Disper-indicator detects which monitors are currently connected to the computer and provides options to enable single screens, clone or extended screen configurations for systems having NVIDIA Cards. Disper-indicator is based on Disper, an application written by Willem van Engen that lets you add and remove display devices.

It’s not easy to put up a list of “best” applications which do something, however there are some highlights in each category which really deserve to be mentioned. In this article I will overview 20 KDE applications which I believe are best in their niche, one application from each important category, in no particular order.

LXer Feature: 13-Jun-2010

Today’s topic of conversation is something I feel fairly strongly about. It is something I have seen happen countless times, both in person and posted various places around the internet. Some semi-tech head (or Windows system admin) downloads this “Linux” thing and decides they are going to boot it up. They don’t look up their hardware online for compatibility, they just pop the disc in and expect everything to work...

I must agree, there aren’t many native strategy games for Linux, especially not those who can usually match the commercial ones for Linux. Actually they are so rare, they could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. I could include here games such as the very popular Glest, Spring or Tribal Trouble.

It was just over 100 days ago that OpenBenchmarking.org and Phoronix Test Suite 3.0-Iveland launched from the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) in Los Angeles. Now that these major releases have been available to the public for over three months, and Phoronix Test Suite 3.2-Grimstad will be released in just a couple of days, here's some overview statistics of where our open and collaborative testing platform is at today.

LXer Feature: 12-Jun-2011

For the LXWR this week we have the parting of Linux and Mono, a FOSS hacker reverse-engineers Skype, Larry The Free Software Guy gives us his top 10 Linux Lists as well as our own Carla Schroder talks about Ubuntu's contributions to Linux. And last but not least we have yet another doozy of a piece by Ken Hess that Caitlyn Martin just couldn't stop herself from responding too. Enjoy!

It's never easy for me to manage multiple tasks. I've never, ever been any good at it. Interrupt me to do something while I'm doing something else and I find it hard to restrain my full range of verbal expression.

Recently, I had to install Ubuntu 11.04 in a Core 2 Duo Lenovo laptop with Intel Mobile 4 Series Chipset. I had previously installed Ubuntu 10.10 in it and it worked flawlessly. But that was not the case when I installed the latest Ubuntu. Though installation went smooth, Ubuntu 11.04 just won't boot after restart and instead a blank screen appears with a blinking cursor. After some amount of browsing, I think I have just found out how to fix the blank screen issue.

Gnac is a graphical audio converter for GNOME with support for encoding/decoding to and from various formats, including the free formats FLAC and Ogg, WAV, MP3, M4A or SPX.

This article explains how to create and embed different types of either 2D or 3D interactive maps in our Moodle courses. The creation of these maps will be done using resources available in the Web 2.0 as well as the free and open source software. Thanks to these amazing tools, we can design and display interactive maps in our Moodle courses.

In this article, we will cover:

* Creating maps with sceneries and Drawing regions within a map * Drawing 3D maps using Bing Maps and 3DVIA Shape for Maps * Using Google maps to locate European bridges * Displaying interactive information about the solar system * Working with constellation maps and Embedding a map of Mars * Labeling the moon and Watching the universe

How can you be stylish and support a great project that gets Linux-based computer labs in low-income schools? Larry the Free Software Guy says, "Stick it in your ear," and check out these Ubuntu earrings.

The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: SystemRescueCd 2.2.0, Zorin OS 5 and Peppermint OS Two. In other news: The Ubuntu Manual team finally announced the official release of the Ubuntu 10.10 Manual; the Google developers released the Google Chrome 12 web browser for Linux; Canonical announced that Ubuntu 11.10 will have a new login manager; the KDE developers announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.6.4. For this week we've also prepared an helpful tutorial with tips and tricks for the Unity interface of 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.

Disclaimer

This post is a bona fide rant. It tells how a hardcore Linux user (me) decided to abandon Linux as a desktop platform and the reasons behind this decision. It might provoke some controversy, but I frankly don’t care. I’m generally known as one of the biggest supporters of GNU/Linux, I’ve taught courses on Linux administration, I’ve spoken at Linux conferences and I naturally use Linux as my primary desktop on all my machines. Well, that last part is not so true anymore. Here the story begins…

We have already discussed in length about Lenses, one of the key new feature brought about by Ubuntu's new Unity desktop. Lenses for 'Applications' and 'Files & Folders' are default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and then there are these awesome, still-in-development Lenses that you can install and experiment right now. Now, how do you actually remove the Lenses you don't want from Unity Launcher? Here is what you need to do.

Those of you who are using Kubuntu are already familiar with Dolphin, the default file manager shipped in most KDE distributions. There are several very good file managers for KDE, and I must include here Konqueror or Krusader, however Dolphin’s goal is to offer as much as possible functionality while also keeping lightweight and fast. And yes, it does it perfectly well, offering powerful features and a clean interface at the same time.

Been waiting for Google Cloud Print to finally come to linux?

The wait is over!

If you are in charge of some services probably you have set up some monitoring system to notify you if something go wrong (email, sms or a Tweet), and so you can fix it quickly. But do you really want to be always available 24×7 every day of the year ? I’m not for sure, so let’s see Monit, a fantastic tool that can manage some problems for you and let you enjoy your free time.

This week, the Commit Digest includes a featured article about Kst, the fastest real-time large-dataset viewing and plotting tool. Also in this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Work on C++0x support in KDevelop, including support for variadic template parameters in the parser, new browser-like tabs, and many bugfixes throughout KDevPlatform In Plasma, suspend/hibernate services added to the powermanagement dataengine, battery applet replaced with QML port from Plasma-Mobile, and many bugfixes read more