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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot alpha 1 has been released today and it comes with GNOME 3 (the GNOME application stack such as Gedit 3, Nautilus 3, etc. - but it doesn't come with GNOME Shell by default; however, GNOME Shell is available in the official Ubuntu 11.10 repositories) and of course, Unity by default.

Oracle is to propose that OpenOffice.org becomes an Apache Software Foundation (ASF) project and enters the Apache incubation process. The proposal comes six weeks after Oracle abandoned commercial development of OpenOffice and said it was looking for a way to have the office suite managed by the community.

Believe it or not, third parties always determine a candidate’s success or failure in the race to the data center.

Aupeo, a Pandora-like music streaming service, has just rolled a redesigned website along with its first smartphone app for Android and iOS devices. Although its wide range of music, genres, subgenres, and preference-tuning features are impressive, Aupeo’s eye-candy-rich Android/iOS app is frustrating to use. The service is also usable via web access on Linux, Windows, and iOS desktops.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Ubuntu 11.04 'Oneiric Ocelot' Alpha 1 has been released today. The major focus for this release has been bringing in full Gnome 3 stack and porting required applications to GTK3/PyGI. Unity and Unity 2D has been updated with bug fix releases. Almost all of the Gnome 3 stack has landed except few packages. Ubuntu 11.10 features Linux kernel 2.6.39 and gcc 4.6 compiler.

Few months ago I promised to dump Mandriva Linux. I was not happy with it and did not want to return to it. But later I came back to it, because I had an opportunity to try another flavour, new release. This time I almost broke my promise again. Today's specie is Mageia...

With the extensive Linux power consumption tests that I've been carrying out to solve some nasty Linux kernel power regressions and find other areas for optimization, one of the requests that has come in frequently is to compare the power consumption of the KDE, GNOME, Unity, Xfce, and LXDE desktops. After the article earlier this week to look at how the desktop environments / compositing window managers affect OpenGL performance, I carried out a quick desktop power test. In this article are battery power consumption results for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu.

The first alpha of what will become Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" has been released by the Canonical and Ubuntu developers. This development milestone is the first on the roadmap which sees another two alpha and two beta versions before the final release on 13 October.

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server, the first "Long Term Support" release of Ubuntu has reached its end of life and is now completely unsupported; there will be no more security updates or critical bug fixes.

In a former article I’ve talked about the XMPP:Jingle protocol to find a good replacement for Skype. Some people asked me about Ekiga, is this a good software or not ? and how you can use it ?

Ekiga (formely known as GnomeMeeting) is an open source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet. It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality. It is interoperable with many other standard compliant softwares, hardwares and service providers as it uses both the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323).

Canonical announced Asus' decision to load the Eee PC 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX with Ubuntu 10.10 from 1 June as one that will "make it one of the most user-friendly PCs on the market".

A lesser-known Linux distribution, and the Little Desktop That Could.

After relatively slow early sales, Asus, Motorola, and Samsung have reduced their Android tablet manufacturing plans by about 10 percent, according to a JP Morgan analyst. Meanwhile, the rumored Amazon.com Android tablet could sell 2.4 million units in 2012 without significantly cannibalizing the company's Kindle e-reader sales, according to a Piper Jaffray analyst....

It's pretty good, but aesthetic & Compiz issues keep it from being truly "excellent" as before.

Twitter Address Bar Search is a restart less add-on that lets you use Twitter to search for #hashtag and @username from the address bar in Firefox on the desktop and on Android.

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 6.1 for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (6-bit) architectures. Oracle Linux 6.1 ships with two sets of kernel packages: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel installed and booted by default, and Red Hat compatible kernel installed by default. Oracle Linux 6.1 includes both a 32-bit and a 64-bit Unbreakable Enterprise kernel. Oracle Linux 6.1 Screenshot Tour

Companies like Microsoft are paying tons of money to lure consumers to their services, but the real value could be marketing data services to IT.

In January 1991 a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, bought an IBM PC with an Intel 80386 chip. A month later he installed a copy of Minix, the UNIX-like operating system developed as a teaching tool by Andrew Tanenbaum, and began to write a standalone terminal emulator to access the UNIX servers at Helsinki university…

uGet is a GTK+ download manager that runs on both Linux and Windows. The latest uGet 1.8.0, released today, brings support for Torrent and Metalink files (by using aria2), Ubuntu AppIndicator as well as GTK3 support.