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Years ago there was this ad campaign by the Wendy’s hamburger chain that asked the question Where’s the Beef?. The commercials were rather funny and “Where’s the beef?” has become a way to ask “where is the substance?” or to call attention to the lack thereof. Before GP-GPU, multi-core, and clusters, I have been asking a similar question about HPC development tools. In particular, “Where are the parallel programming tools?” This question has become fundamentally important to the future of computing and the answer is not quite clear.

Linux Mint Xfce is a great new addition to the Debian-based Linux Mint family, but its biggest competition comes from Debian-based Linux Mint GNOME.

The Linux Foundation kicked off the 5th Annual Linux Collaboration Summit with four announcements: the formation of the new High Availability working group, the release of the Carrier Grade Linux 5.0 specification, Yocto Project Release 1.0 availability, and the 20th Anniversary Video Contest.

Now, with Linux having been so successful everywhere else, why is it still failing to over take on the desktop? Well I have a theory and as you may have guessed from the title of the post, I placing the blame here squarely on the shoulders of Internet Explorer 6.

There are a few common security practices that every Linux user should follow. Unfortunately, not everybody is aware of these. In this post will show you 9 Best practices to secure your Linux Desktop and Server including( installation and configuration)

This tutorial shows how to configure and use Network UPS Tools (NUT) software with an USB (Uninterruptable Power Supply) on CentOS 5.5. NUT is a software which supports several thousand models.

Years after work first began, the new Gnome3 desktop is finally here. It's a day that many open source fans have been looking forward to for years. On Wednesday, 6 April 2011, Gnome3 - the latest version of the popular open source desktop environment - made its official debut.

Natty Narwhal (Ubuntu 11.04) removes GNOME, adds new kernel, and offers a major patch for scheduling processes. Mark Shuttleworth talks to Linux User about all this, the GNOME conflict, Debian relations and the future of Ubuntu…

If you're a Windows user, you may find your new Linux system to be a bit different from what you're used to. One of your first tasks will probably be installing additional software, including some of IBM's extensive software for Linux. In many cases, installing software on a Linux system requires you to log in, become the super user (or root) for some tasks, open a terminal or shell window, and mount a CD-ROM, DVD, or USB drive. This article guides you through these basic first-time user tasks and more.

The KDE team has just announced on April 6th the second maintenance release for KDE Software Compilation 4.6. This is a minor update, focusing on bug fixing and translation updates.

It's hard to believe, but this year marks the 20th anniversary of Linux. If you're a new Linux user, you might wonder how it all got started. As part of the Linux Foundation's celebrations for the 20th anniversary of Linux, Linux.com is going to be running a series of stories that looks at the history of Linux — starting with the history of how it all began.

The recent popularity and growth of Linux Mint Debian Edition as well as the migration and planned migration of some of the alternate desktop environment based editions (Fluxbox and XFCE so far) has strummed up questions about the future of the main Linux Mint edition which is based on Ubuntu and Gnome. To help answer these growing questions, Linux Mint's founder and project lead, Clement Lefebvre has created an easy to miss F.A.Q. nestled at the end of the Linux Mint XFCE announcement.

It was predicted since canonical announced unity. It was anticipated since people tried and disappointed on unity. It was desired since people saw, tried and experienced gnome 3.0 and its new shell. It was inevitable since shuttleworth commmented that no classic desktop for ubuntu 11.10…

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Elementary OS is unlike many other Ubuntu derivative distros out there. Instead of simply rearranging applications in a different order to create a new distro, Elementary project concentrates on actually building a full blown Linux distro with a consistent user interface that include custom applications and themes. The first stable release of Elementary OS codenamed "Jupiter" happened sometime last week and here is our review of it. Read on.

Ubuntu App Developer Week, will take place in online in the #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat IRC channels on April 11-15, 2011 from 16:00 to 21:00 UTC each day.

Recently, I setup a bootable Linux USB key, to act as a portable OS. On the laptop I'm using as my test machine, boot to USB is unavailable in the BIOS. I was happy to find "Plop Boot Manager," it is a great program that allows me to boot my test machine (an old Dell laptop) from my Linux USB key. The following is from the Plop web site:

ARM and its licensees are striving to expand their overall market presence by tackling Intel’s x86 in servers and client desktop and laptop computers.

Open source angels with dirty faces Fear ye not, Linux faithful. Thy software is no more susceptible to patent or copyright attack than any other piece of closed source software.…

Raise your (phone's) voice as we build out our Text To Speech app for Android.

Have an idea for a great Linux application that’s missing from the 30,000+ downloads in the Ubuntu repositories? Participate in Ubuntu Developer Week. Here's how.