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With Gnome and Ubuntu shaking up the Linux desktop market it might be time to look at an alternative desktop interface

Kate Stewart, Ubuntu Release Manager, today announced the availability of Ubuntu 11.04 codenamed Natty Narwhal.

Since a lot of people want to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal already, I though you'd like to see a video (well actually 2) on how to upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04. Remember that starting with Ubuntu 11.04, you can upgrade using the Live CD too.

Developers are quite often gamers at heart. Until they get to core structure, there is no respite. Delving deep into popular games and rebuilding them are quite often the reason developers go on to develop the next generation of games.

Ladies and gentlemen, dear Ubuntu users, after three alphas and two beta releases, we are pleased to announce that Ubuntu 11.04 is here, today (April 28th), available on mirrors worldwide (see the download links at the end of the article).

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a CentOS 5.6 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

Shawn rants a bit about Ubuntu's new Unity interface, and gives us a couple tips on how to adjust.

Unknown dark forces penetrated Sony's Playstation network security, exposing the personal and financial information of millions, including myself. Sony apologizes, of course, But how about this for an apology . . . stop trying to punish people who have the know-how to instally a truly secure operating system on their PlayStation 3 consoles.

Flamerobin 0.9.3 revision 2100 binary snapshots for Debian Sid and Ubuntu Natty are ready to install and test. Enjoy, and please be sure to report any bugs, regressions or suggestions on flamerobin-devel list.

Ubuntu 11.04 is finally here and you can’t wait to download it, but as is typical on any Ubuntu release day, the mirrors are crawling. Luckily if you have an old Ubuntu .iso you can update it easily with zsync. Zsync is a Linux command that allows you to compare an existing .iso with an up-to-date zsync meta file to download only the missing or out of date parts. Combine those parts with your existing file and what you are left with is a completely up to date iso without spending the time to download the entire file.

The Google Chrome developers at Google proudly announced last evening (April 27th) the stable release and immediate availability for download of the Google Chrome 11.0.696.57 web browser for Linux, Windows, Macintosh and Chrome Frame platforms.

Deploying Linux desktops across large organizations has been getting easier with each new release. However, in practice, installing, configuring and securing such deployments is not so simple. Can Likewise Enterprise ease the process? Here's our perspective.

Packages installed via ppa:serge-hallyn/spice2 have been tested for F14, W7 KVMs installs and runtime. qemu-kvm-spice (0.14.0+noroms-0ubuntu4qxl2) package is based on the most recent RH’s QXL patches sets for qemu-kvm-0.14.tar.gz. Add new repository to system . . .

After the usual 6 months of development, Ubuntu 11.04 has finally been released. Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't come with GNOME 3 / GNOME Shell (in fact it's not even available in the repositories but only in a PPA) and instead it comes with an interface designed especially for Ubuntu called Unity (based on GNOME 2.x). Unity was already default in Ubuntu 10.10 netbook edition but besides being default for the desktop edition (the netbook edition doesn't exist anymore starting with 11.04), it was also completely re-written and now uses Compiz.

Much awaited Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' has been released today. Ubuntu 11.04 is getting a radical change with this release as the Unity interface has been made the default Desktop Experience for Ubuntu users. Classic Gnome Desktop is still available as an option.

The worldwide market for operating system software grew nearly eight percent to $30.4 billion in 2010, led by Microsoft Windows with 78.6 percent market share, says Gartner. Yet Linux was the fastest growing server OS, and Apple's Mac OS had the fastest growth on the desktop, says the research firm.

I contend that it's not necessary nor even desirable to upgrade an entire Linux distribution or BSD installation just to get some shiny newness like Firefox 4. It's still a "selling" point for free operating systems: "Upgrade and you'll get the new Firefox/OpenOffice/Thunderbird, etc." But what if you don't want to upgrade every last package just to get the latest web browser?

Today, the fate of the iPod and the TiVo recorder couldn't be more different. The iPod mp3 player grew up to become the iPod Touch (and the iPhone, which is an iPod Touch with phone service)...TiVo is a company about patents and not so much about getting innovative products to consumers.

Novell Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon has left the company following Novell’s sale to Attachmate, which was completed April 27. Dragoon disclosed his departure in a blog post. More Novell executive departures are expected, though Novell says it remains committed to its partners and customers.

LXer Feature: 28-Apr-2011

Want to look like a dork with hardly any effort at all? Blame your Telco for losing Internet connectivity when it's your own fault.