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Summer is quickly approaching in the northern hemisphere so that means it's time for yet another year of Google's Summer of Code. Once again, X.Org / Mesa should be participating, so it's now time to submit ideas for areas where potential student developers could focus their summer work. Here's a few of the possibilities.

First announced in November of last year and previously only available by invitation-only, the RockMelt team has announced that its social web browser is now in open beta. In development for more than two years, RockMelt is based on Google's Chromium browser, the open source project behind Google's Chrome web browser.

Mozilla has played a major role in bringing open standards to the Web, but does the general move to apps risk rendering it irrelevant for smartphones? Mozilla's new CEO, Gary Kovacs, explains how he plans to keep Mozilla at the forefront of Web technology, and to save us from mobile's walled gardens too.

This installation guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Drupal 7 on a Fedora Linux system. The guide consists of 6 easy to follow steps to conclude whole installation. If you are just little bit curious about the new Drupal 7 release it is time to see what it is about. Be aware that installation of web applications on Linux systems using SELinux such as Fedora or RedHat is now little bit more complicated since changing permissions with chmod command may not always solve the problem.

Ever come across an old family photo that would really look great if it had some color? Or perhaps you found a gorgeous wallpaper online but the monochromatic color scheme just doesn’t fit with the desktop of your dreams. Thanks to modern photo editing programs like the Gimp, this process is a lot easier than you may be thinking. To get the obvious out of the way – no, we can’t magically recover the color of flowers at your grandmother’s wedding, but we can give color to those flowers to make them look however you’d like. All it takes is a good eye for color and some careful clicking.

Today i want to show you some examples done with Zenity. Zenity is a cross-platform program that allows the execution of GTK+ dialog boxes in command-line and shell scripts. Like tools such as whiptail and dialog, zenity allows for easy creation of GUIs, though it has fewer features than more complex GUI creation tools.

Continuing from last week’s introduction to Audacity, this week you’ll take a deeper dive into some of Audacity’s advanced editing features by learning how to create a professional sounding introduction for your audio projects. These are the exact techniques I used to create the introduction music and voice-over for the Frugal Tech Show podcasts.

Today's IT pros have to deal with a myriad of software and hardware, physical and virtual, spanning geographical locations and it requires a system that lets you see across all of this complexity to get the big picture.

Do not track is one of the most hyped, and least understood, aspects of the next generation of Web browser. So what makes the Mozilla implementation different than others?

I last looked at openSUSE on Desktop Linux Reviews when it hit version 11.3. This update takes openSUSE up to version 11.4 so I opted to do a quick look instead of a full review on DLR. OpenSUSE comes with a number of different desktop environments. For this quick look I went with the KDE version, but a GNOME version is also available on the openSUSE downloads page. You can also roll your own via the SUSE Studio site.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: March 10, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) in Poland and Greece. LPI exams have long been available in these countries through online vendors Prometric and VUE, however this is the first time that local events and affiliate partners have offered public LPI testing events in Poland and Greece.

Many analysts are applauding HP's decision to place its Linux-based WebOS on all of its Windows-based PCs in 2012 as an alternative fast-boot distro, but some caution it could alienate Microsoft. The deployment will represent a huge leap forward for Linux on the desktop, albeit in a limited capacity -- and HP may be grooming WebOS for a bigger desktop role.

Yesterday, XBMC Media Center's Private Package Archive (PPA) sneakily came through with an update for the current stable release (10.0 Dharma). Today, we find out that this incremental update from 10.0 to 10.1 brings with it several bug fixes, as well as updates for the various included add-ons in its repositories.

I pulled out the Compaq Armada 7770dmt, circa 1999, with 144 MB RAM (fully loaded), a speedy 233 MHz Pentium II CPU and the original 3 GB hard drive. I had my CDs ready and loaded up Quirky and Wary — two of the latest Pups.

Some Linux server admins are comfortable with wading through text logfiles, but why wade when you can create beautiful charts and graphs that highlight trouble spots? Try the excellent CairoPlot for beautiful, informative visual server log analysis.

After the upgrade to 10.2 i’ve ran in a know Flash bug and now i can see youtube only in black and white, i’ve searched the net a bit and i’ve found that’s a common problem. The cause seems to be a combination of Flash 10.2, a recent YouTube change and the users graphics cards and seems to be browser-independent (can occur in Firefox 3.x, Firefox 4 beta as well as Chrome / Chromium). Personally i’m a bit tired of all these flash issue, and while waiting for html 5, i’ve took a look around to try some alternatives and in particular for youtube I’ve found minitube.

GNOME and Canonical seem to be in a tension over few things like Unity, appindicators etc. They are recently joined by KDE developer Aaron Seigo in a blog post attacking GNOME's attitude towards freedesktop.org. The blog post mentioned above is a summary of the events happened so far from a neutral perspective.

PlayOnLinux 3.8.12 has been released here is some of the changes since the 3.8.11 version.

There have been a flurry of comments this week following my post why software defaults are important and why in the Linux benchmarks at Phoronix.com the tests are most often carried out in their default/stock configurations: it's what most everyone uses. There have been comments by Ted Ts'o on file-system default mount options and whether they are sane or not in the non-enterprise distributions and others have questioned if defaults like Compiz on in Ubuntu by default makes sense. Does using Compiz still hurt your graphics performance?

The newest release of Novell's openSUSE Linux debuts with LibreOffice, KDE 4.6, a zippy package management system and a new rolling release system that could eliminate the need for future big releases.