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Google announced its long-awaited Chromebook last week, which is basically a tablet with a keyboard. I'm here to tell you for the perfect blend of cloud, mobile and elegance, get an iPad.

Some applications are removing the traditional menus (see Firefox, Chrome and so on) so a page has been created to discuss possible changes to the GNOME 3 menus. Let's take a look at some of the mockups available so far.

Well, it's been another exciting week here in the Linux blogosphere, not least because of all the many seismic shifts emanating from the vicinity of Redmond. There was the end of the Justice Department's antitrust oversight of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), of course, marking the end of a historic case and a memorable era in the IT industry. Then -- not coincidentally, given Redmond's new freedom -- there was also its wildly extravagant purchase of Skype, the implications of which still have observers reeling. It's been enough to set geeks' heads spinning, in other words, and that's just what could be observed throughout the hills and dales of the blogosphere.

The LibreOffice developers at the Document Foundation have, for the last time, published an announcement on their main mailing list of a new beta version of LibreOffice. In future, beta releases and release candidates will only be announced on developer mailing lists and the announcements mailing list will only carry news of final and stable versions.

Antoni Norman proudly announced a few of days ago, May 13th, that the final release of the Pinguy OS 11.04 operating system, available for download on mirrors worldwide.

If you are a Fedora user, this post shows you how to upgrade from Fedora13 & 14 to Fedora15.

White hats, get a copy now before the bad guys snap them all up. I've just finished reading Packt Publishing's new book "BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing". The book is meant to be a how-to guide for using BackTrack 4, a freely available Linux distribution whose sole purpose is to provide a platform for a hacker's arsenal. I'd never looked at Backtrack before, but believe me, it's a site to behold.

Photo management software like digiKam can help you to process, organize, and manage your photos, but if your photographic workflow is built around RAW files, then you might consider a more specialized application like Rawstudio.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is probably *the* most controversial Ubuntu release to date. Tech Drive-in reviewed Ubuntu 11.04 few weeks ago and we felt that, even after accounting its share of bugs and rough edges, Natty Narwhal is not as bad a release as you think it is. But one thing is sure, a lot of genuine hard core Ubuntu users absolutely hate the latest Ubuntu release. Here are some of the responses we received from our readers through our feedback forms and comments on brand new Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal.

I announced in April that as of today, I wouldn't be writing any more articles for Groklaw. I intended to finish the Comes v. Microsoft exhibits as text and perfect some of our other collections and then I would retire from Groklaw, knowing as I did that the research we have done together will remain useful no matter what happens in the future. I was immediately bombarded with messages asking me to keep the community going or to tell you where to assemble elsewhere. A lot of you asked me to at least keep News Picks going. Groklaw is all of us, not just me, and I have always taken your input as seriously as you would expect me to. So I thought about it, and I realized you are right.

The Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest was not the only European Linux event taking place last week. From Wednesday through Saturday was LinuxTag back in Berlin at their Messe Fairgrounds...

This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a Fedora 14 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.

Roughly 15 percent of our kids suffer disabilities of one sort or another. After an especially angry reaction from a parent who was offended by the name GIMP in the menus, we decided that it might be best to change the name locally, and specifically for our respin. I decided I wasn't going to experience another a$$-chewing of this magnitude again...not behind something that can be fixed easily.

10 days remain until release of Fedora 15. Is it good time to look 6 months back and check whether Fedora 14 brought anything new? And what was it?

It doesn't take any insight at all – or the analysts at Gartner – to figure out who is the largest operating system supplier in the world. It's Microsoft, of course. But who are numbers two, three, and four? And who is the fastest growing maker of operating systems? The answers might surprise you. Through the magic of the acquisition of Sun Microsystems last January, Oracle was able to grow its operating system revenues by 7,683 per cent, to $780m, making it the fastest grower. Of course, Oracle had only a tiny OS business, selling a clone of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux. Gartner said that year-on-year, Solaris revenues fell by 3.2 per cent between 2009 and 2010. That said, Oracle's Unbreakable Linux had almost 200 per cent growth in 2010, showing that having your own integrated stack can indeed pay off.

LXer Feature: 15-May-2011

The big news this week would have to be the acquisition of Skype by Microsoft for 8.5 Billion dollars, Acer and Samsung unveil Chrome OS laptops, and it must be the time of year again to ask ourselves just why is Linux so much more secure than Windows? Enjoy!

In another sign Canonical’s Unity desktop environment may not be resonating well with the wider Ubuntu community, Ubuntu Studio, will move from the GNOME to the Xfce desktop for its next release.

This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 11.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 11.04 is derived from Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.

Running Linux on your wireless router is not only easy but also fun, and provides functionality that vendors normally reserve for their professional device model lines.

Over the course of the last month or so, numerous people have asked me for my opinion on what’s going on with the ARM architecture in Linux. It seems time to broadcast those thoughts more widely. For those who don’t want to read the whole thing, the short version is this: Linux on ARM is a victim of its own success and, as a result, is going through some growing pains. That has created a lot of noise, but all that’s really needed is a bit of house cleaning.