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We had a complete review of GNOME Shell before, and we were quite happy with the way it was evolving. GNOME Shell, even though it is still in its early stages of development, was an absolute delight to use. Here are 6 of the most beautiful GNOME Shell themes I have ever seen.

Mozilla has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN) as a licensee. The unsurprising move reflects Mozilla's long-standing commitment to open source software and support for the Linux platform. It's also yet another high-profile endorsement of the OIN's approach to open intellectual property licensing.

For most of us, using our preferred desktop Linux distributions has become second nature. Yet remembering back to when I first made the switch, it seems that specific Linux apps made the OS change much easier. In this article, I want to share some of the applications I use on a daily basis. Some of the applications are GNOME desktop specific, so whenever possible I have included their KDE counterparts to help even things out.

Diaspora, the open source social networking project, has some pretty bad stuff lying in its contributor agreement. Basically, the company owns any contributions and can sell, license, and create solely owned derivative contributions based on a user contribution.

For those disappointed by Oracle's decision to discontinue supporting a free version of its Solaris Unix-like operating system, a new alternative emerged to take its place. OpenIndiana is part of the Illumos Foundation. OpenIndiana will be built on the last available version of OpenSolaris and will contain bits of Solaris 11. OpenIndiana is the new OpenSolaris.

I still use mutt for my mail but recently rediscovered that on one remote host when connecting via PuTTY, my default settings left the line-drawn threading characters unreadable, which in turn affected scrolling. The first solution I found was in this forum post. It suggested changing the terminal settings, instead of anything in mutt itself.

OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way. The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:

Oracle has spun a new version of RHEL called Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, claimed to be more than 75 percent faster at OLTP tasks. The Oracle-optimized Linux kernel was announced at Oracle World, which also debuted Oracle Fusion Applications, MySQL 5.5, new Java enhancements, and a Linux-ready Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Oracle continues to resell Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in the form of its own RHEL-based Oracle Linux, which has been previously called Unbreakable Linux. Oracle Linux will still be supported, but the similarly RHEL-based Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is now "the only Linux kernel Oracle recommends for use with Oracle software," says the software giant.

In a reaction to the founding of the Mageia project and to a question posed on the Cooker mailing list, the French Linux distributor Mandriva has commented on its current situation and future plans. The company says the Mandriva distribution is far from dead and will continue to be consistently maintained. The next release of the Mandriva Community Edition is reportedly planned for the beginning of 2011.

Clementine is not just another music player for Linux, Clementine is the fork of mighty Amarok 1.4 which used to be my favorite music player once. Clementine is already one of those great triumphs of open source software and underlines the fact that an open source software never really dies.

All of this results in hundreds of decent and skilled people being snubbed without cause simply because the ad writer, or the position, sucked. I believe every Linux job seeker can avoid pitfalls of a job hunt by keeping in mind three key facts about job ads.

Does Zotac’s latest small-form-factor nettop offer enough horsepower to transform it from an entertainment PC to an all-round performer? Russell Barnes finds out…

This document serves as quick guide on how to set up a wireless network using WPA / WPA2 with radius authentication. This document will only cover the basics and is not exhaustive of all possibilities and features but with this information and basic networking skills you should be able to get running very soon. I decided to do this guide for the users wanting to try out and implement radius authentication for WiFi security.

wiresharkOn the Internet there are hundreds of excellent open source tools and utilities that can be used for network analysis, but not many technicians use them. Indeed, several open source solutions are truly effective and can help the specialist networks in daily work. In this first article i’ll show you Wireshark an useful tool for network analysis.

I picked up a PC Power Pad Pro at a garage sale, for something like US$0.50. A steal, for 2% of its original retail, right? Except I couldn't get it to work with my sound card. I did all kinds of Google searches, trying to figure out why my controller wasn't... controlling.

[It was a simple fix, but hard for me to find. - gus3]

(Sacramento, CA, USA: September 21, 2010) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced a new affiliate partner for the Asia Pacific region--LPI-APAC. LPI-APAC will include the following countries: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam. LPI-APAC will be managed by Pacific Advantage International (http://www.pal-intl.com)--an industry leader in outsourced business expansion services for technology companies in the Asia Pacific region.

One of the features of gThumb 2.11 that I love is its memory for my last photo resize. New in 2.11, this feature is (thank you, Yoda). What this means is that if I resize an image, shrinking it from whatever large size to 600 pixels wide, gThumb remembers this, and the next time I resize a picture, 600px is the default value, and all I need to do is click a box and I'm done.

An application review process was announced today for getting your apps into Ubuntu “extras” repository. But like most other announcements of new things, this one was met as well with as much criticism as the praise it got. A lot of the criticism is FUD though, although mostly unintentional and caused by ignorance of some facts behind it. I’ll try to address some of these concerns here to the best of my knowledge from what I’ve been reading over the past some time about this development.

While it is easy to focus on many other strong points of KDE software, one aspect that deserves a closer look is the ability for it to support science. Back in July, you may have caught the Dot story on "KDE-Science" discussing the background and initial call for engaging the scientific community. Today we would like to highlight some of the advances that have occurred since then and present a real world example of how KDE software is already helping to support research.

This tutorial shows how to install and use alterMIME. alterMIME is a tool that can automatically add a disclaimer to emails. In this article I will explain how to install it as a Postfix filter on Debian Lenny.