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Element is a free operating system for Home Theater and Media Center Personal Computers, featuring an innovative across the room 'ten-foot interface' that is designed to be connected to your HDTV for a digital media and internet experience within the comforts of your own living room or lounge.

A new, revamped sidebar has been added to the latest Nautilus Elementary 2.30 (only available for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx).

For some users (myself included) GRUB is a critical screen where you can select which operating system you want to load. That could be a different Linux kernel on the same OS, a different Linux distribution altogether or even Windows. Usually the way GRUB works by default is the user gets to select which kernel/OS they want to load with a time delay before a default kernel OS loads. That's where the GRUB bug comes into play.

OpenOffice.org's tools for creating diagrams are easy to ignore. For one thing, their controls are extremely small. For another, they are pitifully under-documented in the online help, which plods through the options without explaining what they are or why you want to use them. Then, just to really confuse you, the full set of tools is available only in Draw and Impress, although Write and Calc users might also want them. Yet despite these handicaps, OpenOffice.org's diagram tools work well enough that many users should find no need for more sophisticated tools such as Dia.

ARM based superphone N900 running the x86 wine binary via a statically compiled arm qemu binary, within an x86 chroot.

The ethtool utility provides ethernet card information and management to die for. Do you think you have a network bottleneck that’s somehow related to your NIC’s speed or other settings? If so, ethtool might be the utility that will save the day and many painful conversations. Ethtool is a privileged user only (root), powerful system tool that allows you to query and change settings for your system’s ethernet cards. Using it, you can change almost every aspect of a supported card; from the basic to the esoteric.

What if the Linux desktop as we know it was a thing from the past ? Major players like Asus, Google, Canonical decided to create their own desktop in order to provide a Zen, very fast environment for millions of users. What are the consequences for the "legacy" windows managers (Gnome, KDE, etc.) ?

Install Xen 4.0 and Libvirt like on F12 ( [1] ). Via my experience xend will hang for 5-7 min at startup and xen managed bridging will fail as well. At the same time PV guests won’t be able to obtain IP via interface virbr0. Workaround for the issue follows bellow.

Firewall Builder 4.0 is a major upgrade, it adds many improvements across all components of the program. To name a few, it adds support for the high availability firewall configurations; improves the way generated script manages IP addresses and adds ability to manage VLAN, bridge and bonding interfaces; the GUI now has undo/redo facility of unlimited depth and can compile a single rule and immediately show the result. There are many other improvements and changes, all listed in the Firewall Builder 4.0 Release Notes.

Reasons for using a reverse shell include: you can bypass firewalls, you can connect to your phone without knowing the ip, the connection is initiated from the phone so you don't need to have a ssh server listening on your phone. Just think of all the fun this makes possible! As the android phone has a build in shell, it's actually possible to install a console emulator from android market, giving you local shell access. Even gaining root access is really easy.

Woof! Woof! Guess what time it is, folks? It’s time for a review of Puppy Linux 5. Puppy Linux, in case you aren’t already familiar with it, is a lightweight version of Linux that is designed for portability. The .iso file of Puppy Linux 5.0 weighs in at an incredibly petite 128 MB. It’s much, much smaller than all of the usual desktop heavyweight distros. But don’t let its small size fool you, Puppy Linux 5.0 is anything but an also-ran in terms of functionality and usability.

On Sunday a new version of the Linux kernel rocked up, with two new filesystems loaded into the distro. Laidback Linux founder Linus Torvalds characteristically understated the relevance of the latest 2.6.34 release in a post about the final release candidate. “Nothing very interesting here, which is just how I like it. Various random fixes all over, nothing really stands out. Pretty much all of it is one- or few-liners, I think the biggest patch in the last week was fixing some semantics for the new SR-IOV VF netlink interface. And even that wasn't a _big_ patch by any means,” he languidly noted

This is the 362 issue of the World Wine News publication. Its main goal is to bring an update on GSoC status and the introduction of the Games Spotlight segment. It also serves to inform you of whats going on around Wine.

The Puppy Linux developers have announced the availability of version 5.0 of their independent Linux distribution, code named "Lupu". Puppy Linux is a popular small release that is around 100 MB in size, focuses on ease of use and can run entirely from RAM. Puppy Linux 5.0 is the first release to be based on Ubuntu and includes several changes over the previous 4.3.x branch.

In the embedded space, there's been a lot of talk about whether Android is fragmented, and if that fragmentation will ultimately hurt Android, because developers won't know what version to code for and users won't know which one to use.

Reports of the popular Linux distro ditching Firefox get clarified. Amidst reports that Ubuntu would ditch longtime default browser Firefox for Google's Chrome browser were put to rest with a resounding "sort of." A recent blog post by Ubuntu Community team member Jorge Castro explained that while Canonical has considered a Firefox alternative, it isn't Google Chrome, but rather Chromium, the open source version of the Chrome browser.

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 2.6.34, which is notable for adding two filesystems: Ceph for distributed and cloud-based applications, and LogFS, which is optimized for flash-memory based devices. Other new features include a faster KVM virtualization driver based on Vhost.net technology, says LinuxPlanet.com.

A fast-booting, cloud-oriented, "Peppermint OS" Ubuntu variant has been downloaded 25,000 times in its first week. Meanwhile, Red Hat clone CentOS has been released in version 5.5, adding features including enhanced KVM virtualization and improved WiFi support, and pioneering Linux distro-maker Mandriva is up for sale.

While the release schedules for Ubuntu Linux aren't exactly a close secret -- new releases generally coming in April and October with the version scheme being YY.MM such as Ubuntu 11.04 for the April 2011 release -- Canonical's Robbie Williamson has laid out tentative release schedules for Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 11.10, and even Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

A amazing new style for Avant Window Navigator called "Lucido Style" was posted @ AWN forums. The code is already available in a BZR branch but it has not been merged into AWN yet. If you want to try it already, I've built Ubuntu .deb packages for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and 10.04 Lucid Lynx which you can download below.