Mozilla has released a second beta for version 3.1 of their popular open source Thunderbird email and news client, addressing a number of bugs from the previous beta

I couldn't find much information about keyboard shortcuts for Compiz effects in Ubuntu 10.04. I poked through the default Compiz configuration and found some I didn't know about, and some that have changed from previous versions of Ubuntu.
Some of the following keyboard shortcuts will not work at all if Compiz (visual effects) if turned off.

After years of struggling and looking around, I have finally found a graphics card that works flawlessly when running compiz under Linux and that processes all the effects at lightning speed. I've never seen something like this for that reasonable price!

I find PCLinuxOS to be the big small distro. While it has a modest development team, the final product has always felt quite solid and polished, beyond the normal expectations of limited resources.

KDE today released the 3rd monthly update to the 4.4 series, bringing a slew of bugfixes and translation updates to our users. Konsole has seen some love, so has Okular.

"GNU Emacs 23.2 has been released, and is now available at [...] The 23.2 manuals are not yet on the website; I will do this sometime in
the next few days..."

A new open source project dubbed Guacamole allows users to access a desktop remotely through a Web browser, potentially streamlining the requirements for client support and administration.

Puppy Linux founder Barry Kauler has announced the release of version 1.0 of Quirky, a Linux distribution aimed at developers for trying out "some quirky ideas"