This morning, I booted up my laptop and tried to connect to the school's wireless when I noticed that the icon for Network Manager was missing from the toolbar. I checked to see that Network Manager was running and it was, the icon had just disappeared for some reason.

I'm such a plonker. I've only recently realized that all these years, I've never tried openSUSE with the Gnome desktop. And having just done that, I must say I regret the omission oh so badly, because openSUSE 11.2 with Gnome is simply fabulous. Even more so than the KDE edition.

There are not a lot of free software options for mastering DVDs. One of the more complete solutions is QDVDAuthor, although it still has a number of rough spots. It's a front-end to a collection of command-line free software tools that do each of the individual steps involved in going from a collection of digital video files, audio files, and images to a DVD with menus.

Ubuntu Tweak, an application which provides several extra tweak options for Ubuntu, has just released the new 0.5.0 version.

The second Alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is due for release next Thursday (14th January) but what can you expect to find inside it?

I am not a linux veteran, so i am giving as much info as posible , so that those who know better can use this information as needed.

Do you want to install Windows 7 inside Ubuntu? If your answer is yes, then you will need virtualization software like VMWare Workstation or Sun Virtualbox to setup an operating system (guest OS) inside an operating system (host OS).

After using so much fine open-source software, I finally released something back to the community. For a long time I intended to create or participate in a Linux project, but for some reason never got the chance to do so. Anyway, it’s not much, but here it is: Radio Tray, a simple online radio player with a very simple interface.