What prosthetic-arm engineering is learning from open source, crowdsourcing, and the video-game industry

Today I am going to show you how to customize your Ubuntu wallpaper. Well, you might think that it's not that hard, you take a picture and set it as your background. Yes, I know, this is the fast way, but where to find that good picture to set it as a wallpaper?

Last week, I followed a conversation on an OpenSuse Education newsletter to which I subscribe. If you have money in your district, is there any reason to use Linux?

Brilliant Brainstorms is a (usually) weekly summary of some of the best/most interesting brainstorms from the Ubuntu Brainstorm site as well as various other Brainstorm-style sites. This week: networking two or more computers for file or printer sharing; package management queues; automatically disabling desktop effects; plasma theming application?

VLC (VideoLAN Client) is one of the most popular video players on Linux, together with players like SMPlayer or Kaffeine. It plays many audio and video formats (including Xvid, DivX, H.264, Theora, WMV, Real Video, Ogg, MP3, FLAC, APE, AC3, WAV) together with DVDs and DVD ISO images.

A simple Python program to simplify control of the AcerHK radio's - Wifi and Bluetooth. It enables users to turn on / off the Bluetooth and Wifi Radios. It depends on the AcerHK driver to function.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 10 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM).