Elements is a plugin for Compiz Fusion 0.7.4 which integrates all the features of the popular Snow, Autumn, Fireflies, and Stars plugins, plus an all new feature, Bubbles. Written from the ground-up with only open source software, Elements is designed to be free, fast, and fun. It's also fully customizable.
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German Press on Novell Shafting Its German Employees
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Cluster Server Failover Testing On Linux And Unix
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Some times work can be a real kick in the nodes ;)
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Microsoft’s Patent Roadshow and Trolls
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Patent news about Free software, Microsoft, and Microsoft-affiliated patent trolls
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Red Hat-Microsoft: Take III
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A third -- and potentially final -- analysis of the agreement which Microsoft and Red Hat signed
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First Look: Elive E17 Compiz
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We're talking about a distribution and its desktop environment that didn't cross ways with Compiz. Until now.
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Call for testers: gNewSense / MIPS almost complete
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The port of gNewSense to MIPS for the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, 100% supported by free software, is almost complete. Buy the Yeeloong and help test it so the Yeeloong + gNewSense can be recommended as the ultimate free software laptop.
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Free and Open Source Finance/Accounting Software for Linux
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If you have a small or medium-size business, then you may consider using finance or accounting software to efficiently manage your own venture. You can choose from a wide variety of finance programs.
Read more »New Plasma themes, new Qt, new Lancelot
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First I would like to point out that there are two new Plasma themes on kde-look. Well, at least two *my* new themes. Or to be even more precise, there is one new theme and one old that is new. Or new that is old. Or one theme… OK, I’ll stop now.
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Red Hat Enlists Community Help To Fight Patent Trolls
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"Back in 2007, IP Innovation filed a lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell. IP Innovation is a subsidiary of Acacia Technologies. You may have heard of them — they're reported to be the most litigious patent troll in the USA
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You may find you're a Linux geek, too
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The free Linux operating system doesn't reveal its charms easily, but charms it has. You just have to know how to make the software work for you.
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Improving Linux GPU Power Management
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Red Hat's Matthew Garrett has actively been working on improving power management with graphics processors via the various open-source X.Org drivers. There is quite a lot of work involved, but at the FOSDEM X.Org meeting he shared an update on his progress. In particular, Matthew is trying to conserve power with the GPU, memory, outputs, and displays.
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The People of MySQL
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To be honest, commenting on personnel moves is not something that I enjoy doing. While I’m happy to weigh in on strategic directions, product launches and the like from vendors that I cover, the movement of people is generally something I try to leave to others, uncomfortably close to gossip as it is for me.
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Browser benchmarks 2: even Wine beats Linux Firefox
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We posted yesterday about Firefox having very different JavaScript performance on Windows and Linux, despite being the same version of the software... we thought we would conduct a couple more quick benchmarks to see whether we can eliminate some of these variants.
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Linux keeps growing market share.
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Not only is TuxRadar reporting that Linux Format magazine sales are up 13.3% over the last year, but I also find that my local book stores shelves appear to have much more Linux reference books on the shelves as well.
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