Gnome 2.30 was released a few days ago which means the next version will be (or should be) Gnome 3 (which will come with Gnome Shell). I recently came across some Notification Area mockups which might become reality.
Gnome 3 might start using monochrome colors in the System Status Area - Ubuntu style (or we could call it Mac OSX style):
Read more »Like some of the alternative nettop computers we've reviewed over the past new months, the Zotac MAG can also attach to the VESA mount on the back of most monitors, meaning it takes up literally zero desk space.
Read more »Yes, it's true. After just more than 7-years of SCO lawsuits, SCO has lost its last real chance of causing Linux and the companies that support it-IBM; Novell, and Red Hat--any real trouble.
Read more »Alfresco, makers of the open source enterprise CMS system of the same name, have announced a 61 per cent rise in revenue, year on year.
Read more »The JooJoo tablet (formerly known as the CrunchPad) started shipping last Friday and orders were expected to deliver on Monday. So how many people are this week playing with their shiny new tablet from Fusion Garage?
Read more »Open source enterprise software company Red Hat has updated its flagship operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to take full advantage of the latest spoils from the heated microprocessor battle between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel.
Read more »This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless CentOS 5.4 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment.
Read more »Mozilla has released updates for its Thunderbird email client, the SeaMonkey "all-in-one internet application suite" and older versions of its Firefox web browser - addressing a number of critical security vulnerabilities
Read more »A few months ago we had a blog entry about shared and personal laptops in schools. The goal of shared laptops is basically that they should behave mostly like shared thin clients: it should not matter which a computer any user chooses to work with.
Read more »This time around I'll focus more on Samba and how it is installed and configured to allow for the sharing of files and folders. For this article, we will look at the smb.conf configuration file and how it is set up and how to create new shares and even share printers.
Read more »I can see an open source showdown in the making here, the beneficiaries of which will be consumers, SMBs, enterprises, and educational institutions. I don’t get the feeling the showdown will be any fun, though, if Novell is left to its own devices.
Read more »The digiKam developers have released version 1.2.0 of their open source advanced digital photo management application and Kipi plug-ins for digiKam
Read more »The WordPress developers have released version 1.1 of their WordPress for Android application. The first major point update features user interface improvements and changes to the home and comments view
Read more »Pamela Jones and the community she built at Groklaw was the Linux response. Writing tirelessly alone at first, then gaining incredible volunteer support and contributions, Jones was able to build an incredible repository of information surrounding all of the cases involving SCO. Now, when claims were made, their veracity would be publicly examined and then confirmed or denied.
Read more »Red Hat has announced the release of version 5.5 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) a distribution aimed at enterprise customers. In addition to bug fixes released since RHEL 5.4, the latest release of RHEL includes enhancements to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor
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