The Blender Foundation has released the first beta for what will become version 2.6 of their open source 3D content creation suite

The happy man you see above is not the nine gazillionth owner of an iPad, but the Indian minister for HR Development, Kapil Sibal. What he's holding in his hand is, he claims, a $35 tablet that will give the OLPC a run for its money.

Canola is a open source media center application which was primarily built for smart phones and netbook devices. To be frank, I had never heard about Canola before and so I decided to give Canola Media Center a spin in my laptop powered by Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx'.

These are 5 amazing GNOME themes which are either new or recently updated. Some of them come as complete theme packs with icons, wallpapers and so on.

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop.

Since the release the core team has been doing a bit of planning for what we want to do in the upcoming 0.9.2 release. A roadmap of “big features” will be coming in the next week or so.

Being able to touch type is the ability of typing without looking at the keyboard. By touch-typing, the individual uses all fingers instead of just a few fingers. Consequently, typing speed increases dramatically.

But every time people in the Linux community receive a push for artwork of a better quality, along come people who simply think this way, that your desktop is "just a tool."