Take it as you will, but a group of interested Linux gamers have launched the Ubuntu Gaming Team.

Hibernate and Suspend functions are working just fine on my Ubuntu Jaunty installation. Till this afternoon had trouble dump my programs onto ram/disk and turn off the laptop.

A Dutch university has landed a European Research Council grant to continue work on a Unix-type operating system that aims to be more reliable and secure than Linux or Microsoft Windows.

In this article, you will learn how important it is to use furniture in models and scenes to make the environment more real. The tutorial takes you through the process of modeling of a sofa and a chair. You will also see how to build your own furniture library for reuse in future.
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At last year's KDE Conference Akademy the vision of the Social Desktop was born and first presented to a larger audience. The concept behind the Social Desktop is to bring the power of online communities and group collaboration to desktop applications and the desktop shell itself.

The impressive news last week that Microsoft Corp. posted its "first ever" decline in year-over-year quarterly sales and that revenues fell 6 percent, has set many tongues wagging in the tech world.

Last week we began playing around with ZeroShell, a multi-purpose LAN server that can run on a old PC. We gathered the hardware, downloaded the CD image, and burnt the Live CD. Then we booted up ZeroShell and configured the IP settings to use an existing router. Finally, we created a profile to store the settings, so they're saved and loaded after reboots or shutdowns.

If you read enough blog posts, or more specifically, comments posted on blog posts, you might get the idea that there are specific structural, technological or systemic reasons why Linux has only a small slice of the desktop market.