This article provides simple suggestions that you can employ to customize an installation of Linux Mint 12 KDE that would make it a little bit more user-friendly and fun to use.
Step 1. Apply updates – By default, the first time you log into any installation of Linux Mint 12 KDE, new or old, the system will check for updates 30 seconds after you log in and every 15 minutes afterwards.
Read more »Summary: For too long, GNU/Linux has been locked out of the tablet market. That is about to change with the May 2012 arrival of the Open Spark. The Open Spark is a new tablet that will run a variant of GNU/Linux called Mer. A group of 42 Free Software developers have released a wonderful book called Open Advice.
Read more »This tutorial shows how you can install and run Simple Groupware on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP).
Read more »The Legend of Edgar 0.97 has been released. Changes include the next part of the optional quest and some tweaks to existing maps.
Read more »Opera Widgets, unlike most other browser plugins, can be downloaded to serve as browser-independent desktop widgets. These are managed through Opera Widget Manager, so the Opera process remains open (without running the browser). This tutorial explains how to use Opera Widgets as desktop widgets on Ubuntu 11.10.
Read more »This release has largely been about paving the way forward for MediaGoblin's future and restructuring under the hood. Nonetheless, a good number of awesome features got implemented for this release.
Read more »"We owns the internet!", claim ultimate patent trolls, Eolas, in the East District Court of Texas. Where else?
Read more »Sabayon 8 has been released, the new release comes with Linux 3.2, GNOME 3.2.2, KDE 4.7.4 (4.8.0 available in testing repo), Xfce 4.8, LibreOffice 3.4.4 and more, acording to the announcement, “During this cycle, sabayon team spent a lot of time optimizing critical packages at compiler level, ensuring unprecedented performances, tuning system responsivity under load and backporting power managemen
Read more »Sabayon follows a rolling release development model, which means that once you install a new system, you may never need to re-install – ever.
Read more »Bruce Perens talked at the linux.conf.au 2012 about the goals of the free software movement (He still calls it "open source"... despite) and the challenges ahead (e.g. legal) and the opportunities like open hardware.
Read more »Linpus Technologies, Inc., a Linux software solutions provider based in Taipei, Taiwan, just announced that they have ported Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest edition of Android, to run on x86 tablet, netbook and notebook computers.
Aside from Linpus Lite Desktop, distributions from Linpus are usually for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs).
Read more »Yesterday I finally got Project Fedena running on CentOS 6.0 for my friend’s international school in Tunis, Tunisia. Project Fedena is an ever popular open source school management system developed with Ruby on Rails developed by Foradian Technologies in India.
Read more »Movgrab is a command line tool for downloading video clips from websites such as YouTube, Daily Motion, Break.com, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Liveleak and others.
Read more »ConnochaetOS is a free as in freedom GNU/Linux operating system for the desktop with old computers in mind but with modern lightweight software. It is based on Arch Linux. The name derives from Connochaetes, the scientific name for Gnu. Development is currently at version 0.9.
Read more »CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver Games, version 10.3.0 change log with some of the many changes made in this releases is provided below.
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