GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical to each other. Yet, the more you learn about a distribution and the community that surrounds it, the more different they become. Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of the seven distributions that have most affected GNU/Linux as a whole...

In less than two weeks time Mandriva 2008.0 will be ready and published. There were great ideas at the start of the development phase, and in in those six months that have passed, Mandriva has always been one of the most active projects on CIA.vc. Let's take a look at what can be expected.

Awn has lost of cool new hover effects being created so I will demonstrate them all here including the cpu monitor applet. The hover effects demonstrated in this video are: Classic, Fade, Spotlight, Zoom, Squish, and 3d Turn.

AWN is developing so quickly that it is worthwhile updating and recompiling on a daily basis to see the changes. Today brought a new look for the Volume-Control-Applet and a new Icon effect: 3D turn.

Ubuntu Gutsy is the next major release of the most popular Linux distro, due for release in October. Like all Linux distributions you can upgrade to the beta version anytime you want, as long as you don't mind encountering a few bumps in the road.

This article presents some mockups (or models) for the possible future interface of the GIMP. They arrive following the launching of a project called “GIMP UI Redesign”.

KDE has to be the most correctly integrated environment I’ve seen. Everything just fits and works perfectly with one another.

Users running Firefox are vulnerable to IE flaws via files supported by Windows Media Player, a researcher shows.