Linux Mint: The new Ubuntu
From extremetech.com:In the Linux world, a war has been raging for a couple years. At stake are the hearts and minds of its user base, the combatants the various distributions of Linux itself. For some...
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New openSUSE heads for cloud, virtual markets • The Register
From The Register:Google’s Go gets a groupie The openSUSE Project has shipped its 12.1 build, with enhanced cloud and virtualization integration tools. It's also the first distro to ship with support...
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Fedora 16: A GNOME lover's paradise • The Register
From The Register:Review After several delays, Fedora 16 has been delivered. While hold-ups are a characteristic of the distro's release cycle, these latest ditherings have put the latest version of...
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Linux and Open Source
From ZDNet:Trying to figure out what the most popular Linux distribution is isn't easy. We can safely say that Red Hat's Rat Hat Enterprise Linux is almost certainly popular server Linux. You don't...
View ArticleAs Ubuntu Declines, Can Desktop Linux Stay Relevant in the Era of Cloud and...
From servicesangle.com:Ubuntu has fallen to fourth place on its Linux distribution popularity index and Linux Mint has surged to the top. As you can see, openSUSE is making a bit of a comeback.Click...
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Ubuntu savaged by rivals infected with fondleslab fever
From The Register:Help, the penguins are revolting! The penguins are on the march: they are leaving Mark Shuttleworth's Ubuntu and migrating towards other Linux distros, fresh data suggests.Click here...
View ArticleLinux Mint 12 Released - The Peacemaker
From zdnet.co.uk:One of the most anxiously-awaited Linux releases in quite some time is now available for download on the Linux Mint Mirrors worldwide. It has not yet been officially "announced",...
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Canonical questions Distrowatch share slide figures • The Register
From The Register:Ubuntu developer and soon-to-be Canonical employee Michael Hall has questioned the latest data from Distrowatch, which suggests that Ubuntu is slipping in popularity when compared to...
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Linux Mint 12: A Great desktop Linux stays Great
From ZDNet:I've been using Linux and Unix desktops since the big interface question was C shell vs. Bourne instead of KDE vs. GNOME and I'm very impressed by the newest edition of the popular Mint...
View ArticleChange Should Be Progressive
From excid3.com:A common problem building a company or project is determining what to build. You have an idea of what to build, potential or existing customers have an idea what they want. But which...
View Articleextensions.gnome.org - Public Alpha Now Available
From mail.gnome.org:We're happy to announce that extensions.gnome.org is now in public alpha testing at: https://extensions.gnome.org If you have GNOME Shell 3.2 on your system, you should be able to...
View ArticleJohan Dahlin: Launching Stoq 1.1
From blogs.gnome.org:We're launching Stoq 1.1 today, which is a POS/CRM/accounting/industrial application mainly for the Brazilian market. In short the kind of software you'd use in a supermarket,...
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Linux Mint diverts Banshee revenue
From IT World:Now, before this turns into a crisis of epic proportions, let's be very, very clear: in November 2011, the revenue collected from MP3 sales in Banshee netted Linux Mint a grand total of...
View ArticleFedora 16 Verne with KDE - Rather nice, actually
From dedoimedo.com:You have read my Fedora 16 Gnome 3 review. You know how I felt. But I may have done Fedora a disservice by focusing most of my anger on the desktop environment.Click here to read...
View ArticleKDE Doesn't Suck Anymore, People Finally Realize
From blog.zx2c4.com:TechRadar has decided that KDE is the most usable desktop compared to Gnome and Unity. A few days prior to the publication of this article, my friend John emailed me to writeClick...
View ArticleMy initial perception of Gnome
From thepowerbase.com:Gnome 2.x is a mecca of usability, and soon it will be gone. Come and share in the memories with us.Click here to read moreTagged: #ubuntu #gnome #kde
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Linux Mint Developer Forks Gnome 3
From Slashdot:An anonymous reader writes "Clement Lefebvre, the Linux Mint founder, has forked Gnome 3 and named it Cinnamon. Mint has experimented with extensions to gnome in the latest release of...
View ArticleCinnamon: Linux Mint's next GNOME step
From h-online.com:The Linux Mint developers, led by founder Clement Lefebvre, have forked the shell of GNOME 3. The new shell fork, named Cinnamon, is being used as a platform to continue their...
View ArticleSome of the best Linux distributions of 2011
From dedoimedo.com:End of the year, the final scores. Let me tell you my version of the best of the best, for Linux distributions that came to be in 2011. In 2009, I used several categories likes...
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Year of the Penguin - el Reg's 2011 Linux-land roundup
From The Register:It's been a tumultuous year for the Linux desktop. Anno domini 2011 saw the release of not one, but two major new desktops, the GNOME project's GNOME 3 shell and Ubuntu's rival Unity...
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Sick of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead • The Register
From The Register:If the jump from the GNOME 2 desktop to the new GNOME Shell or Unity desktop in Ubuntu has left you feeling dissatisfied, one increasingly popular distribution just might offer...
View ArticleEvery Little Things Capistrano Does Is Magic
From rubyfleebie.com:During all these years, Capistrano has been for me a magical gnome that I invoke by saying "cap deploy, my magical friend!" and then I close my eyes, sing a happy song in my head...
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GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone 646
From Slashdot:someWebGeek writes "According to the GNOME design crew, as reported by Allan over at As Far as I Know, GNOME 3 will represent a new approach to GNOME application design. Click here to...
View ArticleScrew this, I'm going back to Windows!
From dedoimedo.com:Long, serious article and rant on the state of Linux as a viable alternative for the Microsoft Windows monopoly on the desktopClick here to read moreTagged: #linux #microsoft #centos...
View ArticleBuild report for pkgsrc - DragonFly BSD Digest
From shiningsilence.com:For the curious, I recently sent a bulk build report for pkgsrc-2011Q4 to the lists. Other than ruby-193 (which is fixed in pkgsrc HEAD thanks to John Marino), we're looking...
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Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes
From Ars Technica:The developers behind the GNOME project have announced GNOME 3.a new version of the desktop environment. The update brings several significant new features and a number of design and...
View ArticleDesktop Linux: Difference engine: Free is too expensive
From economist.com:LINUX, the free operating system that brought professional-grade computing to the lowly PC, has come a long way since doing something as simple as switching off meant performing...
View ArticleGnome Shell and Unity
From smotko.si:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is just a few weeks away and it is going to bring a new version of the Unity desktop. The recently released Gnome Shell 3.4 will also be only one apt-get install command...
View ArticleI Made a Pretty Gem - Planet.rb
From blog.poteland.com:I've been hurting to write this ever since we had the idea of creating a Planet for Cubox, a planet is - for those who have never heard the &Click here to read moreTagged:...
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Unix and Node: IPC
From DailyJS:This tutorial explores the world of inter-process communication (IPC) in Unix, and solutions for Node developers. IPC actually covers a broad swathe of methods, including POSIX signals and...
View ArticleThe Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature
From 0pointer.de:There's one feature In the upcoming Fedora 17 release that is immensly useful but very little known, since its feature page 'ckremoval' does not explicitly refer to it in its name:...
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Linus Torvalds finds GNOME 3.4 to be a "total user experience design failure"
From ZDNet:I only dislike the latest version of the GNOME Linux desktop, Linus Torvalds, Linux’s primary inventor, hates it.Click here to read moreTagged: #linux #gnome #fonts
View ArticleGNOME GIT source code repository
From gnome.org:Remove a bunch of juvenile comments. Source code should look 2009-04-12 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes@redhat.com> ** Remove a bunch of juvenile comments. Source code should look...
View ArticleGObject Introspection (GNOME libraries) for Node.js
From bergie.iki.fi:Unfortunately I will not make it to GUADEC this year. However, here is something new for GNOME developers:. I wrote last year how GObject Introspection was coming to Node.js.Click...
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GNOME: Staring Into the Abyss 6
From Slashdot:New submitter zixxt writes "GTK+ Developer Benjamin Otte talks about the stagnation and decline of the Gnome Project. He describes how core developers are leaving GNOME development, how...
View ArticleMATE Desktop
From fedoraproject.org:is based on GNOME 2 and provides an intuitive and attractive desktop to Linux users who seek a simple, easy to use traditional interface. 1st basic package mate-common has been...
View ArticleThe Future of GNOME
From blogs.gnome.org:Having just returned from GUADEC and now having the desktop as my job focus I been thinking about where we are going and what to do next. Benjamin managed to get quite a bit of...
View ArticleMicrosoft says don't use PPTP and MS-CHAP
From h-online.com:In response to the cloud service that cracks the PPTP authentication for $200, Microsoft has recommended that its customers switch to more secure VPN technologiesClick here to read...
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The 5 most popular Linux distributions
From ZDNet:These conclusions are not from a formal survey. Why? IDG and Gartner figures only look at pre-installed server operating systems, and Web browser surveys -- such as StatCounter and...
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The True Challenges of Desktop Linux 24
From Slashdot:olau writes "Hot on the heels on the opinion piece on how Mac OS X killed Linux on the desktop is a more levelheaded analysis by another GNOME old-timer Christian Schaller who doesn't...
View ArticleTorvalds pours scorn on De Icaza's desktop claims
From itwire.com:Linux creator Linus Torvalds has poured scorn on claims made by the co-founder of the GNOME Desktop project, Miguel de Icaza, that he (Torvalds) was in any way to blame for the lack of...
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Linus Torvalds on the Linux desktop's popularity problems
From ZDNet:I'm a Linux desktop user. Google's staff are Linux desktop users. But the Linux desktop itself has never been that popular and Miguel de Icaza, one of the creators of the GNOME's Linux...
View ArticleLinux on the (consumer) Desktop
From people.gnome.org:Arriving back from vacation, I read Miguel's thoughts on the state of the Linux Desktop in the race for the consumer market; I happen to mostly agree with his conclusion - that...
View ArticlejQuery dropping GPL from licence
From h-online.com:The jQuery developers have dropped the GPL (General Public Licence) from the dual licensing of the popular JavaScript library in recent releases of jQuery Core, UI, Mobile and other...
View ArticleSearch github from the gnome-shell
From threebean.org:November 07, 2012 at 12:30 PM | categories: python, github, gnome, fedora | View Comments. After the first one, I wrote another search provider for gnome-shell >= 3.6 in python,...
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Apple's poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest • The Register
From The Register:That's a question the GNOME project would do well to contemplate. The once mighty Linux desktop has stumbled and looks like it might be poised to come crashing down after the release...
View ArticleWhy Linus Torvalds would rather code than make money
From techradar.com:The Linux kernel is what everything else runs on top of, so it's the key to everything that a Linux device can do. It's in your Android phone. It's in the computers that run the...
View ArticleFrontPage - Ruby-GNOME2 Project Website
From ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp:Ruby-GNOME2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the GNOME 2.0 development environment. This is the next generation of Ruby-GNOME. See more details.Click here to read...
View ArticleDesktops are outgrowing me, and I'm worried
From granig.io:For me, Linux Desktops reached its usability peak at Ubuntu 10.10. That was the perfect desktop for me, and ever since then, things are getting worse. I'm 32, and I can't keep up with...
View ArticleThe best Linux distro of 2012!
From tuxradar.com:As promised in this week's Open Ballot (and thanks for your fantastic contributions), here's our own distro contest from issue 162 of Linux Format magazine.Click here to read...
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