"The official website for GNOME 3, the next iteration of the GNOME desktop, has gone online in alpha state.
The work-in-progress is full of bite-sized information on the redesigned desktop ‘made of easy’ (their slogan, not ours), along with smatterings of pictures and a handy FAQ guide to appease the quizzical."
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Canonical's decision to go with the Unity shell on GNOME may be a game changer for Ubuntu, but it doesn't come without risk. Mark Shuttleworth's declared aims are to unite design with free software.
Read more »A comparison of some elements of coding style for many Open Source projects: Linux, GNU, Qt, Gnome and others, with useful links.
Read more »A partition is a means of dividing the storage capacity of a device, such as a hard disk, into several parts which can then be treated as separate storage devices (“logical devices”).
Read more »This is a simple tutorial on how to backup your system using sbackup.
Read more »itwire.com: The GNOME Foundation has been forced to change the rules for a design contest it is holding after one of its members objected to the exclusion of certain countries.
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"So we all know that users who are new to the command-line find it intimidating, no matter what operating system, they just find it intimidating. These users are the kind of people who never used early Unix or MS-DOS, they were introduced to computers with graphics and point-and-click interfaces. And I've been wondering: What's so intimidating?"
Read more »Included in the Linux Mint 10 release are some significant improvements to the Linux Mint main menu. Mint users can now install applications, add GTK bookmarks, apply GTK themes and more. I've taken a video and some screenshots highlighting the new menu features in action.
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Fedora 14, aka Laughlin, is the latest update of Fedora, the Red Hat-sponsored, Linux distribution. Like Ubuntu, it is a GNOME-based distribution. However, there are spins for the K Desktop Environment (KDE), the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE), and Xfce. This review is based on the main edition, that is, the GNOME edition, using a DVD installation image.
Read more »"Wouldn't it be nice to just start an application at the navigation stage? Well you can. As well as: graphically feed text to Espeak or Festival, graphically display a command's output like a directory listing or a file's contents, graphically start a web browser at a specific website like a Google search with your input, and so much more! This is basic BASH and Zenity, so don't worry, it's easy!"
Read more »TBO is an easy and fun program to draw comic and make your presentations funnier.
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Fix the annoying crackling sound problem when ubuntu 10.10 starts up
Read more »How to try a full ARM Debian system complete of graphical environment, using prepared images for the Versatile platform.
Read more »"We see it all the time, someone straying from one distribution or another because you "have to use the command-line". I've even heard that in person, I've heard it too many times. So, I looked around to see what may be causing this impression, and sure enough it didn't take long to fine.
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