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some leftovers:

  • Behind Ubuntu's shift into mobile
  • KDE 4.8 in Cauldron
  • Dude! Where’s My Data?
  • First Impression on KDE 4.8.0
  • MEPIS 11.5...
  • GNOME 3.3.4 Development Release Is Here
  • Going Over The Good & Bad For UEFI On Linux
  • MythTV Sees First Update In Nearly One Year
  • Status Update: KDE Partition Manager
  • 'Lttle Dew', Cute Zelda Like Coming Soon to Linux
  • Google Wants YOU!
  • Btrfs To Go Production-Ready In Oracle Linux
  • Fallout Meets Minecraft In New Linux RPG: 3079
  • Ubuntu 12.04 Development update
  • HP webOS to be fully open-source by September
  • Extremadura moves 40,000 computers to Debian
  • Avoiding The Vendor Perl Fad Diet
  • Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux
  • SyncWall – Wallpaper Changer
  • 4Linux, Erlang Solutions and Linux Professional Institute Join The Linux Foundation
  • Hack, Slash, Loot - A New Roguelike/Dungeon Crawler
  • Reverse-Engineered NVIDIA Driver Works On Re-Clocking
  • SOPA and PIPA: What Bills Like These Mean to Open Source Software
  • FLOSS Weekly 199

some howtos:

  • Browse From the Linux Terminal With W3M
  • Cinnamon Bread oops Cinnamon Desktop is piping hot
  • Create Temporary Desktops For Applications
  • Manage your PDF Documents with Mendeley
  • Finding instances by name with boto in python
  • Finding “lost” computers on the web the homebrew way
  • Play with Unity ‘Keyboard Shortcuts Overlay’ In Ubuntu 12.04
  • How to Make Programs Start Automatically in Linux Mint 12
  • Getting started with SELinux
  • sdcv: command-line based Dictionary
  • Fixing Sound Startup on KDE
  • Linux Time Command Examples
  • Unpacking Boxes...
  • Moose
  • Using Pybliographic and Lyx for Citations and Bibliography Part 1, Part 2
  • Creating and Customizing New Entries and Fields using Pybliographic
  • Newrez- A great nautilus script to change screen resolution

Time To Kill Compiz Config Settings Manager In Precise?

ubuntuvibes.com: A very interesting discussion on Ubuntu Desktop mailing list has been started by Ubuntu developer Jorge O. Castro where he has proposed removal of Compiz Config Settings Manager (CCSM) completely from the archive.

Nuvola Player Might Just be the Perfect Replacement for Banshee

techdrivein.com: Nuvola Player is so unlike any of the music players for Linux we have featured here so far. What Nuvola Player does is, it runs web interface of cloud music service in its own window and provides deep integration with the Linux desktop.

GhostBSD 2.5 - Now with an Easy Graphic Installer

ostatic.com: GhostBSD 2.5 was released a few days ago and the headline on ghostbsd.com reads "Now with an Easy and Secure Graphic Installer." GhostBSD is obviously a free BSD (and not coincidently, a FreeBSD derivative), but it aims to be a user-friendly free BSD and to improve the GNOME experience on FreeBSD.

Publish Photos with PhotoShow

linux-magazine.com: Hosting your own photo sharing solution makes a lot of sense, but setting up and maintaining a full-blown application like Gallery or Piwigo requires some technical chops and can be a time-consuming affair. Enter PhotoShow, an open-source photo sharing software that can be deployed in a matter of minutes and requires practically no maintenance.

The Case for the /usr Merge

freedesktop.org: Fedora (and other distributions) have begun work on getting rid of the separation of /bin and /usr/bin, as well as /sbin and /usr/sbin, /lib and /usr/lib, and /lib64 and /usr/lib64. All files from the directories in / will be merged into their respective counterparts in /usr, and symlinks for the old directories will be created instead:

Katherine Noyes: I'm a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront

linuxblog.darkduck: If you have enjoyed two interviews I made with women in Linux world before, I am sure you will love this one too. I'll not talk too much in the beginning. Let me introduce my today's guest: Katherine Noyes.

Geography of GNU/Linux

mrpogson.com: GNU/Linux share for the past month (counting only GNU/Linux, MacOS and that other OS)

Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics

computerworld.com: Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution.

Raspberry Pi – Size doesn’t Matter

brajeshwar.com: Raspberry Pi, a newly launched credit-card sized computer, weighing about 45g, can be plugged into your TV and a keyboard. The main purpose of this innovation, by the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charitable one;

Nouveau For A $10 NVIDIA Graphics Card?

phoronix.com: In this article is a look at the state of the open-source Nouveau Gallium3D driver on low-end NVIDIA GeForce graphics hardware. In particular, a $10 USD NVIDIA retail graphics card is being tested under Ubuntu Linux on both Nouveau and the proprietary NVIDIA driver and is then compared to a wide range of other low and mid-range offerings from NVIDIA and AMD.

Arch Linux: Only the Hardcore Need Apply

In search of a different distro (term of endearment for Linux distributions) to try, I decided to try installing probably one of the harder distros to install, Arch Linux over the weekend.

Linux users cautiously optimistic about Ubuntu's Head-Up Display desktop

zdnet.com: Most users seem willing to give Ubuntu Linux’s Head-Up Display interface the benefit of the doubt.

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