Clutter is an “open source software library for creating fast, visually rich, portable and animated graphical user interfaces.” It’s used extensively in the Moblin user interface. The guys over at […]
By default Fedora does not enable sudo access for any user (other than root). Most administration tasks require the root password, however it’s simple to add your user to the […]
Update 2: Version 8.24 of dd (from coreutils) supports checking the status of dd with the status=progress option (thanks to R for letting me know). [17:41 chris ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero […]
The source code for Chrome (Chromium) OS is out and it hasn’t taken long for support to extend to various devices. Now, there’s an image that works on the Dell […]
Argentia, Brazil, Linux activity is a hot bed in South America. Now the latest country, Nicaragua, has announced that they are migrating their schools to Linux. The Ministry of Education […]
The guys over at “Make Use Of” have released a new free PDF book for Ubuntu. After a quick inspection it looks pretty good, with reasonable explanations about components of […]
Sun has been contributing to X for 21 years and now they have announced that all this code will be made available under the standard MIT license, rather than a […]
According to Ubuntu X.Org expert Bryce Harrington, the number of X.org related bugs in Karmic “literally went off the chart.” In my recent article on Ubuntu, I made two suggestions […]
It’s official, the K Desktop Environment is no more. Summary * We will use simply “KDE” and retire the expansion “K Desktop Environment” * We will use “KDE” exclusively in […]