How to improve the Fedora experience
From LinuxBSDos.com.This article is a take on how to “Improving the Fedora boot experience,” which was the subject of an email by Matthias Clasen to a Red Hat developer’s mailing list.read more
View ArticleKali Linux is now available for download
From LinuxBSDos.com.Kali Linux has just been released. ISO and VMWare images for Kali, a Linux distribution from the developers of BackTrack Linux, just hit a download mirror near you. BackTrack was/is...
View ArticleLinux recognize only partial memory
I tried different linux distro (Ubuntu 12.10 Gnome Remix, Fedora 18, Bridge Linux) on my new laptop but all of them have a problem with memory. My laptop has 4 GB memory but Ubuntu recognize only 2,4...
View ArticleUbuntu Style and OSX-Nostalgie , 2 new icon sets on Gnome-look
Two new icon sets just got uploaded to Gnome-look recently. Both are from the same artist.The first one is OSX-Nostalgie, a combination of the style of Mac OS X and the style of Ubuntu. Here are the...
View ArticleopenSUSE 12.3 Launch Feedback: we’re still awesome!
Last week we let openSUSE 12.3 out of the gate. Like always, it was exciting and fun to see the result of so much preparation get to our users! So, how did it go and what did we learn? Conversations We...
View ArticleGTK+ 3.7.14 Fixes a Lot of File Chooser Button Issues
Yet another development release of the GTK+ toolkit for the upcoming GNOME 3.8 desktop environment has been released today, March 19, fixing a lot of issues for the file chooser button.read more
View ArticleGNOME: GNOME 3.8 - Jon McCann talks of future in GNOME
The GNOME Project is proud to announce the imminent release of GNOME 3.8 in less than two weeks. As with every release, there are many new features and technical improvements. We asked William Jon...
View ArticleGNOME Online Accounts Vulnerability Closed by Canonical
On March 25, Canonical published in a security notice details about a GNOME Online Accounts vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.According to...
View ArticleHow to use scrot - a command line tool to take screenshot
There are many ways to take screenshots. In distros like Ubuntu, Mint or Fedora, the tool is either gnome-screenshot or mate-screenshot. You can also use more complicated tools like shutter or GIMP....
View ArticleGnome Subtitles 1.3 Is Based on GStreamer 1.0
Gnome Subtitles, a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop that supports the most common text-based subtitle formats, video previewing, timings synchronization and subtitle translation, is now at version...
View ArticleGnome 3.8 Released
The new Gnome release includes privacy and sharing settings, allowing more user control over access to personal information.
View Article[ubuntu] Cannot install ....
New install of 12.04. Tried install Picasa using xx it went thru its install process and stopped at the EUOL and froze. I waited about 10 minutes or so and closed the terminal. It warned all would be...
View ArticleAlways show Location bar when opening files
BackgroundUsing Xubuntu 12.04.2 LTS. I followed these instructions:http://askubuntu.com/a/278010/64957By running the following:gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry...
View ArticleWhat's using all of the memory in my VM? It's not the disk cache
I have an issue where when I try to build a really large project, my machine starts swapping (several GB) even though there's plenty of memory (14 GB in fact).read more
View ArticleFedora 19 Alpha: so far, impressive
For me, Fedora 18 has been the worst since Fedora Core 1 and, perhaps, 7 & 15. I believe it was fatally compromised by the Anaconda issues and was never able to fully recover. Up to this day, its...
View Articlecinnamon menu etc excruciatingly slow
Good evening,I just finished installing arch for the first time and have hit upon couple of hurdles.Most annoying of them is that everytime i click on cinnamon "menu" it takes ages to appear and whole...
View ArticleRhythmbox 2.99 "Future Delay Thinking" Edition Officially Released
Rhythmbox, an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes and designed to work well under the GNOME desktop environment, is now at version 2.99.Rhythmbox 2.99 has...
View ArticleWhich linux distros have GNOME as the default desktop manager?
Where can I find which distros have GNOME as the default desktop manager? Personaly I don't need a comprehensive list.
View ArticleEmpathy/Gabble Internal Error on Facebook Connect
After updating to Gnome 3.8 Empathy will no longer connect to Facebook throwing up an "internal error" message. Downgrading to empathy 3.6 fixes the issue immediately, although the issue appears to be...
View ArticleNeed some help with ZSH
I copypastad some different ZSH related things from the web and ended up with this mess:# .zshrc # Author: Piotr Karbowski <piotr.karbowski@gmail.com> # License: beerware.# Basic zsh config....
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