News Category: Desktop
Jack Wallen | January 20, 2017
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Jack Wallen looks at top desktop environments with the following characteristics in mind: evolution, usability, and modernity.
5 Linux Desktop Environments on the Rise for 2017
With each passing year, the Linux desktop ecosystem shifts and morphs from one darling to the next. Although it’s sometimes challenging to tell, from month to month, which desktop will reign as the fan favorite, there are always signs that a particular desktop is going to rise in market share....
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Softpedia | January 11, 2017
Ubuntu-Based Ultimate Edition 5.0 Gamers Distribution Is Out for Linux Gaming
It's been almost three months since we last heard something from TheeMahn, the developer of the Ultimate Edition (formerly Ubuntu Ultimate Edition) operating system, a fork of Ubuntu and Linux Mint, but we've been tipped by one of our readers about the availability of Ultimate Edition 5.0 Gamers....
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OpenSource.com | January 10, 2017
Troubleshooting Tips for the 5 Most Common Linux Issues
Although Linux installs and operates as expected for most users, inevitably some users will run into problems. For my final article in The Queue column for the year, I thought it would be interesting to summarize the most common technical Linux issues people ran into in 2016. I posted the question...
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Softpedia | January 8, 2017
Valve Finally Makes Steam Work Out of the Box with Open-Source Graphics Drivers
The new Steam Client Beta update brings quite a lot of changes (see them all in the changelog attached at the end of the story), but we're very interested in the Linux ones, which appear to let Steam work out of the box with open-source graphics drivers on various modern GNU/Linux distributions,...
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Hackaday | January 6, 2017
Hands On With the First Open Source Microcontroller
2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a fe pleasew silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the latest happenings in the RISC-V instruction set architecture.
The RISC-V ISA is completely...
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The Verge | January 5, 2017
Endless Is Bringing its Cheap, User-Friendly Linux PCs to the US
The dream of a Linux computer for normal humans is relatively dead. Sure, Google put Linux in billions of hands and homes with Android and Chrome OS, but neither OS is very much like the desktop Linux flavors well-meaning open-source developers have been crafting for decades.
A company called...
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OpenSource.com | December 27, 2016
Top 10 Open Source Projects of 2016
In our annual list of the year's top open source projects, we look back at popular projects our writers covered in 2016, plus favorites our Community Moderators picked. We continue to be impressed with the wonderful open source projects that emerge, grow, change, and evolve every year. Picking 10...
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OpenSource.com | November 28, 2016
Managing Devices in Linux
There are many interesting features of the Linux directory structure. This month I cover some fascinating aspects of the /dev directory. Before you proceed any further with this article, I suggest that, if you have not already done so, you read my earlier articles, Everything is a file, and An...
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ArsTechnica | November 23, 2016
System76 Oryx Pro Review: Linux in a Laptop Has Never Been Better
Laptops preloaded with Linux aren't as rare as they used to be. In fact, big name hardware companies like Dell have whole lines of laptops that ship with Ubuntu installed, and if you want to stretch things a bit you could argue that a Chromebook is a kind of Linux machine (though it takes a bit of...
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LinuxJournal | November 22, 2016
Radio Free Linux
Do a web search for "Linux radio station", and the pickings are slim indeed, with most sites promoting instead ham radio software or streaming audio players, and a handful devoted to setting up a streaming web radio station—including one such optimistic article in Linux Journal some 15 years ago (...
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