Last week Mark Shuttleworth announced plans for Ubuntu to move away from X towards Wayland. Granted it is a long a time away, but a lot of people commended Canonical for such an important decision, which can potentially take desktop Linux to the next level (graphics wise).

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Nautilus-Elementary is a patched version of Nautilus, the default file manager in GNOME. It is by far one of the slickest patches for Nautilus and looks a lot better than vanilla Nautilus. It was included in our 7 Things To Do After Installing Ubuntu 10.10. Well, words are coming out that the Elementary team has…

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Well the surprises just keeps mounting. After shocking everyone with the announcement that Ubuntu 11.04 will have Unity on the desktop instead of GNOME Shell, Mark Shuttleworth announced another possibly bigger change – Unity is going to use Wayland display server instead of X. This will not be implemented in Ubuntu 11.04 though

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Adafruit Industries, an open source hardware developer, has announced an X prize style $2000 bounty to the whoever can first develop open source drivers for Kinetic.

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The Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, Florida is now over and we now have the list of the changes that we may see in Ubuntu 11.04 “Natty Narwhal”, which is expected in April 2011. Here is a brief description of the main decisions taken for Ubuntu 11.04:

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Fedora 14 Laughlin is finally here and has some amazing features. We bring you this cheat sheet so that you can start using Fedora 14 linux fast. We have included many tips and tricks in the cheat sheet that will help you to set up your Fedora 14 box in no time with required audio and video codecs and other software.

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Fedora Linux entered into it’s 14th edition. This version of Fedora too continued the Fedora tradition of not being released on the initially announced release date. Well jokes apart, Fedora 14 is a rock solid Linux distribution and has some really good features.

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Koobface is a trojan that has been going around in social networking sites like – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace etc. It originally started as a Windows only trojan. But a few days ago, a new variant emerged which can infect both Mac OS X and Linux.

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In the Ubuntu Developer Summit which starts today, Mark Shuttleworth surprised a lot of people by announcing that Ubuntu 11.04 will have Unity as the default desktop interface.

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