There are two kinds of Linux users in the world – those who use Gnome and those who dislike KDE.

You can't blame them – to call KDE releases so far a disaster would be something of an understatement – but the tide has now turned.

Over 16,000 bug fixes and 1,700 new features later, the KDE developer unveiled KDE 4.5. The release has started popping up in many Linux distros, and it looks and feels stunning.

Here are nine reasons why it's time to log off Gnome and switch to KDE.

Read the full thing at http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/9-reasons-why-you-should-switch-to-kde-4-5-919637

Created as part of the Google Code In program by Claudio Desideri with help from his project mentor, Jorge Salgueiro.

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tw2JOuct7k

It’s surprisingly hard to find a definitive answer to the question of what happens with Linux block device names when you get past drive 26 (ie. counting from one, the first disk is /dev/sda and the 26th disk is /dev/sdz, what comes next?) I need to find out because libguestfs is currently limited to 25 disks, and this really needs to be fixed.

Read the full thing at http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/how-are-linux-drives-named-beyond-drive-26-devsdz/

Here's something interesting, but all of the details are not yet known at this time as the official announcement doesn't seem to have been issued yet. TransGaming, the company behind the Cedega software for running Windows games on Linux, is going to be replacing the Cedega Gaming Service with something now called GameTree Linux.

Read the full thing at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODk5Mw

First, let’s get the niceties out of the way… the Mageia team would like to wish you all a very happy New Year, for you and your families . We really hope that 2011 will be the Mageia year for users, contributors and partners so that we can propose and promote a rock solid and innovative open source environment.

While we are speaking about the future, the new year comes with the start of the real work!

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/?p=363

I’ve always loved to tinker with things. The Teddy Ruxpin doll I had when I was younger, the first home PC my parents bought for me and my brother, and eventually Linux (thanks to my awesome brother, Eric, who got my video drivers working back when I didn’t have a clue what was going on). Over the years in Linux Desktop land I’ve always seemed to gravitate towards the Gnome desktop environment. It was simple, functional, fast and well thought out. Over time, my lust for customizing every aspect of the desktop to fit my liking went into hibernation as I started to work on projects and divert my attention elsewhere.

Read the full thing at http://www.unixlads.com/?p=33

A walk through of the Cacti Flowview plugin by thewitness (Larry Adams)

This plugin allows you to see reports based off the data in your Netflow flows.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb-wPg_kpjc

Walmart lost interest in GNU/Linux on netbooks for some reason but welcomes it again on tablets. Funny how that works, eh? Small cheap computers and GNU/Linux go together well, that other OS does not fit and M$ cannot justify tinkering with the market. Chuckle.

Read the full thing at http://pogson.6k.ca/2011/01/03/gnulinux-returns-to-walmart/

A video walk through of the Cacti Aggregate Plugin Version 1.0 Beta.

This plugin aggregates graphs from Graph Management. All data you want to see must already be present on any existing graphs.

View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAp9rGeu-hw

A series of videos that walks you through using VIM.

View them at http://ontwik.com/tools/vim-from-novice-to-professional-by-derek-wyatt-p1/