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/

You had to wait a long time, far too long already. But now the time has come, WoP, in version 1.5, is available for download - for Windows and Linux. The Mac users have to wait a little bit longer unfortunately, but, rest assured, we haven't forgotten you!

We had planned to publish WoP 1.5 within this year and had to work on it until the very last second.

Read the full thing at http://padworld.myexp.de/index.php?news&update_id=255

After a long year of changes in the kde-www land, ranging from looks to scm switches, a final last coup:

KDE is running its own pastebin service now!

Read the full thing at http://neverendingo.blogspot.com/2010/12/news-from-kde-www-pastebin.html

I don’t normally comment on other people’s software… but… a little while ago, opensuse was wondering whether KDE apps would work with these Gnome Shell requirements. Last time I checked, their “Activities” sounded like virtual desktops, but now they’ve returned to an application-based shell. This in sharp contrast to Plasma Desktop’s increasingly Activity-oriented workspace.

So what does that mean? Well, in gnome-shell, windows are organized by application – by the binary that spawns them. All your firefox windows are grouped together, all your okular windows grouped together, etc. You can still group windows on virtual desktops, but alt-tab is application-based, so as soon as you’ve got more windows than screen space you may as well have everything on one desktop.

Read the full thing at http://chani.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/activity-oriented-vs-application-oriented-workspaces/

With holiday season right in front of us it's about time to draw a line between 2010 and 2011 and have a look at most important events of this year. We carefully selected most important things that happened or haven't happened.

Read the full thing at http://libregraphicsworld.org/articles.php?article_id=26