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Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/google_chrome_os_or_how_kde_...

A lot of people at the moment are immensely intrigued by Google Chrome OS. I won’t hide that I am one of them. Google promises a much needed shift in the way small computers work. Problems like software updates, backups, installation, maintenance, viruses, have plagued the world for too long: a shift is way overdue. To me, however, the change about to happen shows us what many people have refused to believe for a long time: KDE and GNOME shot each other dead. I write this knowing full well that I am going to make a lot of people angry. This might be the first time a writer receives very angry responses from both camps — KDE and GNOME’s users might actually (finally?) join arms and fight just to show everybody how wrong I am!

Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/tips_tricks_and_scripts_thun...

GNU/Linux is blessed with a good choice of file managers. Gnome has Nautilus, KDE has Dolphin and Konqueror and Krusader, which I wrote about some time ago).

If you are looking for a minimalist system with low processor and memory overheads to revive an old “underpowered” machine or make the latest PC look even faster, you have to start thinking about alternatives. One of them is Thunar, the default browser of XFCE. It even has its own homepage. The good news though is that it will run perfectly well on Gnome and KDE and other smaller desktops once you package manager has pulled in all the necessary dependencies, so you don’t need to change desktops to get and use it. This article will be Debian/Ubuntu centric, but Thunar should be available in the repositories of all the major distros like Mandriva and Fedora.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1091102

In recent versions of Gnome, I have noticed that some graphical apps launched as root will inherit the regular user's theme. Personally, I use a separate GTK theme with the root account because I like to be reminded visually to be careful. If you would like to do this two, here's how.

Above all, you need administrative privileges. If you don't, then don't need to worry about root's theme.

Source: http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/unexpected-surprises-linux-fans

It was one of those weeks when the surprise gifts just kept on coming, so I think we can count it as a positive for Linux.

First up, and most exciting to me, was the arrival of KDE 4.2. KDE 4.2 really lives up to the potential of the KDE 4 series, and the KDE team deserves a big congrats for getting this release out the door.

It's been discouraging to note that there are still a lot of detractors for the 4.0 line--people are still ticked off about the "unfinished" nature of 4.0 itself, and tend to not trust anything labeled KDE 4. But when 4.0 was released, the KDE team warned everybody that this would be a transition release with a lot of work to do. Apparently, judging from the vitriol that came out at the time, people didn't get that memo.