Do you constantly have 99 new notifications, marked with the little red button at the bottom right in your Facebook account? Would you like to only receive important notifications, such as comments from friends, and skip the stuff various applications send you? Read on.

This isn’t a new feature, but I’m always amazed at how many people simply endure thousands of notifications and updates from applications and pages, without ever bothering to simply turn them off. Here’s a couple of ways to do it.

mashable.com/2009/08/19/get-rid-facebook-notifications/

Unleash The Power of the Find Command

It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

SourceForge.net, the big open source app/code repository has hit a major milestone: 4 billion downloads.Since 1999, SourceForge has the 'go to place' for all open source downloads, but in the last couple of years, Google Code has put up a bit of challenge. Remember also for a while there was this constant thread in media about how SourceForge had 100,000 project, though most had been abandoned. SourceForge.net now has 230,000 projects and if downloads are an indication, they seem to be doing just fine.

SourceForge delivers 4 billionth open source download - InternetNews:The Blog - Sean Michael Kerner

The days of ugly Linux desktops are a thing of the past. Modern distros include many tools and options that enable them to look good and be more useful.Unlike Windows, Linux has several different widget toolkits. The most well-known widget engines are GTK+, (distributed with GNOME) and QT. (pronounced “cute”) Widgets are the various elements which make up a program's GUI: scrollbars, arrows, checkboxes, etc. However, take note that QT or GTK widgets are not the same thing as desktop widgets.

How to Customize Your Linux Desktop - From GTK to Compiz | Maximum PC

Fedora 11 is released today.

Fedora is a Linux-based operating system that provides users with access to the latest free and open source software, in a stable, secure, and easy to manage form. Fedora is the largest of many free software creations of the Fedora Project, a partnership of free software community members from around the globe.

Fedora 11 tour
Feature List
Release-notes

UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) for Karmic Koala took place this year, between the 25th and 29th of May, in Barcelona, Spain. There were 270 blueprints that needed to be discussed during the summit, like the new professional look of Plymouth (an application that takes care of the graphical boot animation) for Karmic Koala, which will not become reality very soon. However, some of the ideas discussed at UDS will be implemented in the next version of the Ubuntu operating system, due for release in late October 2009. One of these was the "grub2-as-default" discussion, and Colin Watson had the pleasure to announce last night that GRUB 2 would definitely be the default boot loader in Ubuntu 9.10.

GRUB 2: the New Boot Loader in Ubuntu 9.10

Puppy Linux is a 100MB Jack of all trades Linux distribution, mainly used as a light, fast live CD distro. It's one of the more popular small distributions. I've reviewed Puppy twice already, loving it better each time.

One of the things that makes Puppy so unique is the large number of sub-versions created by enthusiasts, each featuring a slightly different set of programs and themes. These remastered distros are known as Puplets. Deciding which one to try can be hard. Like choosing a favorite toy in a very big store.



Macpup - Puppy on steroids

If you’ve taken a look at KDE 4, you will have noticed significant changes to the desktop. Many people feel these changes have made the KDE desktop less usable. By default, I would say that is certainly the case. But with KDE 4 comes one addition to the desktop that helps it out significantly: widgets — tiny applications that reside on the desktop and serve one or more functions. Most new KDE 4 users have yet to experience what these widgets have to offer. But if you’re not taking advantage of these added tools, you’re not getting the full KDE 4 experience.

10 KDE 4 desktop widgets to make you more productive | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com

The Wine development release 1.1.23 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - Support for registering MIME types with the Linux desktop. - FBO mode is now the default for Direct3D. - Support for COM proxy delegation. - Improved support for the Mingw cross-compile. - Proper fullscreen mode for the virtual desktop. - Various bug fixes.

WineHQ - Wine Announcement

Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OSAfter four decades, the future of the operating system is clouded, but its legacy will endure

Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS

After 5 months of hard work, the Amarok team is proud to present the next major version of Amarok, 2.1.

Amarok 2.1 "Let There Be Light" released

KDE Community Improves Desktop with KDE 4.2.4KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates

KDE - KDE 4.2.4 Release Announcement

Dailymotion is excited to launch a new R&D platform dedicated to open video formats and web standards: openvideo.dailymotion.com. You don’t need the Adobe Flash plugin to watch videos on this platform - the only requirement is the latest version of Firefox, 3.5 beta, available here.

Dailymotion announces support for Open Video! Farewell Flash

A showcase with download links of gnome themes.

The post is called:
Ubuntu Themes: 61 Awesome Themes for Linux

The release is based on Ubuntu 9.04, the 2.6.28 Linux Kernel, X.org 7.4 and GNOME 2.26.

www.linuxmint.com

The team behind the Puppy Linux project has released the first maintenance release of Puppy Linux 4.2, version 4.2.1. Puppy Linux provides a very small, yet complete Linux desktop, with a lot of useful applications, many supported hardware devices and a pleasant user interface.

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Mozilla's new Jetpack project makes it easy to enhance the Firefox web browser by using conventional HTML and JavaScript. In this hands-on tutorial, we introduce you to Jetpack and use it to add a Digg counter to the browser's statusbar.

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The Open Source project behind the Google Chrome browser called Chromium has finally established an official Alpha release and it promises to be a very lightweight swiss army knife once completed.

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