Author Archives: Alex Diavatis

Ubuntu Zombies

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Reviews, Software, Ubuntu

The reason for posting this, is because I have the feeling that something isn’t going quite right to our favorite OS. This is strongly my personal opinion and of course I retain every right to be wrong :)

Power Off comes back in GNOME

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Gnome, opensource

Democracy always wins!! It took almost two years for GNOME Developers to release that the majority of users were unhappy with the Suspend option instead of the standard Power Off.

A quick look into Chrome/Chromium OS

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Linux distributions

After the first unsuccessful try with Android (jk), Google strikes again on OS market with Chrome OS. Actually this is kinda Google’s first attempt on OS market, considering that Android is not a genuine Google product. Google acquired Android from … Continue reading

Simply Bryan Lunduke

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in interviews

Bryan Lunduke is a programmer of cross platform software since the 1990’s, a project leader to many teams and a self-declared nerd. Moreover he is a genuine guy, that is well known from Linux Action Show. LAS is probably the … Continue reading

The name for Fedora 18 is Spherical Cow

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Fedora, News

Fedora’s 18  codename announced  and will be “The Spherical Cow” with 1369 votes.

GNOME's Application Menu. Smart or Dummy?

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in opensource, Software

First off, Application Menu has not any similarity with Unity’s Global Menus. While Global Menus copy the Window App Menu from the usual spot (inside App) into Unity’s top panel -the Mac style-, Application Menu, is one single menu that … Continue reading

GNOME 3.6 is getting serious with Initial System Setup

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in News

GNOME 3.4.1 released a few days ago, but its progress didn’t stop. The releasing cycle for 3.6 has already begun. To be honest, I don’t think that 3.4 release was quite exciting, apart maybe from GTK 3.4 that brought a … Continue reading

How to replace Activities word with any image in Gnome Shell

Written by Alex Diavatis on . Posted in Linux tutorials

For this tutorial I will use Gnome Shell 3.4 and its default theme, but this will work also on 3.2 and pretty much on any theme that doesn’t already use an image for Activities. You will need user-theme extension, gnome-tweak-tool, … Continue reading