Reptiles Smuggled in Garden Gnomes

What's in a gnome? For surprised Australian customs officials, the answer was snakes and lizards.

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Man's Lost Gnome Attends Steelers Game

Allen Snyder's garden gnome is apparently out of jail and now traveling the country. The 14-inch tall red-and-white statue disappeared from Snyder's Morgantown yard in the spring, and Snyder has since received three letters claiming to have been written by "Gnomey."

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Italian Restaurant Finds 6 Gnomes on Roof

Six garden gnomes arrived atop Poppi's Italian Family Kitchen about the time of the summer solstice — facing the sunrise — and the restaurant's owner says it's OK for them to stay.

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The GNOME desktop environment will get its first major version update since 2002 with the upcoming release of GNOME 3.0. Although the 3.0 release was previously planned for March, it has been pushed back to September 2010.

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Ubuntu Gnome random wallpapers

I have in excess of 100 wallpapers sitting in the Pictures folder on my main PC. It runs Ubuntu with the Gnome environment and I decided it would be great to have these wallpapers change every 10 minutes on a random basis.

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Drop.io is a web service that allows users to anonymously upload and share files in configurable Internet storage bins that are called "drops." Last week, we talked to Drop.io CEO Sam Lessin, who told us that the service is now open to third-party developers through a REST API.

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A new sighting of South America's 'creepy gnome' has caused panic among locals after a group of youngsters claimed a 'midget monster' ran towards them at night.

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"Those wanting to run Linux apps on their Mac desktops now have reason to rejoice — sort of. The GTK+ software development framework has been ported to Mac OS X, so it's now possible to install and run GTK+ applications on your Mac. But there are some hang-ups.

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The year of the Linux desktop... *sigh*

The year of the Linux desktop has finally come! Really, this time. At least, that's what Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, says. Give me a break. Read the article. Not one of the arguments is bound to this year. No concrete dates, no concrete events.

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The Amarok team is proud to announce the first beta version of Amarok 2, codenamed Nerrivik, released after days of hard work during this year's Akademy in Belgium.

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Desktop drapes is a wallpaper manager application for the gnome desktop. It can randomly changing your wallpaper every once in a while, or whenever you fell like it. It can also automaticaly pickup any wallpapers you added to a directory with the ninja magic of inotify.

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If only he could talk there would surely be extraordinary tales to tell. He's been swimming with turtles off the Great Barrier Reef, scaled a glacier in New Zealand and toured the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat.

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A kidnapped gnome has returned home after seven months - with a photo album of his round-the-world adventure.

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"Sun dropping out of OpenOffice.org development wouldn't be an entirely negative thing" - Novell-developer Michael Meeks finds strong words for Sun's management of the free office suite in an interview - Pushes for own OOo flavor and talks about KDE/GNOME-unification.

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At the recent GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC), the GNOME release team announced a proposal for developing the next major iteration of the open source desktop environment.

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A 53-year-old Gnome russler has been arrested in Brittany after going on a gnome stealing spree. The French man, suspected of stealing 170 gnomes, was arrested on Tuesday.

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The KDE project saw the writing on the wall.

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Although Nautilus—the GNOME file manager—includes many useful features and offers an excellent implementation of the spatial paradigm, its browser mode is less impressive and is missing some must-have functionality.

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Without viruses and other malware, Linux is typically much harder for the average user to mess up. But if you are setting up a GNOME desktop for someone who seems to do things like delete the window list, or for public use, then you should lock down the desktop.

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Trolltech developer Jens Bache-Wiig is working on a new style engine for Qt that can leverage the user's default GTK+ theme. This will make it possible for Qt applications to optionally share the GNOME look and feel when they are running in the GNOME desktop environment.

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In a recent post on his blog, Mark Shuttleworth, CEO at Canonical, has talked about synchronicity between Long Term Support releases from different Linux distributions.

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Yesterday the Fedora Project released a "Preview" of Fedora 9. Today Ubuntu released a "Release Candidate" for 8.04 "Hardy Heron" and the openSUSE team released openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1.

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Fedora 9 ships with GNOME 2.22 and KDE 4.03 by default, and while KDE 4.0x has received a lot of attention and buzz in the free software world, this GNOME release is also very exciting. Softpedia called it "A truly amazing desktop!", and with features like Cheese, the new in …

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The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first Beta release of openSUSE 11.0! There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release.

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Why Linux Desktop Fragmentation is a Good Thing™

Every now and then you'll come across someone arguing that, instead of having several different desktop environments (Xfce, GNOME, KDE), their respective developers should team up to create The Perfect DE.

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In GNOME 2.22, included in Ubuntu 8.04, the default Metacity window manager has compositing built in. This means that you can get your eye candy effects without switching window managers!

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The latest release of the GNOME desktop environment includes a number of significant architectural enhancements and new applications that offer increased power and usability.

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GNOME 2.22 has been released, bringing a whole ream of new apps, features and improvements to GNOME users.

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