graphical user interface

As an operating system, Linux is about choice. You can customize nearly any aspect of your operating system to behave exactly how you want, and the options for how the desktop looks are as limitless as your imagination.

This freedom comes at a cost to the average user, however: limitless options can be daunting and cause users to shy away from Linux.

Linux is already known to many as an operating system for nerds and tech gurus, incomprehensible to the common user.

There's plenty of talk making the rounds about Steve Jobs' comments about Android in the authorized biography that's coming out next week.

In it, Jobs apparently makes it clear that he was absolutely furious about Android "ripping off" the iPhone.

Nick Benton and Neel Krishnaswami, ICFP'11, A Semantic Model for Graphical User Interfaces:

We give a denotational model for graphical user interface (GUI) programming using the Cartesian closed category of ultrametric spaces.

[..] We capture the arbitrariness of user input [..] [by a nondeterminism] “powerspace” monad.

My Open Source Wish List: "To have more fun somebody should configure a linux, or opensolaris, or bsd distribution that opens directly into a Virtual Box Graphical User Interface.

Just like the ChromeOS opens directly into the Chrome Browser, in a similar manner the Virtual Box Distribution should have Virtual Box running on top of the linux (or BSD or solaris) kernel."

BM Developerworks: "This article guides you through the task of resizing Linux partitions, beginning with basic preparations and moving on to common resizing scenarios using graphical user interface (GUI) tools."

Datamation: "In the Linux desktop world, the graphical user interface is here to stay. Old Unix hands may grumble, but the fact remains that, without all the efforts poured into GNOME, KDE, Xfce and others, Linux would not be as successful as it is today."

Days after the Red Hat Summit in Boston, the company has released the second beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Tuxmachines: "In line with its newbie-friendly tradition of providing a way to do everything via a graphical user interface, Ubuntu provides a way to do a distribution upgrade by clicking a button at the top of the Update Manager."

Apple has filed a patent for the sharing of location-based data between devices and plotting your friends’ location o