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| Feb 7 2012 11:58pm | Video: An Interesting Wayland Tech Discussion |
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| For those Linux enthusiasts interested in the Wayland Display Server, here's a video recording of an interesting technical discussion worth watching... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 11:33pm | Intel's Lynx Point Chipset Is Getting Ready On Linux |
| Support for Intel's Lynx Point chipset has been landing in recent days within various patches spread across many different projects, but more is on the way for Intel Haswell's landing... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 11:06pm | DMA-BUF Is Ready To Push Forward Linux Drivers |
| Besides the Intel chatter, Nouveau banging on OpenCL, Coreboot's less than interesting laptop, one of the other exciting meetings this past weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM was a... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 10:32pm | Kubuntu Is Dead, Time To Switch To Linux Mint KDE, openSUSE? |
| I heard some rumors at the FOSDEM that Canonical was pulling plugs on KDE, which also creates the Kubuntu spin of Ubuntu. What it meant, if the rumors were to be believed, tha... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 9:38pm | Canonical pulls funding on Kubuntu after 7 years |
| Kubuntu 12.04 will be the last release before becoming community supported... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 9:35pm | Will the Spark Tablet Ignite a FOSS Fire? |
| "it is good to see Linux entering the tablet space ... [but] the Spark is the wrong device to start with," said Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor. "My first i... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 8:32pm | Sandbox Applications Quickly with KVM or LXC |
| At FOSDEM, Daniel Berrange presented libvirt-sandbox, which sandboxes programs in a VM or a container without first requiring the user to set up an operating system there...... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 8:30pm | Canonical Pulls Funding from Kubuntu, Drops Commercial Support |
| Canonical is no longer paying Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell to work on Kubuntu and is making the KDE version of Ubuntu a fully community-supported distribution...... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 8:00pm | OSI Announces New Initiatives and Seeks Your Input |
| OSI is changing, and you can help! I spoke at FOSDEM in Brussels on Saturday on behalf of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), where I serve as a director. My noon keynote cove... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 7:23pm | How to customize Linux Mint 12 KDE |
| This article provides simple suggestions that you can employ to customize an installation of Linux Mint 12 KDE that would make it a little bit more user-friendly and fun to us... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 6:19pm | Ubuntu Global Jam: Call For Events! |
| From 2nd – 4th March 2012 we will be running the Ubuntu Global Jam. This is a global event in which we ask Ubuntu users and contributors to organize events in their lo... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 5:28pm | Linux Mint KDE 12 Released |
| The Linux Mint team has announced the availability of Linux Mint KDE 12. The version is running KDE 4.7 which is a bit older as KDE 4.8 was recently release. However, consider... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 4:31pm | Creating a vDSO: the Colonel's Other Chicken |
| A vDSO (virtual dynamic shared object) is an alternative to thesomewhat cycle-expensive system call interface that the GNU/Linux kernelprovides. But, before I explain how to c... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 4:00pm | Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux Computer on Track to Launch Later this Month |
| The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month. The organization announced today that ma... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 3:34pm | Book Review: The Linux Command Line |
| One of the most difficult tasks in writing for the new Linux user is trying to figure out how much to place on their plate. Linux from the command-line offers so much it is of... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 1:45pm | Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux computer on track to launch later this month |
| The first model of the Raspberry Pi Foundation's low-cost Linux computer will likely be available for purchase later this month. The organization announce... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 1:02pm | Linux Kernel 3.2.4 released, Android kernel available from 3.3 |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman announces bug fix release of 3.2 kernel, and reveals details for the future of Android integration with the Linux Kernel... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 12:50pm | Nouveau Can Do OpenCL Compute For Open-Source NVIDIA |
| There's another big accomplishment within the open-source graphics camp: Nouveau developers now having an initial working OpenCL implementation for NVIDIA GeForce graphics har... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 12:18pm | Canonical ending support for Kubuntu, reassigning lead developer |
| Jonathan Riddell, the lead developer of the Kubuntu project, announced today that his work on the KDE-based Ubuntu variant will no longer be funded by Can... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 11:08am | Linux Mint 12 KDE has been released |
| Linux Mint 12 KDE has been released which uses Linux Kernel 3.0 and KDe version 4.7.4. It contain many new features compare to its last version like it has Hybrid ISO image wh... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 10:06am | NVIDIA Releases New Driver For X.Org Server 1.12 |
| Last week NVIDIA released a new beta Linux driver that is supportive of X.Org Server 1.12... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 10:01am | Xonotic 1.0 Is On The Linux Gaming Horizon |
| Xonotic, the open-source multi-platform game that succeeded Nexuiz, is finally moving closer to its 1.0 release... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 9:52am | ASPM Linux Kernel Fix To Land Finally In 3.2 Series |
| The proper solution to the Linux kernel ASPM power regression will finally be landing in the stable Linux 3.2 kernel series... ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 7:11am | SupportMart offers Virus & Spyware Removal Support Service |
| You must arm your computer with necessary protections with Anti-virus being the basic, where antivirus installation and software applications are must for each and every compu... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 5:17am | Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 185 |
| Welcome to the 185th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 4:19am | TLWIR 32: Open Sparks Fly, FOSS Players Give Open Advice, and FOSS Petition Gets Key Endorsement |
| Summary: For too long, GNU/Linux has been locked out of the tablet market. That is about to change with the May 2012 arrival of the Open Spark. The Open Spark is a new tablet ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 4:19am | Zuckerberg is Spot on with “Hacker Way” (but The Linux Community Already Knew That) |
| Facebook filed its IPO last week , which is big news in and of itself. However, what struck me most was the letter from Mark Zuckerberg to potential investors that puts an exc... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 4:19am | Zuckerberg is Spot on with “Hacker Way” (but The Linux Community Already Knew Th |
| Facebook filed its IPO last week , which is big news in and of itself. However, what struck me most was the letter from Mark Zuckerberg to potential investors that puts an exc... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 3:56am | Is Linux Spark Tablet An iPad Killer? |
| Powered by Linux, the Spark tablet might prove to be little more than a toy. Yet it has greater potential.... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 3:01am | Spark 7in Linux-based tablet detailed |
| KDE confirms specifications and release date for its open source tablet.... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 2:19am | Linux Kernel 3.2.4 released, Android kernel available from 3.3 |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman announces bug fix release of 3.2 kernel, and reveals details for the future of Android integration with the Linux Kernel... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 1:59am | gMusicBrowser 1.1.9 Adds New Layouts |
| gMusicBrowser is a highly customizable music player that works great with large music libraries. The application comes with built-in layouts which can make gMusicBrowser look ... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 12:28am | F5 Networks Offers Ways VARs can Optimize F5/VMware Sales |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed If you're an F5 VAR and/or VMware VAR, and you've been cross-pollinating F5 and VMware solutions, things are about to get even easier. F5 Networks has launched a web portal fe... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 12:20am | Is Desktop Linux Becoming Fractured as Open Source Matures? |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed Until quite recently, the Linux world had, for the most part, only two major desktop environments: GNOME 2 and KDE. Fast forward to the present, however, and there's an immens... more | |
| Feb 7 2012 12:00am | Will the Spark Tablet Ignite a FOSS Fire? |
| Now that webOS is making its merry way along the open road, there's no telling what tablets or other mobile devices it may inspire over the upcoming months. In the meantime, t... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 10:41pm | VLC 2.0 pour MacOS X |
| Intro La nouvelle version de VLC, nommée TwoFlower ou 2.0, apporte de nombreuses améliorations et modifications spécifiques à MacOS X. Ce petit article permet de passer e... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 9:27pm | Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet |
| MojoKid writes "There's a new tablet in town called the Spark. The Linux-driven tablet, based on the Zenithink C71 and KDE was unveiled by developer Aaron Seigo recently. The ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 9:00pm | Chmouel Boudjnah: How does a PUT to a swift object server look like. |
| I have been trying lately to get a better understanding of the Swift code base, and I found the best way to know it was to read it from top to bottom and document it along the... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 8:39pm | Explore The Land Of Hyrule, Play Zelda Classic On Linux |
| Zelda Classic (ZC) is a tribute to one of the greatest video games of all time: Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda. It has been developed into an exact replica of the NES version.... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 8:00pm | DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 442 |
| This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: I dream of Linux - Dreamlinux 5 News: Red Hat introduces 10-year support, Texstar takes leave of absence, Mint banks on Cinnamon Ques... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 7:48pm | grep wants to install gnome ? |
| Hello when trying to install grep 2.9-1.1-mdv2012.0, it asks for gdm or slim ; why is that so ? What's the relation between a CLI utility and gnome ? new dependancies shown... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 7:42pm | Integrating Shutter with KDE 4.8 |
| Shutter is the best screenshot tool in Linux. I'll show you how to... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 6:25pm | Debian LXDE Live – is it still Debian? |
| Last week I wrote about Fedora 16 LXDE. That post was intended to complete the cycle of reviews of different Fedora 16 spins. Apart from Fedora, I had posted another ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 5:00pm | Monday Shortbread |
| Eight is Enough AppleInsider: Apple CEO hints at no ARM-based MacBook Air as iPad to "soon satisfy" that niche 9to5Mac: Google poaches Apple's Senior Director of Produc... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 5:00pm | Monday Shortbread |
| Eight is Enough AppleInsider: Apple CEO hints at no ARM-based MacBook Air as iPad to "soon satisfy" that niche 9to5Mac: Google poaches Apple's Senior Director of Produc... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 4:48pm | A Look at 3D Printing and Open Source |
| Arthur C. Clarke said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." And it's still magical when you understand how it works. 3D printers are here, th... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 4:23pm | PCLinuxOS 2012.02 KDE Review |
| PCLinuxOS is a Mandriva based distribution that is geared towards novice users. It has a big community in which is there to help new users to Linux get off on the right foot.... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 3:26pm | Peace Corps Selects OpenEMR |
| While not exclusively a Gnu-Linux product (runs on LAMP and WAMP stacks), the selection of OpenEMR by the Peace Corps for its worldwide EMR needs, lends a powerful measure of ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 1:31pm | LXer Weekly Roundup for 05-Feb-2012 |
| [url=http://lxer.com/team.php][img]http://lxer.com/content/Scott_Ruecker.jpg[/img][/url] [b]LXer Feature: 05-Feb-2012[/b]Is it February already? This week we have a new Linux ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 1:19pm | PCLinuxOS 2012.2 has been released |
| Bill Reynolds announced of the second version of PCLinuxOS 2012.2 on 3rd Feb,2012. It uses Linux Kernel 2.6.38.8 and desktop environment is KDE 4.6.5. The Synaptic package man... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 10:27am | 4 Best Free Linux Script Writing Tools |
| Script writing is the art and craft of writing scripts for the general public. The script can take the form of musicals, plays, novels, films, television programmes, and more.... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 10:13am | it's time to repair |
| Hi. folks. Build Nodes is down, please repair it. ... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 9:30am | Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 Screenshot Tour |
| Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 is powered by Linux kernel 3.2.2 and is built on top of the Xfce 4.8 desktop environment. It features a new greeter and desktop theme, as well as min... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 8:33am | Talk Of A Brand New API For KVM Virtualization |
| A discussion has been started about a next-generation API for Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization...... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 7:37am | Intel's Brewing New Linux Graphics Driver Features |
| Eric Anholt of Intel spoke on Saturday at FOSDEM 2012 in Belgium about the state of the Intel Linux graphics driver user-space and some of their future plans...... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 5:42am | Running ownCloud3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 |
| This tutorial shows how you can install and run ownCloud3 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounc... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 3:13am | LinuxMint12 KDE has been released ! Screenshots Tour |
| LinuxMint 12 KDE has been released, this edition comes with the latest and recently released KDE 4.7.4. This is the first release of Linux Mint using Hybrid ISO images. Tradit... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 2:03am | gdk-pixbuf2.0 doesnt allow to install in both arches |
| Hi, Goets could you package (back) the arch dependant files that are in package gdk-pixbuf2.0 correclty? As we may see there are files that should be package in a package su... more | |
| Feb 6 2012 12:22am | Linux Mint 12 KDE review |
| So we moved from Linux Mint 10 KDE to Linux Mint 12 KDE because Linux Mint 11 KDE did not make it out of the developer’s box.Being based on Ubuntu Desktop, Linux Mint shares... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 11:45pm | Details Emerge About the Spark Linux-Based Tablet |
| There’s a new tablet in town (well, on its way to town, at least) called the Spark. The Linux-based tablet, based on the Zenithink C71, was announced several days ago, ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 10:35pm | Increase your DropBox by 5Gb for free |
| Longtime readers know I am a strong advocate for DropBox, the cloud-based file-synchronisation service. For a limited time you can increase your free DropBox capacity by 5... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 9:43pm | Warcraft III, Full HD, Linux, 'Nuff Said |
| Here is a nice hack to play the classic Warcraft III @ 1920x1080... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 9:38pm | lib64pcreo unresolved conflicts |
| Preparing... ############################################################## Installation failed: file /usr/lib64/libpcrecpp.so.0.0.0 from install of lib64pcre1-8.30-1.... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 8:46pm | Piers Anthony: An Ogre and A Penguin |
| Piers Anthony has been writing complete novels in Linux for 12 years.We interview him at The Powerbase.... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 8:29pm | Intel's Brewing New Linux Graphics Driver Features |
| Eric Anholt of Intel spoke on Saturday at FOSDEM 2012 in Belgium about the state of the Intel Linux graphics driver user-space and some of their future plans... ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 8:29pm | Spark Linux tablet specs updated, going up for pre-order next week |
| We already got a brief introduction to the Spark Linux-based tablet, but details were a little sparse. Since then, a few more key bits of info have been added to its Q&A ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 6:45pm | Talk Of A Brand New API For KVM Virtualization |
| A discussion has been started about a next-generation API for Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization... ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 6:06pm | New release of soundwrapper |
| I've just made a new release of soundwrapper (first one in 4 years :o), version 1.7. I've submitted it to Mageia, so you can copy it from there: http://svnweb.mageia.org/pack... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 5:55pm | What The New Linux Game Publishing Will Look Like |
| Clive Crous, the new CEO of Linux Game Publishing following the resignation of founder and CEO Michael Simms, has issued a message to Linux gamers concerning the future of LGP...... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 5:43pm | can't edit exif/iptc with digikam 2.5 ? |
| Hello with the latest 2.5 version of digikam that was finally updated a few weeks ago, I can't find anymore the menu "edit metadata" that allows to edit exif (date, ...), i... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 12:30pm | The Humble Bundle for Android |
| It is time for a brand new "Humble Bundle" release!But this time, it's a bit different... Why? Simple: the games included in this bundle will not just work on Mac (ahem...), W... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 10:37am | core dump in pstree |
| Hello, today when starting my PC, konsole was unable to restart all its tabs, some of them saying it was not possible to start "/bin/bash" (a message written in red in kons... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 10:36am | How to Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on Linux |
| The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to jailbreak their Apple iPhone 4S and Apple iPad 2 devices.... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 9:39am | Bordeaux 75% off sale |
| The Bordeaux Technology Group is proud to announce a 75% off sale on Bordeaux for Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, PCBSD and OpenIndiana.... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 8:18am | LinuxMint12 KDE has been released! | Screenshots Tour |
| LinuxMint 12 KDE has been released, this edition comes with the latest and recently released KDE 4.7.4. This is the first release of Linux Mint using Hybrid ISO images. Tradit... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 5:04am | Distribution Release: Netrunner 4.1 |
| Clemens Toennies has announced the release of Netrunner 4.1, the latest update of the project's Kubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution featuring the KDE 4.7.4 desktop - now ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 4:00am | You need to think about playing Hack, Slash, Loot |
| Indie game dev. David Williamson's newest project was officially released to the wilds recently, and I'm definitely digging it. Hack, Slash, Loot is a turn-based... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 3:01am | Using routers as displays |
| Have you ever seen an LED display made out of routers? [Sean] took eight Netgear routers and made an 8×4 display out of them. Because that wasn’t cool enough, a ver... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 2:46am | What The New Linux Game Publishing Will Look Like |
| Clive Crous, the new CEO of Linux Game Publishing following the resignation of founder and CEO Michael Simms, has issued a message to Linux gamers concerning the future of LGP... ... more | |
| Feb 5 2012 1:50am | Linux 3.3 Will Let You Boot Into Android: Greg-KH |
| The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power m... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:13pm | Hello World! |
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| Feb 4 2012 7:46pm | Mandriva firewall broken |
| Hi, I have refered this problem in a previous message in this ml, i also created a bug report about it -> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65223 After more checks ... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 7:26pm | Distribution Release: KahelOS 020212 |
| Meric Mara has announced the release of KahelOS 020212, a desktop Linux distribution and live DVD featuring the GNOME 3 desktop and based on Arch Linux: "Following the release... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 6:50pm | cursor theme lost in mandriva 2011 |
| Hello I know this list is about cooker, but as I didn't find answer to this in bugzilla, I thought Rosa's devs could be able to handle this. So, under a fresh Mandriva 2011... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 4:38pm | ruby-svn and rubyqt4 needs to be rebuild |
| ~]# LC_ALL=C urpmi --noclean --auto-select A requested package cannot be installed: ruby-svn-1.7.2-1-mdv2012.0.x86_64 (in order to keep ruby-svn-1.7.2-3-mdv2012.0.x86_64) Cont... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 11:40am | LibreOffice stats: 400 total contributors, thousands of code commits every month |
| The Document Foundation (TDF), which launched in 2010 to develop LibreOffice, has published statistics that illustrate the project's rapid growth. Approxi... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 10:40am | Be a downloading machine with Linux and Wget |
| Wget can give you the ability to master the Internet by extending your download capabilities far past what your Web browser provides. You can use Wget to download all files fr... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 8:11am | KDE Plans Open Source Linux 'Spark' Tablet |
| Unlike the Kindle Fire and iPad, this hacker-oriented device was built to be customized by the end user. ... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 5:34am | Friday's security updates |
| CentOS has updated ghostscript (C6; C5; C4: multiple vulnerabilities), php (C6; C5; C4: remote code execution), and C5: php53 (remote code execution). Debian has updated icew... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 5:30am | The Best Calendar App For Linux |
| Linux users have a few calendar programs to choose from, but none of them are particularly spectacular — in fact, most of them aren’t very good at all. As such, we... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 4:40am | What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage |
| An anonymous reader writes "Enterprise Storage Forum's long-awaited Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Find out just how bad the Linux file system scaling pro... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 3:19am | Unity: Very Intrusive & A Nightmare To Maintain |
| Along with the discussion around a rolling-release version of Fedora Linux, having been discussed recently has been the possibility of providing Ubuntu's Unity desktop as an a... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 2:52am | The First Shots Of "Limare" Running On Linux |
| For open-source fans, here's the first shots of Limare running, in advance of the official announcement this weekend... ... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 2:06am | Distribution Release: Linux Mint 12 "KDE" |
| Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 12 "KDE" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE. Linux Mint 12 KDE comes with update... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 1:59am | Openmoko smartphone reborn as hackable GTA04 |
| German manufacturer Golden Delicious has begun shipping a hackable open source smartphone that runs a variety of Linux software, including a newly optimized Openmoko distro. T... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 1:53am | Meet Google's Tool for Jettisoning Android Malware, Dubbed "Bouncer" |
| If you're an Android user, you've no doubt seen the daunting recent reports about spikes in malware found in applications on Android Market. For example, late last y... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 1:52am | The First Shots Of "Limare" Running On Linux |
| For open-source fans, here's the first shots of Limare running, in advance of the official announcement this weekend...... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 1:51am | Seamonkey Review: Firefox's Lightweight Hyper-Functional Cousin |
| Seamonkey has an interesting history, in that it is both older and younger than Firefox. Older, because originally it was built from Mozilla Suite code (for those of you tha... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 1:27am | SambaXP 2012 Conference Call for Papers |
| The eleventh international Samba conference, the Samba eXPerience, will take place from 8 to 11 May 2012 in Göttingen, Germany and its organisers are now accepting subm... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 1:06am | Distribution Release: Linux Mint 12 "KDE" |
| Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 12 "KDE" edition: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 KDE. Linux Mint 12 KDE com... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 12:47am | Coreboot Is Set To Start Booting Laptops |
| This weekend in Brussels at FOSDEM along with many interesting X.Org discussions and laying out the plans for Wayland 1.0, the Coreboot project has an exciting announcement:... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 12:45am | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 Released |
Source: OSDir.com more from feed From the Release Early dept.: Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 12:24am | SODIMM-sized Cortex-A8 module sports CAN bus, onboard flash |
| EMAC announced a SODIMM-sized computer-on-module (COM) that runs Linux 2.6 or Windows CE 6.0 on a 600MHz TI ARM Cortex-A8 processor and can be purchased with a carrier board. ... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 12:14am | Mozilla Developing Web Push Notification System for Firefox |
| Mozilla is developing a push notification system for the Firefox Web browser. It will allow users to receive notifications from websites without having to keep those sites o... more | |
| Feb 4 2012 12:00am | Spark Tablet Coming for the FOSS Crowd |
| The recently announced Spark tablet might prove to be the first Linux-running open source tablet fully capable of being modded by users. It has an open Linux stack on unlocked... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 11:04pm | Distribution Release: PCLinuxOS 2012.2 |
| Bill Reynolds has announced the release of PCLinuxOS 2012.02, the latest stable update of the project's mainstream distribution. There are no major new features as the Linux k... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 10:24pm | Komodo IDE 7.0 Adds Node.js, LESS and CoffeeScript Support |
| ActiveState's development environment now includes collaboration and synchronisation tools as well as code profiling features, and has been integrated with the company&#... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 9:00pm | Development Release: Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 |
| Kate Stewart has announced the availability of the second alpha release of Ubuntu 12.04, code name "Precise Pangolin": "Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, whic... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 8:54pm | fit-PC3 mini-PC review – impossibly small & remarkably powerful |
| 'Small and tough' is probably the best way to describe fit-PC3 mini-PC. But does this miniature computer actually perform? Dmitri Popov is the man to ask…... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 7:04pm | BT Vision throws Microsoft Mediaroom under a bus for Linux |
| Set-top box software to be torn out and replaced over the net UK hybrid TV service BT Vision plans to be the first customer to discard Microsoft's Mediaroom software, almost i... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 7:00pm | PCLinuxOS 2012.2 Released |
| Today, February 2, is Bill "Texstar" Reynolds' birthday, but it's the community who received the present. PCLinuxOS 2012.2 KDE was released today in a full s... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 6:46pm | Soon You Will Be Running Android On Your PCs |
| In an exclusive interview with Muktware, Greg-KH one of the leading figures of the Linux world, told us "The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no ... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 5:41pm | Weekend project: Zap Your Coworkers' Minds with Multi-Pointer X |
| Care to rethink your desktop user experience? It may be simpler than you think. Chances are you own more than one pointing device, but for years you've never been able t... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 5:07pm | Open tablet Spark to hit shelves in May |
| The Spark, an open tablet which will be available for purchase by May this year, will run the Mer operating system, the community continuation of the Linux-based MeeGo project... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 5:07pm | Open tablet Spark to hit shelves in May |
| The Spark, an open tablet which will be available for purchase by May this year, will run the Mer operating system, the community continuation of the Linux-based MeeGo project... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:33pm | Linux Game Publishing...the return? |
| So anyone who has been in the Linux gaming scene for a while will have probably heard of LGP (Linux Game Publising) who port and distribute games for Linux at quite a premium ... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:00pm | PHP 5.3.10 Released With Critical Security Fix |
| The PHP 5.3.10 release is out; it contains a fix for a remote code execution bug introduced recently by another security fix. Anybody running 5.3.9 should probably upgrade as soon as possible.... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:54pm | Understanding Syslog Managers and How to Use Them |
| Whether you rely on Microsoft Windows, Linux, or other operating systems, system log managers can digest system reports and make them understandable and optionally actionable.... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 12:25pm | elementary Music Player `Beatbox` 0.3 Released |
| Beatbox, the default music player in the upcoming elementary "Luna" release, has reached version 0.3 codename "Acolyte". The new version includes an improved album view, iPod... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 11:08am | Using An OpenCL Kernel In GStreamer |
| There's now a GStreamer plug-in to utilize OpenCL within this popular Linux video framework so that an OpenCL kernel can be applied against a video stream...... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 10:22am | *Parabola GNU/Linux: Freedom Packaged* |
| There are different reasons people use Unix-like operating systems, including configurable, availability free of charge, powerful command line interface an many more. Some peo... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 8:47am | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released [Video, Screenshots] |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin alpha 2 is available for download, we'll do a recap of all the changes since the previous milestone (alpha 1).Let's start with an Ubuntu 12.0... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 7:33am | Compare And Synchronize Folders With FreeFileSync |
| FreeFileSync is a muti-platform folder comparison and synchronization tool that comes with some very useful features like support for multiple folder pairs, binary files suppo... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 7:25am | Security advisories for Thursday |
| CentOS has updated openssl (C4: multiple vulnerabilities). Debian has updated tomcat6 (multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated BackupPC (F15; F16: cross-site scrip... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 7:03am | Radio Software Airtime 2.0 Released With Easier Icecast And SHOUTcast Configuration, More |
| Airtime is a free open source radio management application. The Airtime server runs on Linux, but the interface can be used from anywhere, using a web browser.It features DJ m... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 6:24am | Raspbmc - XBMC Linux Distribution For Raspberry Pi Announced |
| $25 credit card size ARM Linux PC Raspberry Pi is getting lots of love from community. First, XBMC playing HD video was shown shown off at Scale 10x. Now a specific Linux dist... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 5:35am | Linux 3.3 Will Let You Boot Into Android: Greg-KH |
| The 3.3 kernel release will let you boot an Android userspace with no modifications, but not very good power management. The 3.4 kernel release will hopefully have the power... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 4:22am | Openmoko Smartphone Reborn as Hackable GTA04 |
| German manufacturer Golden Delicious has begun shipping a hackable open source smartphone that runs a variety of Linux software, including a newly optimized Openmoko distro.... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:25am | Running ownCloud3 On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 |
| This tutorial shows how you can install and run ownCloud3 on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronou... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:19am | Red Hat Extends RHEL Life Cycle to 10 Years |
| Three-year Extended Life Phase available, too.... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:04am | Critical PHP Vulnerability Being Fixed |
| The PHP developers are working to fix a critical security vulnerability in PHP that they introduced in a previous security patch. The full impact of the problem is not yet known...... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 3:03am | Cinnamon 1.2 Released |
| New desktop no longer compatible with Gnome Shell themes.... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 2:47am | Zarafa Launches git.zarafa.com |
| Messaging and collaboration specialist Zarafa has announced the launch of git.zarafa.com, which it says should help developers contribute and get real time updates...... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 2:44am | Open thread: An Open House of Representatives? |
| Today, the US House of Representatives is hosting a 2-day conference about how they can be more open and transparent about what they do under the dome. They are exploring id... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 2:28am | Confused about iPads in Education |
| It's been nearly two years since I got my first Asus convertible tablet/netbook, loaded it up with Linux and started kicking it around with my every day to classes. In general... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 2:06am | Final GIMP 2.6 Series Update Arrives |
| Version 2.6.12 of the open source GIMP image editing application will be the final 2.6 stable series update as the developers shift all of their focus to completing work on ... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 1:40am | Video Review: DreamLinuix 5.0 Really Dreamy? |
| DreamLinux 5.0 is a truly "Dreamy" Linux distribution stacked full of all your favorite Linux applications. Check out DreamLinux 5.0 today!... more | |
| Feb 3 2012 12:00am | WebOS Swings Along the Open Road |
| When HP announced late last year that it would open source webOS, it was hard not to be skeptical. After all, it would be all too easy for a company to whitewash its own aband... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 10:36pm | Learning Linux Commands: ls |
| If you ever tried to work with Linux command line, ls command was surely one of the first commands you have executed. In fact, ls command is so frequently used, that its name ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 7:44pm | Greg Kroah-Hartman Becomes Linux Foundation Fellow - Gives SUSE the Boot - Getting paid 'food' for Work |
| From the 'For He's a Jolly Good Fellow' files: Greg Kroah-Hartman is joining the Linux Foundation as a 'fellow.' The move means that he's leaving SUSE - that's right kaput, no more SUSE for him.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 6:01pm | A Short Q&A with New Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman |
| The Linux Foundation announced this week that Greg Kroah-Hartman would be joining as a fellow. Kroah-Hartman is joining a small group of developers that work with the foundati... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:57pm | Using An OpenCL Kernel In GStreamer |
| There's now a GStreamer plug-in to utilize OpenCL within this popular Linux video framework so that an OpenCL kernel can be applied against a video stream... ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:50pm | Red Hat unveils 10-year support plan |
| Red Hat has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years. Meanwhile Linux kernel insider Greg Kroah-Hartman has left Red Hat rival... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:59pm | Red Hat developer explains open source color calibration hardware |
| Color management has historically been a weak area for the Linux desktop, but the situation is rapidly improving. Support for desktop-wide color management is being facilitate... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:57pm | Using An OpenCL Kernel In GStreamer |
| There's now a GStreamer plug-in to utilize OpenCL within this popular Linux video framework so that an OpenCL kernel can be applied against a video stream...... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:33pm | Mandriva lives to fight another fortnight |
| The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:33pm | Mandriva lives to fight another fortnight |
| The French GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva has been reprieved again - but only for two weeks, according to a post at the company's blog.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:13pm | Red Hat unveils 10-year support plan |
| Red Hat has extended the life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years, with RHEL 6 now supported through 2020. Meanwhile, Linux kernel maintain... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 3:50pm | SFC director Kuhn reacts to BusyBox flame war |
| The executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Bradley Kuhn, says that enforcing the GNU General Public Licence is a means of defending software freedom. Kuh... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 1:07pm | Firefox 10 Released, Running On Ubuntu 12.04 |
| Mozilla team has announced the release of Firefox 10. The latest version is available for Linux and Android, in addition to other platforms. The latest version is already avai... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 12:14pm | Reading Material |
| Ladies: Having a hard time figuring out your clothing size? This little web app will help.Fun with math: Dividing one by 99801 yields surprising result.Fun Android toy: Wreak ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 12:10pm | The Perfect Database Server: Firebird 2.5.1 And FreeBSD 9 |
| Here is the guide on installing Firebird 2.5.1 from FreeBSD 9 Ports and creating your first test database; also we show you how to install Flamerobin GUI (administration tool)... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 12:00pm | Lunchtime Deal: Humble Android Bundle |
| We’ve already mentioned this before as part of App deals of the day, but the latest Humble Indie bundle — which comprises Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, and EDGE, ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 11:10am | Unable to submit Rosa-media-player |
| Hello. I have a following issue when submitting new version of Rosa media player package to cooker main/release. After submit I get this error: "Uploading to build host Fa... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 10:16am | Raspberry Pi's Nonchalant Graphics Stack For Linux |
| Many were talking yesterday about why the forthcoming $25/$35 Raspberry Pi system won't ship in kit form, but of more interest to Phoronix readers out of that blog post would ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 9:45am | Ambiguous Fedora 16 LXDE |
| The paradox. The higher the speed of the CPU, memory, bus, etc., that hardware companies try to sell us, the more people tend to use low-resource operating systems and deskto... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 9:24am | DEFT Linux 7 Is Based on Lubuntu 11.10 |
| After months of hard work, the DEFT Linux team proudly announced that the final and stable version of the DEFT Linux 7 operating system is now available for download.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 8:00am | Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night |
| Will Future Lumia Handsets Be Cable-Free? Look Ma — No Wires! The Tablet That Linux Lovers Have Been Waiting For Will 2012 be the year of Linux on the Tablet? The Peavey... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 6:03am | C development on Linux - Structures - VII. |
| We will continue in this part of our tutorial with the complex data types in C, and we will talk about structures. Many modern programming languages offer them, one shape or a... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:47am | Get Your Embedded Linux On: Join Me at Yocto Project Developer Day |
| Building an embedded Linux distribution can be a daunting task. From the Board Support Package (BSP) to Kernel configuration, root file system setup and the selection many ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:43am | Oracle Set to Rally, Educate 100 OPN Specialized Partners |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed Oracle President Mark Hurd and Channel Chief Judson Althoff are set to rally and educate 100 Oracle Specialized channel partners tomorrow at the company's Redwood Shores, Cali... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:17am | Microsoft vows to fix "broken" Hyper-V code submitted to OpenStack project |
| In October 2010, Microsoft started working toward making the OpenStack open source project compatible with Microsoft's Hyper-V virtualization software. Th... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 5:00am | The Tablet Linux Lovers Have Been Waiting For |
| While most people just want their devices to work so that they can do stuff, some people love tinkering with operating systems. Until now, the tablet sector’s been ripe ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:29am | New Humble Indie Bundle Launches For Linux, Android |
| Besides the Linux Game Publishing shake-up, there's more Linux gaming news to report today: there's a new Humble Indie Bundle. Besides being the usual spiel of being a collect... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 4:00am | Linux Game Publishing CEO Resigns |
| An anonymous reader writes "The CEO of the once fledging Linux Game Publishing, Michael Simms, has announced his resignation. Simms attributes his resignation from the Linux g... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 3:41am | Linux multiseat solution advances to Ethernet with HP thin client |
| Userful Corp. announced a new version of its multiseat Linux PC sharing software, now Ethernet-ready and bundled with a $99 HP t200 thin client. The & Userful MultiSeat wi... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 3:26am | Userful releases Multiseat Linux virtualisation |
| Thin client scalability at low cost ... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 2:54am | Endian Firewall Community 2.5.1 released |
| Endian Firewall Community is a free edition of Endian Firewall, a security-focused Linux distribution developed by Endian S.r.l., a Linux solutions provider based in Bolzano I... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 2:17am | Distribution Release: SalineOS 1.6 |
| Anthony Nordquist has announced the release of SalineOS 1.6, a Debian-based distribution and live DVD featuring the Xfce desktop: "SalineOS 1.6 images are now available for do... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 2:15am | Interview: Jaisen Mathai of OpenPhoto |
| I met Jaisen Mathai at SCALE10x after seeing his UpSCALE talk in which he introduced the OpenPhoto project with 20 slides in five-minutes. In this interview, Mathai explains... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 2:07am | id Software Consolidates Open-Source Code |
| While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 1:54am | Kernel guru Greg Kroah-Hartman joins Linux Foundation |
| One of the principle maintainers of the Linux kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, has joined the Linux Foundation as a fellow, the same position held by Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the foundation announced.... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 1:35am | Greg KH Leaves SUSE For Linux Foundation |
| New submitter udas writes "Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch, has left his job with SUSE Linux. He is now a fellow at the Linux Foundation. 'T... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 1:19am | News: Heads Up for Linux |
| It's beginning to look a whole lot like 2012 will be the year of the Linux Desktop on the Linux Planet. Well, if not the year, then at least this past week, which saw tremendo... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 1:11am | Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation |
| The Linux Foundation has announced that Greg Kroah-Hartman has joined the organization as a fellow. "In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, Kroah-Hartman will continue his w... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 12:09am | Mozilla Releases Firefox 10 To The Masses, Massive Changelog In Tow |
Source: Stories more from feed Milestones come and go, but hitting the big ten is always a feat worth applauding. It seems like just yesterday that the first beta of Mozilla's Firefox was rolling out, but t... more | |
| Feb 2 2012 12:00am | SMPlayer: A Flexible, Feature-Filled Media Player With a Frustrating Flaw |
| When it comes to playing audio and video files in Linux, media players pretty much all work the same way and have a very similar user interface. It usually all comes down to f... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 11:41pm | Red Hat extends Red Hat Enterprise Linux lifecycle to ten years |
Source: OSDir.com more from feed From the Makes Sense On a Server dept.: ...Red Hat. The company has just announced that it is extending the production lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 fro... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 11:38pm | Raspberry Pi's Nonchalant Graphics Stack For Linux |
| Many were talking yesterday about why the forthcoming $25/$35 Raspberry Pi system won't ship in kit form, but of more interest to Phoronix readers out of that blog post would ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 10:45pm | GNU/Linux Petition Featured on WhiteHouse.gov! |
| On January 30th, 2012, I started a petition requesting that the U.S. government broaden their use of Free Software and Open Source to save money. I deeply believe that this on... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 10:02pm | The Tablet That Every Linux Lover Has Been Waiting For [Tablets] |
| While most people just want their devices to work so that they can do stuff, some people love tinkering with operating systems. Until now, the tablet sector's been ripe f... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 9:10pm | Linux Foundation Names New Fellow |
| The Linux Foundation has named Greg Kroah-Hartman as a fellow of the organization where he joins a small group that includes Linux creator Linus Torvalds. - The Linux Founda... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 9:00pm | Development Release: Scientific Linux 6.2 RC1 |
| Pat Riehecky has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Scientific Linux 6.2, a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 8:00pm | openSUSE Has a Dream |
| The openSUSE artwork team has dream and needs your help. A new initiative seeks to collect information on how users customize and use their desktops. Then this data will be ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 7:14pm | Meet Spark, the €200 slate packing Linux-based Plasma Active UX |
| As we all know, the Kindle Fire's hot, Apple's selling bushels of iPads, and there's plenty of Honeycomb slates out there for you to choose from, but what if you want a table... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 6:08pm | BusyBox replacement project fuels animated verbal spat |
| It's been some time since there was a good old-fashioned verbal spat in the free and open source software community. Such a state does not last for long, as there are loa... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:36pm | Development Release: Scientific Linux 6.2 RC1 |
| Pat Riehecky has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Scientific Linux 6.2, a distribution built from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:26pm | Radeon HD 7950 Launches, Linux Support Questionable |
| AMD released the Radeon HD 7950 today as the second "Southern Islands" graphics card following the release of the Radeon HD 7970 one month ago, but how is the Linux support fo... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:09pm | Red Hat Extends RHEL Lifecycle from Seven to 10 Years |
| Red Hat announced that it has extended the lifecycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 from seven to 10 years to give users more flexibility in long-term operating ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:01pm | Linux kernel chief exits SUSE, takes vendor-neutral oversight role |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch and the Linux driver project, is leaving his position with SUSE to join the Linux F... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:00pm | Distribution Release: DEFT Linux 7 |
| Stefano Fratepietro has announced the release of DEFT Linux 7, an Ubuntu-based distribution and live DVD containing a collection of tools for penetration testing and forensi... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:00pm | id Software Consolidates Open-Source Code |
| While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet...... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:00pm | Linux Kernel Chief Exits SUSE, Takes Vendor-Neutral Oversight Role |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel's stable branch and the Linux driver project, is leaving his position with SUSE to join the Linux Foundation in a full... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 3:29pm | 7 Best Free Alternative Git Clients |
| Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, in 2005 for Linux kernel development. This cont... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 2:32pm | How to setup a basic firewall in Ubuntu Linux |
| The first question you will ask yourself (probably) is "why on earth would I need a firewall? Linux is secure, right?" Right, and I know lots of desktop Linux users that never... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 1:39pm | id Software Consolidates Open-Source Code |
| While id Software may have recently lost its main Linux game developer (Timothee Bessett), they haven't abandoned their open-source ways. This afternoon John Carmack had an interesting tweet... ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 1:34pm | Red Hat now supports RHEL 5 and 6 for a decade |
| Companies that like Red Hat Enterprise Linux but hate changing Linux versions because of the hardware and software qualification process just got an excuse to be lazy for the ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 1:12pm | Linux 3.3-rc2 Kernel Is Out Late Due To "Mind-Fart" |
| The second Linux 3.3 kernel release candidate is now available, which is coming a bit late due to Linus Torvalds falling behind... ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 12:27pm | Mozilla Releases Firefox 10 To The Masses, Massive Changelog In Tow |
| Milestones come and go, but hitting the big ten is always a feat worth applauding. It seems like just yesterday that the first beta of Mozilla's Firefox was rolling out, but ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 11:52am | Linux-based home energy gateway supports ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0 |
| Digi International announced a ZigBee-based home energy gateway that runs Linux on a Freescale i.MX28 processor. Compliant with the upcoming Smart Energy 2.0 standard, the &am... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 11:46am | Distribution Release: DEFT Linux 7 |
| Stefano Fratepietro has announced the release of DEFT Linux 7, an Ubuntu-based distribution and live DVD containing a collection of tools for penetration testing and forensic ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 11:30am | Thunderbird 10 Fixes Add-On Compatibility |
| Windows/Mac/Linux: Thunderbird, our favourite Windows and Linux email client, updated today with a few new features to make browsing your email more convenient, including keyb... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 11:07am | How to install Ubuntu the way you've never done it before. |
| I will tell you from the very start. This is neither my idea, nor my realisation. But I like it so much that I decided to share it with the wider public. Have you ever inst... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 10:59am | The Daily Hotness: The Muppets respond to Fox News |
| Precocious little scamps, ain't they? Today, Tara Long informed us that The Destructoid Show (taping in front of a live audience this Friday in San Francisco!) is available... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 10:55am | Tilera ships 36- and 16-core RISC processors |
| Tilera announced the general availability of its RISC-based 36-core Tile-Gx36 and 16-core Tile-Gx16 system on chips (SoCs), clocked up to 1.5GHz. The Tile-Gx36 delivers more t... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 10:50am | Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release |
| This weekend at FOSDEM 2012 what Kristian Hogsberg is expected to say in Brussels will surprise many of you: Wayland 1.0 is gearing up for release as their first stable releas... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 10:41am | Red Hat Extends RHEL Lifecycle to Ten Years |
| ike your RHEL on your servers just the way it is? That’s fine by Red Hat, which has extended its flagship Linux operating system's lifecycle to ten years.... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 10:36am | First Plasma Active Tablet Announced |
| The first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active pre-installed is to be named "Spark". It sports an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with an open conten... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 9:59am | Why Linux Vendors Need To Sell More Than Linux |
| jfruh writes "Mandriva, a venerable Linux distro, is on the verge of shutting down. One of its main problems is that it never grew into more than just an OS vendor. The big pl... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 9:46am | New To Linux: Part 3 – Customizing Ubuntu 11.10 |
| The first two parts of this series gave you a basic introduction to Linux and helped get your Ubuntu 11.10 system installed. Now I'll go over how to get started customizing yo... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 9:14am | Jailbreaking The Internet For Freedom's Sake |
| With so many threats to a free and open Internet, sooner or later, people will need to arm themselves for the fight, writes Deep End's Paul Venezia. 'If the baboons succeed in... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 8:55am | Wayland Preparing For 1.0 Stable Release |
| This weekend at FOSDEM 2012 what Kristian Høgsberg is expected to say in Brussels will surprise many of you: Wayland 1.0 is gearing up for release as their first -- stable --... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 8:39am | Boxee desktop app being removed from servers tonight, get it while you can |
| We knew that the Boxee desktop app's days were numbered, we just didn't realize how numbered. It was only the day after Christmas that we learned version 1.5 would be the las... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 7:48am | Kazam Screencaster 1.0 Released |
| Kazam Screencaster 1.0, a cool screencasting application for Linux, has been released today.The Kazam Screencaster development has stopped a while back, but luckily a new deve... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 7:47am | Humble Bundle expands to Android with World of Goo, Anomaly and more |
| The choose-your-own-price Humble Bundle has proven to be a runaway success on desktop platforms -- helping fund indie developers and causes like Child's Play and the EFF alik... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 7:19am | News: Heads Up for Linux |
| The Linux desktop advances with KDE 4.8 and the new HUD concept from Ubuntu.... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 6:59am | New Humble Indie Bundle Launches For Linux, Android |
| Besides the Linux Game Publishing shake-up, there's more Linux gaming news to report today: there's a new Humble Indie Bundle. Besides being the usual spiel of being a collect... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 6:35am | Security advisories for Tuesday |
| CentOS has updated C6: ruby (denial of service), ruby (C5;C4: denial of service/predictable random numbers), C6: t1lib (multiple vulnerabilities), C6: openssl (multiple vulner... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 5:58am | Red Hat now supports RHEL 5 and 6 for a decade |
| Live longer and prosper more Companies that like Red Hat Enterprise Linux but hate changing Linux versions because of the hardware and software qualification process just got ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 5:35am | Firefox 10 Updates With Better Extension Management, UI Tweaks |
| Windows/Mac/Linux: Mozilla took the wraps off Firefox 10 today, and despite it being a nice round version number, this version of Firefox is in line with Mozilla’s new C... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 5:30am | Humble Bundle comes to Android (plus PC, Mac, and Linux) |
| The Humble Bundle has expanded its reach to cover Android devices with EDGE, Osmos, and Anomaly: Warzone Earth. Those who pay more than the average contribution, currently ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 5:03am | Miro Internet TV: Internet TV for Ubuntu Desktop |
| Miro, a new application for Internet video has been designed to be an easy app that will give users an amazing full-screen show. With over thousands of free videos that can be... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 5:00am | Introducting the Humble Bundle for Android (and Windows/Mac/Linux): Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, EDGE, and World of Goo! |
| submitted by parsap to gaming [link] [383 comments]... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:39am | The Dilemma of the Linux Desktop |
| Between Ubuntu's Unity and Linux Mint's Cinnamon, we have a snapshot of the Linux desktop in crisis.... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:30am | Bid for Mandriva Fails |
| The Mandriva saga continues as an external bid fails. But the company's COO says that financial circumstances mean the company still has some weeks to find a new solution...... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:17am | Radeon HD 7950 Launches, Linux Support Questionable |
| AMD released the Radeon HD 7950 today as the second "Southern Islands" graphics card following the release of the Radeon HD 7970 one month ago, but how is the Linux support fo... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 4:06am | The Battle For Wesnoth 1.10 Released With New Campaign, Features And Improvements |
| One of the best Turn Based Strategy games for Linux The Battle for Wesnoth has been updated to version 1.10. This release brings massive new features and updates to the game. ... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 3:40am | Firefox 10 Releases Today, Fixes Add-On Compatibility Issues |
| Firefox 10 is due to release today, continuing Mozilla's commitment to the six-week release cycle it switched to last year. As usual with these rapid-release browsers, F... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 3:18am | Linux Mint 12 Offers a Traditional Gnome Feel |
| The recently released Linux Mint 12 offers a two pronged approach to supporting those who prefer the traditional Gnome desktop. Firstly, the Mint Gnome Shell Extensions (MGSE)... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 2:31am | Google Earth 6.2 Released With A New Way Of Rendering Imagery, More |
| Google Earth is an application that provides a virtual globe, map and geographical information which you can use to travel the wold virtually, see images, 3D buildings, maps a... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 2:21am | Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10 Has Linux Kernel 3.2 |
| Steven Shiau proudly announced today, January 30th, a new stable release of his popular Clonezilla Live operating system, used for cloning hard disk drives.... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 2:14am | Linux Game Publishing Shake-Up: CEO Steps Down |
| There's some news today out of Linux Game Publishing, but it's not about a new game being ported to Linux. Rather, it's an apology from Michael Simms, the CEO of LGP, and to a... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 1:29am | Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement |
| Matthew Garrett has posted a complaint about an attempt to create a permissively-licensed busybox and calls for kernel developers to be more aggressive in enforcing their copy... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 1:24am | Virtualization With Xen On CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) |
| This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 4.1.2) on a CentOS 6.2 (x86_64) system. Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix opera... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 1:16am | Red Hat extends RHEL5 and 6 support |
| Red Hat has sent out a press release stating, in pure marketing style, that the support period for versions 5 and 6 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been extended to ten years.... more | |
| Feb 1 2012 12:43am | VMTurbo Increases Multivendor Support in Operations Manager |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed VMTurbo has gone from startup to big-time virtualization player over the last year, and now the company has launched VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0, representing a maturation ... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 11:35pm | Distribution Release: Endian Firewall 2.5.1 |
| Endian Firewall 2.5.1, an updated version of the Red Hat-based firewall distribution, has been released: "An update for Endian Firewall Community to version 2.5.1 is now... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 11:01pm | Facebook's Oregon Data Center Uses As Much Power As The Entire County [Factoid] |
| Data centers are power-hungry, and Facebook's Oregon center in Crook County is no exception, using 28MW. While that's fairly standard, it has doubled the power use of the county. ... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 10:48pm | Where Mozilla Ubiquity Failed, Ubuntu HUD will Succeed |
| I'm not easily impressed by 'new' ideas in the Linux desktop space, which is why the Ubuntu HUD is even more interesting to me. The HUD is based on a concept that I really bel... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 10:23pm | A Look At Mozilla's Enterprise Plans for Firefox and Thunderbird |
| When Mozilla adopted its six-week rapid development cycle in early 2011, backlash came from a number of angles — but the heaviest was from enterprise IT departments. I... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 10:15pm | Another Week, Another Round Of Fedora 17 Features |
| At this week's Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, another round of features were approved for the Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) release...... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 9:50pm | Making Music on Linux; It’s A Thing |
| Who says Linux doesn't do audio production well? This article outlines how I used Linux to create a quick and (relatively) easy-to-implement digital studio. Home recording ent... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 8:53pm | LinuxCertified Announces its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development Training course. |
| LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area f... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 6:46pm | Command-line programs for everyday use in Linux |
| I must admit, I'm a command line geek. Whenever I have the chance, regardless of desktop environment or distribution, I open a terminal and start fiddling something. This does... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 5:00pm | Tuesday Shortbread |
| Eight is Enough AnandTech's AMD Radeon HD 7950 review: Sewing up the high-end market Expreview: Small review of Radeon HD 7950 surfaced VR-Zone: More MSI Z77 motherboar... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 5:00pm | Tuesday Shortbread |
| Eight is Enough AnandTech's AMD Radeon HD 7950 review: Sewing up the high-end market Expreview: Small review of Radeon HD 7950 surfaced VR-Zone: More MSI Z77 motherboar... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 4:51pm | How to Create Beautiful Photomosaics in Linux Using Metapixel |
| Learn how to easily create beautiful and detailed photomosaics in Linux using the command line tool metapixel. With plenty of command line options, you can build a photomosaic... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 3:49pm | Linux for Users: A Bulletin Board for Text Notes |
| This piece did not set out to re-define the term, "computer bulletin board," but that is the easiest way to describe Wboard, a window that provides a background for text notes... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 3:17pm | Met Office cuts off Linux users with new weather widgets |
| For why does weatherman hate penguins? Something in the AIRLinux users face increased inconvenience getting a weather forecast from March onwards when the Met Office will with... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 2:30pm | Red Hat developer explains open source color calibration hardware |
| Color management has historically been a weak area for the Linux desktop, but the situation is rapidly improving. Support for desktop-wide color manag... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:12pm | APK puts Windows 95, 98 and XP, plus Linux on the EVO 3D |
| And here you thought Microsoft bringing Windows 8 to ARM was big news. Turns out, a member of the xda-developers forum has managed to make an APK that puts a variety of Redmo... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 10:59am | OpenShot 1.4.1 Brings Fish Eye Effect |
| Jonathan Thomas, the developer behind the famous Linux video editor, announced earlier today the immediate availability for download of the OpenShot 1.4.1 application.... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 10:02am | PS3 Media Server 1.50.1 Is Available for Download |
| The PS3 Media Server developers announced yesterday, January 29th, the immediate availability for download of the PS3 Media Server 1.50.1 application for Linux, Mac OS and Windows platforms.... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 9:05am | Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC2 has been released |
| Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC2 [Release Candidate 2] has been released prior to the stable version Frugalware 1.6. It is originated in Hungary and its design is look like Slackware.... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 7:32am | New KDE tablet to liberate Linux enthusiasts from walled garden |
| KDE developer Aaron Seigo has announced a new upcoming tablet computer, called the Spark, that will ship with KDE's Plasma environment. The device, wh... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 6:35am | How to install Ubuntu the way you've never done it before |
| Have you ever installed any GNU/Linux distribution? Have you ever installed Windows? Have you noticed the difference? I think you know what I am talking about...... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 6:11am | Finally: an easy way to copy/paste between your iPhone and desktop, no app required |
| Hopper, a killer Web app that makes it easy to paste images, text and files online, has just released a handsome mobile companion. Only weeks after its initial launch, this...... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 5:45am | Monday's security updates |
| Debian has updated qemu-kvm (code execution) and icu (code execution). Fedora has updated t1lib (F16; F15: multiple vulnerabilities), openttd (F16; F15: denial of service), F... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 5:38am | OpenRA, Free And Open Source RTS Game Engine Supporting C&C And C&C: Red Alert |
| OpenRA is a free and open source real time strategy game engine supporting early Westwood games like Command & Conquer (C&C) and Command & Conquer: Red Alert. If you h... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 5:02am | Microsoft Win Server to get pushed off OpenStack Linux cloud? |
| Hyper-V support a 'useless feature' Windows servers could face problems running clouds built on OpenStack if the Linux-for-the-cloud project follows the suggestion of one lead developer.…... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 3:43am | Openshot 1.4.1 Has Been Released | What’s New | Download |
| OpenShot is a free and open source video editor for Linux operating systems. OpenShot is capable of editing high definitions video formats including HDV and AVCHD. It comes wi... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 3:18am | ownCloud 3 Gets Built-In Text Editor, PDF Viewer, Other Improvements |
| ownCloud is a free software alternative to some proprietary web services that includes music streaming, file management which supports sharing, calendar, contacts and more:own... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 3:03am | Linux 3.2 Kernel: What To Consider Before Updating |
| A kernel update offers advantage, yet can also create big headaches without proper preparation and testing.... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 2:46am | Share And Discover Cool Bash Tricks With Bash One-Liners |
| Wanna impress your friends with some cool one-liners? Well not those kind of one-liners, I’m talking about the nerdy ones. Well, not exactly nerdy, let’s call them geeky. ... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 2:00am | Solving the Common Standards Problem in the Open Data Space |
| Last year during my Open Government Data Camp keynote speech on The State of Open Data 2011 I mentioned how I thought the central challenge for open data was shifting from g... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:58am | Rockbox's Developers Weigh In On Open Source Digital Music Innovation |
| The world of digital music is now dominated by lots of useful proprietary tools--with Apple's ruling the roost--but there are also many free open source tools and applic... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:58am | Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10 |
| Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10, a new stable version of the project's utility live CD designed for disk cloning tasks: "This release of Cl... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:53am | The Ever-Changing Linux Filesystems: Merging Directoris into /usr |
| If you don't like change, working in IT has to be a harrowing experience. That's particularly true in open source, where few stand on tradition and things move at br... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:32am | Ubuntu 11.10 vs. Mac OS X 10.7.2 Performance |
| After delivering benchmarks last week that were comparing the Intel Sandy Bridge performance of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" vs. Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" when i... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:32am | Sick of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead |
| Unity rival isn't a monster frankengnome If the jump from the GNOME 2 desktop to the new GNOME Shell or Unity desktop in Ubuntu has left you feeling dissatisfied, one increasi... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:29am | Google Earth 6.2 Released With A New Way Of Rendering Imagery, More |
| Google Earth 6.2 was released a few days ago and the most important change is a new way of rendering imagery which fixes an old bug that was causing a so-called "quilt effect"... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 1:03am | ownCloud 3 Released |
| Version 3 of the ownCloud personal cloud system has been announced. New features include a browser-based text editor, an integrated PDF viewer, a photo gallery application, ... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:58am | Distribution Release: Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10 |
| Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 1.2.12-10, a new stable version of the project's utility live CD designed for disk cloning tasks: "This rel... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:58am | Red Hat Quietly Joins the OpenStack Effort |
| Word is that Red Hat refused to sign on to OpenStack when it was announced, because it didn't like the governance model. Red Hat also has its own cloud management softwa... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:45am | Can a $265 Tablet Help Fuel Mobile Open Source Development? |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed We often look at Ubuntu, Unity and GNOME, but what about KDE? KDE has not only been a constant companion and competitor to other Linux window management systems, but a KDE tab... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:36am | Tablet Shipments To Reach 383.3 Million By 2017, 46% In Emerging Markets |
| Post-PC era? Here we come: According to new data from NPD, tablet PC shipments are expected to grow from 72.7 million units in 2011 to 383.3 million units by 2017. For compa... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:36am | Kindle Fire Stokes Interest in Amazon Earnings |
| With Amazon reporting fourth-quarter earnings tomorrow, the main attractions will be tablet figures and the effect on sales of e-books, music, video, and apps.... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:29am | Canonical Promotes Standard Ubuntu Branding with New Website |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed When it comes to branding, the open source world is rarely at the front of the pack. Free software hackers tend to be much better at writing code than they are at designing lo... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:19am | The Dead Simplest Way to Root Your Nook Tablet [Nook] |
| We've seen the Nook Tablet rooted before, but this has to be the easiest process out there. All you need is a 2GB SD card, a computer that runs Windows, and a Nook Table... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:05am | Pentaho Open Sources 'Big Data' Integration Tools Under Apache 2.0 |
| BI vendor Pentaho is open sourcing a number of tools related to "big data" in its Kettle data-integration platform and has moved the project overall to the Apache 2.... more | |
| Jan 31 2012 12:00am | Ubuntu's New 'HUD' Factor: A Step Forward or Back? |
| Some of us here in the Linux blogosphere may have hoped for a quieter 2012 than 2011 turned out to be, but so far at least, it doesn't look like we're getting our wish. Januar... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 10:03pm | OpenShot Video Editor 1.4.1 Released |
| OpenShot is a popular, easy to use video editor for Linux. It supports clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, compositing, ... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 9:17pm | Unable to update module-init-tools |
| Hello An error occurs updating the package module-init-tools installing module-init-tools-3.16-2-mdv2012.0.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms Preparando... #############... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 8:01pm | DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 441 |
| This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: PC-BSD 9.0 "Isotope" News: Ubuntu's HUD, Linux Mint's Cinnamon, Arch Linux for hardcore users Statistics: OSDisc.com sales in 2010 an... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 7:02pm | Met Office cuts off Linux users with new weather widgets |
| For why does weatherman hate penguins? Something in the AIR Linux users face increased inconvenience getting a weather forecast from March onwards when the Met Office will wit... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 6:15pm | Nouveau Reclocking: Buggy, But Can Boost Performance |
| Over the weekend I shared that the Nouveau driver project, which seeks to provide an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux and other platforms via reverse-engineering, ... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 5:00pm | Nouveau Reclocking: Buggy, But Can Boost Performance |
| Over the weekend I shared that the Nouveau driver project, which seeks to provide an open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux and other platforms via reverse-engineering, ... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 1:07pm | Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.6 RC2 |
| Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the second and final release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.6, a general-purpose distribution designed for intermediate and a... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 10:40am | A Fight between email clients. Here’s how to choose the one that best suits your needs and to your Linux box |
| How many emails do you read daily? I bet more than a few dozen … Some people might have multiple accounts from the same provider, like Google, Yahoo and others … For those... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 8:59am | pkgdiff |
| Hello list, A new tool for package maintainers has been released today: pkgdiff [1] - a tool for analyzing changes in Linux software packages (RPM, DEB, TAR.GZ, etc). The o... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 6:27am | Spark tablet introduced with Pre-Installed Linux |
| The Spark is the first tablet computer that comes with Plasma Active (based on kde/qt) pre-installed. It sports an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with an ope... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 2:46am | first FBI ** |
| 4 ATOM ENERGY in FUKUSIMA JAPAN destroyed by earthquake of ATOM misile,NAGAMACHI and MUGURUMA and MATUURA.OSAKA JAPAN was destroyed ATOM BOM.HANSINE AWAJI JAPAN earthquake... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 2:24am | first FBI ** |
| Eiji is of TENNO trees. ... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 2:11am | Updates from the Intel Linux Graphics land |
| The real life and work issues had eaten most of my time for the past 2 weeks, but things seem to be geting back to normal now. So time for semi-regular updates from the Intel ... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 2:11am | first FBI ** |
| 4 ATOM ENERGY in FUKUSIMA JAPAN destroyed by earthquake of ATOM misile,NAGAMACHI and MUGURUMA and MATUURA.OSAKA JAPAN was destroyed ATOM BOM.HANSINE AWAJI JAPAN earthquake... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 12:14am | first FBI ** |
| 4 ATOM ENERGY in FUKUSIMA JAPAN destroyed by earthquake of ATOM misile,NAGAMACHI and MUGURUMA and MATUURA.OSAKA JAPAN was destroyed ATOM BOM.HANSINE AWAJI JAPAN eartquake wa... more | |
| Jan 30 2012 12:03am | q |
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| Jan 29 2012 9:59pm | Promoting Linux administration as a career choice |
| Isn't it time we promoted Linux administration as a career choice?... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 9:30pm | Remy Clouard: home-server - Yamaha DX7 and Linux |
| So, after spending some time setting up my PC yesterday, I wanted to work with it and my Yamaha DX7. When I got it, default sounds were not there, and there were lots of dupli... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 8:04pm | gcc 4.7 submitted to cooker main/testing |
| Hi, I just did submit the first version of a candidate to Mandriva gcc 4.7 rpm package to cooker main/testing. While it should work as an upgrade for the current gcc 4... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 7:32pm | Wine 1.4 Release Candidate 1 Released | What’s New | Download |
| Wine application allows you to run Microsoft applications on Linux/Unix platforms. After many development releases for wine 1.3 here comes the first release candidate for the ... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 6:09pm | LinuxCertified Announces its next Linux Device Driver Development Course |
| LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from [... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 1:36pm | krita updates requires other languages |
| Hello when updating krita, it asks to choose amongst some rather less common languages, but then fails anyway (my locale is FR, so koffice-l10n-fr is already installed). Th... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 12:00pm | Btrfs To Go Production-Ready In Oracle Linux |
| During his talk last week at the SCALE 10x LA event, Chris Mason of Oracle mentioned that an error-fixing Btrfs fsck tool will be ready by next month. He mentioned a hard dead... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 11:03am | Redirect all (TCP) traffic through transparent socks5 proxy in Linux |
| SOCKet Secure (SOCKS) is an Internet protocol that routes network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. SOCKS5 additionally provides authentication so on... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 7:59am | Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 184 |
| Welcome to the 184th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 5:02am | Meet Spark, First Linux Tablet Running KDE Plasma Active |
| Aaron J. Seigo, from KDE Plasma Active development team has revealed a tablet which could be the first device to come with Plasma Active pre-installed. Named 'Spark', the tabl... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 3:07am | How Ubuntu 12.04 Is Trying To Drop Power Usage |
| After illustrating Linux power regressions and other problems for months, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS developers at Canonical are finally taking a serious look at Linux power manage... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 3:00am | Week in tech: Kim Dotcom gets his wish, achieves instant fame |
| Big Content strikes back after a week of anti-SOPA protests, getting the US government to take down Megaupload and its bizarre founder, Kim Dotcom. Me... more | |
| Jan 29 2012 1:00am | Review: Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten |
| Certain genres more than others can be forgiven when skimping on narrative. I would argue that tower defense games can readily get away this without receiving many complain... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 11:07pm | F-BOMB $50 surveillance computer hides in your CO detector, cracks your WiFi |
| What happens when you take a PogoPlug, add 8GB of flash storage, some radios (WiFi, GPS) and perhaps a few sensors, then stuff everything in a 3D-printed box? You get the F-B... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 8:49pm | Interlaced Support For Intel's Linux Graphics Driver |
| Daniel Vetter of Intel has published a new patch-set to enable interlaced support within their DRM kernel driver...... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 8:40pm | unable to disable drakfriewall |
| Unable to disable drakfriewall, if in drakfirewall i hit to disable all, that does NOT happen. And if i start drakfirewall again, appear like i never had touched it. Seams dr... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 7:05pm | amarok locked when scanning collection |
| Hello with latest amarok 2.5 from cooker, it's not possible to rescan a music collection (full collection or just a directory). When clicking on rescan from the configure/c... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 7:00pm | PacApt Is Arch Linux’s Package Manager For Other Distributions |
| It’s no secret that we love Arch Linux and one of Arch’s best features is the simple, easy-to-use package manager, Pacman. Here’s how to get Pacman’s s... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 5:04pm | missing symbol in urpmi in cooker |
| Hello I used rpmdrake to update perl, which updated many dependancies. But now, when I start urpmi I get : /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 2:42pm | Pia Waugh quits as Senator Lundy advisor |
| IT industry personality Pia Waugh has announced her decision to resign from her job as policy advisor to Labor Senator Kate Lundy, with a new role in the public service looming.... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 2:18pm | id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns |
| Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software's popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company...... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 2:15pm | upgrading to kde 4.8 under cooker ? |
| Hello I see that kde 4.8 rpm are available, but they were built 1 or 2 weeks before the official kde 4.8 release. Are those packages the most recent ones, or are some updat... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 1:21pm | Pandora Handheld To Finally Go Into Mass Production Next Month |
| Open Source Linux based gaming handheld and mini-laptop Pandora has created lots of buzz when it was revealed 4 years back. Since then the project has gone under numerous roug... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 12:12pm | Top five open source social networking platforms available in the market |
| In this era of technology and internet, social networking sites are getting more and more popularity. People are spending hours in front of them. For creating a social media w... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 10:44am | missing conflicts for UAE* |
| Hello when e-uae is already installed and you try to install p-uae, you get an error : installing p-uae-2.3.3-1.gitf2fc773b75.1-mdv2012.0.i586.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rp... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 10:37am | Simple Linux Auditing |
| Basic Linux system auditing is a bit tricky and data collected and information of that is out of place and readability is not that good. Recently this lead me to put together ... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 9:02am | ZaReason Alto 3880 Review: Fastest $1000 14 |
| Not only does it ship with Linux, It's one of the most powerful 14" laptops available. At first glance, the Alto 3880 will not strike envy into the hearts of any. Like any st... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 8:20am | Technology News: 9 Most Read Channel Partner Stories, Jan. 27 |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed The VAR Guy just got a call from HR double-checking a help-wanted ad for a freelance website manager. Yes indeed, our resident blogger's alleged media empire needs to find add... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 8:05am | Using DeVeDe to create DVDs on Linux |
| Your daughter's birthday was beautiful and you have lots of videos and pictures from the event that have to be organized in a nice-looking way. Your graduation party was a bla... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 6:30am | Yup, Ubuntu again. Number 11.10. |
| Notice how the 11 comes before the ten. This does signify that eleven is, indeed, louder than ten. Everyone loves hating Unity. It's new. It's different. It's pretty. It's eve... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 5:54am | Fedora 17 Moves Forward With Unified File-System |
| Fedora 17 is moving forward with plans whereby the entire base operating system will live within /usr by condensing several common directories that have been long-standing to Linux distributions... ... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 5:30am | The Best Twitter Client For Linux |
| Despite the large number of Twitter clients available for Linux, none of them are perfect. Our favourite would have to be the powerful, customisable Choqok. Choqok Platfo... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 4:34am | Weekend Project: Take Control of Vim's Color Scheme |
| Vim's syntax highlighting and color schemes can be a blessing, or a curse, depending on how they're configured. If you're a Vim user, let's take a little tim... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 4:08am | Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux |
| If Microsoft loves money, and it does, then making Linux publicly available on its proprietary Azure cloud can't come soon enough. Last June Microsoft ran a build of Linux on ... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 3:41am | Holo: Android Ice Cream Sandwich Like Theme Pack For GNOME 3 (GTK/Shell) |
| Holo is a cool new GNOME 3 theme pack created by Tiheum (the Faenza icon theme designer) that tries to mimic the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich theme.Holo was initially called... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 3:40am | How Ubuntu 12.04 Is Trying To Drop Power Usage |
| After illustrating Linux power regressions and other problems for months, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS developers at Canonical are finally taking a serious look at Linux power manage... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 3:21am | Ubuntu 12.04 Is ARM-ing Up For Better Performance |
| As shared on Phoronix in many articles already, Canonical has big plans for Ubuntu in the ARM-space. They are looking forward to making Ubuntu Linux be the first operating sys... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 2:34am | Apache OpenOffice - The IBM Edition? |
| If anyone had any real doubt, IBM is the one solid reason why OpenOffice still exits. Linux distros big and small have all left for the superior open source experience that is... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 2:22am | Toshiba announces color e-reader in Japan, hopes people buy more e-books from its store |
| If you're gonna be late to a party, you should at least be fashionably late. That's the mindset behind Toshiba's entry into the dedicated e-reader space with its new 7-inch B... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 2:10am | Fedora Relocates Operating System Under /usr/ |
| All files previously stored in the Linux distribution's /bin/, /sbin/, /lib/ and /lib64/ directories will shortly be moved to equivalent sub-directories in /usr/...... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 2:07am | Beets Music Tagger: Command Line Tool To Fix Metadata And Organize Your Music Library |
| beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to "get your music collection right once and for all".It can improve your music collection ... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 1:46am | Katherine Noyes: I'm a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront |
| I picked the “Linux Girl” name when we first launched the column back in 2007, and I chose it because I was imagining something like a comic-book figure for myself as the ... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 1:36am | GlusterFS Advisory Board Established |
| Red Hat has established a GlusterFS Advisory Board to promote the technical development of the distributed file system.... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 1:26am | Announcing The Lima Open-Source GPU Driver |
| There's still one week until the work will be officially announced, but the open-source "Lima" open-source graphics driver project has surfaced...... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 1:10am | FFmpeg 0.10 "Freedom" Released |
| Version 0.10 of FFmpeg adds several new encoders and decoders, as well as new filters and tools. The latest stable release also closes 15 security holes...... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 1:03am | More Automation With AutoKey |
| The more I use AutoKey, the more I believe it to be an essential piece of software for the Linux desktop. If you happened to miss my last article about it, AutoKey is a syst... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 1:03am | VMware Launches Enhanced vCenter Operations Management Suite |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed VMware has released its vCenter Operations Management Suite, designed to make cloud and virtualization maintenance easy and automated. We've got the perks and the feature list you care about ...... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 12:29am | Merged Executive Committee Proposed for the JCP |
| With JSR 355, Oracle and the Java Community Process plan to create a central executive committee that will combine the current committees for Java SE/Java EE and Java ME development...... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 12:27am | Unity Desktop, Nux Get Upstream OpenGL ES 2.0 |
| Linaro developers are nearly done with their milestone of upstream support for OpenGL ES 2.0 with Compiz, Nux, and Unity. This will allow for the Unity 3D desktop to work on... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 12:24am | Canonical Plans to Rewrite Ubuntu Interface Again with HUD |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed Just when I thought Ubuntu developers were going to take a break from reinventing the user interface to focus on other pursuits, such as Ubuntu TV, Canonical founder Mark Shut... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 12:24am | id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns |
| Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software's popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company... ... more | |
| Jan 28 2012 12:12am | Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux |
| Red Hat updated its core Enterprise Linux operating system stack to 6.2 in December and its Enterprise Virtualization commercial-grade KVM server hypervisor to 3.0 last week. ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 11:24pm | WebOS' Enyo 2.0 dev platform goes cross-platform, adopts Apache license |
| HP announced a roadmap for its Linux-based WebOS operating system, which will be released under an open source Apache 2.0 license in September. HP also released an Apache-lice... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 11:24pm | id Software's Main Linux Game Developer Resigns |
| Timothee Bessett, the id Software developer that was responsible for porting many of id Software's popular games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 to Linux, has resigned from the popular game company...... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 8:21pm | inkscape needs perl-YAML-Syck that needs to be rebuild |
| perl-YAML-Syck needs rebuild, since continues requiring perlapi-5.12.3 And its needed to install inkscape. ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 8:15pm | Resize Linux storage with LVM |
| You need more space on your server/desktop/etc.. This guide will help you add it to the volume you’re currently using on your system. For the sake of making this an easy-to... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 7:43pm | New ATI Video Driver Supports Ubuntu 11.10 |
| AMD proudly announced last night, January 25th, the immediate availability for download of the AMD Catalyst 12.1 video driver for Linux platforms, brining production support f... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 5:51pm | Interlaced Support For Intel's Linux Graphics Driver |
| Daniel Vetter of Intel has published a new patch-set to enable interlaced support within their DRM kernel driver... ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 5:01pm | Ubuntu TV vs. Google TV: Battle of the Linux-based Smart TVs |
| Google TV, despite being launched and relaunched with much pomp and expectations, has not quite managed to reach the market it intended to. In fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 3:07pm | Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12 |
| Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alon... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 2:16pm | opennebula cloud computing |
| Hi, guys. I hasten to please all that i fully backported opennebula (*open source cloud computing tool*) into cooker and mandriva 2011 contrib/backports repositories. at the ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 2:09pm | Linux Professional Institute Joins the Linux Foundation |
| (Sacramento, CA, USA: January 26, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that it had become a member of ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 1:12pm | Working Prototype Shown For New Linux Based Gaming Handheld 'GameGadget', To Be Released In March |
| GameGadget is a new Linux based gaming handheld developed by Blaze Europe. It will support both open source and proprietary games and games/apps will be distributed though its... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 10:56am | The case for the /usr merge |
| Lennart Poettering has announced the posting of a summary of the motivations for merging several root-level directories into /usr. "A unified filesystem layout (as it results... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 10:26am | Bruno Cornec: A MondoRescue annoyance |
| When I released the version 3.0.0, some people started to report issues at restore time, that I didn’t saw during my tests. These problems were mentioned as related to LVM r... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 10:26am | A MondoRescue annoyance |
| When I released the version 3.0.0, some people started to report issues at restore time, that I didn’t saw during my tests. These problems were mentioned as related to L... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 9:06am | TI ships Linux-ready DLP eval module for pico projectors |
| Texas Instruments announced a Linux-based evaluation module featuring the digital light processing technology from its DLP Pico Projectors. The DLP LightCrafter combines an AR... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 8:25am | Free Embedded Linux Training at Yocto Developer Day on February 14th |
| Use of Linux in the mobile/embedded space is exploding, and we find many companies are adopting the open source Yocto project to build custom embedded Linux systems. The proje... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 8:00am | Govt agencies fatten Linux, Unix server environments |
| Analysis: How large agencies are switching hardware alliances.... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 8:00am | Govt agencies fatten Linux, Unix server environments |
| Analysis: How large agencies are switching hardware alliances.... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 7:11am | This week at LWN: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source |
| Bruce Perens wore a suit and tie for his linux.conf.au 2012 keynote for a reason, he said: it reflects our community's need to think more about how it appears to the rest of t... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 7:01am | Thursday's security updates |
| Fedora has updated rubygem-actionpack (F15; F16: cross-site scripting). Oracle has updated kernel (OL6: privilege escalation) and kernel-uek (OL5; OL6: privilege escalatio... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 7:00am | Katherine Noyes: I'm a Linux fan, and I enjoy helping to bring Linux to the forefront |
| If you have enjoyed two interviews I made with women in Linux world before, I am sure you will love this one too. I'll not talk too much in the beginning. Let me introduce my ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 6:22am | Did Linus Jump the Gun on a Kernel security fix? |
| "On January 17th, Linus Torvalds committed a patch to the mainline Linux kernel for a memory handling flaw. As it turns out the flaw was exploited quickly once Torvalds put ou... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 5:25am | NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux |
| A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch... And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fa... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 4:02am | Graphics hardware in $25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU |
| The board is built around the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset, which is designed to handle intensive multimedia. In a recent interview, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton claimed that t... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 3:13am | Liberdade na Fronteira : KDE 4.8 on Cauldron |
| Wizards, sorcerers, witches, shamans, pajés and other mystical creatures that are KDE and Linux users celebrate: KDE 4.8 is avaiable in Mageia Cauldron repositories! ... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 3:10am | More Systemd Fun: The Blame Game And Stopping Services With Prejudice |
| Systemd, Lennart Poettering's new init system that is taking the Linux world by storm, is all full of little tricks and treats. Today we will play the slow-boot blame ga... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 1:54am | Nouveau For A $10 NVIDIA Graphics Card? |
| In this article is a look at the state of the open-source Nouveau Gallium3D driver on low-end NVIDIA GeForce graphics hardware. In particular, a $10 USD NVIDIA retail graphics... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 12:25am | HP Outlines Plan to Shift webOS to Open Source Community |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed HP has unveiled its roadmap to bring webOS to the open source community, with the whole process expected to be complete by September 2012. What's in store for webOS as it make... more | |
| Jan 27 2012 12:00am | FOSS' Factious Gender Divide |
| There's no denying that the FOSS community has many virtues, but gender equality doesn't seem to be one of them. Gender-related issues and tensions have plagued the FOSS world... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:58pm | Btrfs To Go Production-Ready In Oracle Linux |
| Btrfs, the quite promising next-generation Linux file-system that's been in-development for years by Chris Mason and others, is about to take on a big role within Oracle's Ent... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:52pm | Linux vendors urgently patch a security flaw |
| Enables Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich root exploit ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:51pm | A Very Short Rant About "Copyrighted" Code |
| This morning I was reading a site that regularly covers free and open source software. To protect the guilty party (because I suspect the error was one of rushed writing rat... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:42pm | Could Ubuntu Linux 12.04 turn Canonical into the new Apple? |
| Xerox PARC, Apple, Microsoft: these companies and more have contributed to the ubiquitous but evolving WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointers) user interface. According to Ma... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:42pm | Could Ubuntu Linux 12.04 turn Canonical into the new Apple? |
| Xerox PARC, Apple, Microsoft: these companies and more have contributed to the ubiquitous but evolving WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointers) user interface. According to Ma... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 10:58pm | Btrfs To Go Production-Ready In Oracle Linux |
| Btrfs, the quite promising next-generation Linux file-system that's been in-development for years by Chris Mason and others, is about to take on a big role within Oracle... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 10:00pm | Graph Database Neo4J Heads to the Cloud |
| A beta of Neo4J in the Heroku cloud is now available alongside the new 1.6 release of the NoSQL graph database. An enhanced query language and unique key-value support are among its improvements...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 9:05pm | GNU Debugger Update Brings Python Scripting Improvements |
| Version 7.4 of the GNU Debugger introduces new debugging commands, adds a new target and simulator, and brings various improvements to Python scripting...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 9:00pm | Mesa Beginning To Need Application Workarounds |
| Now that Mesa is beginning to catch-up with support for newer versions of OpenGL and the OpenGL performance is slowly improving, with more games and applications beginning t... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:59pm | Ubuntu Developer Week for 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" announced |
| The Ubuntu Developer Week for the 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" cycle will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2012, and will include a number of online workshops wi... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:58pm | HP Gives Timetable for Open webOS |
| By September, Open webOS 1.0 will arrive with a standard Linux kernel, LevelDB database and an Apache 2.0 licence. HP has already released the core of the Enyo JavaScript framework...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:32pm | Microsoft's magic bullet for Azure: Red Hat Linux |
| Cloud biz falls short of $80m revenue target Analysis If Microsoft loves money, and it does, then making Linux publicly available on its proprietary Azure cloud can't come soon enough.…... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:21pm | Linux Mint 13 gets back to desktop basics |
| Bucking the trend of increasingly experimental desktop interfaces, the developers behind the Linux Mint are adopting a simpler desktop for the next version of the open-source Linux distribution.... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:00pm | Why SOPA and PIPA are Bad for Open Source |
| The widespread internet blackout yesterday in protest at unbalanced legislation being rushed through the US Congress was dramatic and notable. I did have some questions thou... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 7:00pm | How Far Should Openness Extend? |
| If you could open one of the following data sets tomorrow, which one would you open and why?... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 6:13pm | Going Over The Good & Bad For UEFI On Linux |
| Another one of the interesting talks that was recorded from Linux.Conf.Au in Barratt, Australia last week was the presentation by Matthew Garrett. He went over the good and ba... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 5:23pm | KDE 4.8 released, wants to sashay its way into your computer |
| Sure, it might not have the marketing flair, nor mindshare of another Linux-based project we know, but that doesn't mean the folks behind KDE haven't been feverishly polishin... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 5:16pm | New Kernel Vulnerabilities Affect Ubuntu 11.04 |
| Canonical announced last evening, January 24th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fi... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 4:29pm | Gentoo-based Toorox Releases 01.2012 GNOME Edition |
| Toorox 01.2012 GNOME was released on January 20. Toorox is a Gentoo-based binary distribution that installs additional software and updates from source. It ships with an eas... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 4:19pm | LCA 2012 Bruce Perens on Status of Open Source and James Applebaum on Anonymity |
| At the just concluded Linux Conference Australia (LCA 12), open source was under the limelight as some powerful presenters left behind a lot to be thought about. First to make... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 1:15pm | How Small Business PrintedArt Uses Linux and Open Source |
| Sure, Linux is great for big organizations like Google, Facebook, and others, but what about small business? Take a look at PrintedArt. Founded in 2010, PrintedArt is an onlin... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 12:05pm | Red Hat juices speed freak MRG Linux |
| Shadowman gets the message Red Hat updated its core Enterprise Linux operating system stack to 6.2 in December and its Enterprise Virtualization commercial-grade KVM server hy... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:44am | MCC continues broken |
| Hi, Continues impossible to run mcc: ]# /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Gtk2/WebKit/WebKit.so: undefined... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:32am | iOS lost half its mobile video market share in 2011, but Android isn’t to blame |
| It’s well known that Android is catching up to iOS in market share, even if Apple is now the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer. But what’s interesting are the results that...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:20am | Graphics hardware in $25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU |
| The Raspberry Pi Foundation is building a low-cost Linux computer with a 700MHz ARM11 CPU. The board, which is roughly the size of a pack of playing card... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 11:20am | Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 On Linux With Absinthe |
| Absinthe 0.3, an iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (iOS 5) untethered jailbreak tool, has been released a few days ago and it includes a Linux version too.... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 10:50am | TeamViewer 7 For Linux Released |
| Quick update: the latest TeamViewer 7 for Linux* (application for remote control and desktop sharing) has finally been released today, after being in beta for over a month.The... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 10:35am | HP publishes webOS Enyo framework under open source Apache license |
| HP has published the code of Enyo, the underlying JavaScript framework of the webOS platform. It is available from a public repository on GitHub and is di... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 9:46am | Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw |
| angry tapir writes "Linux vendors are rushing to patch a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel that can be exploited by local attackers to gain root access on... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 9:26am | AVG Antivirus For Linux/FreeBSD Plus Postfix Mail Server |
| This document describes how to deploy AVG Antivirus for Linux/FreeBSD to a Postfix mail server. It is usable for AVG version 8.5, 10 and 2012. By using AVG Antivirus with your... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 9:19am | Open WebOS 1.0 announced |
| WebOS will be open sourced as of September, HP has announced. Don't throw away your Pre or Pixi just yet!... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 9:11am | Ubuntu 12.04 Is ARM-ing Up For Better Performance |
| As shared on Phoronix in many articles already, Canonical has big plans for Ubuntu in the ARM-space. They are looking forward to making Ubuntu Linux be the first operating sys... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 9:01am | BeagleBone board boots up XBMC Eden, shows off its media prowess |
| BeagleBoard isn't letting the Raspberry Pi steal all the glory in the battle for low-cost computing supremacy. The $35 ARM11-based Pi may win on price, but at least the Beagl... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:24am | "Blackhole" toolkit dominates Web malware attacks, says Sophos |
| According to a new security report from Sophos, "drive-by" download attacks now constitute more than half of malware attacks on Web users. And one drive-... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:13am | Mmmm, how I can taste Unity?? |
| Hi This morning I found a lot of new candies in Contrib, one of these is Unity, I want taste it. I installed the Unity packages but I ave not any idea on how use it, there i... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 8:06am | Ubuntu swaps application menus for HUD control system |
| The Ubuntu operating system is to replace its application menus with a "head-up display" (HUD) box. Users control the HUD interface by typing in the command they want carried ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 6:50am | [$] Robots rampage (in a friendly way) at SCALE 10X |
| "World domination" is a less prevalent theme in Linux and open source discussions these days than it was some time ago, but it still comes up regularly in one field of study... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 6:49am | Unigine OilRush Officially Ships Today For Linux |
| Unigine Corp met their latest deadline and will officially be shipping the gold version of their Unigine OilRush real-time strategy game today for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows gamers.... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 6:30am | HP Releases More Details on the Open Sourcing of webOS |
| This morning, HP gave further details of its contribution of the webOs platform to the open source community. I find these details and the timeline associated with the rele... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 6:24am | AMD Releases Catalyst 12.1 Driver For Linux |
| AMD has unleashed the first Catalyst Linux binary driver update of 2012, but does Catalyst 12.1 bring anything interesting or just more breakage?.. ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 6:13am | LCA 2012 Bruce Perens on Status of Open Source and James Applebaum on Anonymity |
| At the just concluded Linux Conference Australia (LCA 12), open source was under the limelight as some powerful presenters left behind a lot to be thought about. First to make... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 6:13am | LCA 2012 Bruce Perens on Status of Open Source and James Applebaum on Anonymity |
| At the just concluded Linux Conference Australia (LCA 12), open source was under the limelight as some powerful presenters left behind a lot to be thought about. First to make... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 5:56am | Wednesday's security updates |
| CentOS has updated openssl (C5: multiple vulnerabilities), kvm (C5: denial of service and privilege escalation), and kernel (C6: privilege escalation). Debian has updated ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 5:51am | Linux Australia: preaching to the converted isn't enough |
| Last year, in its annual budget, Linux Australia allocated a sum of $5000 for media training. The entire amount was unspent.... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 5:42am | How multilib is done needs changing |
| Initial spec at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/rosa/+spec/rosa-multilib I have it done for x86_64 and i586 (actually, i586 is not affected, tested just to ensure somet... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 5:30am | HP: Open webOS 1.0 arriving in September, Enyo 2.0 framework free to developers today |
| When HP announced last month that it would open-source webOS, the outfit seemed mighty pleased (and relieved) to have finally made a definitive decision regarding the fate o... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 5:04am | Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux patch Linux kernel exploit |
| Canonical, Red Hat, and Arch Linux have released patches that fix a vulnerability in Linux kernels 2.6.39 and above that enable attackers to gain system root access. The distr... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 4:45am | News: Red Hat RHEVS Virtualization |
| New RHEV 3.0 release debuts as Linux adoption continues to grow.... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 4:34am | Case Study: How Small Business PrintedArt Uses Linux and Open Source |
| Sure, Linux is great for big organizations like Google, Facebook, and others, but what about small business? Take a look at PrintedArt. Founded in 2010, PrintedArt is an onl... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 4:00am | Review: Oil Rush |
| Late last year, Anno 2070 tried to explore the post-apocalyptic setting of an Earth flooded by drastically risen sea levels, where Kevin Costner would have to drink his own... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 4:00am | Moving Away from Menus: Is Ubuntu's HUD Change We Can Believe In? |
| Canonical and the Ubuntu folks have taken a lot of risks in the Unity interface that ships with Ubuntu Linux. One of the things that the company has been leading towards is ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 3:57am | Dell Servers Embrace SUSE Linux, But SUSE Studio Is the Real Story |
| Dell’s OEM Solutions division today said it will offer customized SUSE Linux Enterprise servers to customers. But the far more interesting nugget of information for partners... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 3:46am | KDE SC 4.8 Arrives with Enhanced Power Management |
| Version 4.8 of the KDE Software Compilation has been released and includes major changes to the platform and applications and includes new adaptive power management...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 3:22am | TI Ships Linux-Ready DLP Eval Module for Pico Projectors |
| Texas Instruments announced a Linux-based evaluation module featuring the digital light processing technology from its DLP Pico Projectors. The DLP LightCrafter combines an ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 3:17am | Google Has Lost Control Of Android Fragmentation |
| Fragmentation allows variety among device makers, but can cause frustration for developers and lower satisfaction among end users.... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 3:11am | With Clonezilla, Install Once and Clone Forever |
| Linux installation in 2012 is pretty simple – answer a few questions, then click Start and wait. But what if you could eliminate a lot of the waiting? That’s the... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 3:00am | Moving Away from Menus: Is Ubuntu's HUD Change We Can Believe In? |
| Canonical and the Ubuntu folks have taken a lot of risks in the Unity interface that ships with Ubuntu Linux. One of the things that the company has been leading towards is th... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 2:51am | KDE 4.8 Released |
| The KDE project has announced the release of KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and KDE Platform 4.8. "KDE applications released today include Dolphin with its new... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 2:37am | Orion: A New, Clear GTK 2/3 Theme |
| Orion is a new, clear GTK3 theme created by Satya, who's also behind other beautiful GTK and GNOME Shell / Cinnamon themes like Evolve, Shine, Minty, Ambiance Blue and others.... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 2:11am | On the Topics of Software, Average Users and User Friendliness |
| Pro-Linux, on the desktop, people often make claims on why it Linux ready for this "average user" (shoot even I've done it on occasion). There are also those who feel Linux sh... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 2:10am | Using Plop Boot Manager for USB Boot |
| Portability is a huge advantage that Linux enjoys over most other desktop operating systems as most major distros work very well when installed to a flash drive. However, th... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 2:07am | NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux |
| A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch... And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fa... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 2:00am | GhostBSD 2.5 Available with GNOME or LXDE |
| Version 2.5 of GhostBSD is based on the recent 9.0 release of FreeBSD and, for the first time, is available with the lightweight LXDE desktop in addition to the standard GNOME version...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 1:14am | Explore large files with Rowscope |
| Sometimes it happen that: for mistakes, because you don’t rotate your logs or perhaps they growth up really quickly, that you need to analyse a large file ([he]gt[/he] 1GB) ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 1:07am | NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux |
| A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch... And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 1:01am | ALSA 1.0.25 Is Out With Many Linux Audio Changes |
| ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, last saw a major update in February of 2011. That changed this morning when ALSA 1.0.25 was released, which is a big feature release... ... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 12:23am | Will Linux Users Ever Be Able to Ditch Microsoft Office? |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed We all have dirty secrets. Mine is this: Although I run Linux exclusively on all of my computers, I still use Microsoft Office. Why? Because LibreOffice -- even if it's throug... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 12:17am | Google Plays the Long Game with ChromeOS |
| Google is betting that slow and steady will prove a winning strategy for its ChromeOS platform, and is reporting some successes for the system in the education sector.…...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 12:16am | Linux and Windows network commands: a comparison |
| Although familiar networking utities like [b]ping[/b], [b]netstat[/b], and [b]nslookup[/b] are available on both Linux and Windows, their respective command switches vary grea... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 12:01am | ALSA 1.0.25 Is Out With Many Linux Audio Changes |
| ALSA, the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, last saw a major update in February of 2011. That changed this morning when ALSA 1.0.25 was released, which is a big feature release...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 12:00am | UK2′s new VPN is a notch above your average secure, remote Internet connection |
| UK2, probably best known for its Web hosting and domain registration services has now released a Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution that anyone can install on their Windows, Mac OS...... more | |
| Jan 26 2012 12:00am | Fotowall Has a Sharp Eye for Sweet Collages |
| Eye candy can be a great user experience sweetener, but tastes vary widely as to how much is just enough, and it's one differentiator among Linux desktops. Fotowall is a handy... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 11:34pm | Going Over The Good & Bad For UEFI On Linux |
| Another one of the interesting talks that was recorded from Linux.Conf.Au in Ballarat, Australia last week was the presentation by Matthew Garrett. He went over the good and b... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 10:22pm | Why Don't Other Linux Distros Use Unity? |
| Last week I wrote about spinoffs of Ubuntu, noting that some of the once popular ones have now gone dormant. But later, I realized something else interesting: No Ubuntu varian... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 7:40pm | Status of Ubuntu for ARM Laptops and Servers |
| David Mandala, Manager of the ARM Team at Canonical talks about the status of Ubuntu Linux on ARM Laptops and Servers, and about their plans for Ubuntu on ARM until 2014 and beyond...... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 6:43pm | Spain’s Extremadura Moves 40,000 PCs to Linux |
| Teodomiro Cayetano López, Extremadura's CIO (Chief Information Officer), confirmed on January 23rd that the administration of Spain’s autonomous region will move all their ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 6:36pm | Linux Australia: preaching to the converted isn't enough |
| Last year, in its annual budget, Linux Australia allocated a sum of $5000 for media training. The entire amount was unspent.... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 6:36pm | Linux Australia: preaching to the converted isn't enough |
| Last year, in its annual budget, Linux Australia allocated a sum of $5000 for media training. The entire amount was unspent.... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 6:36pm | Linux Australia: preaching to the converted isn't enough |
| Last year, in its annual budget, Linux Australia allocated a sum of $5000 for media training. The entire amount was unspent. The allocation (PDF) provides an interesting ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 5:00pm | Unigine OilRush Officially Ships Today For Linux |
| Unigine Corp met their latest deadline and will officially be shipping the gold version of their Unigine OilRush real-time strategy game today for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows gamers. ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 4:51pm | Canberra to host 2013 Linux conference |
| Rather fittingly, given that it will celebrate its 100th birthday next year, the Australian capital, Canberra, will host the 14th national Linux conference in January 2013.... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 4:51pm | Canberra to host 2013 Linux conference |
| Rather fittingly, given that it will celebrate its 100th birthday next year, the Australian capital, Canberra, will host the 14th national Linux conference in January 2013.... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 2:19pm | Canonical bringing HUD to Ubuntu 12.04, company's assault on menus continues |
| Canonical -- shepherd of the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu -- generally doesn't rock the boat with its LTS releases, but things are going to be different this time around... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:21pm | Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 On Linux With Absinthe |
| Absinthe 0.3, an iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (iOS 5) untethered jailbreak tool, has been released a few days ago and it includes a Linux version too.iOS jailbreaking is a process tha... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:20pm | Untethered Jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Under Linux |
| The Chronic Dev Team has just released a few minutes ago the a new version of their Absinthe jailbreak tool for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 devices, bringing support for the Linux pl... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:11pm | Get Better Looking Qt Applications In Xubuntu 11.10 (XFCE) |
| Qt-based applications like Puddletag, SMPlayer, VLC and many others, look poorly in Xubuntu 11.10 (and probably in other XFCE based Linux distributions too) by default, so her... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 12:33pm | HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI |
| No drop-downs in the futureCanonical has unveiled HUD, which it has billed as the "menu of the future" for its next Linux desktop.…... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 10:04am | 'Cinnamon' GNOME 3 fork now 'fully stable' with version 1.2 |
| The Linux Mint team announced a "fully stable" version of its "Cinnamon" fork of GNOME 3.x. Available for several major Linux distributions, Cinnamon 1.2 is more customizable ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 9:34am | Hack, Slash, Loot - A New Roguelike/Dungeon Crawler Released For Linux |
| Hack, Slash, Loot is a single-player turn-based dungeon crawler Linux. You take control of a lone hero and explore sprawling dungeons, fight dangerous monsters and plunder va... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 8:55am | Email Services: Can Novell Jumpstart GroupWise 2012? |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed When Novell introduced GroupWise 2012 this week, some pundits said nobody cares about the new release. The VAR Guy respectfully disagrees. Perhaps Novell GroupWise 2012 won't ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 8:46am | Desura Goes Open Source With Desurium |
| The Desura gaming client now has an open source brother, called Desurium and hosted on Github, licensed under GPL (GNU Public License) version 3. Detailed instructions about h... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 8:19am | A Rolling-Release Version Of Fedora Is Discussed |
| A discussion erupted this morning among Fedora developers about having a version of Fedora Linux that operates on a rolling-release model similar to Arch Linux, Gentoo, and openSUSE Tumbleweed... ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 7:59am | Ubuntu's Already Making Plans For ARM In 2014, 2015 |
| David Mandala of Canonical talked last week at Linux.Conf.Au 2012 about the history of Ubuntu Linux supporting the ARM architecture, what's coming up for Ubuntu ARM in the 12.... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 7:59am | Dell Servers Embrace SUSE Linux, But SUSE Studio Is Real Story |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed Dell's OEM Solutions division today said it will offer customized SUSE Linux Enterprise servers to customers. But the far more interesting nugget of information for partners i... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 6:24am | Why OEM's Should Avoid Not (possibly) Making It Harder To Install Linux |
| [b]LXer Feature: 24-Jan-2012[/b]There has been a lot of worry lately about windows 8 secure boot making it (possibly) much harder or impossible to install certain Linux's (pos... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 6:09am | Tuesday's security updates |
| CentOS has updated C6: qemu-kvm (code execution). Debian has updated rails (fixes a regression introduced in the previous update) and openssl (denial of service). Fedora has... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 5:19am | Linux / Open Source For Kids: A Feast of Riches |
| Linux and free/open source software are the best computing environments for children because they can get under the hood and learn to control and shape the technology, rather ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 4:32am | HUD's up! Ubuntu creates menu-free GUI |
| No drop-downs in the future Canonical has unveiled HUD, which it has billed as the "menu of the future" for its next Linux desktop.…... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 4:22am | Fighting Rogue Access Points At linux.conf.au |
| An anonymous reader writes "Last week's linux.conf.au saw the return of the rogue access points. These are Wi-Fi access points which bear the same SSID as official conference ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 4:00am | Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p |
| This is the Raspberry Pi board, an ARM based GNU-Linux computer. We’ve heard a little bit about it, but it recently garnered our attention when the machine was shown run... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 3:13am | Ubuntu to feature command line shortcuts |
| Canonical will outfit the next release of its Ubuntu Linux OS with a new type of interface that will allows desktop users to execute functions for any program through a comman... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 3:06am | Looking Back on SCALE 10x |
| A lot of things change in 10 years. Many of the Linux conferences we were going to in 2002 are no longer around, but the Southern California Linux Expo has not only survived... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 2:35am | The state of Chrome OS |
| Google's Chrome OS has been out for a bit more than a year at this point. Does it have the breadth of applications necessary to be a desktop contender?... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 2:00am | Tiny USB Server Runs on Batteries, Streams to iOS, Android Devices |
| HyperShop has begun selling a pocket-size, battery-powered adapter that turns a USB storage device into a wireless file server, sharing files with Wi-Fi-enabled devices incl... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:59am | Mozilla to Crowdsource the State of the Union with Multilingual Subtitles |
| If you haven't tried language translation technology in a few years, it's worth revisiting it. As we covered here, it's become much easier to automate multilingu... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:52am | Optimum use of Nvidia optimum on Linux |
| http://askubuntu.com/questions/36930/how-well-do-laptops-with-nvidia-optimus-work https://launchpad.net/~bumblebee [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:45am | GDB 7.4 Released |
| Version 7.4 of the GDB debugger is out. New features include a Renesas RL78 simulator, a number of Python scripting improvements, several new debugging commands and options, and more.... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:31am | Ubuntu 12.04 To Include Head-Up Display Menus |
| For the first few years of its existence, it would have been fair to say that Canonical was essentially polishing, packaging and publishing Debian Linux (and Gnome) to create ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:26am | Cinnamon Fork Of GNOME Shell Is Tasty At v1.2 |
| Cinnamon, the fork of the GNOME 3.x Shell by Linux Mint developers to make it more like the GNOME2 desktop, is now at version 1.2. This latest stable, major release does bring some tasty changes... ... more | |
| Jan 25 2012 1:09am | XFS Developer Takes Shots At Btrfs, EXT4 |
| Chris Mason of Btrfs fame wasn't the only Linux file-system developer talking to the public last week. While the Btrfs talk was going on in Los Angeles at SCALE 10x, Dave Chin... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 11:00pm | Who Gets a Seat at the Table? |
| The agendas may be inchoate and the uprisings chaotic, but the message is clear: the established way of leading, ruling, governing, and managing is not working anymore.... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 10:52pm | Mozilla releases Rust 0.1, the language that will eventually usurp Firefox’s C++ |
| The Rust language emphasizes concurrency and memory safety, and -- if everything goes to plan -- is ultimately being groomed to replace C++ as Mozilla's compiled language of choice.... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 10:48pm | From Old To New Python GTK |
| I am a pretty terrible programmer. Anyone who has read my code can see that. Unfortunately, I tend to have lots of ideas about how we can use technology in different ways, h... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 10:40pm | Chrome 16 Update Closes Security Holes |
| The Stable channel update addresses a total of four vulnerabilities, all of which are rated as "high severity". The developers also note that a critical hole was fix... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 10:00pm | Preview: Intel's Open-Source Driver Can Beat Mac OS X |
| Thanks to recent advancements by Intel's Open-Source Technology Center, the open-source Linux graphics driver not only supports more OpenGL 3.0 functionality than Apple&... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 8:58pm | NTFS-3G Update Improves Compression |
| The new version of NTFS-3G + Ntfsprogs, the NTFS driver and tool collection accompanying many Linux distributions, includes a number of small improvements...... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 8:57pm | Mandriva's Financial Decision Delayed Again |
| Mandriva's decision on whether to accept an acquisition offer or go into bankruptcy is deferred again...... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 8:33pm | Cinnamon Fork of GNOME Shell Gets Stable Release |
| Version 1.2 of Cinnamon, the Linux Mint project's fork of the GNOME Shell, has been released and the APIs and desktop interface have been declared fully stable...... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 7:32pm | Spanish Extremadura Moving 40,000 Desktops To Linux |
| jrepin writes with this quote from a post at the European Commission's JoinUp site: "The administration of Spain's autonomous region of Extremadura is moving to a complete ope... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 6:00pm | Preview: Intel's Open-Source Driver Can Beat Mac OS X |
| Thanks to recent advancements by Intel's Open-Source Technology Center, the open-source Linux graphics driver not only supports more OpenGL 3.0 functionality than Apple's Inte... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 4:30pm | From The Tips Box: Windows Explorer Sorting, Linux Package Managers |
| Readers offer their best tips for sorting files in Windows Explorer, managing gift card balances, and speeding through Linux installations. Every day we receive boatloads of ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 2:17pm | KDE vs. Windows 7 |
| Can a free Linux desktop actually rival Windows 7?... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 1:00pm | Feature: Is Lion Server suitable for home use? Ars investigates |
| Jorge Herskovic, a member of our community, wrote up a detailed account of his own experience working with OS X Lion Server for the benefit of our Mac... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 11:31am | [ANNOUNCE] Kernel v3.2.1-2.1 (cooker only) |
| Hello, A new release is available since yesterday night, that contains one and only one fix which addresses the already famous exploit regarding /proc/<pid>/mem write permission checking. ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 10:36am | xmlrpc-c libraries |
| Hi, guys. I'm trying add to mandriva opennebula http://opennebula.org/about:about *OpenNebula.org is an open-source project aimed at building the industry standard open sourc... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 9:43am | Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available |
| Videos from the recently concluded linux.conf.au in Ballarat have been uploaded to YouTube.... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 8:17am | openSUSE 12.2 Release Schedule |
| A day after Benjaman Brunner's announcement about the end-of-life (EOL) of the openSUSE 11.3 operating system, on January 21st Bryen Yunashko published the release schedule of... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 7:20am | Linux for migrants: Zorin OS |
| Some Linux distributions try to find their own way in arrangement of the user desktop. Take, for example, Ubuntu with Unity. Whatever is your opinion about this Desktop Enviro... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 6:51am | Ubuntu's Already Making Plans For ARM In 2014, 2015 |
| David Mandala of Canonical talked last week at Linux.Conf.Au 2012 about the history of Ubuntu Linux supporting the ARM architecture, what's coming up for Ubuntu ARM in the 12.... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 6:32am | killed |
| https://www.stearnsbank.com/about-stearns/overview.html ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 6:32am | was killed. |
| https://www.stearnsbank.com/about-stearns/overview.html ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 6:32am | Puddletag 1.0 Beta Released With Fixed MusicBrainz and Discogs Tag Sources |
| Puddletag is an audio tag editor for Linux, very similar to the popular Windows application Mp3tag.The MusicBrainz and Discogs music tag sources stopped working in the latest ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 4:13am | Error-Fixing Btrfs FSCK Tool Is Imminent |
| An fsck utility capable of fixing problems on the Btrfs file-system is imminent. Plus other features continue to be worked on for this next-generation, open-source Linux file-system... ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 4:00am | A Broad Look at Hugin |
| The release notes for Hugin's latest update begin with the words "Hugin is more than just a panorama stitcher." That's been true for years, but only recently... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 1:49am | Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem Write (zx2c4) |
| The "zx2c4" weblog has a detailed writeup of a local root vulnerability in /proc introduced in 2.6.39 and just fixed on January 17. "In 2.6.39, the protections against u... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 1:37am | Manage Your PDF Documents With Mendeley |
| Mendeley is a free to use, cross-platform PDF organizer with some extra features that make document management and research easier:Reference manager (generate citations and bi... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 1:08am | Why Don’t Other Linux Distros Use Unity? A Few Thoughts |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed Last week I wrote about spinoffs of Ubuntu, noting that some of the once popular ones have now gone dormant. But later, I realized something else interesting: No Ubuntu varian... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 1:04am | TLWIR 31: Using Linux and Free Software to Bring Back American Innovation |
| Free Software is mainly about innovation. Free Software engineers find radical new ways of solving old problems. In doing so, they teach those whose minds have ossified how to... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 1:00am | Jailbreakers Finally Crack iPhone 4S, iPad 2 with iOS 5.01 |
Source: The VAR Guy more from feed Tom and Jerry would be proud. The cat-and-mouse game between Apple and jailbreak hackers just went another round, with Apple's only two A5-devices getting a jailbreak for iOS ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 12:30am | Roadmap For openSUSE 12.2: Summer 2012 Release |
| A road-map has been published for openSUSE 12.2, which puts this next release out for official availability in July...... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 12:18am | *Creating a Native Feeling on Mac OS X, Linux* |
| This is a call out for help on creating a consistent and native feeling on Mac OS X and Linux. As I have never owned a Mac and haven't used Linux as my main OS for over 3 year... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 12:04am | RedHat Cluster Suite And Conga - Linux Clustering |
| This how to describes an easy step by step installation of the RedHat Cluster Suite on three CentOS nodes and how to prepare them as nodes of a cluster. You will also install ... more | |
| Jan 24 2012 12:00am | Windows 8 Secure Boot - or How Microsoft Is Riling Up the Linux Masses |
| What a difference a week makes. It was just the other day that Linux bloggers were celebrating the news from researcher Net Applications that desktop Linux had surged in popul... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 11:30pm | Desura Game Client Is Now Open-Source |
| Desura, the Steam-like game distribution service that came natively to Linux last year, is now open-source...... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 11:00pm | Plans For X.Org, Wayland At FOSDEM 2012 Are Drawn |
| Besides formally announcing an open-source, reverse-engineered ARM graphics driver, there's lots of pother interesting X.Org / Wayland related talks happening in two wee... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 10:30pm | openSUSE 11.3 EOL’ed, 12.2 On The Way! |
| As Benjaman Brunner announced yesterday, openSUSE 11.3 has reached end of life. As a quick refresher, openSUSE releases new versions every 8 months, and each version h... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 10:00pm | VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 4.1 On A Headless Ubuntu 11.10 Server |
| This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machin... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 9:54pm | Linux for migrants: Zorin OS |
| Some Linux distributions try to find their own way in arrangement of the user desktop. Take, for example, Ubuntu with Unity. Whatever is your opinion about this Desktop Enviro... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 9:30pm | Where The Linux 3.3 Kernel Will Come Up Short |
| While there's a lot of improvements in the Linux 3.3 kernel, it's not perfect. Here's some of what's unfortunately missing from this forthcoming kernel...... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 9:00pm | Hacking On Accomplishments |
| A little while back I blogged about an accomplishments system that Stuart Langridge and I designed when he came to visit a while back. The idea was simple: a de-centralized ... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 8:00pm | DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 440 |
| This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Let's talk tiny - Tiny Core Linux 4.2 News: Mandriva and Pardus status update, Fedora packages, Gentoo zero-day packaging, Bodhi's Bl... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 5:03pm | Life-giving software should be open: GNOME Foundation chief |
| Software that controls vital human functions should always be open source, else it could prove to be a danger to one's existence, the executive director of the GNOME Foundatio... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 4:00pm | Vote for the 2011 People's Choice Award |
| It's the time of year when we like to celebrate our community. And as we did last year, we want you to choose your favorite author for the 2011 People's Choice Award... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 4:00pm | When Should Open Source Be Written Into Law? |
| As a systems administrator, I tend to think about source code and computing platform in large numbers. Computers however are getting smaller and more powerful, and the reali... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 4:00pm | NTFS-3G Sees Major Update w/ Faster Compression |
| Tuxera has released a new community version of their NTFS-3G FUSE file-system implementation. This new release packs some new features...... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 3:45pm | Locking down Linux.conf.au |
| Conference organisers zero in on rogue wireless access points.... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 3:45pm | Locking down Linux.conf.au |
| Conference organisers zero in on rogue wireless access points.... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 3:04pm | Kernel security vulnerable |
| We have a vulnerable for all kernel up 2.6.39 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-0056 It's important problem! Many distros fix it allready (or fix tomorrow... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 2:58pm | kernel-rt 3.2-rt10 |
| Hi all! I have updated kernel-rt in cooker, and it is already available in contrib/release. I will be grateful for testing it, especially with RT applications (like JACK). I ... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 2:00pm | Watch Lifehacker’s LCA2012 Presentation Video |
| We’ve already published the whole presentation, but if you want to see the live-as-it-happened-with-bonus-questions speech I gave at Linux.conf.au in Ballarat last week,... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 12:39pm | Why Facebook Is Never Safe |
| Hacker, former Wikileaks volunteer, Tor developer and activist Jacob Appelbaum has been in Australia to attend the LCA open-source software conference in Ballarat. He also sp... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 11:47am | Reading Material |
| This photograph is not free. This photograph is free.Speaking of photos, here are 60 completely unusable stock photos.Hope this blog keeps up: 1000 Tiny Thing I Hate.When you ... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 11:11am | XBMC May Soon Run On Top Of Wayland |
| The XBMC media player may soon be supported to run directly atop the Linux KMS interfaces as well as the Wayland Display Server... ... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 9:31am | FYI: rpmbuild gets slightly stricter, files listed twice now terminates build |
| It's not uncommon that people accidentally list files more than once in packages, the most common undesired result of this is that directories gets owned by packages they're n... more | |
| Jan 23 2012 7:49am | Some time-saving tips that every Linux user should know |
| Here is a selection of command-line tips that I’ve found useful when working on Linux. The emphasis is on somewhat less-known techniques that are generally important or usef... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 11:48pm | Linux Apps for Common Tasks: Updated 2012-01 |
| The purpose of this page is to introduce people new to linux to some programs I use for common tasks on my computer (sorry, no games). I include a list of programs to install ... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 7:02pm | Windows 8 Might Block Linux From Loading |
| Back in October 2011, the Free Software Foundation speculated on the possibility that Microsoft might be trying to block out other operating systems from loading within a comp... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 4:44pm | Desura Linux Game Client Goes Open Source |
| An anonymous reader writes "The Desura game distribution client for Windows and Linux and developed by ModDB is now open source software. The open source version of the client... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 4:10pm | BTRFS in 2012? |
| If BTRFS is used by default on boxes, then file system snapshots insturmented in RPM's (or URPMI's) state machines become possible. (aside) There's a closely related usage ca... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 4:10pm | Kernel Log: Linux 3.3 goes into testing |
| Linux 3.3 can change the size of ext4 filesystems faster and supports ACPI 5.0, LPAE for ARM processors, Ethernet teaming and hot replace for software RAID. Meanwhile, Linux 3... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 12:32pm | A Book Review of The Linux Command Line: A Complete Introduction |
| Face it. Linux may never succeed as a desktop operating system and may have to "settle" for being the king of the server and embedded device markets. But is that such a bad th... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 11:35am | An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver |
| There is some exciting news to break today on Phoronix... Coming up at FOSDEM (the Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting in Brussels) will be the formal announcement o... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 10:38am | Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 183 |
| Welcome to the 183rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 9:24am | Result of first real test with split of runtime glibc 32 bits in a separate package |
| With a glibc package without elf 32 binaries, and gcc libraries also split, what holds removal of the 32 bit libc6 package in a minimal chroot is: # LC_ALL=C rpm -e libc6 ... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 8:48am | Desura Game Client Is Now Open-Source |
| Desura, the Steam-like game distribution service that came natively to Linux last year, is now open-source... ... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 8:31am | Darktable For Open-Source Photography |
| For those less than impressed by Corel releasing some professional-grade Linux photography software earlier this month, Adobe still not providing native Linux clients for thei... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 7:32am | Cooker upgrade still broken |
| I just made a simple test upgrading a cooker chroot a few weeks old, and the problem still happens. For the sake of helping anybody willing to quickly fix it, if you atte... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 6:37am | Desura Game Client Open Sourced As 'Desurium' |
| Desura has been open sourced as Desurium. The code is available under GPL v3. However, all the art and other assets are still owned by Desura. More details should be available... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 6:18am | Where The Linux 3.3 Kernel Will Come Up Short |
| While there's a lot of improvements in the Linux 3.3 kernel, it's not perfect. Here's some of what's unfortunately missing from this forthcoming kernel... ... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 1:28am | Darktable For Open-Source Photography |
| For those less than impressed by Corel releasing some professional-grade Linux photography software earlier this month, Adobe still not providing native Linux clients for thei... more | |
| Jan 22 2012 1:16am | SCALE 10x Kicks Off Today In Los Angeles |
| The 10th annual Southern California Linux Expo formally begins today in Los Angeles. Here's a preview... ... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 9:20pm | libgtk removes flashplayer |
| Hello with the latest libgtk+2.0 version 2.24.8-10 a "provide" seems to be missing, which force a removal of flash player plugin : LC_ALL=C urpmi --test libgtk+2.0_0 The fo... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 5:24pm | NSA releases security-enhanced Android |
| The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released a security-enhanced version of Android based on the hardened SE Linux, featuring stricter access control policies. SE Android ... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 5:18pm | mplayer failing in cooker |
| Hello with the recent player from a few days ago (17 jan 2012), many (all ?) of my videos that were working with the previous r32713.8 (from nov 2011) are not working anymo... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 5:00pm | An Open-Source, Reverse-Engineered Mali GPU Driver |
| There is some exciting news to break today on Phoronix... Coming up at FOSDEM (the Free Open-Source Developers' European Meeting in Brussels) will be the formal announcement o... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 2:26pm | 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 1-20-12 |
| This we look at Linux gains in the data center, understanding analytics through Fantasy Football and the gamification of programming -- an approach that just could work with programming geeks.... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 1:29pm | Bumblebee 3.0 Released (Nvidia Optimus GPU Switching For Linux) |
| Nvidia Optimus is a technology available for netbooks, used to increases battery life by switching the dedicated GPU off when it's not needed and then switching it on again wh... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 10:37am | Friday at the Southern California Linux Expo |
| Here's a look at what's coming up on Friday at the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 10X..... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 9:29am | Poettering: systemd for Administrators, Part XII |
| The twelfth installment of systemd for administrators covers securing services. "In this iteration of the series we want to focus on a couple of these security features of sy... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 9:09am | Computing with the command line |
| Here’s something we thought we would never see: computing with just pipes, /dev/zero, and /dev/null. As a thought experiment, [Linus] imagined a null byte represented an... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 8:57am | Weekend Project: Loading Programs Into Arduino |
| In last week's Weekend Project, we learned what the Arduino platform is for, and what supplies and skills we need on our journey to becoming Arduino aces. Today we'l... more | |
| Jan 21 2012 8:28am | Is build node 8 broken? |
| I tried 3 times to build packages for ed 1.6. And all 3 times 32 bit build failed with ------ F: [iurt2] [iurt2] Command failed: sudo chroot /export/home/mandrake//chroot_tm... more | |
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