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Feb 7 2012
11:58pm
Video: An Interesting Wayland Tech Discussion
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
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?
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Unixmen   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
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*
Source: OSNews   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
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
Source: Netflash   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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]
Source: Gizmodo   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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"
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: OSNews   more from feed
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
Source: OSNews   more from feed
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
Source: OSNews   more from feed
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
Source: OSNews   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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?
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
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
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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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
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
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: iTnews   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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?
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Netflash   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
"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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Unixmen   more from feed
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
Source: Unixmen   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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?
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Engadget   more from feed
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?
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: Netflash   more from feed
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
Source: Unixmen   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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)
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
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
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*
Source: OSNews   more from feed
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
Source: iTnews   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
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
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
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
Jan 21 2012
7:55am
Download Linux Kernel 3.3 RC1 Now
Linus Torvalds announced last evening, January 19th, that the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.3 is available for download and testing.... more
Jan 21 2012
7:01am
[$] XFS: the filesystem of the future?
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
Linux has a lot of filesystems, but two of them (ext4 and btrfs) tend to get most of the attention. In his 2012 linux.conf.au talk, XFS developer Dave Chinner served notice t... more
Jan 21 2012
5:59am
Mutter 3.3.4 Released
The Mutter team has announced the release of Mutter 3.3.4.... more
Jan 21 2012
5:30am
The Best Photo Management App For Linux
Linux may not have a ton of super advanced photo managers, but it has a few solid programs, the best of which is easily the near professional-grade digiKam. digiKam Platf... more
Jan 21 2012
5:22am
Responses To The Linux Desktop Security Problem
Just about 24 hours ago I spread the news about a major vulnerability in X.Org / XKB that makes it trivial for anyone with physical access to a Linux-based desktop system to e... more
Jan 21 2012
4:30am
The Best Photo Management App for Linux [Linux App Directory]
Linux may not have a ton of super advanced photo managers, but it has a few solid programs, the best of which is easily the near professional-grade digiKam. ... more
Jan 21 2012
3:59am
Bumblebee 3.0 Released (Nvidia Optimus GPU Switching For Linux)
Nvidia Optimus is a technology available for notebooks, used to increases battery life by switching the dedicated GPU off when it's not needed and then switching it on again w... more
Jan 21 2012
3:21am
Distribution Release: Toorox 01.2012
Jörn Lindau has announced the release of Toorox 01.2012 "GNOME" edition, a Gentoo-based desktop Linux distribution featuring GNOME 3.2.1: "Toorox 01.2012 'GNOME'. A new versi... more
Jan 21 2012
3:16am
How to Access a PostgreSQL Database from Any Language
If you’re a system administrator, chances are you use programs that interface with databases every day. One great advantage of open source software is that you can mod... more
Jan 21 2012
3:02am
Basic Chemistry on the GNOME Desktop
I've realized I've missed out on a huge area of computational science—chemistry. Many packages exist for doing chemistry on your desktop. This article looks at... more
Jan 21 2012
2:21am
Distribution Release: Toorox 01.2012
Jörn Lindau has announced the release of Toorox 01.2012 "GNOME" edition, a Gentoo-based desktop Linux distribution featuring GNOME 3.2.1: "Toorox 01.2012 &#... more
Jan 21 2012
2:13am
Linux Continues to Grow in the Enterprise - Is Anyone Surprised?
From the 'Self-Serving Stats' files...... more
Jan 21 2012
2:02am
Bumblebee Has Tumbleweed For NVIDIA Optimus On Linux
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
Bumblebee 3.0 "Tumbleweed" has been released as an updated (and unofficial) way of handling NVIDIA Optimus technology under Linux... ... more
Jan 21 2012
1:47am
X.org Server Allows Anyone to Unlock Computer
Linux computers running the current version of X.org's X Server can be unlocked using a simple key combination...... more
Jan 21 2012
1:38am
Securely Booting Linux a "Difficult" Proposition
Microsoft has recently changed its requirements for Windows 8 and UEFI Secure Boot, but despite these changes, it appears that a Linux that can be securely booted is still a major challenge...... more
Jan 21 2012
1:35am
This Week’s 9 Most Read Channel News Stories, Jan. 20
The VAR Guy may try to squeeze his way into Candlestick Park this weekend to watch the Giants vs. 49ers. But before our resident blogger begins an alleged cross-country journe... more
Jan 21 2012
1:26am
GNOME Shell 3.2.2 Improves Extensions Support
The bugfix release of the GNOME Shell should make installing and uninstalling Shell Extensions using the extensions.gnome.org site more reliable...... more
Jan 21 2012
1:23am
Mozilla's Anti-Censorship Campaign Reached 40 Million People
From Facebook posts to redirected Wikipedia searches to water cooler conversations, you could hardly miss the many discussions and signposts about the Stop Online Piracy Act... more
Jan 21 2012
12:32am
How To Install Wunderlist In Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04
Wunderlist is a cool task manager (to do list) available for Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, iOS and Android that supports task synchronization, sharing lists with friends and collea... more
Jan 21 2012
12:25am
Xorg 1.11 Vulnerability: Bypass Screen Lockers With A Keyboard Shortcut
A Xorg server vulnerability which makes it possible to kill any screensaver / screen locker using the CTRL + ALT + Multiply (multiply is the "*" character on the Numpad) keybo... more
Jan 21 2012
12:18am
Ubuntu TV is Coming. Will it Find Success Among the Masses?
By now you've probably heard Canonical's big announcement out of CES 2012: Ubuntu is coming to your TV (or so Canonical hopes). But what's received less attention amid all the... more
Jan 20 2012
10:06pm
Poll: Linux's big data guzzling worries melt away
Too bad there's a kernel nerd drought Concerns about using Linux on servers to crunch huge data workloads are evaporating, according a survey.…... more
Jan 20 2012
9:40pm
Raspberry Pi demos Model B computer's AirPlay capabilities (video)
Source: Engadget   more from feed
Just a few days after announcing that production of its Model B Linux computer is underway, Raspberry Pi has now unveiled a preview of what its single board device can do whe... more
Jan 20 2012
8:29pm
Can you DEMAND my name to give me a public link to a free FOSS book?
here is a **Linux website** that demands people's name, phone number and other personal information as a NECESSARY condition to download, as a "Free Offer"... a CC-licensed so... more
Jan 20 2012
6:35pm
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 20 2012
5:38pm
Linux 3.3-rc1 Released, Merge Window Closes
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.3-rc1 kernel on Thursday afternoon that marks the closure of the two-week Linux 3.3 kernel merge window...... more
Jan 20 2012
4:41pm
Entry-level thin client does HD video on dual displays
Devon IT announced a thin client that runs Linux on a 1.3GHz Via Eden processor. The TC5V includes 2GB of RAM, 4GB of flash, gigabit Ethernet, and dual display support via DV... more
Jan 20 2012
3:04pm
Linux Foundation Report Shows Growing Linux Adoption Rates in the Enterprise
New survey shows Linux as the preferred platform for Big Data, virtualization, and cloud computing trends.... more
Jan 20 2012
1:54pm
Responses To The Linux Desktop Security Problem
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
Just about 24 hours ago I spread the news about a major vulnerability in X.Org / XKB that makes it trivial for anyone with physical access to a Linux-based desktop system to e... more
Jan 20 2012
12:02pm
Microsoft takes aim at rootkits, misses
Red Hat, Canonical raise objections at Linux.conf.au.... more
Jan 20 2012
12:02pm
Microsoft takes aim at rootkits, misses
Source: iTnews   more from feed
Red Hat, Canonical raise objections at Linux.conf.au.... more
Jan 20 2012
11:51am
Linux 3.3-rc1 Released, Merge Window Closes
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.3-rc1 kernel on Thursday afternoon that marks the closure of the two-week Linux 3.3 kernel merge window... ... more
Jan 20 2012
7:57am
Complete guide to compiling OpenWRT
Regular reader [MS3FGX] recently wrote a guide to compiling OpenWRT from source. You may be wondering why directions for compiling an open source program warrant this kind of ... more
Jan 20 2012
7:34am
Security updates for Thursday
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
CentOS has updated php (C5: multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated pdns (F16: denial of service) and bugzilla (F15; F16: multiple vulnerabilities). openSUSE has ... more
Jan 20 2012
6:50am
Red Hat Launches Virtualization Marketplace for Partners
Red Hat has launched Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, packed with two partner surprises: First, there's a "central hub" that allows RHEV partners to showcase products and applic... more
Jan 20 2012
6:17am
Linux gains share on enterprise servers -- and desktops, too
Linux jumped to 1.4 percent desktop market share from 0.97 percent in July, according to Net Applications. Meanwhile, a Linux Foundation survey on enterprise Linux says 79.8 p... more
Jan 20 2012
6:12am
Postal And Postal 2 For Linux Now Available On Desura
Fully Updated Linux versions of Postal and Postal 2 has been released on Desura. A Postal 2 Linux demo is also available. The updated build will work on all modern Linux distributions.... more
Jan 20 2012
6:00am
Red Hat: SOPA Threatens Innovation, Economic Growth
SOPA and PIPA in its current state threaten the innovation that drives open source projects.... more
Jan 20 2012
4:18am
Windows 8 hardware rules 'derail user-friendly Linux'
The question of whether Secure Boot technology in UEFI firmware could exclude Linux from PCs running Windows 8 has taken a fresh twist. Red Hat engineer Matthew Garrett, one o... more
Jan 20 2012
3:34am
What Are The Best 10 Linux Desktop Apps?
This weekend, I'm going to be spending some time at the Southeast Linux Expo (SCALE) and presenting at the Linux Beginner Training. I'm doing the Desktops and Applic... more
Jan 20 2012
3:20am
The Meaning of dot slash for Running an Executable in Linux
This is a short article in which the author explains the meaning of ./ which is often used to run executables in the current directory.... more
Jan 20 2012
2:55am
Linux Adopton Trends 2012: A Closer Look
Toyota, Google, Facebook, New York Stock Exchange, Burlington Coat Factory, Amazon.These names represent just a handful of the thousands of large companies using Linux today. ... more
Jan 20 2012
2:00am
Radeon Gallium3D: A Half-Decade Behind Catalyst?
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
What happens when you pull out some vintage computer hardware and run the latest Linux software as well as go back and run some of the oldest software available? Well, in the ... more
Jan 20 2012
1:53am
perl breakage in Cooker mostly resolved
Hi, the most important perl related rebuilds have finished - urpmi is working with 5.14 on my test box with the current packages. Updating now is no longer guaranteed to bre... more
Jan 20 2012
1:00am
The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.2 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3]
This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.2 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel ... more
Jan 20 2012
1:00am
Radeon Gallium3D: A Half-Decade Behind Catalyst?
What happens when you pull out some vintage computer hardware and run the latest Linux software as well as go back and run some of the oldest software available? Well, in th... more
Jan 20 2012
12:41am
Red Hat Releases Third Version of its Enterprise Virtualisation Platform
The management software in RHEV-3, Red Hat's updated virtualisation product family for desktop and server, no longer requires a Windows server...... more
Jan 20 2012
12:34am
Do Fewer Spinoffs Signal a Waning in Ubuntu’s Popularity?
Even if you don't run Linux, chances are good you've heard of Ubuntu. You're probably also familiar with its official cousins: Kubuntu, Xubuntu and the like. But there's anoth... more
Jan 20 2012
12:00am
All Hail Debian, King of the Web Server World
There's nothing like a popularity contest to elicit a wide array of opinions, but recently an example appeared in the Linux blogosphere that seems to be something of an except... more
Jan 19 2012
11:00pm
Linux Foundation Expects More Enterprise Gains in 2012
The Linux Foundation is sharing the results of their latest invitation-only survey of enterprise Linux users. Their last such survey, in August 2010, revealed Linux was gain... more
Jan 19 2012
11:00pm
All Hail Debian, King of the Web Server World
There's nothing like a popularity contest to elicit a wide array of opinions -- particularly those of the opposing kind -- but recently an example appeared in the Linux ... more
Jan 19 2012
10:33pm
Bloathi Linux
One of the Bodhi forum members, Timmy, has put together a remaster of the latest Bodhi ISO image that he has cleverly called"Bloathi Linux"... more
Jan 19 2012
10:31pm
Linux User & Developer issue 109 is out now!
Find out what’s happening in the latest edition of Linux User & Developer magazine. Buy it in all good newsagents or online. Regular readers can subscribe and save 30% ... more
Jan 19 2012
9:41pm
kernel-linus-3.2.1 in 2011
Hi, I tested the kernel-linus-3.2.x on my pc and submit it to 2011/contrib/testing. Please test it and write some sort review. I like submit to 2011. Where to submit: updates or backports? Aleph ... more
Jan 19 2012
8:33pm
Nexenta Raises $21 Million in Funding
The enterprise storage specialist has received $21 million in Series C funding which it says will be used to sustain its growth and global expansion and scale its support...... more
Jan 19 2012
8:24pm
OpenNebula 3.2 Adds Out-of-the-Box VMware Support
A self-service portal, user and group virtual resource management, and other enhancements make up the new release of the open source cloud computing toolkit.... more
Jan 19 2012
8:19pm
Intel NVM Express Driver For Linux 3.3 Kernel
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
Linus Torvalds has been called upon to pull the NVM Express driver into the Linux 3.3 mainline kernel... ... more
Jan 19 2012
8:18pm
Don't update to current cooker
Hi, I've just updated perl to 5.14.2 - this breaks urpm until some related packages have been rebuilt, so it's not a good idea to update right now. I'll send another mail wh... more
Jan 19 2012
8:00pm
The Benefits of a Transparent Publishing Calendar
Why would an editor let go of publishing power and give the master calendar over to a group of trusted people? That sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. But we did it. ... more
Jan 19 2012
7:28pm
Wayland Action Items You Can Start On
Tiago Vignatti, one of the active developers at Intel who's dedicated to the Wayland team, has shared some active TODO list items that for those wishing to contribute can easily jump on...... more
Jan 19 2012
6:44pm
New To Linux: Part 2 – Getting Started With Ubuntu 11.10
Now that the basics are out of the way, and you are ready to dive in to a Linux based operating system let's take a look at Ubuntu [o?'bo?nto?]. The people at Canonical, the c... more
Jan 19 2012
5:47pm
Deprecated Linux network commands and their replacements
Many of the well-known Linux utilities for establishing,testing, and troubleshooting network connectivity are actually deprecated.... more
Jan 19 2012
5:03pm
Decision on Mandriva shutdown delayed
The French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has earned a stay of execution with an "external entity" expressing an interest in acquiring the company, according to the company blog... more
Jan 19 2012
5:03pm
Decision on Mandriva shutdown delayed
The French GNU/Linux company Mandriva has earned a stay of execution with an "external entity" expressing an interest in acquiring the company, according to the company blog... more
Jan 19 2012
1:43pm
Use Minitube To Watch YouTube Videos On Your Desktop (Linux Mint 11)
This article is about how to watch YouTube videos on your desktop with a tool called Minitube. Minitube is a piece of software with a nice GUI that lets you enter keywords int... more
Jan 19 2012
12:30pm
Cheap Tabloid Tricks: The Truth About Linux, Open Source And The Media
Linux and open source technology should be a good news story for everyone. However, the way these topics are presented in the media often leaves enthusiasts unhappy. There is ... more
Jan 19 2012
11:38am
New version of m23 deployment tool available!
The latest version m23 rock 12.1 of the Linux deployment and management tool comes with new configuration options, improved client integration, OSE console, remote administration service and more.... more
Jan 19 2012
11:30am
QtADB Brings Android File Management And App Installation To Your Desktop
Windows/Mac/Linux/Android: If you’ve ever tinkered with your phone, you’ve probably heard of ADB, the command line debug tool for Android. If you’re not in l... more
Jan 19 2012
11:19am
DragonFlyBSD: Desktop is not a target
This blog is called Linux notes from DarkDuck. As you may think from the name, it is dedicated to anything about Linux. And I write about using Linux-based operating systems o... more
Jan 19 2012
10:41am
Freedom for the masses: plug servers from FreedomBox
Proprietary social media platforms are used heavily even by those attending a conference meant for free and open source software users and Bdale Garbee used this fact to kick ... more
Jan 19 2012
10:35am
Red Hat guns for VMware with RHEV 3.0
Linux virtualization – that's Shadowman's home turf Red Hat has built a $1bn company, more or less, predicated on the idea that open source Linux is cheaper than Windows or ... more
Jan 19 2012
10:14am
Will Secure Boot Cripple Linux Compatibility?
MojoMax writes "The advent of Windows 8 is drawing ever nearer and recently we have learned that ARM devices installed with Windows 8 will not be able to disable the UEFI secu... more
Jan 19 2012
8:38am
Berrangé: Building application sandboxes with libvirt, LXC & KVM
Source: LWN.net   more from feed
On his blog, Daniel P. Berrangé writes about a new application sandbox tool that uses libvirt, LXC (Linux Containers), and KVM. It is based on some of the ideas behind the S... more
Jan 19 2012
8:30am
Awesome! High-Altitude Balloon Launch At Linux.conf.au In Ballarat
What’s better than launching a high-altitude balloon into space from Adelaide 20 times? Doing it live from Linux.conf.au in Ballarat. Check out our exclusive video and l... more
Jan 19 2012
8:15am
Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Wednesday Night
Awesome! High-Altitude Balloon Launch At Linux.conf.au In Ballarat Damn, Gus gets all the fun… The Day The LOLcats Died: The Ultimate SOPA Protest Song Why, why are laws... more
Jan 19 2012
7:06am
Cross Compiling nginx-1.0.11
Hi , I want to know how to cross compile nginx-1.0.11. I have already tried : --with-cc option but it is giving me an error : checking for C compiler ... found but is not wo... more
Jan 19 2012
6:52am
ALICE and friends. Artificial Intelligence Reloaded
If you've been following my posts on artificial intelligence (or AI, if you prefer), you may have already spent some time playing with Eliza and consulting with the Emacs Doct... more
Jan 19 2012
5:58am
Another Unigine-Based Linux Game Soon To Alpha
Source: Phoronix   more from feed
Relics of Annorath, a game announced last year, is nearing its alpha release. This forthcoming MMORPG game is built atop the Unigine Engine and will feature a native Linux client... ... more
Jan 19 2012
5:53am
Comparing BlueGriffon and Bluefish: Which Open Source Web Editor is Right For You?
Two major open source Web editors made releases in recent weeks: Bluefish and BlueGriffon. Despite the similarity in names (not to mention the fact that both are designed to... more
Jan 19 2012
4:58am
Another Unigine-Based Linux Game Soon To Alpha
Relics of Annorath, a game announced last year, is nearing its alpha release. This forthcoming MMORPG game is built atop the Unigine Engine and will feature a native Linux client...... more
Jan 19 2012
4:58am
Linux for the 'Longterm'
At any given point in time, there are multiple Linux kernel versions being developed and maintained. This past week, kernel developers outlined what's old and what's new for v... more
Jan 19 2012
4:15am
What I Wish Wikipedia and Others Were Saying About SOPA/PIPA
The SOPA/PIPA blackout today by Wikipedia, Mozilla, WordPress.com and many other sites is (I hope) drawing attention to proposed legislation that is considered a threat to &... more
Jan 19 2012
4:00am
Six Great Desktop Linux Features You May Take for Granted
Maybe it’s just a sign that I’m getting old, but more and more often lately I’ve found myself thinking thoughts like, “Back in my day, Linux didn’t have X, Y and Z. ... more
Jan 19 2012
3:51am
Support for Internet Bill Wanes as Protests Spread
Senator Marco Rubio, Republican of Florida, announced he would no longer back the anti-Internet piracy legislation he had co-sponsored. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republic... more
Jan 19 2012
3:51am
Stable Kernel 3.1.10
Stable kernel 3.1.10 has been released with a pile of important fixes. "This is the LAST release of the 3.1 kernel series, please move to the 3.2 kernel series at this t... more
Jan 19 2012
3:37am
XAA In X.Org Has Finally Met Its Executioner
The XAA 2D acceleration architecture is finally set to be stripped out of X.Org Server 1.13 and upstream open-source X.Org drivers...... more
Jan 19 2012
3:10am
Simple Xymon Monitors Hosts, Services, and Network
This article, Simple Xymon Monitors Hosts, Services, and Network, originally appeared on Wazi, a free source for news, information, and articles on open source software. Wit... more
Jan 19 2012
3:07am
Proposed New Cloud Standard Could Give Amazon Serious Competition
In the cloud computing arena, one of the biggest debates in 2011 surrounded cloud "lock-in," as many businesses and organizations are demanding increased portability... more
Jan 19 2012
3:01am
How To Set Up Multi-Master Replication Using Tungsten And MySQL-Proxy For MySQL High ...
This tutorial is based on my experience setting up Tungsten Replicator and MySQL-Proxy for a client's production setup.... more
Jan 19 2012
2:38am
LG's Honeycomb Tablet Features 4G LTE and an HD Display
LG announced its first tablet equipped with LTE 4G capability, heading first to Korea. Running Android 3.2 on a dual-core, 1.5GHz processor, the Optimus Pad LTE has an 8.9-i... more