New story! Linux Professional Institute Hosts Exam Labs at SouthEast LinuxFest 2013

  • Linux Professional Institute; By Scott Lamberton (Posted by scottl on May 23, 2013 3:40 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Press Release; Groups: LPI
(Sacramento, CA, USA: May 23, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI: http://www.lpi.org), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at the SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF: http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/) at 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., June 9th at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte, NC. In addition, during SELF, Darrell Flewell, LPI CFO, will deliver a presentation on "Preparing For A Fantastic Career In Linux and Open Source" at 2:45 p.m., Saturday, June 8th in the Linode room of the Blake Hotel.

New story! ProjectLibre edges in on Microsoft Project dominance

ProjectLibre is an open source project management solution ready to give Microsoft Project a run for their money.

New story! Linux-friendly SBC suits display apps on trains, planes, buses

Fedora and the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology released an optimized Fedora 18 Remix for the Raspberry Pi, and unveiled a new name for the remix. “Pidora 18,” based on a new build of Fedora optimized for ARMv6, features speedier performance and includes packages from the Fedora 18 package set, says the Pidora project team.

New story! Designing Electronics with Linux

In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing is completely new. It may be so new that there isn't even any instrumentation available to make your experimental measurements. In those cases, you have no choice but to design and build your own measuring devices.

New story! Use Freeradius and perform Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting to connect and use a network service

  • linuxdrops.com; By Ryan Harris (Posted by geekdeekhsi on May 23, 2013 11:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
FreeRADIUS is the most popular open source RADIUS server and the most widely deployed RADIUS server in the world. It supports all common authentication protocols. It is the basis for many commercial RADIUS products and services, such as embedded systems, RADIUS appliances that support Network Access Control, and WiMAX

New story! Mageia 3 KDE Review: Simple, refined, elegant and fantastic!

For me, the release of Mageia 3 was one of the most anticipated releases of the first half in 2013, after Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Raring Ringtail. The release announcement of Mageia 3 promises of absolutely the very latest version of Linux kernel and applications, another reason for me to test Mageia's to ascertain it's stability.

New story! The Cheapskate's Corner (May 22nd - 29th) Linux games on sale

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By muntdefems (Posted by liamdawe on May 23, 2013 9:57 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
It's time for another weekly roundup of all the bundles and sales involving Linux games, it's time to gather around... The Cheapskate's Corner!

New story! How to use bc, the calculator tool

  • Linux and Life (Posted by annamese on May 23, 2013 9:00 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
You can do calculation stuffs easily with bash on the command line, however it isnt very intuitive. Bash still works well with some simple calculations but in case you want to perform more complicated calculations, this may become a real hassle. And that is why bc is a better tool for you to perform calculating on the command line. The tool bc can do much more than bash for you and its syntax is ways easier.

New story! OpenRA RTS Engine Releases 20130514

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on May 23, 2013 8:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
The team behind OpenRA has published a new official release of their game, which includes mods that 'recreate' Tiberian Dawn, Red Alert 1 and Dune 2000.

New story! GNU/Linux Is Important After All

If I was the type to have heroes, Richard Stallman would be near the top of my list, not far below John Lennon and Abbie Hoffman, and way out ahead of Tom Hayden or the several-times-over reinvented Bob Dylan, though the freewheeling Bob Dylan who took it down Highway 61 will always be near the top of the list.

New story! SFTP Jail (chroot) with Active Directory authentication

How-To secure SFTP using chroot with AD authentication restricting by Group as well as having a public area for users.

New story! Google I/O 2013: Voice Search on the Desktop Using Google

  • Linux Advocates; By Dietrich Schmitz (Posted by Dietrich on May 23, 2013 5:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz reviews the newest piece of technology to come out of Google I/O 2013, Google Voice Search. Available today in Chrome 27.

New story! Raspberry Pis Fedora becomes Pidora

Fedora and the Seneca Centre for Development of Open Technology released an optimized Fedora 18 Remix for the Raspberry Pi, and unveiled a new name for the remix. “Pidora 18,” based on a new build of Fedora optimized for ARMv6, features speedier performance and includes packages from the Fedora 18 package set, says the Pidora project team.

New story! Plasma Workspaces 4.11: A long term release

Plasma Workspaces 4.11: A long term release

We are nearing the soft feature freeze for the 4.11 release, and that seemed like a good time to share some news. Plasma Workspaces 4.11 is going to significant for two reasons: It will be the last feature release in the 4.x series of Plasma Workspaces. Feature development will switch fully to the Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 based Plasma Workspaces 2. We will be providing stabilization releases (bug fixes, translation improvements, etc.) for two years for the 4.11 release of KDE Plasma Workspaces.

New story! Pantheon's Drupal Open Source CMS Partner Program

The demand for expertise in open-source programming has come up fairly frequenly in recent months . Now, Pantheon has launched a partner program to connecting Drupal developers with customers that want the open-source content management system (CMS). Here's why.

New story! How to Download and Burn YouTube Videos on a DVD in Linux

  • Layer 3 Networking Blog (Posted by netblue30 on May 23, 2013 1:22 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This is a short tutorial on how to burn YouTube videos on a DVD. It might come in handy if you want to watch them on a big TV, or if you want to send them to friends. Or maybe you published them on YouTube for your small business, and you need to send a copy to a client. There are basically three steps: downloading, converting the video to MPEG format, and building the DVD image. All these steps can be accomplished in Linux with free open-source programs.

New story! Google Chrome updated with conversational features

  • Linux User & Developer; By Rob Zwetsloot (Posted by robzwets on May 23, 2013 12:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Google Chrome features shown at I/O 2013 have begun their deployment into the browser, as Google Chrome now comes with better predictions

New story! Dominions II: The Ascension Wars now available through Desura

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on May 22, 2013 11:28 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
Dominions II: The Ascension Wars is a turn based fantasy game in which you take the role of a pretending god. Each pretender is Lord and Master of one of seventeen cultures, each with its own individual strengths and weaknesses.

New story! When Xubuntu and Debian fail, Fedora it is for HP Pavilion g6-2210us laptop

I’ve spent just about a month with this new HP Pavilion g6-2210us laptop that shipped with Windows 8. That means UEFI and Secure Boot. And new hardware. We all know how difficult Linux can be with new hardware.

New story! Mageia 3 Screenshot Tour

  • Screenshot Directory (Posted by lqsh on May 22, 2013 9:46 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
All grown up and ready to go dancing - Mageia 3 is out. We still can't believe how much fun it is to make Mageia together, and we've been doing it for two and a half years. Major new features: updates to RPM (4.11) and urpmi, which has been given a good turnout and cleanup; Linux kernel 3.8; systemd 195; GRUB is the default boot loader; GRUB 2 is available; revamped package groupings for installation and rpmdrake; KDE 4.10.2, GNOME 3.6, Xfce 4.10; LibreOffice 4.0.3; Steam for Linux.

New story! Mint 15: Today's best Linux desktop (Review)

  • ZDnet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on May 22, 2013 8:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Mint
Mint isn't just an outstanding Linux desktop, it's the best new desktop operating system of any kind available now.

New story! High Availability - Real Time Data Replication Across Multiple Nodes using GlusterFS On Centos 6 / RHEL 6

GlusterFS is an open source network / cluster filesystem and based on a stackable user space design.In this tutorials we will achieve high availability of storage,

New story! ReKonq Gaining Chrome Extension Support, Still Sponsored By Blue Systems

ReKonq has come a long way since 0.9.2 (May 2012) and with the help of Blue Systems developer Adjam, it is taking baby-steps towards Chrome Extension support.

New story! Rapid development of citizen cyberscience projects on Crowdcrafting.org

  • opensource.com (Posted by bob on May 22, 2013 5:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
We are excited to announce the official launch of Crowdcrafting.org, an open source software platform—powered by our Pybossa technology—for developing and sharing projects that rely on the help of thousands of online volunteers.

New story! Qt 5.1 Launches on Tizen with Standard Look and Feel

Ten days after we said Hello to the world, we're happy to announce Qt for Tizen 1.0 Alpha 1 release containing a mobile-optimized, cross-platform application and user interface development framework.

New story! The best new WIMP desktop today: Linux Mint 15 (Gallery)

  • ZDNet | Linux And Open Source Blog RSS (Posted by bob on May 22, 2013 4:03 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux, Mint; Story Type: News Story
If you want an old-style, hard-working, windows, icons, menus, and pointer desktop, then what you want is Linux Mint 15.

New story! Steven Ovadia: I wiped Windows and never looked back

  • Linux notes from DarkDuck; By DarkDuck (Posted by darkduck on May 22, 2013 3:06 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview; Groups: Linux
This man usually sits in a different seat of the interview room. Many people in the Linux world recognise him as a person who interviewed a lot of high-profile Linux advocates, prophets and journalists. But let me now put him into the interviewee's seat and introduce the man to you. Please meet: Steven Ovadia.

New story! Install HY-D-V1 desktop on Ubuntu 13.04

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on May 22, 2013 2:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
HY-D-V1 Desktop is a new desktop interface built atop GNOME 3 using a combination of Webkit, JavaScript, Python and HTML. It is the desktop environment on Hybryde Fusion, a Linux desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop.

New story! Bitdefender Clueful exposes Android spies

Bitdefender Clueful is designed to warn Android users about apps that put their privacy at risk. Available free of charge, the app checks whether any of a user's installed programs are known to transmit smartphone numbers to advertising networks or cause push-message spam. Clueful establishes this by querying one of BitDefender's servers; it doesn't analyse the apps on the smartphone.

New story! Emmabuntus - The French Revolution

  • Everyday Linux User; By Gary Newell (Posted by gary_newell on May 22, 2013 12:40 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
This week I have had the pleasure of installing, exploring and now reviewing Emmabuntus 2. Based on Xubuntu 12.04, Emmabuntus focuses on ease of installation, use and an abundance of software.

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