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Can we make search organic again? Or should we look past search completely?

In this edition, a new hardware add-on board for the Raspberry Pi, using a mini-computer as the heart of a desktop arcade cabinet, and a low-cost ARM-based controller chip

To "celebrate" the launch of Windows 8 just a few days before Halloween, activists from the Free Software Foundation played a little trick and handed out some treats at a launch event in New York City. With a costume-clad "GNU" leading the effort, the FSF representatives handed out DVDs loaded with Trisquel along with FSF stickers and information about the group's new pledge.

In the extremely overcrowded open source marketplace, marketing managers find it difficult to think of innovative ways to raise their brand's visibility. With so many brands jostling for attention, the low signal-to-noise ratio might tempt marketers into adopting an "everything but the kitchen sink" approach, attempting every idea from the marketing playbook in the hope that one will stick. However, this would be a mistake: careful niche marketing offers greater opportunities for brand advancements and market share. Let's see how.

Dot Categories: DeveloperIn this week's KDE Commit-Digest:

In the week ending 3 November - Anroid 4.2 and new Nexus devices, the ext4 filesystem bug was fixed, and Ubuntu drops alpha releases. Also, a look at why the ext4 bug wasn't actually so bad and an interview with the Enlightenment project leader

AutoMySQLBackup is a clever script that takes the pain out of setting up automated incremental daily, weekly, and monthly backups of MySQL databases. Its only dependency is the mysqldumpcommand, which comes with mysql-client. AutoMySQLBackup dumps your databases at whatever intervals you desire, and rolls them up into compressed tarballs. Then you can copy the tarballs to other media, and encrypt them if you wish.

Horcrux is an excellent wrapper around the rsync-based Duplicity, for easily managing automated, encrypted backups to multiple locations.

Telling the time on Linux is more complicated than it might seem at first glance. To start with, the time command on Linux doesn't tell the time:

ownCloud supports integration with external filesystems such as FTP, Webdav, Openstack Swift, and SMB servers, and external cloud services like Amazon S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox. Dropbox integration is one of the most-requested features, and at last this is available in ownCloud 4.5, which is scheduled for its official release this week. You can set up your own personal, private cloud that syncs with Dropbox and then share an entire Dropbox, or selected files, from your ownCloud server.

OwnCloud is the amazing new open source cloud upstart that makes it easy to set up your own private cloud server. This lets you and your employees share files and calendars -- and access the data files from anywhere -- while you maintain control over the server upon which the data resides. This is the cloud implementation to watch because of its ease and user-friendliness.

While Linux has all kinds of powerful and excellent networking utiltities, there are times when you want to see how things look from the outside. Check out this sampling of free websites that test performance, tell you where things are, perform diagnostics and display the results in nice graphs and charts that even a pointy-haired boss can understand.

Yet another change for the Linux 3.7 kernel is that the JFS file-system now supports the SSD TRIM command. The JFS file-system now supports TRIM for informing solid-state disks about blocks of data that are no longer in use and can be wiped internally. There's already been Linux support for the TRIM command on SSDs with EXT4, Btrfs, FAT, XFS, and other file-systems, but now it's come to the aging JFS file-system.

All searches performed through the Dash are sent to Amazon and Canonical: "This by itself is a problem because nobody intends to search Amazon for sensitive personal information. For instance, someone might search for a file with a Social Security number or with a specific text string that is in no way intended to be read by anyone else. They're ostensibly searching through their own local file system, after all, and the thought that by default that search string will be sent out to not one, but two, third parties is extremely disturbing."

With the recent release of GNOME 3.6, developers and distributions are making updated versions of their packages available and applications such as Firefox are getting improved integration into the GNOME desktop

A new feature in the latest nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10 allows the alternative open source ROM for Android devices to update itself with over-the-air updates

With GLX set to be deprecated in the not too distant future and EGL being in use with OpenGL ES on mobile platforms, KDE's KWin compositing window manager now has support for using desktop OpenGL over EGL instead of GLX...

Just before the arrival of their own September deadline, HP's remaining webOS developers have released the first version of the Open webOS mobile operating system

The software developers have released version 14 of the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution, with kernel version 3.2.29. Slackware 14 includes numerous updated components such as the Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5 desktop interfaces

Warning from Microsoft to the entire Internet: make sure that your digital certificates are at least 1024 bits. As of Oct. 9, 2012, longer key lengths are mandatory for all digital encryption certificates that touch Windows systems.