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Some of you have asked how to dual-boot Android-X86 4.0 ICS (which uses GRUB legacy) with Ubuntu (GRUB 2), so here's how to do it, including a video showing all the required steps as well as installing Android-X86.

On Sunday marked the release of the 58th point release for the Linux 2.6.32 kernel by Greg Kroah-Hartman. The Linux 2.6.32.58 kernel now marks the passing of this kernel series into its extended-long-term maintenance window...

After quite a long development cycle, which saw MythTV forked into a new project called Torc by one of its lead developers, the upstream MythTV 0.25 release is finally becoming a reality...

These are too many rough edges for the beginners. Anyhow, Chakra Linux 2012.02 is a big improvement from version 2011.04. I hope that development will continue, and eventually the system will be polished and shiny.

Frank closed the back door of his camper behind him and peered carefully around its corner. Only a few cars and pickup trucks shared the lot with him now, one of which must hold the person who was helping himself to Frank’s wireless connection.

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 11.10 server.

ffDiaporama is a multi-platform application for creating videos from photos or movie clips. It supports various transition effects, titles/annotations, music and more.

GNU LilyPond is a free/open-source music typesetting program. This community-driven project brings the aesthetics of traditionally engraved music to computer printouts.

The tablet is called the exciTe 10 LE, and will be available from March 6, just one day from today. The exciTe 10 LE is one sleek piece and the “LE” probably stands for “Lite Edition” because this tablet is just 0.3? thin and weighs a paltry 1.2 lbs.

The new Unity Launcher is a new and very significant part of the desktop environment. After logging into your system the Launcher will automatically appear along the left edge of your screen. The Launcher can be used to store and run all of your favorite applications.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Would you pay a small fee to turn your average HDTV into a smart TV? Always Innovating hopes so. The San Francisco company showed off its HDMI Dongle, which adds Android 4.0 support to non-connected televisions, at this week’s Mobile Web Congress in Barcelona, Spain.

Benoit Jacob of Mozilla is looking at the possibility of using Mesa's LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver as a means of WebGL software rendering within Firefox...

This guide describes how to display Google Calendar events in Ubuntu's Unity without using Evolution.

Much awaited game Mari0 has been released today for Linux. Mari0 is a mashup of Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal style gameplay. The game is completely free and open source.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: In Calligra: Kexi's welcome status bar fetches GUI updates from the server if available; WPS file support; updates and fixes in the text undo/redo framework Improved synchronization view in Lokalize Improvements in C++ and C++11 in KDevelop More configurable tab and window title in Konsole read more

Since the announce Precise Ubuntu Wallpaper Contest on january 23, 2012, and the opening Precise pangolin wallpaper submissions group on flickr.

The Linux 3.3 kernel release might be imminent. In releasing the Linux 3.3-rc6 kernel, which Linus says is just made up of small fixes and clean-ups, he says this could be the last release candidate...

Guayadeque is a Lightweight and fully featured Music Player for Ubuntu and other linux distribution such (Arch linux, gentoo,Mageia and Fedora)

Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application created in 2004 and subsequently acquired by the web portal organisation, Yahoo! Inc. Flickr has a large user base (more than 60 million members) that rely on this storage site to host and share their 6 billion images with family and friends. The application is particularly popular among the blogging community, but faces stiff competition from the likes of Picasa, Facebook, and others.