Showing all newswire headlines

We're going to set up a free, full-featured mail server on Gentoo Linux, all mail service related components are free and open source, and you own all data. The installation process is extremly easy and smooth.

This week look at identity management trends, what programmers should know about SEO and test-driven development.

No, I'm not. Because I never left, hihihihi. The title is a clickbait, sure to grab the attention of fanboys. But I do have a serious would-be emotional dilemma slowly building up. Looking back at the percentage of time I spent using Windows in the recent months, I would say it has its parliamentary majority. Mostly because of 3D stuff and games, but partly because I'm tired of hunting for dog **** in the sandbox.

Breaking…

Information has leaked to The Pirate Bay moments ago, which they subsequently leaked to Torrent Freak, that Swedish police are planning to raid the organization possibly within the next 24 hours.

The ranks at The Pirate Bay have learned that the police have already obtained warrants to raid their data facility. If this raid is carried out today, this will mark the second time The Pirate Bay has been unlawfully attacked by authorities influenced by Sweden’s most influential and affluent lobbyists.

ReText is a text editor for Markdown syntax and reStructuredText (reST) that supports exporting to some popular formats such as PDF, ODT, HTML and plain text. It supports live previews, web pages generator, HTML syntax highlighting, full-screen mode for distraction free writing, can export files to Google Docs and more.

As any developer can tell you, translating your software into different languages can be a pain. Even if you manage to track down willing volunteer translators for all the different languages you want your program to be in, you still need to work with people who you may end up having trouble communicating with.

About two weeks ago I interrupted my current cybersecurity thriller series to post an essay I titled "Intermission: The High Cost of Free." That post generated some interesting responses, some appearing as public comments and others arriving by email.  Two struck me as being particularly relevant to this series, because they suggest the goal posts between which the future of writing and publishing is likely to lie.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the availability of Fedora Remix for the low priced SoC, their recommended distro for the system...

As announced a earlier today, March 9th, the final release of the Linux Mint 12 LXDE operating system is now available for download on mirrors worldwide.

The Ubuntu Desktop, lacking the technology and innovation of the iPad, is loosing ground in the race for a common desktop. This article provides three reasons the iPad is dominating and why Apple is making money while Canonical is struggling.

Aside from a few minor annoyances that have popped up, it has not changed in its year's hiatus, which is a great thing.

Ray Ozzie, the man who succeeded Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp's tech visionary, believes the world has moved past the personal computer, potentially leaving behind the world's largest software company. The PC, which was Microsoft's foundation and still determines the company's financial performance, has been nudged aside by powerful phones and tablets running Apple Inc and Google Inc software, the former Microsoft executive said.

Nathan Myhrvold, the Microsoft veteran who founded the patent-trolling giant Intellectual Ventures, loves to complain about the "culture of intentionally infringing patents" in the software industry. "You have a set of people who are used to getting something for free," he told Business Week in 2006. Myhrvold is right that patent infringement is rampant among software firms. But in demanding that this infringement stop, Myhrvold isn't just declaring war on what he regards as Silicon Valley's patent-hostile culture. He's declaring war on the laws of mathematics. The legal research required for all software-producing firms to stop infringing patents would cost more than the entire revenue of the software industry. Even if firms were willing to pay the bill, there simply aren't enough patent lawyers to do the work. Firms infringe software patents because they don't have any other choice.

An enhanced file lens for Unity is now available for testing. A must read for Ubuntu 12.04 Beta users eager to polish Ubuntu 12.04. The new file lens now lets you search all files on your hard disk re...

Sometimes, we have little tips and tricks that make life easier – but don't quite take up a full article. So today I've bundled a few practices that many Linux.com readers might find helpful. You'll learn how to control window behavior in KDE4, and make Nepomuk and Strigi be useful; and remove those silly proprietary U3 partitions from USB sticks.

For Linux desktop users, there are plenty of graphics programs from which to choose.

Airtime is the GPLv3 broadcast software for scheduling and remote station management. It supports both soundcard output to a transmitter, and direct streaming to an Icecast or SHOUTcast server. Web browser access to the station's media archive, multi-file upload and automatic metadata import features are coupled with a collaborative on-line scheduling calendar and playlist management. The scheduling calendar is managed through an easy-to-use interface and triggers playout with sub-second precision.

Read the tutorial at Free Software Magazine.

In June of last year Phoronix delivered the news that the Skype protocol was reverse-engineered and that there was already a working open-source code example for interfacing with Skype to send messages. While it seemed promising at first for potentially resulting in an open-source Skype client, the Microsoft-owned Skype vowed to take action. In the end they did go after the open-source / reverse-engineering work and now it looks like the project is dead, or at least terminally dormant...

PENNY-PINCHING landlords had better watch out. Their tenants could soon be armed with thermal flashlights that capture a colourful - and possibly incriminating - portrait of a room's temperature. The device comes from the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science, a non-profit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that develops open-source tools to allow ordinary people to investigate environmental issues. A PLOTS team is working with a school-run project in Harlem, New York, to help tackle landlords who offer poorly heated apartments.

Do you like dancing, singing, playing guitar, piano..? Performous is an opensource software that make you improve your skills and have fun at the same time. No special hardware required, you may play guitar on your PC keyboard, sing on your laptop microphone and so on.