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The Fedora Project proudly announced a few minutes ago, February 28th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Alpha version of the upcoming Fedora 17 operating system, due for release in May 2012.

Specifications revealed for the tiny computer that runs Ubuntu and Android 4.0...

Subversion (svn) is an open-source version control system (VCS), used in the development of many software projects. This tutorial shows how to install Subversion on Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to allow access to a repository through different protocols: file://, http://, https://, svn://, and svn+ssh://.

Descent|OS 2.1 has been released. Descent|OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution featuring an optimised and modernised GNOME 2 desktop environment.

Barbiarians at the IP gateway Part one The Gated Kingdom guarded by the mobile industry is the last great frontier for Silicon Valley to crack.…

The Mobile World Congress 2012 event takes place these days in Barcelona, Spain, and our hard working team is there to bring you the latest news headlines. Today, February 28th, Canonical made a short demonstration of the Ubuntu TV device for Softpedia (check the video above).

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last night, February 27th, that the eight maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 series is available for download.

Easily one of the best RPG games for Linux and winner of Roguelike of the Year Award 2011, Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME) has just been updated to Beta 38. ToME is an open-source, single-player, tactical role-playing roguelike and action game set in the world of Eya. You are an adventurer, looking for old powers, treasure and glory. You boldly go in lost and forgotten places, untamed forests and sealed ruins.

Apache Pig is a high-level procedural language for querying large semi-structured data sets using Hadoop and the MapReduce Platform. Pig simplifies the use of Hadoop by allowing SQL-like queries to a distributed dataset. Explore the language behind Pig and discover its use in a simple Hadoop cluster.

LXer Feature: 28-Feb-2012

If you have been using Ubuntu for several releases now, you know the time you had to spend on your computer on the installation day, e.g to configure different nuisances, install your work software, your favorite stuff etc. One such thing is multimedia support, sometimes networking issues, graphics issues and so on. If you break your system during that process you either dig deeper into the problem or start over again. Even after installation of Ubuntu, you want certain things Ubuntu ships to not be there. Many times I have had to remove certain default packages to make Ubuntu more to my liking. Today I will show how to create your own custom ubuntu DVD.

At the beginning of this year a DMCA takedown notice was used, almost certainly for the the first time, against an open source project: OpenDDR. Glyn Moody looks at the background to this story and the issues that it raises.

FXI is preparing to launch the Cotton Candy, a tiny computer that looks like a USB thumb drive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a Mali 400MP GPU that allows it to decode high-definition video.

Why get away from Gmail altogether? The company has always been snooping on email and feeding through advertisements based on keywords in the mail. But from March 1, the spying will become over-arching, ostensibly to provide a better customer experience.

Coverity's latest Coverity Scan Open Source Report has found that the quality of open source code is equal to, or even better than that of proprietary software. This is the third open source report from Coverity since it took over producing the report in 2009. The project was originally founded by the US Department of Homeland Security in conjunction with Coverity in 2006. Coverity's conclusion is that the assumption that open source software is of lower quality should not be considered a valid reason for avoiding open source.

For a long time now, Mozilla has been talking up its plans to become a serious player in the mobile operating system and smartphone arenas. We've covered the company's Boot to Gecko platform, an open, web-centric operating environment centered on the Gecko rendering engine, and Mozilla is slated to show off its new app store at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week. Now, Mozilla is in an alliance with Telefonica and Qualcomm that could make its smartphone ambitions reality.

Androix-x86 is a project that provides Android support for x86, making it easy to install it on netbooks or laptops. You can use it like any other Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwitch device: install applications from the Android Market, add widgets and so on.

Terrible Linux 0.0.1is released. Terrible Linux is a distribution featuring the Xfce desktop and a classic desktop interface. Based on Debian's testing branch. Terrible Linux 0.0.1 Screenshot Tour

While this weekend saw the release of the Linux 3.3-rc5 kernel, which Linus Torvalds self-admitted was pretty boring, also hitting the mailing list this past week were new kernel patches to implement auto-sleep and "wake locks" support.

The Ubuntu Stock Quotes Ticker is an Unity Launcher plugin that allows you to search for stock quotes for United States stock markets via the Yahoo! Finance website, directly from the Unity Dash.

Learn from my mistakes as I figure out how to gather forensics data on an ext4 filesystem. One great thing about writing technical articles is that you have a nice collection of documentation you can turn to. I tell people that I probably reference my books and articles more than anyone else, because although I may not always remember specific steps to perform a task, I do always remember whether I wrote about how to do it.