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Google releases Chrome for Android

  • www.my-guides.net; By axel (Posted by axel on Feb 8, 2012 6:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Google has just released Chrome browser for Android phones and tablets. Unfortunately it's only available for Ice Cream Sandwich. It has some good features though. Take a look at some screenshots and a video.

Intel Is Planning To Drop PowerVR Graphics

There's some more exciting Intel news to report this week that will please plenty of Linux and open-source fans: Intel is planning to drop their use of Imagination Technologies PowerVR graphics within future-generation SoCs...

A Little History of Compiz

Is Compiz dead? I don't really know. Will it ever go away? No. Compiz is still supported by Canonical for Ubuntu, and as long as that remains the case Compiz isn't going anywhere. Has the C++ port had a negative impact on Compiz's userspace? Possibly. Rewrites can and do negatively impact users if they mean long periods without updates. Personally, I think the port opened up development to a wider group of people.

Announcement: RapidDisk Project: New release, web site, and more...

Well, I have a lot of updates to share for this project. First and foremost, I now have a dedicated domain for the project at http://www.rapiddisk.org. This is a Wiki site documenting everything that I can think of relating to the project in a nice and organized manner. This site also includes a bug tracker: http://bugs.rapiddisk.org for bugs, feature requests and or documentation/website errors. I have also decided to use this Google+ Page as the official blog for the project from this point on. Some other changes include...

Linux Mint KDE 12 Review: Your Perfect Desktop

Linux Mint team has done a commendable job with Cinnamon project where they are trying to help those users who are not comfortable with Unity. It's great to see a project putting its users above everything else. Despite being a small team, Linux Mint successfully delivered Gnome+ Cinnamon and has now released a great KDE edition. With Linux Mint KDE you get the best of both worlds. What more can one ask for. Go ahead and give Linux Mint KDE a try, trust me you won't go back.

LibreOffice Math/Formula Editor Examples

I haven't quite made the leap from using LibreOffice as my every day word processor as of yet. Thankfully, LibreOffice comes with a fairly power equation editor - if you know how to use it! The following is my personal cheat sheet for using the editor - enjoy!

Airtime Sourcefabric: Free Open Source Radio Automation Software

Airtime is free open source radio automation software developed by Sourcefabric. It enables you to take the complete control of your radio station via the web. Airtime offers a number of very useful tools like intelligent archive management, powerful search,

Controlling Liquor Loss with Linux

  • NetworkWorld.com; By Rikki Endsley (Posted by rendsley on Feb 8, 2012 12:05 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
What does Linux have to do with the Replay Lounge's success? As it turns out, a lot.

Open Source "UFO: Alien Invasion" developers' interview

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Alex (Posted by liamdawe on Feb 7, 2012 11:08 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview
This time GoL brings you an interview with two lead programmers for the open-source game "UFO: Alien Invasion".

Fuduntu 2012.1 review – lightweight desktop, heavyweight contender

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Russell Barnes (Posted by russb78 on Feb 7, 2012 10:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Now forked from Fedora, Fuduntu has a new release strategy, a subtle facelift and thousands of new packages to choose from…

Red Hat Appoints First Female Fedora Project Leader

  • InternetNews; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by red5 on Feb 7, 2012 9:13 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Fedora
It looks like current Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith will not be overseeing the Beefy Miracle Fedora 17 release. Smith announced leadership changes at the Fedora project today that will see a new leader in place.

Introducing Comice OS 4: Mac-Looking Linux

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 7, 2012 8:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Softpedia is proud to introduce today, February 7th, a new Linux distribution, called Comice OS, which is actually a redesigned version of the Pear OS Linux. Remember Pear OS? It's that Mac OS looking (see screenshots below) Ubuntu-based operating system introduced last year on our Linux section.

Easily Create Impressive Presentations From PDF Files Or Images

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Feb 7, 2012 7:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Impressive is a cross-platform tool to display presentations in a stylish way. The application supports PDF files or a folder containing images and besides beautiful slide transitions, Impressive features some useful presentation tools like: highlight boxes, which can be used to draw attention to a specific part of the slide, spotlight effect which is kind of like a highlight box but dynamic, and a screen overview which you can use to easily select a slide.

Canonical pulls funding on Kubuntu after 7 years

  • Linux User & Developer; By Rob Zwetsloot (Posted by robzwets on Feb 7, 2012 6:22 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Kubuntu 12.04 will be the last release before becoming community supported, and Jonathan Riddell tells the community how they can help

Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?

Microsoft is reportedly killing the Start button in Windows, a staple of Redmond's PC operating system since the landmark Windows 95. Purported screen shots of Windows 8 Consumer Preview are reported to show a Super Bar that extends across the full bottom of the screen minus the Start button orb.

Wait, can they do that? ;-) - Scott

Running Simple Groupware On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Simple Groupware on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Simple Groupware is an open source enterprise groupware that offers email, calendaring, contacts, tasks, document management, project management, synchronization with Outlook and cell phones, full-text search, extensions and many more. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

Xonotic 1.0 Is On The Linux Gaming Horizon

Xonotic, the open-source multi-platform game that succeeded Nexuiz, is finally moving closer to its 1.0 release. Xonotic 1.0 was talked about at FOSDEM 2012 this weekend in Belgium within the open-source game developers' meeting room. Nexuiz was forked as Xonotic by the community in early 2010 following and their first development preview came more than two years ago. Xonotic did a new release a few months ago, but now this DarkPlaces-based game is working towards the stable 1.0 release.

Democrats to continue Internet coup with new cyber bill

  • The Daily Caller; By Josh Peterson (Posted by bob on Feb 7, 2012 2:32 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, following a recent anti-piracy legislative debacle with SOPA and PIPA, will lead his second effort of 2012 to push Internet-regulating legislation, this time in the form of a new cybersecurity bill.

This Week at LWN: Jared Smith steps down as Fedora project leader

One of the things I like most about the Fedora Project is the opportunity for people to move and grow in (and out) of different roles and responsibilities. The position of Fedora Project Leader, in particular, has never been a long-term leadership position, but one that regularly invites new people to assume the role and bring new ideas and new energy to the project.

Canonical Drops Support for Kubuntu

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Feb 7, 2012 1:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Jonathan Riddell sadly announced a few hours ago that Canonical will no longer support his work on the famous Kubuntu operating system, starting with Kubuntu 12.10.

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