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Resize Linux storage with LVM
You need more space on your server/desktop/etc.. This guide will help you add it to the volume you’re currently using on your system. For the sake of making this an easy-to-follow guide, we’ll assume that you already have the new drive showing in your Linux installation from fdisk, but it’s not yet usable (ie: you made it available from shared storage, you installed a new harddrive, etc..).
New ATI Video Driver Supports Ubuntu 11.10
AMD proudly announced last night, January 25th, the immediate availability for download of the AMD Catalyst 12.1 video driver for Linux platforms, brining production support for the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.
Best GarageBand-like Apps For Android
If you’re one of those aspiring musicians lacking a full-fledged band, an app like GarageBand is a blessing in disguise. And though the application is only available for iOS, Android users don’t have to go green with envy yet. Our very own Android has a good repertoire of GarageBand-like apps, some of which are even free.
Ubuntu 12.04 Adds Launcher Customization
I started using Ubuntu 12.04 on my main PC a couple of days ago to keep an eye on the upcoming changes and today I noticed two major changes silently added to the 'User Interface' settings option. One of my grips with Unity was the lack of any customization of Launcher's size and position. I also wanted the launcher to stay visible all the time so that I don't have to wait for it to appear. Two changes have landed on Ubuntu 12.04 daily builds that address my problem.
Ubuntu TV vs. Google TV: Battle of the Linux-based Smart TVs
Google TV, despite being launched and relaunched with much pomp and expectations, has not quite managed to reach the market it intended to. In fact, it wouldn’t be wrong to proclaim that the foray of Internet on our television screens previously has been an utter failure. And this, you see, is despite the fact that there are giants like Apple and Google scampering for the top spot.
When Metadata Comes to Twitter
Social media needs more metadata to be truly useful. Some of the most exciting innovations in this space will take place with free and open source software -- at the edge.
Dualbooting Windows 7 And Linux Mint 12
Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every other.
Linux Professional Institute Joins the Linux Foundation
(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 26, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that it had become a member of the Linux Foundation (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/).
Working Prototype Shown For New Linux Based Gaming Handheld 'GameGadget', To Be Released In March
GameGadget is a new Linux based gaming handheld developed by Blaze Europe. It will support both open source and proprietary games and games/apps will be distributed though its own app store. GameGadget will provide all the tools to help developers create their own games. Open source and cross compiling libraries like SDL can be used. Developers will also be able to port their existing games with its SDK.
Thunderbird 9.0 Officially Lands in Ubuntu 11.10
After the official upgrade to Firefox 9 in Ubuntu 11.10 at the beginning of the month, Canonical announced on January 24th that the Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system.
VIA Shows Us Next-Gen Hardware Results, Info
The S3 Chrome 600 series / VIA VT3456 (VX11) still hasn't been officially announced, but here are some benchmarks of the forthcoming chipset from a VIA Nano quad-core system...
KDE Software Compilation 4.8 Officially Released
KDE e.V. and the developers behind the KDE project has proudly announced a few minutes ago, January 25th, the final and stable release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.
TI ships Linux-ready DLP eval module for pico projectors
Texas Instruments announced a Linux-based evaluation module featuring the digital light processing technology from its DLP Pico Projectors. The DLP LightCrafter combines an ARM9-based, 300MHz DaVinci TMS320DM365 processor, a 20-lumen RGB LED light engine and projector, as well as TI's 0.3-inch, WVGA DLP chipset, enabling up to 4000 binary patterns per second, says TI....
Martin Odersky on Scala
Dr Dobb's talks with Martin Odersky, designer of the Scala Language, about the latest developments and directions in this increasingly popular language.
This week at LWN: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source
Bruce Perens wore a suit and tie for his linux.conf.au 2012 keynote for a reason, he said: it reflects our community's need to think more about how it appears to the rest of the world. Despite our many successes, he said, we have failed to achieve the goals that our community set for itself many years ago. We have failed to engage and educate our users, and are finding ourselves pulled into an increasingly constrained world. To get out of this mess, we will have to make some changes - and expand our scope beyond software and culture.
Did Linus Jump the Gun on a Kernel security fix?
"On January 17th, Linus Torvalds committed a patch to the mainline Linux kernel for a memory handling flaw. As it turns out the flaw was exploited quickly once Torvalds put out the patch with a proof of concept emerging rapidly.
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NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux
A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch... And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fate of this multi-GPU notebook feature could now fall with the Linux kernel developers...
KDE 4.8 Released, New Features And Improvements
The KDE project has announced the release of KDE 4.8 which provides major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform.
Graphics hardware in $25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU
The board is built around the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset, which is designed to handle intensive multimedia. In a recent interview, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton claimed that the Broadcom graphics hardware in the Raspberry Pi offers twice the performance of the iPhone 4S GPU and soundly beats NVIDIA's Tegra 2. Upton worked for Broadcom on the team that developed the hardware.
HP publishes webOS Enyo framework under open source Apache license
HP has published the code of Enyo, the underlying JavaScript framework of the webOS platform. It is available from a public repository on GitHub. Enyo 2 is lightweight (at the time of this writing, roughly 13k gzipped), easy to digest, and powerful.
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