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Introducing the HUD. Say hello to the future of the menu.

The desktop remains central to our everyday work and play, despite all the excitement around tablets, TV’s and phones. So it’s exciting for us to innovate in the desktop too, especially when we find ways to enhance the experience of both heavy “power” users and casual users at the same time. The desktop will be with us for a long time, and for those of us who spend hours every day using a wide diversity of applications, here is some very good news: 12.04 LTS will include the first step in a major new approach to application interfaces.

Linux / Open Source For Kids: A Feast of Riches

Linux and free/open source software are the best computing environments for children because they can get under the hood and learn to control and shape the technology, rather than be trained like lab rats to click buttons and be good little unquestioning consumers. Here is a batch of excellent educational and creative software for children, and for beginners of any age.

Notion Ink's Adam II tablet will move to OMAP 4 chip

Notion Ink says it will switch to a Texas Instruments OMAP 4 processor running Android 4.0 for its next generation Adam II tablet. In other tablet news, Pew Research found the percentage of U.S. adults who own a tablet computer nearly doubled from 10 percent to 19 percent between mid-December and early January, and RBC Capital estimated that Amazon.com will earn $136 in content-related revenue from each Kindle Fire customer....

Fedora 17 Goes On A Diet, But With More Features

Fedora 17, codenamed the Beefy Miracle, has yet another new round of features. One of the items though includes this beefy release having DIET...

Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award: History

  • Dr. Dobb's Articles (Posted by tracyanne on Jan 24, 2012 11:42 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Honoring individuals for contributions to the advancement of software development

Improve Web Site Performance on Apache HTTP

  • Jumping Bean; By Mark Clarke (Posted by mxc on Jan 24, 2012 10:45 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
How to speed up web site performance by using Apache directives to control http cache headers

From Zero to OpenVPN in 30 Minutes

Workers today are more mobile than ever, so providing a secure link to your network for remote workers is crucial. Luckily, it’s also free and easy with OpenVPN. I’ll walk you through the process of setting up an OpenVPN server to authenticate and encrypt multiple client connections in just slightly more time than it takes to read this article.

REMnux 3 review – a treasure chest for the malware-curious

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Koen Vervloesem (Posted by russb78 on Jan 24, 2012 8:49 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Have you received a suspicious PDF or Flash file lately and are you curious about the malware it contains? Then start up REMnux to analyze it, as Koen explains…

Customize your Cinnamon desktop with Javascript

We've seen, in the last years at least, a big rise of the Web in everything we do and everywhere we do it. Now, lots of people need only a browser window for work or for fun, making lots of previously-used pieces of software obsolete. With the launch of the Gnome 3 desktop environment, the Web made it's way inside our installed software in a very smart way: parts of the UI are actually writen in Javascript, a Web language by excellence. Or...maybe not that much. Fabrice Bellard wrote a PC emulator in Javascript, and here's another example: a desktop environment having important parts written in this language. So if you're feeling hacky and have some knowledge of Javascript, or even general programming concepts, this article is for you.

Cinnamon 1.2 Released With Desktop Effects, Multiple Layouts, More

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jan 24, 2012 7:55 AM EDT)
Cinnamon, the GNOME2-like GNOME Shell fork, has reached version 1.2, which is considered fully stable. The new release brings many new features, but also separates Cinnamon even more from GNOME Shell.

A New Design For FUSE File-Systems

At SCALE 10x a new FUSE implementation was presented that while still having the file-system in user-space, the kernel component is now responsible for more of the work.

Open Source Closed Door

It has been announced, across the pond, that IT analyst firm, Gartner Inc has now positioned Drupal Acquia in the Visionaries quadrant of both the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Externally Facing Social Software and the Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, thereby raising Drupal’s visibility and promoting its accessibility amongst the top 10,000 global businesses.

Moose

Perl has been around for more than 20 years. During that time, it has received its share of both praise and criticism, and lots of misconceptions surround it. Much of this stems from long-outdated notions of what Perl used to be, but have nothing to do with what Perl actually is today. Perl hasn't been standing still. It's been growing continuously and evolving, and that growth has accelerated dramatically in the past few years. Moose is one of the technologies at the heart of this "Perl Renaissance", which also includes other exciting projects that have emerged, such as Catalyst and DBIx::Class.

Lafayette Deception, Chap. 8: The Doctor will Diagnose you Now

  • ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove (Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Jan 23, 2012 7:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Frank was puffing his way up the dirt road leading away from the canyon rim, focusing on his breathing. He’d actually lost five pounds in the first week of his new regime, and had also progressed from walking fast to alternating walking with short bursts of labored jogging. He hadn’t been as successful on the technical front. 

Ubuntu readies Unity 5.0

  • MyBroadband Tech and IT News; By Alastair Otter (Posted by MyBroadband on Jan 23, 2012 6:14 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
Unity 5.0, Ubuntu’s new desktop interface has been released for testing

openSUSE 12.2 Release Schedule

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 23, 2012 5:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SUSE
A day after Benjaman Brunner's announcement about the end-of-life (EOL) of the openSUSE 11.3 operating system, on January 21st Bryen Yunashko published the release schedule of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 Linux distribution.

Linux for migrants: Zorin OS

  • Linux notes from DarkDuck (Posted by darkduck on Jan 23, 2012 4:20 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Some Linux distributions try to find their own way in arrangement of the user desktop. Take, for example, Ubuntu with Unity. Whatever is your opinion about this Desktop Environment, you can’t deny that it brought some fresh ideas as to how to organize the user’s desktop. At the other pole are Linux distros which intentionally adjust their look to something familiar to users of other operating systems, being it Windows or Mac. Zorin OS is one of those. The intent of such distros is to smooth the transition for users wishing to migrate from Windows to Linux.

Calibre And Project Gutenberg: Liberate Your eReader

Now, I’m no stranger to ebooks. Long before the release of the first generation Amazon Kindle, I read Dracula on a Handspring Visor. Once I moved into the world of smart-phones with the Palm Treo, I read many great books with the excellent offline reader Plucker. In fact, I’ve been dissing paper quite vocally since as early as 1999. That said, I love reading on my Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch.

CyanogenMod App Store To Sell Root, Banned Apps

Koushik Dutta, the co-founder of the popular CyanogenMod project has been contemplating the idea of an App Store which will sell apps for rooted devices.

TLWIR 31: Using Linux and Free Software to Bring Back American Innovation

  • BeginLinux.com; By Rex Djere (Posted by acrossad on Jan 23, 2012 10:04 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Free Software is mainly about innovation. Free Software engineers find radical new ways of solving old problems. In doing so, they teach those whose minds have ossified how to think outside of the box. The U.S. manufacturing sector is in trouble, partially because we have been outperformed by our neighbors in the East. They have tried bold new ways of doing things, while we cling to the past. Free Software is one of the boldest concepts yet created, and I believe that it can save American manufacturing…and jobs.

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