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LXer Feature: 12-Feb-2012

If we look back at failures of Linux on Desktops till today and analyze the technical part, it was due to hardware support and the software quality (GUI) that general computer users could use.

After thoroughly testing the VMware graphics driver stack yesterday and providing benchmarks, there's some new "vmwgfx" developments to report on...

The recently announced KDE Spark Tablet has an ARM Mali 400 as its graphics processor, which right now is backed by a closed-source user-space driver but that's changing thanks to the Lima driver that's providing a reverse-engineered open-source ARM Mali driver. Here's a demo of the Lima driver's Limare stack running on the KDE Spark Tablet hardware...

Why would I do such a thing -- go back to Icedove (aka the Mozilla-coded Thunderbird e-mail client) version 3.0.11, which shipped with the now-aging Debian Squeeze, after months of using version 5.0 from the Debian Mozilla team APT archive?

Tivoization is a term coined by Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to refer to what they believe is a violation of the GNU Public License’s (GPL) spirit, if not it’s actual wording. In response to Tivoization, as well as a few other concerns, the Free Software Foundation released a third version of the GPL in 2007. The wording of the GPLv3 is considerably stricter than that of the GPLv2 and other software licenses, and has been criticized by many in the open source community. The stricter language of the GPLv3 has even been blamed for the current migration from the GPL to less restrictive licenses such as the BSD or Apache licences.

I know I am pushing these updates out fairly quick but I wanted to announce that I just released version 1.4 with 2 new feature enhancements corresponding to bugs #2 and #4 on the http://bugs.rapiddisk.org bug tracker. Read more here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116869691296916480289/posts

Miguel de Icaza presented this weekend at AltDevConf where he heavily promoted Mono and using C# for game developers...

CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver Games, version 10.3.0 change log with some of the many changes made in this releases is provided below

Canon is the world’s largest printer manufacturers, and has been selling various kinds of series canon printers. but very unfortunately canon only provide printer driver for platform Windows and Machintosh. Canon did not include a printer driver for platform Linux/Ubuntu on every product we buy, and this is a problem for linux users who use acanon printer

After trying the openSUSE beer at FOSDEM, which is specially brewed at a small Bavarian brewery near the Nürnberg SUSE office and where many of their developers reside, I began wondering if other Linux distributions were represented by beer, what beers would they be? Continue on for this enjoyable weekend article where the leading Linux distributions are described in terms of beer.

Guayadeque is a fully featured Linux music player that comes with smart / dynamic playlists, iPod and portable device support, automatically downloads album covers, lets you play and record shoutcast radios, Mpris v2 support and many more interesting features.

Game changers that show up in life often do not show up in the way and the when we expect them.? ?That often leads us to not accuracy see them for what they are.? ?This is going to be a year of game changing in? ?2012,? ?and most of us do not yet see it.

Because the default Music Lens of Ubuntu 11.10 allows you to only search music imported in the Banshee audio player, the Ubuntu Music Scopes contain Unity Launcher plugins that allows you to search local music in the Rhythmbox, Clementine and Guayadeque music apps, directly from the Unity Dash.

An interesting overview of how restricted Windows-On-Arm will be.

Canonical's withdrawal of funding to the Kubuntu project apparently is not very important to the company's owner, Mark Shuttleworth

A new study set to be released by career website Dice.com and the Linux Foundation paints a very rosy picture of the Linux job market.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Partial port of kdelibs to Qt5 RSS feed handling in Plasma Fix drag and drop issues with non-local URLs KStars FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) improved to work well in Ekos read more

One of the great advantages of Linux is it has great support for older systems and legacy hardware. This week, we take a look at how Ubuntu 12.04 ‘Precise Pangolin’ runs on an older system running older hardware. I found such a system in my very own office. In fact, the system that I am writing this article on! I have a PC which is roughly 5 years old. But when you’re referring to the hardware inside, it’s actually much older again. But in its prime years, this hardware would have been considered powerful. But I think it represents a basic system of todays average Linux user.

Red Hat recently appointed Robyn Bergeron as the new Fedora Project Leader. In this exclusive interview Robyn talks about the upcoming release of Fedora (17), the role of a FPL, the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat and much more. Read on...

Ubuntu is making inroads into the enterprise segments in various markets. Recently The Supreme Court of India ordered all courts across India to switch to Ubuntu. Prior to this move the courts across India were using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux, which is mainly targeted at servers. More than 17,000 courts around India will now be switching over to Ubuntu from RHEL.