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Liberating software - Richard Stallman

The computer world is divided in two confronting camps with two totally different philosophies. On the one side are companies that sell programs to make money. On the other are people who believe software must be totally free. Generally paid software dominates, so why don't more people go for the free alternative. And what does that mean for intellectual property? We’re asking one of the leaders of the free software movement, programmer-turned-philosopher Richard Stallman.

Gates no longer a force to reckon with

How the mighty have fallen! Bill Gates, once the most sought after figure in the tech world, now can't buy an interview.

The Best Apps and Extensions for Better Holiday Shopping

  • Techlaze (Posted by techlaze on Dec 20, 2011 3:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Amidst the cheery and jovial atmosphere of the holidays, an ever-growing shopping list is the only thing that constantly keeps us worrying. As the end of the year nears, the list keeps on getting bigger and disorganized. Some people handle these things very well, but many still find it quite difficult to manage the list. Don’t worry though, as there are some quality apps and extensions that will help you conquer that daunting shopping list in a neat, organized manner.

Flash Player 11.1 released with Android 4.0 support

  • Linux for Devices; By Clint Boulton (Posted by tracyanne on Dec 20, 2011 2:07 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Adobe launched Flash Player 11.1 -- its final mobile browser plug-in for Android smartphones and tablets -- along with AIR 3.1. While it's set to give way to HTML5, Flash 11.1 adds support for Android 4.0 plus a variety of performance, stability, and device update enhancements, according to the company.

Nouveau Commits: Fermi Reclocking, PM, MXM, Etc

Last week there were a number of commits to the Nouveau DRM kernel tree by Red Hat's Ben Skeggs, several of these commits bring interesting new features and support.

Ubuntu 12.04 Developer Week 2012 Announced

The Ubuntu Developer Week 2012 event for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) will take place between 31st January and 2nd February, 2012.

Oracle gooses Studio compilers for Solaris, Linux

Having cranking Solaris Unix up to 11, software giant Oracle has now revved up a new companion set of compilers that work with the new operating system as well as the current Oracle Linux clone of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux. The Solaris Studio 12.3 C, C++, and Fortran compilers might bear the Solaris brand and they may have their heritage on the many different platforms that Forte Software originally supported – a company that Sun Microsystems acquired for $540m back in August 1999 – but the Solaris Studio set spans Sparc T and M series processors as well as earlier Sparc iron running Solaris 10 or 11, and various x86 platforms running Solaris 10 or 11, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

Scrolling/mouse wheel improvments (VTE-like) in urxvt

  • My way to Arch (Posted by jjacky on Dec 19, 2011 10:45 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
urxvt is great, but - unlike other (VTE-based) terminals, using the mouse wheel always scrolls its own buffer, even on secondary screen (i.e. in applications such as less, man, etc) Here's a patch that will add a new option (secondaryWheel) that will allow the same kind of behaviors as VTE-based terminals: when on secondary screen, using the mouse wheel will be translated into Up/Down keys.

GMail Fails LA PD Strict Security Requirements

  • Tech Target View From Above; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Dec 19, 2011 9:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
When the LA Police Department rejected GMail over security concerns, it once again brought cloud security to the fore and left Google in an awkward position with a high-profile government client.

Apple Ruling Hits Android

  • Wall Street Journal; By Jessica E. Vascellaro (Posted by bob on Dec 19, 2011 8:51 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Apple Inc. was handed a legal victory that is bad news for rival Google Inc., as a U.S. trade agency ruled that some HTC Corp. smartphones that use the Internet company's Android software infringe an Apple patent.

GNOME Shell -the UI revolution is well under way

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Jos Poortvliet (Posted by russb78 on Dec 19, 2011 8:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
openSUSE community manager Jos discusses the paradigm shift in UIs brought on my the mobile computing revolution…

tcpdump fu

Packet capture is one of the most fundamental and powerful ways to do network analysis. You can learn virtually anything about what is going on within a network by intercepting and examining the raw data that crosses it. Modern network analysis tools are able to capture, interpret and describe this network traffic in a human-friendly manner.

Razor-Qt: A New Lightweight Desktop Environment Based On Qt

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Dec 19, 2011 6:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Razor Qt is a new lightweight desktop environment - think of it as an early LXDE, but using Qt. It doesn't come with a display manager or window manager and its developers recommend using it with Openbox, but it should work with any WM, like Kwin, Metacity, etc.

User interface familiarity breeds contentment

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Richard Hillesley (Posted by russb78 on Dec 19, 2011 5:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Changes to the behaviour of interfaces don’t always go down well, but are sometimes a good thing, says Richard Hillesley

Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris i7-3960X Scaling Performance

Using the new Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition Sandy Bridge processor, Scientific Linux 6.1, Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, and Solaris 11 11/11 were benchmarked when having a different number of CPU cores enabled to see how well each operating system scales up to six cores plus Hyper Threading.

LXDE and Xfce - the other desktops

GNOME and KDE may be the high profile Linux desktop environments, but they are not to everybody's tastes. Richard Hillesley describes the different approaches taken by a couple of the more prominent alternatives.

A Week in Limbo

  • Larry the Free Software Guy; By Larry Cafiero (Posted by lcafiero on Dec 19, 2011 2:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
This week -- that's right, seven days, from Sunday to Sunday (12/18 to Christmas Day) -- Larry the Free Software Guy spends a "Week in Limbo" putting the ZaReason Limbo 5440 desktop through paces only he can muster. After two days, he sums up the experience so far in four words: Kid, meet candy store.

The Lafayette Deception, Chap. 3: Frank’s Long Day’s Journey into Night

  • ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove (Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Dec 19, 2011 1:57 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Sun; Story Type: News Story
The sun was once again shining the next morning as Frank drove west on Route 50. The harsh glare made it as hard to see as he was finding it difficult to think.

10 Indie Games for Linux part 2

  • Linuxaria.com (Posted by linuxaria on Dec 19, 2011 1:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
This is the second part of my article regarding Indie games for Linux. In the first part i’ve listed 5 Indie game freely downloadable for Linux, and on this one i’ll present you 5 games that must be bought before you can download them. Today games are: Towns, Eschalon, Survivors of Ragnarök, Atom Zombie Smasher and Steel Storm: Burning Retribution. But in the past I’ve already talked of some great Indie game so you can check also my articles about: Amnesia: The Dark Descent (probably the best horror game around in these days) and Dungeons Of Dredmor (a rogue-like game with a comic background)

Check and Optimize digiKam's Databases

  • Scribbles and Snaps; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by dmpop on Dec 19, 2011 12:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
By default, digiKam uses two SQLite databases for storing essential data: digikam4.db and thumbnails-digikam.db. And to make the application run fast and smoothly, it’s a good idea to check and optimize the databases every now and then.

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