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The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 4 'Glacier'. Snowlinux 4 is based upon Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 'Wheezy' and uses Linux kernel 3.5. MATE 1.4 is the default desktop environment and LightDM as the new default login manager that replaces GDM 3. It includes its own greeter for LightDM. Many new features have been introduced, like snowMenu, the Snowlinux menu and snowMount, the Snowlinux mount tool for drives. The Snowlinux metal theme was colored blue and the icon set was updated with the latest Faience icons. Snowlinux now uses Pidgin as the default IM client. This release comes with Firefox 17 and Thunderbird 17, LibreOffice, Rhythmbox and Shotwell.

This tutorial shows how to install Ubuntu 12.10 on the btrfs filesystem (with RAID1) on a Hetzner server with two hard drives. While Hetzner's installimage tool doesn't list btrfs as a supported filesystem and only supports software RAID with /dev/md devices, it is still possible to achieve this setup and use the built-in RAID support in btrfs instead of using /dev/md devices.

A new version of Slax is available for download. This release adds several new features and fixes a few bugs as well. Probably the most interesting feature is PXE boot support and improved X auto-detection. All modern computers nowadays support PXE, which allows booting an operating system over network interface independently of data storage devices (like hard disks). Slax fully supports PXE booting now. How to do that? One computer will act as a server, so just boot Slax on it from CD or USB and make sure to have the appropriate boot menu option 'Act as PXE server' checked. Slax on the server computer will provide DHCP, TFTP and HTTP services to enable PXE booting for other computers on the network.

Now that the new year is here, you might be feeling a little crazy trying to organize all of those resolutions in your head. I've always found that jotting down those thoughts helps with the process of putting goals into action. Fortunately, there are plenty of apps available in the Google Play Store that offer this sort of thing: a place for Android users to put down their streams of consciousness, store photos that haven't been archived, or leave a mental note.

Wine 1.5.21 has been made available as the first development build of 2013...

It seems that a Linux based Steam console will be out this year an engineer at Valve (Ben Krasnow) has confirmed!

Stuffomatic originally posted about their game Andy's Super Great Park which was previously Windows and Ubuntu only, that is not the case any more they now support other distro's by using a static build!

Valve has released their December Steam statistics that show initial data on Linux client usage...

Here's some information about the C++11 usage within the recently released Qt 5.0 tool-kit...

In TLWIR 51, I talked about how Coreboot might provide a solution to the confusion created by the Secure Boot fiasco. In the Linux Week in Review 52, I’ll talk about the need for a GNU/Linux reference system. In this “gold standard” system, all of the installed hardware would be known to work perfectly with the latest version of the Linux kernel.

And so this situation is starting to get ridiculous - and consumers are, as usual, caught in the middle of it all. Google has just blocked Windows Phone devices from accessing Google Maps on their phones. In addition, it also seems Windows Phone users are now restricted to the basic HTML version of the mobile GMail website.

Individuals wanting to learn and develop their understanding of the Perl programming language have a huge selection of books to choose from. There are hundreds of enlightening Perl books that are available to purchase at reasonable cost. However, given that Perl is an open source programming language, with an eclectic heritage written by Larry Wall and a cast of thousands, it is satisfying to see that some authors have made their Perl publications available to download without charge, and released under a freely distributable license.

Netrunner is a Kubuntu-based distro, with some extras of its own. But therein lies the rub, the magic. How do you makeover a distro without adding problems?

A list of new games coming to Linux via Steam!

Ubuntu Phone OS has been unveiled and it has received pretty stellar response so far. Canonical has now proposed system requirements for two different phone types: an entry level Ubuntu phone and another high end Ubuntu superphone.

I became aware some time ago of conky, a minimalistic utility that can display these--and many other--types of helpful information under differing window managers or desktops and, though I'd seen screenshots of it configured to run as a sort of panel, most conky configurations I've come across actually have it display on the desktop background--not something particularly desirable for me since I tend to run applications full-screen on my evilwm desktops. But lately, I somehow came across information about another utility--Xmobar--that can display the sorts of system information I want but which seems to be configured to run mainly as a panel. So I decided to have a go with it. I was able to configure it to my liking fairly easily and decided to offer in this entry a further description of the program and to post the configuration I am using. That information follows.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is seeking input from the software industry about the performance of the patent system. A pair of February "roundtable" events—one in Silicon Valley and the other in New York City—will give members of the public an opportunity to comment on how to improve the quality of "software-related patents."

In the week ending 5 January - News from the 29C3 conference, Ubuntu for phones, Awesome 3.5, Samsung readying a Tizen smartphone, and Nouveau support for GeForce chipsets

Problems have struck Fedora 18 again, causing yet another delay for the distro

This week, we look at how to find gems in your software development log files, Ubuntu smart phones and managing IT on a cruise line.