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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

The Kindle Fire is nice device for $200, but just because it shares the broad tablet category with the iPad doesn't make it an iPad substitute anymore than driving a Honda Fit would be an Audi A4 substitute.

Although it’s not without passionate supporters, Unity, Ubuntu 11.10?s new default user interface, has generated lots of controversy and consternation among faithful Ubuntu users. For those who prefer a traditional Gnome desktop, this post provides a straightforward method of setting up and configuring a Gnome Shell-based Ubuntu 11.10 Linux desktop.

On the Linux Planet, success begets more success. Linux revenue continues to rise, which continues to fuel more demand for Linux and more development. This past week, the first alpha release of Ubuntu 12.04 debuted, and GNOME developers came to the conclusion that every detail matters.

We all know the procedure for taking the screenshots of the computer screen in the form of images, but what if we have to make the video recording of all that appears on the computer screen?

Finally! Ultimate Edition 3.0 is here, officially released today, December 6th, and based on the Linux Mint 11 (Katya) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating systems.

After being based on the Ubuntu distribution for so many years, Ultimate Edition has finally switched tables and it is now built from the Linux Mint 11 (Katya) operating system, which itself is based on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narhwal).

While I am a little late with this news (real life issues) CoreBreach a futuristic racer (think Wipeout) has been updated for cross platform play for Linux and will soon be coming to Desura as well.

The last time I followed a distribution’s suggestion to remove some packages that were no longer needed, I completely hosed the system. Could not use it afterwards. Though the machine was a test machine, the experience thought me to always let sleeping dogs lie.

Turns out spammers behave a lot like deadly virus... Researchers at Microsoft have discovered that tools first developed to fight email spam can be applied in helping to understand how the process by which HIV mutates to avoid attack by the immune system.…

The 2011Q4 Linux graphics driver package has been released...

Get to know Hadoop scheduling, and explore two of the algorithms available today:fair scheduling and capacity scheduling. Also, learn how these algorithms are tuned and in what scenarios they're relevant.

Opera 11.60 brings a revamped URL address field, which offers search suggestions, easy website bookmarking through the star shortcut in the address bar and ability to list website results faster than before.

For anyone wondering whether the Mesa/Gallium3D drivers will work with the Humble Introversion Bundle titles (or are thinking about buying the collection at the last minute), here are the results from some quick tests using different hardware and drivers.

This tutorial explains how you can mount a directory from a remote server on the local server securely using SSHFS. SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a filesystem that serves files/directories securely over SSH, and local users can use them just as if the were local files/directories. On the local computer, the remote share is mounted via FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). I will use Ubuntu 11.10 for both the local and the remote server.

This two-part series explores how to use Python to create scripts for managing virtual machines using Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). In this installment, learn the basics of using libvirt and the Python bindings to build a few simple status and display tools.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 delivers significant improvements in virtualization, resource management and high availability, and offers new features in storage and file system performance and identity management.

This is good news for all fans of Bisigi themes. I know some people think they're outdated but I think they are really nice and 'easy on the eyes' themes with focus on simplicity and getting the work done. When the project's end was announced, I took up the task of recreating/porting the themes to gtk3. Since I'm free from all my projects and practical report files now, I can work on those. I see a bright future for these themes. I hope this turns out to be good.

How to install and use a feature-rich open source program that allows you to store and organize online bookmarks on your own server

Fujitsu-Toshiba announced an Android 2.3 smartphone for Japan's KDDI network that features IPX5/8 waterproofing, an ultra-thin 6.7mm (0.26 inch) profile, and a low, 3.7-ounce weight. Built around on a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the Fujitsu Arrows-ES IS12F offers a five-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, infrared, NFC, and even a TV tuner....