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UEFI Plans & Workarounds, Skype Invokes DMCA, Microsoft's Samba Code

It would be too easy, at this point, to deride Microsoft for their efforts. Certainly, there will be some who will scoff and point to the fact that Redmond is only acting to serve their own interests. However, there’s nothing wrong with serving one’s own interest. The way I figure it, we can’t call Microsoft to task when they do things such as stealing copyrighted code and invoking the DMCA over reverse engineering Skype, then not give them a pat on the head and a “good boy” when they make a valuable contribution to a free software project. Deriding Redmond here would only give them the opportunity to spew more FUD along the lines of “you can’t win with those fanatics.” It would also do nothing to encourage them to move in a direction that would be beneficial to all of us. When a dog is good, you throw him a bone, even if he’s usually a mean and vicious junkyard dog.

Comparison of Audio Codecs and Conversion Utilities on Linux

If you like music as much as me you may find yourself taking time pondering to yourself what would be the best way of creating lossy backups of your CD collection?. This article will discuss standard audio codecs and briefly cover common conversion tools available to *NIX Operating Systems. Article written for Debian & Ubuntu, Fedora, and ArchLinux.

Exclusive: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 (UPDATED)

* Adobe is Stopping development on Flash Player for browsers on mobile.

Adobe is now focusing their development efforts on:

* Applications for mobile * Expressive content on the desktop (in and out of browser) * Increasing their investments in HTML5 in general

Getting Started With Embedded Programming in Linux, the Cheap and Easy Way

These two open hardware projects are great for learning embedded programming, and they take two different but complementary approaches. The Arduino project is both hardware and software: tiny low-power single-board computers that are programmed using the Arduino IDE (integrated development environment). The Arduino programming language is based on Wiring and Processing, which were developed as teaching tools, and to program microcontrollers. Arduino is especially good for learning the fundamentals of electronics principles and hardware. The BeagleBoard is more powerful and supports any ARM-capable operating system such as Debian Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, or Android.

The November 2011 PCLinuxOS Magazine

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

COM Express module offers 16GB of RAM, seven different Sandy Bridge CPUs

MSC Vertriebs announced a COM Express module with Intel & 6 Series& chipset and a choice of seven different & Sandy Bridge& processors. The CXB-6S offers up to 16GB of RAM, an optional 8GB SSD (solid state disk), six PCI Express x1 lanes, dual display support, and four SATA ports, among other features....

Tux and Froot Loops

My son was watching TV the other day and he shouted through to me to come and look at something.

"Isn't that the Linux penguin," he said, and sure enough, there he was, bold as brass on a Kellogs Froot Loops commercial.

Rough and tough Honeycomb tablet offers extra security

Panasonic unveiled a rugged, 10.1-inch Android 3.2 tablet for the enterprise market with extended temperature, drop, and ingress resistance. The Toughpad FZ-A1 is equipped with a dual-core 1.2GHz Marvell processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a full range of wireless features, a security co-processor, and an anti-glare, 500-nit display with 1024 x 768 pixels and an active digitizing pen....

Red Hat finds its feet in cloud gold rush

Hang on, lads, I've got a great idea Open ... And Shut Cloud computing may be the future, but it appears to be one fraught with unpredictable downtime and security breaches. In other words, it's very much like the bad ol' days of corporate data centres, except that this time Amazon, Salesforce and other cloud providers get the blame when things go wrong - rather than one's local IT folks.…

Trinity Project keeping 3.5 alive

For people who prefer the KDE 3.5-style desktop, a new version of the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) has been released. Trinity is a continuation of the KDE 3.5 Desktop Environment with ongoing updates and new features. Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13 source code and packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora are available. The upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release will even feature the Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13 as part of their release. Read on for an overview of what is new in Trinity 3.5.13! read more

Fedora 16 "Verne" Screenshot Tour

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Nov 9, 2011 1:13 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Fedora
Fedora 16, dubbed Verne, has been released earlier today, as expected by all its fans on November 8th, bringing lots of cool stuff and new artwork.

Mark Shuttleworth Interview for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Nov 9, 2011 12:16 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
It appears that Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu project, gave an interview to Amber Graner, an Ubuntu contributor involved in the community since February 2009.

Who Broke the Internet?

  • Real User Monitoring; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Nov 8, 2011 11:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
If it seemed like the Internet was slow or broken on Monday, it wasn't your imagination. It really was.

Ubuntu Has a Google+ Page Now

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Nov 8, 2011 10:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
As of yesterday, November 7th, Ubuntu has a Google+ Page for its fans around the world, where they can find interesting information, video interviews, and news about Ubuntu.

How to install Bodhi Linux

Here you can get the tutorial of how to install Bodhi Linux which is based on Enlightenment desktop manager. This article give you the clear idea about the installation with all the screenshots.

CrunchBang 10 Statler review - Crunch, bang

CrunchBang Linux is a power-user oriented, minimalistic distribution focused on clear, simple elegance of the Openbox desktop, with a low memory footprint, a robust behavior, and a spartan set of programs. Not one to fawn over you, it's the other way around, although, based on the facts and figures, it should not be too difficult to setup.

Linux Mint Shakes Ubuntu, Replaces As The Top Distro

Yesterday we published about Linux Mint's secret project for Gnome users and Clem's claims that soon they will overtake Ubuntu. Seems like he spoke too late. Today Linux Mint has broken the 6 year old record and replaced Ubuntu as the most popular Linux-based distribution on Distro Watch. Linux Mint sits on top with 2199 and Ubuntu slides to the second spot with 2011 rating.

Takeoff with the K Desktop Environment’s best menu style

  • LinuxBSDos (Posted by finid on Nov 8, 2011 6:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: KDE
The K Desktop Environment (KDE) has more menu styles than any other desktop environment available. There is the Classical type, the Kickoff style (which most users dislike), Lancelot (better than Kickoff, but with a few shortcomings), the ROSA Launcher (for Mandriva Desktop 2011), and the Takeoff Launcher. I have already written about the Lancelot menu and the ROSA Launcher. In this article, you will get to see screenshots of Takeoff Launcher, which I regard as the best of all five menu styles.

Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL, SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 11.10)

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Nov 8, 2011 5:14 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

Linux Mint Pulls Ahead of Ubuntu

  • BeginLinux.com; By Andrew Weber (Posted by aweber on Nov 8, 2011 4:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
After years of holding the top spot on the Linux desktop leaderboard it looks as if Ubuntu is starting to slip.

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