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My Desktop is Changing

Hello to everyone in Linux land. As you know by now, Ubuntu 11.10 codenamed Oneric Ocelot, has been released into the wild since October 13th. There have been many changes since 11.04 made it's controversial debut featuring Unity as the default desktop, instead of the standard Gnome. This has continued with Oneric, with the biggest factor being that the traditional Classic Gnome 2x will no longer be available, as the new fall back will be the newly refined and integrated Unity 2D.

Will your computer's "Secure Boot" turn out to be "Restricted Boot"?

Microsoft has announced that if computer makers wish to distribute machines with the Windows 8 compatibility logo, they will have to implement a measure called "Secure Boot." However, it is currently up for grabs whether this technology will live up to its name, or will instead earn the name Restricted Boot.

Linux Mint developers make GNOME 3 edition plans

Clement Lefebvre, Linux Mint Founder and lead developer, has announced that his project has started work on a GNOME 3 edition of its next major release, version 12. The new edition will initially be developed alongside the GNOME 2.32-based release which will remain as the default desktop environment of Mint. The developers had decided to stick with GNOME 2.32 because there had been "radical changes" in GNOME 3.x's desktop which had split the communities of GNOME and Mint users.

Great Debate: Bring your own device

  • ZDNet Great Debate Series; By Ken Hess and Heather Clancy (Posted by khess on Oct 17, 2011 7:55 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Are you for BYOD or against it? What are the pros and cons of user-owned devices? Vote and find out.

The Puppy Linux project announced version 5.2

  • Linux for Devices; By Eric Brown (Posted by scan2006 on Oct 17, 2011 6:58 PM EDT)
  • Story Type:
The Puppy Linux project announced version 5.2 of the legacy-PC friendly "Wary" version of its small-footprint Linux distribution. Puppy Linux 5.2 ("Wary") features an SMP-optimized version of the Linux 2.6.32.45 kernel, an upgrade path to Xorg 7.6, an updated PuppyPhone 1.1 VoIP app, and a new PupCamera app for automatically detecting digital cameras, says the project.

TLWIR 22: Red Hat, India's Supreme Court, and More

  • BeginLinux.com; By Rex Djere (Posted by aweber on Oct 17, 2011 6:01 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The main theme of The Linux Week In Review 22 is a message to businesses: please respect the intelligence of your customers. Respect their ability to make decisions for themselves. Don’t allow companies to co-opt your products, no matter how tempting the money that they offer might be.

Ubuntu Hardware Summit 2011 Announced

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 17, 2011 5:03 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Now that Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) has been released, Canonical proudly announced a few minutes ago the official place and date for the upcoming Ubuntu Hardware Summit 2011 event which takes place once a year.

The Future of OpenOffice.org

With the Apache Foundation providing a new home, the question in many peoples' minds has been whether the bruised and abused remnant of the OpenOffice project would be able to get back on its feet, dust itself off, and regain its prior importance in the marketplace. Last week, the Apache Foundation put out a press release on this very subject.

LibreOffice Will Be Ported to iOS and Android

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 17, 2011 2:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Document Foundation proudly announced a few days ago, at the LibreOffice Conference 2011 event in Paris, that LibreOffice will be ported to the iOS and Android operating systems.

Walking with dinosaurs - Mozilla's Pascal Finette on WebFWD

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Rory MacDonald (Posted by russb78 on Oct 17, 2011 2:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview
Rory MacDonald sits down with Mozilla’s Pascal Finette, former head of Mozilla Labs and now the man behind Mozilla’s new WebFWD initiative, an accelerator programme for exciting open source projects…

Guest session and user management in Ubuntu 11.10

  • LinuxBSDos.com; By finid (Posted by finid on Oct 17, 2011 1:03 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
User management is one area that received slight modifications in Ubuntu Desktop 11.10, the latest stable release of the popular Linux distribution. This short tutorial presents some information about the guest session, what you can do about it -if you can do anything at all without messing up your system, and how to create a regular user account.

Tomes of Mephistopheles

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Oct 17, 2011 12:06 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
First footage of a new game Tomes of Mephistopheles. Alex from Kot-in-Action sent me a video on the first proper footage of their new game!

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Review: First Real Step in Its March Towards Mass Adoption

  • Tech Drive-in; By Manuel Jose (Posted by kiterunner on Oct 17, 2011 11:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Ubuntu
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot final release happened sometime ago. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 as my default netbook OS ever since Oneiric Alpha 2 was released. So it's not like I am installing Ubuntu 11.10 just for the sake of reviewing it. Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has been the OS of choice in my netbook for sometime now.

OpenSUSE 12.1 delivers Fedora punch with GNOME 3

The big news in openSUSE 12.1, whose first beta has recently dropped, is the arrival of GNOME 3 – in this case GNOME 3.2. Unlike Fedora, which is already into its second GNOME 3-based release, openSUSE had – thanks to its release schedule – stuck with GNOME 2 for its last release earlier this year. OpenSUSE 12.1 embraces GNOME 3.2 and, like Fedora 16, drops support for the GNOME 2.x line.

Pushing Reiser4 Is "Not Of High Priority"

Edward Shishkin, the lone developer that took over development of the Reiser4 file-system following the conviction of Hans Reiser, has shared a new update with Phoronix regarding the efforts towards pushing Reiser4 into the mainline Linux kernel. Reiser4 has been in development going back to 2004 and had a promising future until the conviction of Hans Reiser and demise of his Namesys company following the murder of Reiser's wife, but since then it's development has been stagnate. In late 2009 I was told by Edward Shishkin that Reiser4 may go for mainline inclusion in 2010. Before pushing again for mainline integration he wanted to publish an article in a scholarly magazine regarding Reiser4's design in order to facilitate some independent expert review.

Microsoft now earning royalties for every Kindle Fire sold?

Microsoft has already scored two big time Android IP licensing deals, one with HTC and the other more recently with Samsung. The boys in Redmond have now secured one more epic deal, this time with Taiwan’s Quanta Computer Inc. Wait, who? You might not recognize Quanta — they’re not exactly a household name, after all. But they are a Taiwanese OEM that produces tablets, laptops, and other electronic gadgets for names you do know — folks like RIM, for whom Quanta designed and built the BlackBerry PlayBook. Starting to put the pieces together?

Meacher the Mouse Teacher - Meet the DevTeam

  • heliosinitiative.org; By helios (Posted by helios on Oct 17, 2011 7:26 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Community
After 3 weeks, we have the semblance of a Development Team for an application that will help autistic kids learn how to use a mouse.

Running SquirrelMail On Nginx (LEMP) On Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04

The SquirrelMail package from the Debian/Ubuntu repositories comes with a configuration file for Apache, but not for nginx. This tutorial shows how you can use the Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 SquirrelMail package in an nginx vhost. Nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 16-Oct-2011

LXer Feature: 17-Oct-2011

Welcome to this week's collection of big stories from the LXer Newswire. Enjoy!

Oracle v. Google - Motion Practice

Friday's filings indicate a couple of things. First, it is becoming increasingly clear that Judge Alsup does not expect this trial to start on schedule, and second, he is going to give latitude in hearing disputes outside of trial to try to reduce the number of issues to be handled at trial. Consequently, while Oracle filed objections to allowing motions on patent marking and striking of portions of Dr. Serwin's rebuttal report, Judge Alsup is allowing both of those motions to proceed along with Oracle's requested motion to strike portions of the Cox/Leonard reports.

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