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Upgrade to the latest version of GStreamer now for bug fixes and plenty of new optimization tweaks

"In some ways Linux is dead, if you judge a liveliness of a platform by how much relevance it has to the mainstream consumer. That doesn’t, however, mean that a revival isn’t possible. And amidst all these death proclamations a few key trends are emerging that could actually signal a rebirth."

With no major release in more than 2 years, many thought Exaile, once a pretty popular music player (it was even the default Xubuntu music player), was dead. But it turns out that's not the case and a new version - 3.3.0 codenamed "jump" -, has been released a few days ago.

So for the 9th time out of 16 total bundles we Linux folk have contributed more money in total than Mac users!

Good design captures the Zeitgeist, and sometimes leads the way in forming and informing popular taste. But it should not be the subject of patent or intellectual property spats, or be allowed to spread the notion that the rights to ideas and tastes or look and feel can be owned. When one company, or one technology, is allowed to lock down the market and own the way we do things, the result is ossification.

It seems like every technology company on the planet is releasing a tablet these days, and we use the phrase "technology company" loosely. Even Toys"R"Us decided it had to make a tablet of its own, recently making the Tabeo 7 inch Kids Tablet available for preorder at the sub-Kindle Fire price of $149.99. But Toys"R"Us is now facing the same problem as just about every other tablet maker—it's being accused of ripping off another company's intellectual property.

Open Recall is a space on The H for those things that are too small to package as news but are worth the linkage. This edition looks at the Python Foundation's new Distinguished Service Award, the SmilePlug, Firefox turning 10 years old and a JavaScript LINQ library.

If you want a good-paying job in high-tech, then – the hiring statistics show – Linux is where you want to be. And, based on salary data, Red Hat Linux certifications are a major plus on your resume.

Use your existing Windows systems administration skills to ease the learning curve for Linux systems administration and broaden your skill set. This knowledge path guides you through the process from understanding the file system and files to managing accounts, running software, and monitoring and maintenance to put you on the fast track to managing servers that run on a variety of hardware architectures.

Robert Shingledecker has announced earlier today, September 25th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core and Tiny Core Plus Linux operating systems.

Now that we're all waiting for the final release of the Ubuntu 12.10 (Qantal Quetzal) operating system, due for release on October 18th, we can take a look at the release schedule for the next major release, Ubuntu 13.04.

NVIDIA has released an updated proprietary Linux graphics driver...

Shuttleworth: Don't be mad, you trust us with root anyway Ubuntu loyalists are furious that shopping suggestions from Amazon will be plonked into desktop search results, shown when users attempt to find stuff on their computers and the local network.…

A new report titled An Overview of the "Patent Trolls" Debate is a balanced but ultimately devastating indictment of "patent trolls." It was prepared by the Congressional Research Service for members of Congress, who could actually do something about the "troll" problem. It's a useful primer for those new to the area.

In a former article I’ve wrote about the command locate, an useful command to find quickly a file in your computer. An alternative to locate is the command find : GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given file name by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of precedence, until the outcome is known (the left hand side is false for and operations, true for or), at which point find use the defined action and moves on to the next file name.

find can use many options to compose an expression and as standard action it print in the standard output the file name that match the expression.

"Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root," Shuttleworth says in Canonical's defense.

The new version of Ubuntu Linux slated for release in October introduces a feature that some users claim is at worst a violation of privacy or, at best, generally annoying. Ubuntu 12.10 introduces search results from Amazon into the Dash. That means you could be searching for a file or application on your computer and get shopping results under a "more suggestions" section after your general results.

Gnome Files 3.6 is far from completed and is more like an experimental version of what is coming next, in 3.8. Overall, I think it is an improvement over 3.4 but this has to do in what way you’re using it.

Some things are done faster in new Files and some things are done slower. For common tasks? It is lot lot faster!

The 1.4 branch of KDE’s music player Amarok is admittedly the best music player that ever existed :) Unfortunately, the Amarok developers decided that it was too good to be true and they destroyed it with version 2.0, but Clementine did the trick by forking 1.4 and evolving into an even greater music player. Clementine uses Qt though, and we don’t prefer this toolkit in our system…so what about an Amarok 1.4 “clone” that uses GTK?

Recently a discussion in Gnome Mailing Lists took place about sync Files with OwnCloud. That might isn’t interesting to the most of us -besides who will abandon Google Drive, Ubuntu One, DropBox for a personal cloud storage service?

As I have set up lots of OwnCloud instances for companies that I work for, the answer is simple. Companies are way too interested for this, because OwnCloud offers the ultimate Open Source solution for storing and managing files.

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