Showing all newswire headlines

View by date, instead?

« Previous ( 1 ... 3881 3882 3883 3884 3885 3886 3887 3888 3889 3890 3891 ... 7222 ) Next »

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 167

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 2, 2011 10:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Welcome to the 167th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Announcing Ensign 1!

Ensign 1 is a single/multiplayer space combat game featuring dog fights from within the cockpit, as well as first person shooting action after you've docked on large space stations.

6 Commercial Android Video Players

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Oct 2, 2011 7:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
A built-in video player has been included in the base Android operating system ever since Android 1.5 (Cupcake) was released back in April 2009. That player offered video playback for MPEG-4 and 3GP formats. However, even with the latest releases of Android for smartphones and tablets (Gingerbread, Honeycomb respectively) many users find the built-in player to be inadequate, due to support for a limited number of video formats, being unable to watch high definition video even on dual core processors, and generally deprived of features.

How to Sync Calendar and Contacts with Google in Evolution

  • xjonquilx | Mepis, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux, Oh My!; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on Oct 2, 2011 3:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
In an earlier post I told you how you can sync your cell phone with Evolution. In this post I’m going to tell you how you can sync your calendar and contacts with Google in Evolution.

Deja Dup, the backup simple and fast is served

  • http://www.linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Oct 2, 2011 2:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Today we talk about Deja Dup, the tool I used to make a backup of files before the upgrade of my Lubuntu at release 11.04 (most probably this arrive a little late, but the program is worth a blog post) . It is indeed a great software to create backups (so that it’s part of the standard packages in Fedora 13 and if everything goes in the right way it will also be added to Ubuntu 11.10), but the reason for the post is not just that, a large plus of Deja DUP is its extreme ease of use, it takes a couple of clicks to configure it and save our precious documents, even “in the cloud”.

ZOD Engine – Game Review

  • http://www.linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Oct 2, 2011 1:06 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Today we’ll take a look at a remake of the classic game Z. Z was a real strategy pc game by Bitmap Brothers launched in 1996. It is about two armies of robots (red and blue) battling to conquer different planets.

The remake it’s Zod Engine is an open source remake written in C++ using the SDL library and available for Linux/ e Windows.

The Zod Engine is a multiplayer oriented game where as Z is a single player oriented game. Here you will be able to for the first time do things such as play games against multiple bot players, or play the original levels with friends helping you on the same team.

DoudouLinux Gondwana update 1 released

  • linux-news.org; By Linux-news.org (Posted by linuxaria on Oct 2, 2011 12:09 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Great news from Doudoulinux team, they have released the version 1.1 of their project.

For the peopel that don’t know what’s doudoulinux, this it is not a new distribution, but a Debian tailor-made for children, the designer Jean-Michael says that is usable by children two years old.

And in fact by starting this live meta-distro you get a rich and colorful menu from which childrens can choose what to play or learn.

Samsung Exynos4 DRM Driver To Be Merged Soon

It looks like the Samsung Exynos4 DRM driver that first publicly appeared in August will soon be merged into the mainline Linux kernel as the first open-source DRM driver within the kernel for an ARM SoC...

A Quick Tutorial to Set Up an NFS Server on Windows

Many resources on the Internet don't talk about a quick way of setting up an NFS server on Windows. I've detailed the steps that worked for me here, and hope it helps someone cut down their NFS server setup time.

ThinkPad Tablet holds its own against iPad in enterprise, says review

  • Linux for Devices (Posted by bob on Oct 1, 2011 2:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Lenovo's 10.1-inch ThinkPad Tablet is a reasonable alternative to the iPad 2 for enterprise users, says this eWEEK Labs review. This capable Android "Honeycomb" tablet offers business-focused extras like built-in enterprise software, full-size ports, and an effective digitizing pen....

Google open sources JavaScript testing tools

Google is open sourcing one of its key JavaScript testing tools in an effort to get developers to speed up web applications. Google JS Test is used internally on the V8 JavaScript engine using in Chrome. Google has attributed much of the speed increases it claims for the browser to the performance of the V8 engine, and the company is clearly hoping this will improve matters further.

New, Generic X.Org KMS Driver Work

David Airlie has announced new work on the xf86-video-modesetting driver, which aims to be a generic X.Org (DDX) driver that will take advantage of the generic parts of the Linux KMS (kernel mode-setting) APIs so that any GPU should be supported.

Hacking the Imperial Death March

One of the great things about the original Star Wars trilogy, was the “lived in”, junky, hacked together aesthetic of the Star Wars universe. Everything was a bit trashed, as if real people actually lived there. Thankfully, that’s one of the things that George Lucas hasn’t tinkered with in his endless quest to ruin the childhood memories of a generation. So it’s heartening to see this tradition carried on with the playing of the imperial death march on miscellaneous hacked together hardware. Enjoy …

ARM-based vehicle PC has integral touchscreen

Portwell announced a Linux- and Android-compatible in-vehicle computer equipped with a 5.7- or seven-inch touchscreen and a 416MHz Marvell PXA270 processor. The PTH-1070A includes four serial ports and two USB ports, one or two CompactFlash slots, plus available non-volatile RAM and CAN bus options, according to the company....

BerliOS will be closed on 31.12.2011

  • berlios.de; By Fraunhofer FOKUS (Posted by scan2006 on Oct 1, 2011 7:21 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements
BerliOS was founded 10 years ago as one of the first repositories in Europe. It was developed and maintained by Fraunhofer FOKUS. As an European, non-proprietary project BerliOS pursued the goal to support the various Open Source players and provide a neutral mediator function. In 2011 over 4800 projects have been hosted on BerliOS, with 50,000 registered users and over 2.6 million file downloads each month. We are proud that with BerliOS we have brought the idea of an OSS repository to Europe. Meanwhile, the concept has prevailed and there are many good alternatives.

Virtualization — Ready for Small Businesses

Reduced hardware and operating costs, improved backup and disaster recovery, cloud computing, and lower costs of development and testing have made virtualization viable for small businesses.

Can Penguins Dance on a Dell, Will Reiser File Again, Are Samsung and Intel Going to the Prom?

The biggest news this week has centered around fears that Linux may become uninstallable on Wintel machines from the big OEM’s. But there’s been more. Some fun stuff. Some silly stuff. Some stuff that might eventually develop into something important…

setting up the Ubuntu One free online storage on Linux, Android and Windows

  • linux-adm.de - Tutorials, HOWTOs and News for Linux Sysadmins; By Frederik Konietzny (Posted by fkonietzny on Oct 1, 2011 4:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Canonical released a windows client for the online storage of the Ubuntu One personal cloud service. The Ubuntu One online storage allows you to synchronize your files across platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and to publish / share selected files. This service is similarly to Dropbox. Now that all my clients are supported I tested the free Ubuntu One account that provides 5 GB of online storage with my Linux, Android and Microsoft Windows devices. The installation and setup on all devices was very easy and the service is still running smoothly. For this article I made some screenshots of the various clients and I will explain how to publish selected files.

Revised seven-inch Galaxy Tab is thinner, lighter, and faster

Samsung announced a replacement for its original seven-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet, upgraded with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is faster, thinner, lighter, and adds HSPA+ service -- plus, it should be inexpensive, considering the competition from Amazon's $200 Kindle Fire and HTC's Flyer (about to be slashed to $300)....

« Previous ( 1 ... 3881 3882 3883 3884 3885 3886 3887 3888 3889 3890 3891 ... 7222 ) Next »