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GTK+ 3.2 Is Gold With Wayland, HTML5, Etc

With the official release of GNOME 3.2 coming later in the week, Red Hat's Matthias Clasen has christened the official version of the GTK+ 3.2 tool-kit. GTK+ 3.2 brings several interesting features since the inaugural GTK+3 release earlier in the year.

How to Install Custom Gnome Shell Themes

It used to be very easy to install custom themes in Gnome 2, but if you have upgraded to Gnome Shell, particularly in Ubuntu Oneiric, you will find that there are not much customization options available for you. While Gnome Shell supports theming, there doesn’t seem to be an option for you to switch to the theme you want. For those who are tired of the default look in your Gnome Shell, here is how you can easily install and switch to a custom theme.

Pylogsparser : a use case, analysing ssh attacks

  • Wallix Development team's blog ; By Matthieu Huin (Posted by fredl on Sep 27, 2011 12:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Learn how to use the PyLogsParser python library to analyse ssh attacks from your log files.

GNOME 3 Theme Added to Ubuntu 11.10

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 27, 2011 11:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Canonical added the default GNOME 3 desktop theme, Adwaita, to the default themes of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system, due for release on October 13th, 2011.

Synchrorep: A simple way to synchronize folders

Synchorep is an opensource software to synchronize two directories, that mean reporting all modifications of one to the other and vice versa. At the end of synchronization, both directories will be strictly the same.

This is usefull principaly for nomads who work with a laptop or usb key but may interest also users who want making differencial copy to gain time.

Intel Mesa HiZ Performance On Sandy Bridge

While there are still several days left of this year's Oktoberfest, to take a short break this morning from benchmarking the wonderful beer, food, and Bavarian females, here are benchmarks of the new Intel HiZ Linux support. Just a few days ago a new, nearly ready patch-set was published for implementing hierarchical Z support within Intel's Mesa DRI driver.

Gnome Pie: A Cool New Visual Application Launcher

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Sep 27, 2011 9:00 AM EDT)
Gnome Pie is an application inspired by a World of Warcraft addon called OPie, that tries to offer a different way of launching applications in Gnome.

5 Open Source Android Games worth Trying Out

  • Techlaze; By techlaze (Posted by techlaze on Sep 27, 2011 8:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups
The Android Marketplace offers a variety of games to choose from. Even though many of those games are absolutely free, only a handful of them are open source. While that may not bother many Android users, there are a lot of FOSS enthusiasts who love to have everything that’s open source. So, whether you’re an open source fanatic, or a FOSS purist, here are 5 great open source games that you can try out on your Android device.

Setting Up ProFTPd + TLS On Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal)

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Sep 27, 2011 7:31 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 11.04 server.

FLOSS for Science Book Releases August 2011

  • FLOSS for Science; By eocasio (Posted by eocasio on Sep 27, 2011 5:44 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Community
The following FLOSS for science related books were released during the month of August 2011.

Substantial, New Memory Leaks Found in Firefox 6.0.2

More than 100 users report substantial memory leaks in Firefox 6.0.2, including leaks that some say amount to 1.5 GB. Testing appears to verify those reports.

Charge-density wave processor technology touted for power efficiency

  • Linux for Devices (Posted by bob on Sep 27, 2011 3:49 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Researchers at UC Riverside have received $1.5 million from the NSF and other sources to study a more power-efficient processor that encodes data with charge-density waves (CDWs) rather than electrical currents. A prototype for a CDW-based computer has already been built, showing promise for processors that could & drastically reduce power consumption and increase speed in the next generation of computers,& claim the researchers....

Muon Package Management Suite

  • LinuxBSDos.com; By finid (Posted by finid on Sep 27, 2011 2:52 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Muon Package Management Suite is the package management application that will replace Kubuntu’s package manager when Kubuntu 11.10 is released next month. It is designed for Debian-based systems, so it could be used on similar distributions, not just on Kubuntu. In fact, it is included in the default repository of Linux Mint 11.

The suite is made up of three graphical interfaces - Muon Package Manager, Muon Software Center, and Muon Updater. This article shows screenshots, taken from an installation of Kubuntu 11.10 beta 2, of all three applications.

More Xoom 2 images emerge as Amazon and BandN ready Android tablets

  • Linux for Devices (Posted by bob on Sep 27, 2011 1:55 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Motorola Mobility is prepping two successors to its Xoom tablet, including an ereader-focused 8.2-inch model according to several reports. In other Android tablet news, the original Xoom did surprisingly well in recent Consumer Reports rankings, Amazon is expected to unveil an Android tablet/ereader on Sept. 28, and Barnes Noble is readying three replacements to the Nook Color....

Corsix-th beta 8 released!

Another one of my favourite projects has had a new release, Corsix-th the open source engine for Bullfrogs old Theme Hospital has hit a new milestone!

A List Of Lisp and Emacs Books

  • Greg Laden's Blog; By Greg Laden (Posted by gregladen on Sep 27, 2011 12:01 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: GNU, Linux
Land of Lisp and three emacs related books, reviewed.

HP Board Misses One Shot Opportunity

Whitman’s hiring looks like a desperation move. This is unfortunate, because the message HP needed to send with Apotheker’s firing was that the situation at the company is under control, that sanity is at the helm. Instead, they end up looking as if they’re merely grasping at straws.

Owning the stack: The legal war to control the smartphone platform

  • Ars Technica; By James Grimmelmann (Posted by BernardSwiss on Sep 26, 2011 9:28 PM EDT)
In the last few weeks, the smartphone industry appeared to produce more lawsuits than phones. Apple briefly managed to stop the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all of Europe, and is now going after the whole Galaxy line. Back Stateside, Google first complained that Microsoft and Apple were using "bogus patents" to target Android, then spent $12 billion for Motorola and its patent arsenal. These are big, high-stakes fights—and the last company left standing may walk away with control over nothing less than the smartphone market itself.

In the flood of stories about tactical filings and counter-filings, it's easy to get lost in the details. But step back and it's clear that the Smartphone Wars aren't just a war of all against all; there's an underlying logic to these disputes. Most companies are fighting to control one part of the hardware-software stack, then use that control to pry money free from the layers above them.

But the really big players—the Apples and Googles of the world—are fighting over the stack itself. Their combat arena: the global legal system.

Dell and Intel team on next-gen Linux supercomputer cluster

The University of Texas has teamed up with Intel and Dell to build a Linux supercomputer cluster, as part of the NSF's "eXtreme Digital" program. Due in 2013, the & Stampede& comprises several thousand Dell Zeus servers, each with dual eight-core Intel Xeon E5 CPUs, plus Intel's new parallel computing & MIC& co-processors, and will be & the most powerful x86-based Linux HPC cluster& deployed in the U.S., say the partners....

Google Summer of Code Achievements - Chapter One

Over the past few months, members of the KDE community mentored students as a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC). In this annual program, students receive a stipend to write code for a Free Software project, mentored by someone from the project. With KDE participating for the seventh time, students worked on many KDE projects, some of which are already being included in KDE releases. 47 of 51 projects were finished successfully this year. This is the first article featuring students’ achievements in the Google Summer of Code program. read more

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