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Windows 8 Spells Trouble for Linux, Hackintosh Users and Malware Victims
Microsoft is trying to lock down system firmware to prevent malware and pirated copies of Windows. Unfortunately, this may have some undesirable side effects for Linux users and anyone else that wants to boot an operating system not officially blessed by Microsoft and OEMs.
How To Install Google Music Frame In Fedora
Even though Google Music Frame was initially built to only work with the Ubuntu Sound Menu, later on, the Ubuntu Sound Menu dependency was removed and it can now run on non-Ubuntu systems too.
Happy Belated Birthday, Mageia
A year ago, when I wrote about a group of Mandriva former employees and contributors who’d decided to create a fork called Mageia, I had no idea whatsoever whether the project would survive to actually release a product. Well, a year has come and gone and Mageia not only released Mageia 1 in June, it’s now a distro with a year’s worth of organization under it’s belt. That may not sound like a lot, but to my mind it’s quite an accomplishment.
Kororaa Linux 15 Released, Based on Fedora 15
Chris Smart proudly announced last evening, September 20th, the immediate availability for download and upgrade of the highly-anticipated Kororaa Linux 15 operating system.
Will Windows 8 block Linux installs?
Windows 8's Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) boot protocol could lead to eight-second boot times, but it could also be used to keep users from loading Linux on a Windows 8 PC, warns a Red Hat developer. Meanwhile, Casio signed a Linux-related patent agreement with Microsoft.
Metro Doesn't Mean Immediate Death of .net
.NET has a lot of life left in it, in spite of what you might have concluded watching the Metro dog and pony show last week at the Microsoft Build Conference.
Tips for dual-booting Windows and Linux
Multi-booting, installing more than one operating system on a computer’s hard drive(s), has become very popular over the years, fueled, of course, by the popularity of Linux as an alternate system for desktop and servers. Dual-booting, installing two operating systems on a computer is a subset of that, and in this article, basic guidelines to follow when attempting to dual-boot a Linux distribution and Windows are presented.
Google preps Honeycomb developers for 'Ice Cream Sandwich'
Google provided some tips to help developers of Android 3.x (& Honeycomb& ) tablet applications prepare for its upcoming & Ice Cream Sandwich& (ICS) build. Tips and techniques include how to block Honeycomb apps from being used on small screens, as well as optimizing the apps for ICS handsets by creatively using modular & fragments.& ...
Microsoft's plan to stop Bing's $1 billion bleeding
Bing, Microsoft's two-year old search engine, is losing nearly a $1 billion a quarter, with no sign of letting up. Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) has lost $5.5 billion on Bing since the search service launched in June 2009, but the company's search losses actually pre-date that. In fact, the software giant has never made money in its online services division. Since Microsoft began breaking out that unit's finances in 2007, the company has lost a total of $9 billion.
Not FOSS related but of interest to our readers I think - Scott
Not FOSS related but of interest to our readers I think - Scott
Get Firefox Menu Button in Linux
The Windows version of Firefox comes with a fancy menu button in the title bar. Linux doesn't have that exact feature, but you can come close. Shawn Powers shows us how.
Users voted for best KDE-based Linux distribution... again!
what is the best favourite KDE-based Linux distribution, voted by visitors of blog Linux notes from DarkDuck?
Taking a long look at Salix OS 13.37 (DistroWatch Weekly #423)
Just over a year ago I wrote the first review of Salix OS for Distrowatch. I found that the desktop-oriented Slackware-based distro met the goals of the developers: maintaining all the positive attributes of the parent distribution while offering additional tools and functionality to provide a friendlier system for users who don't want to get under the hood of their operating system.
PiCloud: Scientific open source computing in the cloud
This week we interviewed Ken Elkabany, CEO of another company with a business model on top of scientific open source software: PiCloud. PiCloud allows running any Python code on an auto-scaling, high-performance cluster in a server-less cloud. That includes SciPy code. We hope this kind of interview inspires scientist and developers to turn into FLOSS entrepreneurs.
Google Wallet launches with Visa, AmEx, and Discover
Google Wallet has launched on time in New York and San Francisco, letting consumers pay via short-range NFC technology on Sprint's Samsung Nexus S 4G Android smartphone. In a surprising turn, Visa, American Express, and Discover have joined Citi and MasterCard as credit card partners in the venture....
More partisanship from free software leadership
Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to answer the burning question of whether Android is free software. Brian Proffitt says Stallman's 1,439-word Guardian article is one of the longest ways he has seen lately to deliver what should have been an obvious (and 1,438-word shorter) answer: No. However, Proffitt points out that lately that the Free Software Foundation and free software leadership have taken great pains to level broadsides against open source projects and, by extension, open source software in general.
Will Windows 8 succeed in locking out GNU/Linux?
Is Microsoft finally resigned to the fact that Windows can never again be the dominant operating system on our planet? Or is the behemoth planning to make one final attempt to control what you use?
Extracting EML files
EML files are a problem for some of my users on Ubuntu. They receive these as Email attachments but can only view them as text (usually in gedit) even if they contain pictures. The senders are probably using Outlook Express or a related mail application to attach them. While some non-Microsoft mail clients can open them properly this is a hassle for my users as they all use web mail.
VMware Rivals Further Expand Open Virtualization Alliance
The Open Virtualization Alliance is continuing to grow with membership now exceeding 200 companies all pushing KVM and associated open-source virtualization solutions. Should VMware worry? Here's the update.
Microsoft milks Casio for using Linux
Go penguin, you're often paying Redmond
In the latest news from the tech world's ongoing global hunt to find someone to sue over/deal with on patents, Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with Casio.…
Continuous Deployment With Jenkins And Rex
In this tutorial I will show you how to do continuous deployment with Jenkins as a ci tool and Rex as a deployment tool. Together, we will set up Jenkins, the build and test process, a Subversion repository and our example Perl App. This tutorial can be used with Java-, PHP-, Rails-, ... projects as well. But for simplicity I've chosen Perl. This howto focuses on Ubuntu 11.04 but it can also be done with other Linux Distributions.
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