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Is Canonical Weighing Other E-mail Options with Thunderbird?

  • The VAR Guy; By Christopher Tozzi (Posted by thevarguy2 on Aug 18, 2011 3:10 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Canonical seems to be considering replacing Evolution with Thunderbird. But will another offline e-mail client be necessary in the age of cloud computing?

Bodhi Linux Is Beautiful & Works On Very Old Computers

Try a lightweight, beautiful Linux distro that works on very old hardware. Bodhi Linux can run on processors with only 300 mhz so imagine how well it will work on your machine. With the Enlightenment desktop environment, Bodhi looks great and runs light. With the Ubuntu repositories, Bodhi has access to a plethora of quality free software. With a little work, it can become your perfect desktop.

Three reasons you might want to install PCMANFM - The LXDE File Manager

  • Brighthub; By Matthew Casperson (Posted by mcasperson on Aug 18, 2011 1:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
File management is not a sexy job, but it is something you probably do a lot of. Nautilus, the default Gnome file manager, does a pretty good job, but it does have a few shortcomings. Of course you are not limited to Nautilus, and I have found the LXDE file manager PCMANFM quite handy. Here's why.

Court Ruling Opens The Door To Rejecting Many Software Patents As Being Mere 'Mental Processes'

  • techdirt.com; By Mike Masnick (Posted by Jose_X on Aug 18, 2011 12:19 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Well, this is getting interesting. Last year, when the Supreme Court ruled very narrowly in the Bilski case, without making any explicit statement (as precedent) on overall software or business model patents, many people were frustrated.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0: A True VMware Rival?

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 has entered beta testing. The key goals: Improving RHEV’s management, performance and scalability. Red Hat is positioning RHEV 3.0 for just about everything — server virtualization, desktop virtualization, public clouds and private clouds. But can RHEV 3.0 help Red Hat to gain some ground on VMware? Here are perspectives.

A Conversation with Linus Torvalds

  • Linux.com; By Joe Brockmeier (Posted by keithcu on Aug 18, 2011 10:39 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
While Torvalds is famously reluctant to speak, he did take the stage at LinuxCon North America 2011 for a conversation with Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Open Source and Cross Platform 'Social Media Player' Tomahawk 0.2 Released

  • Ubuntu Vibes; By Nitesh (Posted by Dart on Aug 18, 2011 9:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
A new version for Tomahawk Social Media Player has been released. This version brings improved stability as well as lots of UI polish to the application. Tomahawk adds social elements to your media player as you can connect to your own other machines and friends via Jabber, Google Chat and Twitter. This release also introduces a new 'Listen Along' feature which allows you to directly play a track that your friend is currently listening.

Lil Additions

  • indiedb.com; By Rustybolts (Posted by rustybolts on Aug 18, 2011 8:44 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Helena the 3rd is coming along nicely, we are 1-2 weeks away from completion now. We have some new additional models enemies and some new features added to the engine.

Abandon Skype all ye who enter here

But this obvious need, to find people, is being met by scores of different efforts in scores of different ways. People Finders are popping up like crazy. Put a proper name in a Google search and see for yourself. At this point many are paid services, if the individual has not put themselves online deliberately, but one's SIP address is just as easy to list as any other address or phone number.

Review: Linux Mint 11 "Katya" LXDE

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Aug 18, 2011 6:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Ubuntu
The GNOME ALSA mixer is a pain to use, so the LXDE edition is overall a little harder to use than the GNOME edition, yet it's just as heavyweight too, so I don't see any point in using it.

Top Free Android Podcast Players

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Aug 18, 2011 5:53 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
A podcast is a show that is available over the internet which is divided into parts or episodes. Podcasts include both audio and video files and are often downloaded through web syndication. When the term podcasting was invented back in 2004, this form of broadcasting was regarded as the new face of radio journalism.

Firefox, Chrome spruce up

New releases of two of the world’s most popular browsers hit user desktops. It’s been a busy couple of months for the Mozilla Foundation and Google. Both organizations this week release new versions of their popular browsers. Firefox 6 is the latest release from Mozilla while a Chrome 14 beta shows off some of Google’s plans.

GNOME-Designer Jon McCann about the future of GNOME3

Also talks about the split with Ubuntu, outspoken criticism and why KDE and GNOME are different operating systems After years of focusing on stability and non-disruptive improvements, the GNOME desktop recently took a big chance: With the release of GNOME 3.0 a fresh user experience was introduced, breaking with many of the old concepts. One of the driving forces behind the vision and concepts of GNOME3 has been Red Hat developer William Jon McCann. During the recent Desktop Summit in Berlin Andreas Proschofsky had the chance to talk to McCann about the way ahead for GNOME3, how the project deals with criticism and the importance of GNOME3-optimized app development.

LinuxCon 2011 talks streaming live Aug. 17-19

  • DeviceGuru.com (Posted by DeviceGuru on Aug 18, 2011 3:41 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
All keynote sessions from the LinuxCon 2011 conference held in Vancouver this week are being made available for free public streaming today through Friday (Aug. 17-19).

Dead Cyborg Ep 1 Linux download!

Endre Barath has just released the linux download of Dead Cyborg episode 1!

Ubuntu 11.10 Features Improved Unity Interface

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Aug 18, 2011 1:47 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Mark Shuttleworth proudly announced last evening on his blog that the Unity interface introduced in the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) release, will be much improved for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.

W3C Launches New “Agile” Standards Development Platform

  • ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove (Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Aug 18, 2011 12:50 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
By anyone’s measure, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has been one of the most important and influential standards development organizations of the information technology age. Without its efforts, the Web would literally not exist as we know it. But times change, and with change, even venerable – indeed, especially venerable – institutions must change with it. Happily, the W3C is taking the plunge.

Learn Linux, 302 (Mixed environments): Domain control

In SMB/CIFS parlance, a domain is similar to a workgroup: It's a collection of related computers, typically existing on a single local network. A domain, however, features a special computer known as a domain controller that manages logons for all the servers in the domain. It also provides a few additional services. Samba can function as a domain controller, but you need to set several Samba options for it to do so.

AMD Brazos replacements will pack quad cores, offload video decryption

New details have emerged about the 28nm followups to AMD's successful E-Series and C-Series processors. The & Deccan& platform will reportedly include & Wichita& and & Krishna& chips that include quad cores, support for 1666MHz DDR3 memory, and a & secure asset management unit& that offloads DVD and Blu-ray decryption from the x86 cores....

Chromofox

Firefox and Chrome(-ium). They are 2 different browsers, based on 2 different rendering engines, developed by different teams. But what to they have in common?

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