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You're Living in the Past, Dude!

We're past the era when every Free Software project is targeted at us hackers specifically. Failing to notice this will cause us to ignore the deeper problem software freedom faces.

Ubuntu 11.10 Latest Updates Revealed The New LightDM Login Theme | Video Preview

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 development release comes with the default LightDM display manager login theme, but after installing recently available updates for Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Oneiric Ocelot! it has a new polished theme as we have seen earlier in this post.

Engineering Effectiveness: Analyzing Your Code Base

  • Ness SPL Blog; By Neil Fox (Posted by rsmiller on Aug 11, 2011 11:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
When it's time to review your code base, assign your best architect to the task, and use high-quality code analysis tools to help you decide how to proceed.

What Mesa Has Left With OpenGL 3, OpenGL 4

With the release this week of the OpenGL 4.2 specification (and accompanying GL Shading Language 4.20 revision), the TODO list for the open-source Mesa developers just got a bit longer. Mesa / Gallium3D still lacks full support for OpenGL 3.0 and all of the revisions since that 2008 specification release...

Ubuntu 11.10 Will Use Thunderbird as Default Mail Client

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Aug 11, 2011 9:54 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Yes, it is now official, Canonical decided to replace Evolution Email and Calendar with Mozilla Thunderbird as the default email client and calendaring software for the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system.

The Perfect Server - Debian Squeeze With BIND & Dovecot ISPConfig 3

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Aug 11, 2011 8:57 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Squeeze server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

What's Coming Up For LinuxCon NA 2011

While the Berlin Desktop Summit is still happening this week, happening next week in Vancouver, Canada is the Linux Foundation's LinuxCon North America 2011 event. This event is special, in particular, for it being the 20th anniversary of Linux...

QEMU 0.15 Brings Several New Features

Replacing QEMU 0.14, which was released back in February, is now QEMU 0.15. This new major update to this open-source processor emulator that's commonly used with KVM (the Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine) delivers on several prominent features...

Tux Paint Kids Summer Drawing Contest!

Grab Tux Paint, make a cool drawing, win one of 3 OLPC laptops, one of 10 Sugar-on-a-stick and other awesome prizes! For kids age 3-12, contest ends Sept. 12. Judges are Linda Goin, Dmitri Popov, and Marguarita Sut. Turn your little penguins loose!

Toasters and Pants at Day Three of Desktop Summit 2011

Keynote: How to make a toaster The third and final 'traditional' conference day began with Mirko Boehm, Claudia Rauch, Stormy Peters, Karen Sandler and Cornelius Schumacher meeting with members of the Berlin City authorities. The city officials wanted to get acquainted with the free and open source leaders involved in the Desktop Summit, because open technology is important to the local government (more below). Perhaps as a result of the beach party the night before, attendance was slightly reduced at the first round of talks, but picked up quickly. However, there was plenty of interest in the track that included social capabilities in free desktops. And of course, many participants are eagerly awaiting the rest of the week which is filled with meetings, workshops and BoFs. read more

The Community Design: ...and you Thought the USPTO Was Bad

Earlier this week, we were introduced to a new concept in intellectual property law: the European 'Community Design'. The Community Design is a sort of trademark on design, and sits halfway between a trademark and a patent. I decided to investigate what, exactly, the laws and regulations around Community Designs are, and what I found was shocking. Think the USPTO is bad? Wait until you learn about the Community Design.

AMD Puts Out An OpenGL 4.2 Linux Driver

While Mesa won't have OpenGL 4.2 support for some time, NVIDIA released an OpenGL 4.2 preview driver on Monday as soon as the Khronos Group had published the new specification. AMD yesterday has now released a beta Linux driver (of their Catalyst blob, nothing to do with open-source) that provides OpenGL 4.2 support.

Longomatch a sports video analysis tool

  • http://www.linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Aug 11, 2011 11:20 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
LongoMatch is a sports video analysis tool for coaches and sports scientists, to assist them on making games video analysis. It simplifies video analysis by providing a set of intuitive tools to tag, review and edit the most important plays of the game. It allows to group plays by categories and adjust their the boundaries (lead and lag time) through a timeline.

Xournal: Kid-Friendly Note Taker and PDF Annotator

Great for kids starting school to take digital notes in class - even drawing diagrams and scrawling little pictures. And a pdf annotator to boot!

Linux users Can Finally Read Kindle ebooks on their Desktop with Amazon's Cloud Reader

  • Techlaze; By techlaze (Posted by techlaze on Aug 11, 2011 5:36 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
If you are a Kindle user disappointed by the lack of a dedicated desktop application for Linux, there’s good news for you. Amazon.com has just launched their new HTML5-powered cloud-based web app called Amazon Cloud Reader. The webapp runs flawlessly on Linux with support for offline reading and much much more. Here’s what it has to offer.

Two fresh ways to view your Google Tasks

Ah, the humble task list. For such a simple concept, Google has made it surprisingly difficult to use their task list service. You can pull it up in Gmail, and add it as a widget in iGoogle, but there doesn't seem to be a standard way to use the task list on it's own. Even Android users have been left out in the cold with no kind of official task list widget or app. Thankfully there are at least two ways to get access to more fully featured, stand alone Google Tasks lists.

Samsung features Tegra 2 processor in Galaxy R smartphone

Samsung announced its first Android smartphone based on the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor. Available now in Sweden and heading for Europe and Asia & soon,& the 4.2-inch Samsung Galaxy R offers Android 2.3, the TouchWiz UI, 8GB of flash storage, and both five- and two-megapixel cameras....

Debian to offer MultiArch support with Debian Wheezy 7 in 2013

Debian finally takes the plunge to offer multi architecture support with its to-be release Wheezy. This means that Debian users can now run the software of theirdebian choice, in a machine and version of their choice.

GNOME & KDE Developers Meet Over Beer In Berlin

The 2011 Desktop Summit is coming to a close at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. This was the second time that GNOME and KDE developers joined to host a Linux desktop summit of around 1,000 participants.

USB ports will deliver up to 100 Watts of power

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced that it is creating a new specification that will let USB ports deliver up to 100 Watts of power. The development will allow manufacturers to create embedded PCs, laptops, printers, and other devices powered solely via their USB connections, the organization says....

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