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Sometimes, especially on the command line, it happens that you delete a file or directory you didn’t really plan to delete. A second after hit enter you realize what you have done, maybe you are fast enough to stop the deletion process and save some files, but in the most cases it’s already to late, at least for some files. If you have no or a too old backup you’re screwed.

Inkscape is the premier open source vector graphics editor for Linux. Inkscape is cross platform and is available for Windows and Mac OS X for free download. We have dealt with a bunch of really good Inskcape tutorials before, here are even more of those. Following is a collection of 10 of the very best and descriptive Inkscape tutorials from around the web.

OpenELEC is an embedded operating system built specifically to run XBMC, the open source entertainment media hub. The idea behind OpenELEC is to allow people to use their Home Theatre PC (HTPC) like any other device you might have attached to your TV, like a DVD player or Sky box.

The mobile device landscape, particularly for those devices running Linux, is quickly evolving. Just in the past few days, Google bought Motorola, Qualcomm open-sourced the remainder of their Gobi API for controlling modems, and HP ended off all their webOS devices, among other changes. But will the future mobile Linux device landscape deal with more open-source drivers, particularly when it comes to graphics?..

An admitted Xubuntu fanboy discovers a whole 'nother way of doing things, and finds a completely new and wonderful philosophy on Linux for the desktop.

It's official! OpenEMR has passed all ONC certification tests as a fully qualified emr that can be used to attest for incentive moneys. The official posting: http://onc-chpl.force.com/ehrcert/EHRProductDetail?id=a0X300... appeared on the website 2011/08/19. Congratulations to all involved! OpenEMR 4.1 should be ready for download in a few weeks. This accomplishment is an amazing feat for an open source project, requiring many, many hours of interpretation of standards, coding, bug fixes, testing, and not least of all many thousands of dollars in fundraising to certify a product which has no corporate ownership and no financial return on that investment. It is LAMP based software that is free to use and inexpensive to run; hardware requirements are minimal. If you haven't seen us in a while, please visit at "http://www.open-emr.org" and the supporting organization "http://www.oemr.org" for more information. Jack Cahn MD oemr.org Board of Directors

I had the pleasure of chatting with Michael Bok of The Zod Engine via google talk. Not brand new but not seen before but a lot of lxer visitors!

chown is a Unix/Linux command for changing files and folders ownership.chown become really handy if you want to change the owner for many files or folders using the command line.

Since its release, the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) has suffered from a lack of support for automated builds with tests. The IDE provides tools for building and packaging RCP applications, but they are very different from the PDE/Build tools that perform these tasks in an automated fashion. Also, until recently, testing support for JUnit 4 was not present in the Eclipse TestFramework. While the situation has markedly improved in Eclipse 3.6, setting up an automated build with tests remains a time-consuming and difficult task.

BackTrack the ultimate hacking/security-audit Linux distro is now upgraded to version 5 R1.

The LinuxCon conference that ended Aug. 19 in Vancouver featured a 20th Anniversary Gala for Linux and plenty of discussions on a fast changing industry. Highlights included a call for a long-term Linux kernel, keynotes from Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurstand IBM Linux guru Irving Wladawsky-Berger, and fork-loving Linus Torvalds taking a mellow approach to the code rift with Android.

Amazon’s HTML5 strategy shows the way forward for web publishing. Earlier this month Amazon released a browser-based version of its Kindle reading software. Called the Kindle Cloud reader, the software allows anyone to read their Kindle books in almost any browser.

Kotlin is a new JVM language under development by JetBrains. That's the company that makes IntelliJ IDEA, the well-regarded Java IDE. According to JetBrains, the main design goals behind this project are: to make Kotlin compile as fast as Java, make it safer than Java, i.e. statically check for common pitfalls such as null pointer dereference, make it more concise than Java by supporting local type-inference, first-class functions (closures), extension functions, mixins and first-class delegation, etc; and, keeping the useful level of expressiveness; and make it way simpler than the most mature competitor—Scala.

We're going all-digital. That's the news. Starting with our next issue, #209, we're going off-rack and off-mailbox, but staying on-email and on-Web, where we can grow and improve. It's the only path open to us, but it's also a good one. Hang with me as I explain why. (See also Experience the New Linux Journal for details about the new format.)

Will the code 'stay' open? Open...and Shut Google has long played Android a bit closer to the vest than some would like.…

The frozenbyte guys have realised an awesome new trailer!

It's a little slow at times, but it feels a lot like Linux Mint, but even more professional. Yay!

The news of Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s mobile business is a potential game changer for the mobile computing market.

Offensive Security, leaders in Online information security training, proudly announced a few minutes ago, August 10th, the immediate availability for download of the first point release of the very popular BackTrack 5 operating system.

This tutorial will explain how to install aditional modules for the kernel to use with iptables rules sets (netfilter modules). Xtables-addons is the successor to patch-o-matic(-ng). Likewise, it contains extensions that were not, or are not yet, accepted in the main kernel/iptables packages. Xtables-addons is different from patch-o-matic in that you do not have to patch or recompile the kernel.