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Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 9, a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers: "We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 9 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 8, this is just another step towards world domination. There you have it, shining at full bright, for your home computer, your laptop and your home server. Linux kernel 3.4, GNOME 3.2.3, KDE 4.8.3, Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.5.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Gentoo Hardened features, Rigo -- a new way of browsing applications, ZFS tech-preview, and PAE kernel for x86 editions."

In a question and answer session at the Finnish Aalto University, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has voiced strong criticism of NVIDIA for its refusal to support the Optimus technology in Linux

After sharing the results last week of an optimized open-source Radeon driver trying to compete with AMD's Catalyst driver, it is time to turn the tables. In this article is a look at the latest open-source Nouveau driver code compared to NVIDIA's official closed-source Linux driver across a few generations of GPUs.

Magic 8 Ball is a toy you can use to seek advices when you are bored or need to make some tough decisions but you cannot ask anybody else, even your parents, siblings, friends or your cat. There are a lot of Magic 8 Ball tools out there, both online and offline, but you can create your own Magic 8 Ball script with your unique answers very easily.

The term Bitcoin (BTC) has become a buzzword. A buzzword most recently associated with the euro, pyramid schemes and a purposed solution to the current banking crisis and economic turmoil. But what exactly is “Bitcoin” and is it something one should be investing in?

Libvirt is an important tool for managing virtualized environments on Linux hosts. An audit trail of events that occur on the host during libvirt's execution is often necessary for monitoring, compliance, forensics, and other purposes. This article describes how to use the Linux audit subsystem on the host to track operations performed by libvirt and how to correlate the events with other host events to provide a consistent and comprehensive view of changes performed through libvirt.

Let consumers type in their credit card infos and send the $85 to Microsoft if they want to have the option to boot into Windows RT and get the Microsoft Office, Metro and whatever else comes with that.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Android native look&feel plugin added to android-qt New assistant for new classes from templates in KDevelop Fancy bookmarking in rekonq Experimental rgbaf32 colorspace in the lcms color engine, all missing chart marker types implemented in Calligra read more

The Wine maintenance release 1.4.1 is now available.

As the Justice Department continues to pretend there's nothing strange at all about its highly questionable tactics in shutting down Megaupload and having its executives arrested, the courts are still struggling with the details. A few weeks back, we noted that a judge in New Zealand rejected the US's demand that New Zealand merely rubberstamp an extradition order to the US, despite there being numerous questions over the case itself and whether or not extradition is appropriate. As part of that, the judge also ordered the US Attorneys to hand over the evidence they're using to make the case against Dotcom and his colleagues, such that they can properly respond to the evidence. The US, as you might expect has gone absolutely ballistic about this, insisting that such an effort is impossible -- and that "it would take at least two months" to get the evidence together.

Of course, to some of us, that suggests that the DOJ hasn't yet looked at the evidence -- and thus it shut down the company and arrested its staff first, without even knowing if a crime had been committed.

I have a large collection of 0's and 1's and am eager not to lose them. It’s a very large collection – storing them in the cloud would cost a few hundred dollars a month and even if I paid that, the pipe between my house and the cloud isn’t fat enough to access them efficiently.

You can't stop in time, and the car crashes during your test drive. Or hangs on the edge of the cliff. You sit in the car motionless with your hair turning white.

Will you buy the car? If your answer is yes, then you are very likely to be a suicidal person.

A year and a half after the controversial release of Gnome three point zero, many people don’t know yet how to customize their desktop and instead blame Gnome developers. Do they have right? In some point yes..

The project involving the development of Security-Enhanced Linux® (SELinux), a system offering mandatory access control, was initiated inside the US National Security Agency (NSA). The companies Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) and MITRE were directly involved in the development, along with a number of research laboratories. It was released as a general access software product (with the source code distributed under a GPL license) in December 2000. A special press release was issued by NSA to mark the occasion (see Resources). By that time, 10 years had already been spent developing, analyzing, and testing the basic SELinux architecture as part of several semi-research/semi-military projects

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

Cards on the table, software engineers generally have a reputation for being arrogant, disagreeable, and moody. We also have a reputation for saying “no”, for debating pedantic details, and thinking we know how to do everyone’s job better than they can. In general, this reputation is deserved. That’s exactly what we do, day in, day out, as we intermix writing code with checking in on Twitter and Hacker News.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board, designed to inspire a new generation of computer users to become interested in programming. However, this single-board computer also has lots of potential to be used in different areas.

Welcome to the 204th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Backing up is one of the most important things one should do to be a happy user, and although most people understand this, there are very few who actually do it. What is the reason we are not backing up our files? There may be three reasons for this. The first one is that your files are not that important so you don’t care if you loose them or not. The second is that backing up takes time and resources. The third reason is that you may think that it is a complicated process that requires special technical knowledge to perform with success. Deja Dup is the answer to the third statement, and the answer is “no”.

Like all the best ideas, it's simple enough. As a business, you publish a statement that you are henceforth licensing any and all patents you own under the DPL and will make such licensing a condition of sale of any of your patents. From that point, without needing to enumerate the patents you own or negotiate terms with any other business, you are entitled to use all patents ever licensed under the DPL by all other businesses. The catch? You may never again use patents offensively against other signatories of the DPL. By this simple step, all patents owned by all DPL signatories are "de-weaponized."