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This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 23 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes Fedora and UEFI, the MintBox, the Humble Indie Bundle, Bryan Lunduke, the Kernel, SnowLinux, Rhythmbox and a lot more!

Do you want to access shared folders on the host machine from the guest machine? On This tutorial is going to show you how to access virtualBox shared folder/directory from Ubuntu 12.04 as Guest Machine. on this case I’m using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS as host machine and Ubuntu 12.04 as the guest OS.

The Ubuntu development team, through James Page, announced a couple of days ago (June 6th) that they plan to move to OpenJDK 7 as the default Java Runtime Environment.

Great news everyone! Gnome-Shell went to plastic surgeon and gained a brand new face! One more controversial feature has been added and that will get Shell again be discussed but not being disgusting!

In this tutorial we are going to review indexes. I never cease to be amazed at how many people do not know what indexes are or how to use them. An index is simply a data structure that provides a fast access path to rows in a table based on the values in one or more columns (the index key). This allows for fast search techniques to be used to find the values ,rather than having to scan the entire table row by row, which results in much faster data retrieval. This can be a big performance booster in your environment, lowering the amount of time it takes to run a SELECT query and get data back.

Proper and extensive benchmarks of Fedora 17 against Ubuntu 12.04 LTS are forthcoming, but here's a preview of some results...

Server consolidation based on Linux for IBM System z offers advantages, but moving existing applications requires some specialized knowledge. In this article, get general advice on how to organize your porting project, including technical details on mainframe virtualization, byte-ordering, and address calculation specific to System z. This article also covers how development tools (compiler, linker, debugger) are supported on System z, and introduces IBM's free-of-charge Migration Kit for Solaris OS to Linux.

Ground control to Uncle Linus The US Navy has signed off on a $27,883,883 contract from military contractor Raytheon to install Linux ground control software for its fleet of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.…

When Netflix teamed with Internet Server maker NGINX to design the open source servers for its content delivery network (CDN), it turned out to be a good match for all concerned -- including ISPs who got low-maintenance, highly efficient servers and users who should get smoother streaming of Netflix content.

While many developers are paid to work on open source by their employer or do so for free in their free time, two developers - Bryan Lunduke and Patrick Verner - are hoping donations from their respective communities will help fund their efforts full time

The latest VMware Player 4.0.3 fails to install in Ubuntu 12.04 (with Linux Kernel 3.2.x) due to a Virtual Network Device error, but you can get it to work using a patch. Here's how to do it.

Holyspirit is a free and open source isometric hack'n'slash game inspired by action role playing game, Diablo. The game is being developed by French game studio Alpha Arts.

Microsoft alleged years ago that Linux and Open Source technologies infringe on over 200 Microsoft patents. It's that basic allegation that Microsoft used to convince Novell/SUSE to sign a a Patent deal and it's the same basic underpinning for a dozen deals with Android vendors. So why is Microsoft allowing Linux to run on its Azure cloud? In particular, why Ubuntu?

Chris Mason, creator of Btrfs has quit Oracle. Chris is joining Fusion-io, next generation storage memory specialist. Chris says, "Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their support for my projects. But, I've decided to take a new position at Fusion-io. I will start the new job on Monday, June 11."

Linux Mint, in collaboration with CompuLab, is proud to announce today, July 8th, the immediate availability for purchase of a mini PC called mintBox.

Yes, you got it! Other 3 great games have been added to The Humble Indie Bundle V!

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu has become a Microsoft partner to bring Ubuntu to Microsoft's Azur platform. Canonical joins SUSE, the long time Microsoft partner which also helped Microsoft in validating that Linux infringes upon its bogus patents.

This week we look at what a Siri API might look like, coping with consumer devices in the enterprise and xkcd's twisted view on creating passwords.

CompuLab teams up with Linux Mint to create the mintBox, a slimline, portable PC running the popular operating system

Over a year ago I wrote a post complaining that you where unable to complete the "free application for federal student aide" from an FOSS operating system without first tricking the government's website into thinking you are running Windows...