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Google has released its grip on the development of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and moved it under the control of a steering committee comprising developers from Google, Sencha, Red Hat, ArcBees, Vaadin, mgwt and other GWT advocates such as Thomas Broyer, Christian Goudreau and Daniel Kurka. First released as open source in 2006 and controlled by Google, GWT will now be under the control of a committee which will set out a direction for future GWT development, approve new committers, review code, administer releases, adjust the GWT development processes and work as master committers on the GWT project.

The Ubuntu Manual team is proud to announce a new edition of the comprehensive Ubuntu manual, this time for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published a whitepaper recommending free operating systems how to deal with UEFI secure boot. In the whitepaper, the foundation has criticized the approach Canonical/Ubuntu has taken to deal with the problem.

We have been closely following Ubuntu App Showdown, a contest cum workshop. Over the past two weeks, 20 workshops sessions have been conducted which covered every step of creating and submitting an Ubuntu application.

Here's an interesting, but very brief, Gabe Newell interview from E3 where he mentions Linux...

GWoffice (Google Web Office) is an application that integrates Google Docs (now Google Drive) with the Ubuntu desktop, providing basic synchronization support for offline use. From its interface you can create new documents and edit or download existing documents.

Well it was a news-filled week last week, what with Google I/O going on, and the buzz about all the announcements made there still hasn't died down. Tongues have been wagging here in the Linux blogosphere as well, but one little tidbit has drawn particular attention. That's the Android-powered Nexus 7, specifically, the prospect of which has more than a few geeks drooling with abandon.

First devices featuring Firefox OS to be manufactured by TCL Communication Technology (Alcatel) and ZTE •    Leading global network operators back initiative, including Deutsche Telekom, Etisalat, Smart, Sprint, Telecom Italia, Telefónica and Telenor Industry support is growing behind Mozilla’s.

The leap second that was inserted on Saturday night can cause permanent high CPU loads on Linux computers. Among other examples, the behaviour is documented in the blog of the Mozilla Foundation, where strange peak loads on one Mozilla server were observed from the time the leap second was added. The developers said that the problem is easily solved by resetting the date or rebooting the system.

Apple has won a preliminary injunction against Samsung that bans U.S. sales of the latter's Galaxy Nexus smartphone. The ruling came just days after the same court handed down a similar decision that banned U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.

The application is named GWOffice and with the help of it, you can create and edit word documents, spreadsheets and presentation as running an desktop office suite.

I don't know about you, but during the years of my IT career, I've become more and more concerned with security. I'm sure everyone has to a certain degree, but for me, it has become a daily part of my job (not that I'm complaining; on the contrary, it's quite exciting). As such, there are a multitude of tools I've used to get said job done. Some I like, and some I don't. But, I keep coming back to three in particular: Nmap, Nessus and Metasploit.

Federal authorities were evidently waiting for SOPA to pass before making their move against him and his site. On the same night that public opinion forced SOPA to fail, however, the feds decided to act anyway. They took down his website and had Dotcom taken into custody by the New Zealand authorities. They seized most of his assets, without proving anything in court, and are now attempting to have him extradited to the United States.

SilverStripe is award winning free content management system, published under MIT licence. The latest and greatest version is v3.0.0. Below are instructions how to install SilverStripe CMS on your own environment.

Full article: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/silverstripe-3-installatio...

One year and a half ago, an important part of FFmpeg developers decided to change the way the project was managed. This led to some kind of takeover, mainly to get rid of the old maintainer dictatorship, but also to change development methods, redefine objectives, etc. Then, for various reasons I will quickly explain, these people made a new project called Libav.

I will try first to summarize the most objectively as I can what was the situation, why it led to the current one, and basically how things are linked together. In a second time though, I will try to explain why, as a FFmpeg/Libav war child, I finally chose one side, and what it means daily.

TheeMahn proudly announced this past weekend that the Ultimate Edition 3.4 LTS operating system is now available for download on mirrors worldwide.

Redmond boffins burn up CPUs so you don't have to Microsoft's Blue Screen of Death is the curse of Windows. Not just its appearance, mid way through some serious game play or spreadsheeting, but the messages themselves - digital monologues on the existence of a problem, its possible causes and how you can fix it.…

The World Wide Web Consortium has released a final draft of the Selectors API Level 1 specification and presented a working draft of Level 2 at the same time. The interface simplifies the process of searching for elements in HTML documents

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Multiple new features for a non-editable view of animations in Calligra; contour data is created and removed using image analysis from UI and a ClipCommand, a page/slide navigator control for the statusbar is used in Stage and Flow; Kexi gets an option for setting default length limit of text values and Kexi forms get Date Picker widget read more

In my spare time, I work on a a simple photo roll publishing application called Pygmyfoto.