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Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin beta 1 has been released today and it includes a huge number of changes since alpha 2, so let's take a look at what's new.

Wakfu a free or subscription based (for premium content) RPG game by Square Enix and ANKAMA has now launched and is available on Windows, Mac and Linux

Sebastian Krahmer (@steaIth, c-skills) made and released a nice SSH/HTTP(S) multiplexer: sshttp. Such a program is needed when you want to share your HTTP (or HTTPS) port with SSH to be able to use SSH when behind a network that only allows outbound connections to HTTP (or HTTPS) and does not bother to do protocol inspection.

He further suggests to the developers who are security conscious, "So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place." Linus is now looking for a new Linux distribution. " I need to find a new distro that actually works on the Macbook Air."

And while the Raspberry Pi does target students, which is the most admirable of goals, it also puts a lot of computing power into the hands of anyone looking to create something interesting. $25 for a computing device is just incredible.

Uh… Why? First, I should say that this guide is a guide for performing a very trivial task. There is nothing difficult here that would prevent an average user from installing the Faenza icon set in KDE. The only issue is that KDE does a bad job of advertising it’s ability to easily install themes, window decorations, icons and color schemes, among other things. In fact, it doesn’t really advertise it at all…

Android is a free OS and so far nobody has been able to get around the cost of hardware to produce a decent non-subsidized cell phone for $20. Telefonica Digital believes it can running the new Mozilla OS, but it's going to face some serious obstacles.

Familiarity breeds ennui, and even though Bash is the default Linux command shell used daily by hordes of contented users, it contains a wealth of interesting and useful features that don't get much attention. Today we shall learn about Bash builtins and killing potential.

The XBMC project has released its first release candidate of the forthcoming XBMC 11.0 "Eden" multi-media application...

Even the most hardcore Linux fan would admit that their favorite OS has not captured more than a very small market share on personal computers. And that would include us here at Pingdom: all of our engineers and 50% of or our developers are, in fact, running Linux.

Ubuntu has enjoyed great success, and more recently Mint, as well. But Linux desktop OS doesn’t seem to be able to break free and climb above the low single digits in market share.

But that may be changing if the latest numbers are anything to go by.

The open source mapping solution replaces Google Maps on Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service...

According to a report by Canalys, Android apps, when compared to the apps found in the iTunes App Store, are more on the expensive side. The survey was done by comparing the top 100 paid apps from both the marketplaces, and it was found that Android apps cost, on average, 2.5 times more than their iOS counterparts.

First, let’s lay out the situation. You have a site named mystore.com. It has a cart so you’ve set it up with SSL. Now, you’re redesigning it and have the subdomain newsite.mystore.com set up under your main account in cPanel for your redesign space. You’ve started your redesign, but you find out quickly that SSL is not set up on this new subdomain and you can’t find a way within cPanel to accomplish this.

Our first topic of discussion is distribution menageries. Some people, with a drive I confess I cannot even begin to understand, install distributions. And fanboys; people who write window$, M$ (winzort is popular here) and claim that Microsoft is out to conquer the world.

This tutorial will show you how to install the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13, on Fedora 16 as well as on OpenSUSE 12.1. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface.

Unity has been updated to version 5.4.0 which also sees the introduction of the new HUD feature. HUD still apparently has many outstanding bugs, but developers maintain that all bugs will be ironed out before Ubuntu 12.04 goes gold. also added recommendations to Ubuntu software center, new tool called “privacy”and other small new features.

Take a quick poll to help Dick MacInnis choose an alternate UI for Dream Studio.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last night, February 29th, that the nine maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 series is available for download.

Handbrake, the absolute ‘gold-standard’ in video trans-coding for Linux, Windows and Mac, has reached version 0.9.6. For a full list of changes, please read the release notes here. Not surprisingly, the staff at The Powerbase is mostly concerned with changes that affect the Linux version. Here they are;

This article lists the top ten features that will appeal primarily to enterprise users. Keep in mind that most of them have not been fully implemented in Fedora 17 alpha, the first public release of what would become Fedora 17.

The features in alphabetical order, are: