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Xiwtool simplifies connecting a Linux computer's wireless card to a nearby Wireless Access Point, allows anyone to browse nearby networks, and can help you configure a Linux machine to connect to wireless networks.

While browsing the tubes today i stumbled across this post. I began to read the sob story totally un-aware of who its author was. It was in fact open source, indie games developer Luke Duke. Recently Luke drew attention with the release of his "Linux Tycoon" RTS .

(Sacramento, CA, USA: April 3, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at Indiana LinuxFest (ILF: http://www.indianalinux.org/), April 13-15, 2012 at the Wyndam Indianapolis West Hotel, Indianapolis. During the conference LPI will also host an information booth and LPIC-1 Exam Cram sessions.

In this tutorial I will describe how to setup gitorious on Ubuntu 11.10. Gitorious – a Ruby on Rails web application – can be used to conclude git projects in an easy to manage user interface.

ownCloud yesterday announced their commercial offering and clients GNU/Linux based distributions, mainly Fedora and openSUSE. ownCloud is better option than proprietary Dropbox for those who have their own servers, as you and only you have access to your data.

Bodhi Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution based on the LTS releases of Ubuntu. It makes use of the Enlightenment window manager and includes several unique features you won’t find on any other distro. I switched over to the recent release of Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 for two weeks and grew to love this little lightweight.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the April 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

The Powerbase interviews Jeremey Parker who hacked NASA, stole $250,000 and served 2 years for his crime.

While Steam for Linux is currently being developed, Linux users can already today use the digital game distribution service Desura. Desura is very similar to Steam and offers a very extensive collection of games for Linux.

Almost two years ago, The Linux Foundation launched the Open Compliance Program to help companies manage their end-to-end open source license compliance processes. We have continually added papers, training, tutorials, and dedicated Legal/Compliance session tracks at conferences like Collaboration Summit to help make compliance processes easier to understand, and more cost-effective to implement.

DragonFlyBSD is a shining example of BSD-style operating-system diversity melded with (also BSD-style) project-to-project cooperation -- and (also BSD-style) one man's quest (with the usual hearty band of supporters) to bring his vision to servers, appliances and even desktops near you.

Mageia is nearly in its second iteration, and the Mandriva fork has gone a long way to establish its own identity while retaining the best bits

In March Rob Weir put up a blog entry entitled “Where did the time go? (A look at the Apache OpenOffice timeline)”, showing the slow progress of Apache OpenOffice through the process of acceptance into the Apache fold. Richard Hillesley looks at the issues…

Father of Linus Torvalds, Nils Torvalds will be a member of the European parliament. This is because Carl Haglund, now a member of the European Parliament is rising to the chairman of The Swedish People´s Party in Finnland, and he will leave his place in ´the parliament.

Reverse SSH tunneling is a common technique for making a machine sitting behind NAT accessible from the Internet. Usually, this involves some command-line trickery, but localtunnel provides a hassle-free way to enable access to a server on a local network.

- OpenStack®, the open source cloud operating system, today released “Essex”, the fifth version of its community-driven software, with a focus on quality, usability and extensibility across enterprise, service provider and high performance computing (HPC) deployments. OpenStack Essex allows users across the globe to leverage pools of on-demand, self-managed compute, storage and networking resources to build efficient, automated private and public cloud infrastructures.

When it comes to Ubuntu, Canonica’s Linux distribution, most pundits keep close tabs on April and October. Like clockwork, Canonical always releases Ubuntu upgrades during those months. Indeed, Canonical is beta testing Ubuntu 12.04 (code-named Precise Pangolin) now and expects to ship the new Linux release on April 26. Ubuntu 12.04 is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, which means it may appeal to businesses. But is Canonical doing enough to catch on with corporations? Here is some perspective.

Elementary GTK theme 3.0 has been updated to version 3.0, this being the first stable release that supports GTK3. Here’s Changes in elementary GTK theme 3.0 since the previous stable release: GTK3 support, including :backdrop class

Adding a dash of color tint to a black and white photo can often produce a dramatic effect, and digiKam does have a handful of toning filters for you to try.

And that is what this tutorial is all about. Very briefly, with screen shots to clarify, but detailed enough for a new user to get the whole picture, it describes the different user account types on a desktop using the GNOME 3 desktop environment, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu-based distributions.