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Welcome to the 191st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

VSFTPD using SSL can be a great way to protect your FTP transfers. This article will demonstrate how to set up the server, create the certificate, use FileZilla and modify the Ubuntu firewall.

Linpus Lite Desktop 1.7 is the latest stable release of Linpus Lite Desktop. The previous version, Linpus Lite Desktop 1.6, was reviewed at Linpus Lite Desktop 1.6 review. While I am still working on publishing a review of the latest version, here are a few screen shots for your viewing pleasure.

It looks like another game is likely to come to Linux: Wasteland 2. Wasteland 2 is the sequel to the wildly successful post-apocalyptic role-playing video game from 1988...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 11 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling the big (and small) open source related news in one page. This week includes the 10-year birthday of Arch Linux, NetBSD, Window Maker, Midori, Zentyal and a few others.

The Wine development release 1.5.0 is now available.

Andreas Gal, Mozilla's director of research, announced on a public mailing list today that he wants to proceed with a plan that would enable H.264 decoding on Mozilla's Boot2Gecko (B2G) mobile operating system. The proposed change would allow the video element in Mozilla's HTML rendering engine to rely on codecs that are supplied by the underlying operating system or dedicated video hardware.

more here : http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/13/2027215/mozilla-deba...

The lead Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell has announced the activation of Kubuntu Active project targeted at tablets. The project has started creating daily builds. At the moment the builds are available only for the i386 architecture, but will soon be available for ARMv7.

We are glad to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code for the 8th time. We look forward to working with great students throughout the summer again. To find out more about the program, visit the GSoC website and pay special attention to the FAQ and timeline - print it and hang it on the wall in your work room.

Analysts have become increasingly worried that the hardware business Oracle acquired in 2010 with its $5.6 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems has turned into a liability, with sales falling short of expectations.

Besides Canonical no longer sponsoring the Kubuntu distribution following the 12.04 LTS release of this KDE-focused Ubuntu derivative, there's some more changes this cycle. As a last minute change prior to next month's Kubuntu 12.04 release, Mozilla Firefox support is being dropped.

Wine 1.5.0 is a development release and it comes with a brand-new version of the Gecko engine, partial support for using the Trash on the Macintosh 10 operating system, and some fixes to the 64-bit exception handling.

It's DrupalCon season once again, which means Drupalers from all over the world will converge next week on Denver, Colorado, to educate each other about their favorite CMS and platform, and this eternal debate about CMS vs. platform seems to be at the heart of this year's event. After a recent conversation with representatives from a couple of very prominent companies in the Drupal space, Mike O'Connor, co-founder of Commerce Guys, and Amy Cham, Director of Marketing at Treehouse Agency, I am even more anxious to hop on my flight to Denver. The theme for DrupalCon Denver is "Collaborative Publishing for Every Device," and I am excited to see which new developments people will be talking about most.

Be prepared to be amazed because this is huge and would change the way you interact with multiple applications in Unity.John Lea, the lead designer shares some insights about the new Unity spread design. We cover everything you ever need to know about the new Unity spread. Read more to find out what the new design like is and how it affects you.

Daily Builds for Kubuntu Active are now available. Kubuntu Active is based on new KDE Plasma Active Tablet interface that also comes with recently launched Spark/Vivaldi tablets. Kubuntu Active is first Ubuntu based tablet distribution. Daily build iso images are based on 12.04 LTS and only i386 images are available as of now. However, ARMv7 builds will be provided soon.

Mutual Assured Destruction for web companies Open ... and Shut There's no such thing as a "defensive patent." No matter how good the intentions of the companies amassing these patents, as the recent Yahoo! broadside against Facebook shows, desperate times make for desperate patent-holders. And a desperate patent-holder will struggle against the temptation to become a troll.…

The cross platform, open source media player du jour VLC has just had a massive update to VLC 2.0 that should excite media consumers from every level...

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, announced its next Embedded and Real-Time Linux Development class to be held in San Francisco Bay Area from March 28th - 30th, 2012.

Unfortunately, ABLEconf 2012 has been cancelled. The March 24th event at University of Advancing Technology (UAT) in Tempe, Arizona, has been cancelled. Thanks to the volunteers, speakers and registrants that were participating.

I have no illusions about what Facebook has figured out about me from my activity, pictures, likes, and posts. Friends have speculated about how algorithms might effectively predict hook-ups or dating patterns based on bursts of "Facebook stalking" activity (you know you are guilty of clicking through hundreds of tagged pictures of your latest crush). David Kilpatrick uncovered that Facebook "could determine with about 33 percent accuracy who a user was going to be in a relationship with a week from now." And based on extensive networks of gay friends, MIT's Gaydar claims to be able to out those who refrain from listing their sexual orientation on the network. When I first turned on Timeline, I discovered Facebook had correctly singled out that becoming friends with Nick was a significant event of 2007

So why does Facebook care to know more about the nature of my relationship to Nick?