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A German court ruled on Thursday that Motorola's smartphones infringe on an Apple patent that covers certain implementations of the iPhone's "slide-to-unlock" feature. Presiding Judge Dr. Peter Guntz of the Munich I Regional Court awarded Apple a permanent injunction it can enforce against the sale or distribution of Motorola's Android-based smartphones within the country.

A recent study by a free software advocate has found that the use of the GNU General Public Licence family in the Debian GNU/Linux Project has been growing over the last seven years.

I didn't think installing ownCloud would be so easy, but it was. I downloaded the software from ownCloud, uploaded it to the server, created a database, did a quick setup, enabled WebDAV on my local machine to access the files via my native file manager (Nautilus in GNOME in Debian Squeeze, in case you are wondering) and was off to the races.

Autologin and passwordless login play a critical role in the physical security posture of your computer. In KDE, they are very easy to configure. But being easy to configure does not mean that you should. Why? From a security perspective, passwordless login falls in the same category as autologin. It is, therefore, not recommended to enable it for an account with management privileges.

ABLEconf's schedule for the Saturday March 24th event includes Linux performance tuning, mobile device forensics, technical recruiting, resume writing strategies for tech and big data.

Linux is no stranger to the Enterprise in 2012 but there are still quite a few "No Linux in my Data Center" holdouts and it's time for a little Linux education.

The Long Term Support release Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has reached its final stage of maintenance for this release with the Forth release Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS Lucid Lynx. Now it’s available to download and the other flavor of Ubuntu with KDE desktop “Kubuntu” is available as well. The final release Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin will take the place of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS which suppose to be release in April 26th,2012. However, Ubuntu will keep providing support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx desktop till 2013 and till 2015 for server.

'We've got our swagger back,' says webOS cheerleader HP CEO Meg Whitman foresees a great future for webOS, the mobile operating system that her company acquired in the $1.2bn Palm deal and is now contributing to the open source community – and part of her reasoning is based on her distrust of Google.…

Untangle is one kind of firewall and gateway which is based on Debian with the features like span blocking, web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN and much more.

4PSA, a technology leader in cloud communication software, has announced today the successful integration between VoipNow Professional, its award-winning Unified Communications solution, and Parallels Automation, the popular operations and business automation system for service providers.

With Unity getting most of the attention lately in Ubuntu and the feature-freeze coming in tomorrow, I decided to take the latest Kubuntu alpha for a spin and see how KDE 4.8 for netbooks looks and behaves. But first, a little about 12.04 as a whole.

Developers, tired of what they perceive as IT obstruction, are opting for NoOps where they provision resources using PaaS. It's working great and smart CIOs would be wise to let it continue

Apple-approved software welcome, desktop is the new fondleslab Apple released a developer preview of Mountain Lion today before the new operating system is let out of its cage in the summer.…

A quick tutorial on switching from FreeNAS to Ubuntu for a fileserver.

Intilop’s CTO, K. Masood to Present “How TCP Offload Engines scale up the TCP traffic bandwidth by up to 8x on existing Ethernet Networks”, at the Ethernet Summit in San Jose, CA USA.

I installed MS Office Professional 2010 on my Ubuntu computers and it's working fluently.

The BEST way to make a custom launcher in KDE without adding anything extra...

This tutorial describes the installation of a clustered web, email, database and DNS server to be used for redundancy, high availability and load balancing on Debian 6 with the ISPConfig 3 control panel. MySQL Master/Master replication will be used to replicate the MySQL client databases between the servers and Unison will be used to Sync the /var/www (websites) and /var/vmail (email account data) folders.

BBC creating new open source cross-platform education based IDE that will run on Raspberry Pi and Linux

RebeccaBlackOS is an Ubuntu remix dedicated to Rebecca Black, American pop singer and dancer. Besides a custom theme, the live CD also offers an opportunity to try out the Wayland display server. RebeccaBlackOS Screenshot Tour