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It seems that Google has got a sweet tooth. The company has developed almost a tradition ever since it launched Android for the smart phone market. Every new build of its increasingly hot operating system for smart phones and tablets is named after a dessert. Its versions are named alphabetically, and the latest one is Ice cream sandwich.

After years of being held in capital cities, Australia's national Linux conference, the LCA, is set to be held in a regional town for the first time in 2012.

NVIDIA has created a new branch of their proprietary Linux graphics driver. This new driver is for the "long-lived" series. The purpose of this series is to provide just bug-fixes and other minor updates for non-legacy hardware. In other words, like their legacy drivers where they just receive minor updates, but for those just wanting these fixes for newer hardware while not exposing any new functionality...

DickMacInnis.com would like to thank everyone who has helped make Dream Studio 11.04 a resounding success, having quadrupled our user base in the 3 weeks since it's release. Thanks to community suggestions, we're proud to release our first fully 64-bit version today!

As the Fuduntu Linux distribution has grown over the past 10 months, our processes and procedures have matured helping us deliver a relatively painless upgrade process. Fuduntu users are able to enjoy many of the latest technologies including the latest Chromium, Firefox 6, and Kernel 3.0.x without sacrificing the stability or security of our base platform.

Intel announced a series of 25-nanometer, multi-level cell (MLC) solid state drive (SSD) chips aimed at enterprise data centers as well as embedded applications. The Intel SSD 710 Series is available in 100GB, 200GB, and 300GB capacities, and offers roughly the same endurance as standard SLC-based NAND SSDs, but with more than 30 times the write endurance of Intel's current MLC SSDs, claims Intel....

ALT Linux, published by ALT Linux Ltd., a software vendor based in Moscow, Russia, is a distribution that originated from what used to be Mandrake Linux, now Mandriva Desktop. The first review of an ALT Linux Simply edition on this website, was of Simply Linux 5

This srticle is a review of ALT Linux 6 Simply, which was released on the same day as ALT Linux 6 KDesktop.

Like the KDE edition, 32- and 64-bit installation ISO images are available for download. The test installations, on real hardware and virtual environments, used for this review, were all done using the 32-bit edition.

The debate that started back up again this week at XDC2011 Chicago about merging drivers back into the X.Org Server has now moved online. Jesse Barnes has published the pros / cons that were mentioned at the X.Org Developers' Conference this week to the X.Org development mailing list for developers to now debate the idea online. This has been a hotly disputed matter for the past two years...

In a former article i’ve show how to use Screen and Byobu, in short Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes (typically interactive shells) while Byobu is an elegant enhancement of the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen. Byobu includes an enhanced profile and configuration utilities for the GNU screen window manager, such as toggle-able system status notifications.

But today we’ll see something similar, but different: Tmux

I could write many pages, but it all comes down to one concept: ethics.

When I talk about Free Software, I talk about not only about freedom, but also community and good will from the software author. The latter probably is the most important one.

You write Free Software because you want to contribute to the community. It’s an act of social activism. It’s about sharing and helping out.

Google purchased 1,023 patents from IBM to help it fight back in the patent wars. Meanwhile, an analyst says Motorola Mobility blackmailed Google into paying a high price for the company, Samsung and Apple trade Galaxy Pad-related lawsuits in France and Japan, respectively, and analysts debate which company had the most to gain in this week's Android pact between Google and Intel....

Gnome 3.0 was revolutionary, but at the same time there were some stupid mistakes. One of the biggest complaints about the gnome 3.0 was that (for laptop users) when the laptop lid was closed, the desktop went to suspend mode.

Ah another day, another development environment, but with a radical shift by Microsoft both in terms of development and interface, should you take a wait and see approach to Windows 8 (especially when Win7 is stable)?

Do you have a Facebook page? If you do, you are among the 600 million users who actively use the social-networking service. I'll admit I initially resisted the temptation to join Facebook. After all, I've got e-mail, instant messaging and VoIP. What do I need with yet another form of communication? Eventually, temptation got the better of me, and I gave it a try. For the record, I also experimented with MySpace and Twitter, but those sites just didn't seem to do anything for me. These days, every time I go to my computer, I check my servers, my e-mail and my Facebook.

How to get your software sold Canonical has set up a site to help developers package and sell the code they produce. The site is designed to help to popularize the operating system, encourage new popular apps, and create more commission revenue for the open source organization.…

Axiomtek announced a rugged, DIN-rail industrial computer with power isolation features and ruggedization protection against ingress, shock, vibration, and temperature. The fanless rBOX101 is equipped with Intel Atom Z510PT (1.1GHz) or Z520PT (1.33GHz) processors, magnetically isolated 10/100/1000 and 10/100 Ethernet ports, dual USB 2.0 ports, and either four (rBOX101-4COM model), or six (rBOX101-6COM) isolated COM ports, according to the company....

Even while Microsoft seems to suddenly get the whole desktop-cloud-mobile connection, I can't help but wonder if this magical transformation is real or just more grist from the Microsoft Hype Machine.

PDFCube is a tiny (<100KiB) program to render PDF presentations with special 3D effects. It adds eye-candy to your PDF presentations, even Latex, Beamer and Prosper ones. The main effect we see is to rotate a cube, like the Compiz effect, to turn the page and also includes the zoom to 5 predefined areas of the screen.

GNOME Shell 3.1.91.1 has been released today and comes with many bug fixes and just one new feature. But this is a really interesting feature: a "browser plugin which will enable convenient installation of extensions from extensions.gnome.org".

Connie Sieh announced last evening, September 14th, the immediate availability for download of the Scientific Linux 5.7 operating system, for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.