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Former US CIO Vivek Kundra wonders if cloud security is really a valid concern when most companies and governments outsource many kinds of services absent of these worries.

Well Minecraft fans the day is upon us..

You can now experience a very Unity like environment in your Android device using GO Ubuntu Unity theme. GO Ubuntu Unity is basically a theme for GO Launcher EX which is one of the best launchers available for Android.

There's more good news out of the 2011 X.Org Developers' Conference in Chicago. Besides the big news that the S3TC patent might be invalid, PathScale has a working OpenCL compute stack, and other events, here's something very exciting: Intel really expects to have working OpenGL 3.0 support in Mesa for hardware drivers by the end of this calendar year!

Development on the free desktop have been instructive over the last few years. First, KDE stumbled and recovered with the KDE 4 series. This year, GNOME and Ubuntu introduced radically new desktops. Although both GNOME and Ubuntu seem to ignore the complaints pouring in from users while they continue on their course, Bruce Byfield wonders: Could the disastrous receptions have been avoided?

After Lindependence in 2008, thoughts turned to bigger and better large-scale events, though they never materialized. Even after a few years, Larry the Free Software Guy would still like to see these mega-events brought to life: Tuxstock (or Fossapalooza, for the younger crowd) and ELVIS: Expanding Linux Venues In the South, among others.

As you probably know, Oracle Java (JVM/JDK) will not be available in the Debian / Ubuntu repositories anymore because Oracle retired the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" (JDL) and the only release available in the repositories will be OpenJDK. You can still download it for free, but the installation is tricky, so here's how to do it in Ubuntu.

Karanbir Singh proudly announced last evening, September 13th, the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 5.7 Linux operating system.

Setting up a redundant mail relay is really simple, but what about a redundant mailstore? Learn how to use DRBD and GFS to mirror a filesystem across two servers, on Ubuntu.

Dragora GNU/Linux is Argentina-based distribution, started in 2007 by Matias A. Fonzo, a Linux enthusiast, along with just a few contributors. It is one of the few Linux distributions comprised of 100% Free/Libre Software, and endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. If you expect bells and whistles, think again, it's a distribution that focuses on simplicity, one application per task and it's aimed at people who want to learn about how a Linux system works. If this scares you, there's no need, we installed Dragora GNU/Linux 2.1 64-bit, tinkered with it, liked it, so we'll be able to get you started.

This is a nice script that will allow you to install Nvidia driver in Debian Squeeze the easy way

Traditional desktop computing has failed. It failed partly because we couldn’t handle the great power and great responsibility of a full-blown operating system. Help is here and there’s an app for that.

Fedora Fans! Here’s a chance to choose the codename of upcoming release Fedora 17. Suggesting names beginning September 13th on Fedora wiki page. Suggested names must meets the guidelines for Fedora release names to prevent eliminations.

I was asked to look into this problem where the admins wanted to have access to their Tomcat web application, without specifying the port number, or the application name. That is, visiting http://www.myecampus.info should open the application in Tomcat, and not serve Apache's home page. At the same time, they needed access to applications running on Apache itself, such as phpMyAdmin, which cannot be ported to Tomcat.

This week we interviewed Izzat Sabbagh Rodríguez, leader of the Capaware project, a multipurpose 3D virtual world development framework, sponsored and used by the government of the Canary Islands (Spain) and local companies. Enjoy the interview!

First, a disclaimer: the program Sickbeard was created for the purpose of pirating television shows from Usenet and torrent sites. I don't condone piracy of any sort, but Sickbeard has some amazing other features that make it worth mentioning.

Those of us that do real work on our computers know the value of having a physical keyboard. At the same time some of us have use for a touch screen, but don't want to carry two physical devices.

Enter the tablet/netbook hybrid.

To keep up with industrial automation standards and the increasing demands of their customers, leading global solutions provider Wasserbauer selected ITTIA DB SQL.

Would you like to touch my operating system? BUILD Steven Sinofsky has touted Windows 8 as one Microsoft's most significant redesigns since the arrival of Windows 95 more than 15 years ago.…

From thefedora 'Where's Beefy Miracle?' files:

It's that time of year again - when the Fedora community is asked to come up with the name of an upcoming Fedora release. This time it's Fedora 17, which won't be out until 2012.

Fedora 16 is currently set for release on November 1st and has the codename Verne.

The way that the Fedora naming system works is that there is supposed to be some kind of connection in name to the previous release. The Fedora 15 release was codenamed Lovelock.