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There are many reasons I prefer Linux. Near the top of the list is that I’m a tweaker. Someone who enjoys making changes and having things “My Way”, like the song by Frank Sinatra. Linux has many configuration files, most of which “lurk” in the “/etc” folder. These files are used to configure the mounting of drives, network lists like what IP address goes with what computer name, passwords and admin access, application configuration and even what the boot menu looks like. “Under the Hood” Linux is highly customizable.

Nokia would abnegate the ownership of Qt, a cross-platform C++ application framework, shortly. Nokia would comply byopen-governance and would remain as 'Maintainers of Qt', said Kalle Karkas, head of Operator Marketing, Nokia, Finland at the third edition of the Nokia Developer Conference 2011 held in Bangalore today. Nokia would continue to invest in Qt and it has been recruiting people in this arena. He added that Nokia is not porting Qt to other platform but the company intends to focus on the developers community.

According to a message on the Fedora mailing list, GNOME Shell should work without 3D acceleration in Fedora 17:

This week we look at Internet Explorer's plunging numbers, Apple's sand box and ridiculous EULA clauses.

I have met and interviewed almost all of the leaders of the free software and Linux world. I interviewed Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux in 2006 when Forbes published a story that Linux infringes upon Microsoft’s license. That was a long interview. Ever since 2006, I wanted to meet Linus in person. And LinuxCon was the closest opportunity I could get to meet Linus. We were able to have a 50-minute, one-to-one interview with Linus Torvalds. Here is the complete interview.

Sam Ramji insisted that he wasn’t joking, that he wasn’t crazy, and that he hadn’t joined some sort of dark Microsoft conspiracy. The year was 2006, and Ramji had just been named Microsoft’s head of open source software strategy. Up to then, Redmond’s most famous contribution to the open source community was CEO Steve Ballmer comparing Linux to a malignant cancer. Even Ramji was skeptical — and a little afraid — of his new job.

Clonezilla Live CD maker, Steven Shiau, proudly announced on November 2nd a new stable version of his GParted Live CD operating system for partitioning tasks.

It’s been a couple of days since NaNoWriMo began. For those living under a rock, NaNoWriMo is an annual creative contest wherein participants have to churn out a 50,000 words novel in a short span of 30 days. The event which had over 200,000 participants last year, has gained a huge following among professional writers as well as aspiring ones. In case you’re a Linux user who is taking part in the contest, here are 5 essential applications that will help you get closer to your goal.

LOS ANGELES – The SCALE 10X team announces that registration has opened for the first-of-the-year Linux expo in North America To register for SCALE 10X, visit http://www.socallinuxexpo.org and click on the Registration tab. Admission for SCALE 10X ranges from $10 for an Expo Only Ticket to $60 for a Full Access Pass. The Linux Beginner’s Training Class, a separate admission, is $25.

Sometimes things go wrong that are completely out of your control including natural disasters and freaks of nature, but that doesn't mean powerful people won't use the situation to point the finger of blame at you.

The 2011 Kernel Summit was held in Prague on October 23-25. The organization of the event was changed somewhat this year; the first day was dedicated to a small number of minisummits. We do not currently have coverage from those events - that is a gap we hope to fill in the near future.

Linux is 20 years old this year, and for most of those years I’ve been hearing about how the ‘Year of the Linux desktop’ is coming. It’s not coming. Linux it’s stuck permanently at a 1% market share. And that’s where it’ll be ten years from now. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no hope for the OS.

This Linux distribution is one of very few systems to ship KDE3 nowadays, and the only one I know which uses KDE3 with Debian base.

Blender project, in collaboration with iTechnologie is developing a web browser plugin, Burster which will allow playing games made in Blender in a web browser. It is especially dedicated to Blender users, who creates interactive 3D demonstrations of various processes or products. However, it can be used by web developers or companies creating interactive web content. Many contributors of other open source projects (Inkscape, Gimp, Netbeans, Joomla, Apache+php+Mysql) have contributed in developing Burster.

Besides everything else that went on today at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release, initial plans for Ubuntu on mobile smart phones were laid out...

IEI announced a ruggedized, fanless panel PC with extensive wireless options. The vehicle-oriented UPC-V312-D525 offers an Intel Atom D525 processor, a 12.1-inch 1024 x 768 display, CompactFlash, a 1.3 megapixel camera, plus redundant DC power supplies, according to the company....

Reducing the bugs, improving the execution Since world+dog uses multithreaded software, it’s nice to know that someone cares about what goes wrong with it.…

Gnucash is a great tool to keep the budget of the family, and from the version 2.4.0 supports connection to a database, SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL for data storage. Using a local database, however, tie to a specific computer for its use. Instead I want to be able to open a GnuCash session from any computer and connect to a single, remote, database.

Enable remote connections to the database from the whole net is very unsafe, but a SSH tunnel gives me a lightweight and reliable alternative .

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After recently comparing the AMD Bulldozer with the GCC, Open64, and LLVM/Clang compilers, in this article is a look at the performance of AMD's Open64 compiler when using their recommended compiler tuning options for Bulldozer when building software.