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The news today is that Microsoft seem to be in the process of buying has bought Skype for something around $8.5 billion. So what will happen to Linux support for Skype ? No one knows it at the moment but I can imagine nothing too good, in the best scenario, that I can imagine at the moment, the new Skype servers are still open to Linux clients, but the support on our operating system is left back and over some time using Skype on Linux become almost impossible. But perhaps it’s better to talk to something else…what do you know about XMPP/Jingle ?

Offensive Security, leaders in Online information security training, proudly announced a few minutes ago, May 10th, the immediate availability for download of the new and highly anticipated BackTrack 5 release, an extremely popular security oriented operating system.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is probably the most criticized may be even a tad too under rated Ubuntu release ever. But as we had noted in our previous Ubuntu 11.04 review, it doesn't feel that bad for everyone anyway. Application Indicators are good way to extend the functionality of brand new Ubuntu 11.04 and here are some of the most useful among them.

Google has said that the next version of Android, dubbed "Ice Cream Sandwich", will be open sourced "by the end of the year," and that it will not open source the current Android incarnation, Honeycomb, before that time. Earlier this year, the latest version of Android, the tablet-centric Honeycomb, debuted on the Motorola Xoom tablet. It was soon revealed, however – by the press, not by Google – that the company had no intention of immediately open sourcing Honeycomb. Typically, Google develops the latest version of Android behind closed doors, before releasing the OS to open source around the time the first devices hit the market.

If a blog is simply a regurgitation of the news or is a preachy forum for a frustrated know-it-all, it isn’t worth much to you.

A full review of Kubuntu 11.04, including a gallery of images.

I'm giving my first baby steps at learning Django. Right up front I saw the installation procedure and it talked about requiring an administrator to do the installation or copy the django directory inside the Djando tar ball to site-packages.... I personally don't like doing these kind of things so I sat down for a while to see how it could be done without requiring running setup.py at all. It's like this.

Novell has completed a final deal, selling the company, including its SUSE Linux business, to Attachmate for $2.2bn. US Jobs Axed as SUSE Linux Moved Back to German HQ…

With the release of Ubuntu 11.04, at the end of April, the countdown for Linux Mint new release had begun. As Lefebvre, the founder and developer of Linux Mint, announced the release candidate Katya for version 11 of Linux Mint, the moment of discovery is here.

I thought you'd like to see the Apache subpoena [PDF] that Oracle just sent them. Specifically, it's a Boies Schiller production, as you can see at the bottom of page one.

And there are more filings, a notice of a case management conference at 7 in the morning on May 11, believe it or not, the claim construction order, with a long description of Java, also a letter from Oracle complaining about Google, followed by an order from the judge, who has clearly had it with the parties' inability to get things settled without his intervention on every little dispute. He's sending all discovery disputes to a randomly selected magistrate.

Digital books, aka “ebooks” are going to change the publishing world just as iTunes and digital music have changed the music industry.

The MEPIS project announced the release of the Debian Linux based SimplyMEPIS distribution. SimplyMEPIS 11 moves up to Linux kernel 2.6.36.4 and the KDE 4.51 desktop, switches from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice 3.3.2, and provides FireFox 4.0, which was recently recompiled to run much faster on Linux....

Microsoft is picking up Skype for around $8 billion. The move means big changes for Microsoft's place in the cloud and mobile markets... and probably the end of the road for Skype for Linux.

Are you using Gmail? Nearly 50% of the FSF's 40,000 strong supporter mailing list has an @gmail.com email address. JavaScript, once lauded for adding simple visual effects to web pages, is now used by web sites like Gmail to run powerful programs on your computer. These programs, like any other program running on your computer, should be free software. But right now, the vast majority of JavaScript programs do not respect your essential freedoms to run, study, modify and share them. They take control of your computer away from you; the same control we have been working for over 25 years to protect.

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, proudly announced last evening, May 9th, the immediate availablity for download and testing of the Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux Mint 11 operating system.

Ubuntu Linux Satanic Edition may sound like it's just a joke. But in its own way it makes an important about free software.

Rebuild procedure of regular qemu-kvm package to support spice on Natty Narwhal follows bellow. It depends on all packages from ppa:serge-hallyn/spice2 except qemu-kvm-spice. New packages install spice enabled /usr/bin/qemu* binaries and graphical spice client. I just disabled libvirtd's AppArmor profile to be able manage domains via virt-manager. Spice install may be performed via virt-install. It would understand options "--graphics spice", "--video qxl". All required packages have been uploaded and built in PPA Spice on Ubuntu 11.04

Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu operating system, announced yesterday, May 9th, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest that Canonical's goal is to have 200 million Ubuntu users by 2015.

Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play in the increasingly-converged worlds of communication, information and entertainment.

rine is a familiar Alternative Games (for Linux) release as part of the Humble Indie Bundle (third). An original FrozenByte product, it is for those gamers who want the logic of puzzle solving in their hardcore gaming environment. Add to it the fact that it is developed around popular concepts of physics and …that it is today offered as open source Linux game the joy of exploring it visibly doubles, triples!