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Code review is a practice that facilitates the rapid collaboration, sharing of knowledge, and supreme quality typical in open source projects. The code review social structure is a defining characteristic of a project. What is the best social structure for an open source project?

Virtual Hosting With PureFTPd And MySQL (Incl. Quota And Bandwidth Management) On Fedora 20 This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database.

Suppose you are a go to person among your friends and family when it comes to Linux related questions. Someone asked you how to install and configure a tool, and you wanted to show the procedures. How would you do that if he or she is not in front of you? There could be various ways (e.g., by documenting and emailing the procedures, or explaining verbally over the phone, etc), but probably the most clearcut solution would be to demonstrate it yourself. If the demonstration only requires a terminal, then the best way would be use terminal screencast or terminal session recorder.

The GNOME Desktop project often gets a lot of flack for its design decisions, many of which turn perfectly good, usable applications into unusable crud.

For years, the government has upheld the principle of “Net neutrality,” the belief that everyone should have equal access to the web without preferential treatment. But now, Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and a former cable and telecommunications top gun, is circulating potential new rules that reportedly would put a price tag on climbing aboard the Internet.

The Ubuntu for Android project was launched in early 2012 with the aim to merge Android Mobile and Ubuntu Linux desktop. According to Canonical, the project has been shelved for now and is not under active development.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted is a freedom sandbox stealth experience, where each playthrough is unique, thanks to the British Countryside Generator. Escape from these robot-infested islands with violence, trickery and stealth.

A Linux user sent a shot in the dark to the Codemasters team with decent results. It's a matter of when now and not if! So, Linux could see another AAA racer come our way in future.

LXer Feature: 04-May-2014

The first week of May and the summer heat has arrived here in Phoenix. In the Roundup this week we have Keith Curtis learning to love Heartbleed, Google's Web Designer comes to Linux, Red Hat acquires Inktank, a nice Konqueror vs Firefox review (Konqueror was the first native Linux browser I used when I switched years ago), the new Firefox 29 looks a lot like Chrome if you ask me, the FCC chairman does nothing to instill any confidence in me and it being May 4th I hope you have a Happy Star Wars Day. Enjoy!

Individuals wanting to learn about the Fortran programming language have a wide variety of books to choose from. There are thousands of Fortran books that are in-print and available to download or buy at reasonable cost. However, there are also some good free books for Fortran.

After months of development, the team behind popular media center software XBMC have released XBMC 13 “Gotham.” The software provides a full-screen experience for navigating media on a Windows, Linux, Mac. or Android system.

Some hot news today is that Epic Games is working on a next-gen Unreal Tournament and it's not out of the realm of possibility that it will see a Linux client since Unreal Engine 4.1+ now officially supports Linux.

Allied Electronics, Fort Worth TX, will provide a Model A Raspberry Pi computer board to each one of the more than 130 high school-age Dean's List Award finalists who participated in the 2014 FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) season. The Dean's List Award began in 2010 to recognize the leadership and dedication of the most outstanding FRC students.

More than 130 Dean's List Award finalists were recognized during a ceremony at the 2014 FIRST Championship event, held recently in St. Louis MO, which involved more than 10,000 participants and 30,000 spectators.

Sometimes we like to watch cool starting and ends of videos (like the heart touching ending), but after a time those could become repetitive and boring. Also, if you are just starting to watch a series recommended by others, those extra 5 minutes could be saved to watch next video and progress quickly. In this tutorial, I wish to tackle that problem. Since I love mplayer/smplayer for playing most videos, I am not going to deviate from those lines. Therefore, I am going to use mpv (mpv is a fork of mplayer2 and MPlayer) for our purpose.

From May 16th to 18th, Málaga is hosting Akademy-es 2014 in Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieria de Telecomunicación of Universidad de Málaga. This event is organized by KDE España, Linux Málaga and Bitvalley, and represents the return of a KDE event to Málaga 9 years after it hosted Akademy 2005.

Security experts have warned Facebook users in India not to fall for a new scam which tricks victims into "self cross-site scripting" by promising access to a tool which will let them hack their friends' accounts.

Valve have delivered big with the latest Steam beta-client update with enabling in-home streaming for one and all! Masses of fixes everywhere on this one.

Recent upgrade firefox up to 29.0-5 on Fedora 20 causes to fail login to Dashboard Console for Havana F20 Controller been setup per 'VNC Console in Dashboard on Two Node Neutron GRE+OVS F20 Cluster' @Lxer.com. Procedure bellow, actually, does a backport F21 packages python-django-horizon-2104.1-1 , python-django-openstack-auth-1.1.5-1, python-pbr-0.7.0-2 via manual install of corresponding SRC.RPMs and invoking rpmbuild utility to produce F20 packages. The hard thing to know is which packages to backport ?

Lubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr is an official derivative of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS based on the Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment (LXDE). On this release, as the Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Lubuntu 14.04 also come with LTS version, it mean will be supported for 3 years.

The second blockbuster Apple v. Samsung patent trial has ended, and it looks like a Pyrrhic victory for Apple.