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Mayer poaches mobile talent from old stomping grounds. The former head of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) at Google has jumped ship to the competition. Jean-Baptiste Quéru announced that he has accepted a job at Yahoo! via his Twitter feed on Tuesday, and the Purple Palace quickly responded with a welcome tweet.

Ramone 0.97 has been released. Ramone is a DIY GNU/Linux distribution based on LFS (Linux From Scratch) project. RPM is used as Ramone's package manager, and you can use 'yum', 'mock' on Ramone. The default desktop environment is GNOME, and KDE, XFCE, LXDE are also supported. There are two architectures in Ramone release now: i686 and x86_64.

Canonical announced a few minutes ago, September 17, that they've updated the Mozilla Firefox packages to version 24.0, on all their supported Ubuntu operating systems, making Ubuntu the first Linux distribution with Firefox 24.

Want a really easy orchestration tool for Ubuntu on Microsoft's Azure cloud? It's here now with Ubuntu Juju.

Gaetan Bisson has announced on September 17 that the /etc/sysctl.conf configuration file will be deprecated in the Arch Linux operating system, because of systemd 207 or later.

Jolla announced that its Sailfish OS is now fully compatible with Android, letting the Linux-based mobile OS run Android apps, as well as operate on hardware configured for Android. Jolla also announced that a second batch of pre-orders for its Sailfish-based Jolla phones will open later this week, after having sold out its first shipment in August.

App Grid can essentially be seen as an equivalent to the Ubuntu Software Center, but done differently. The hope is that you will be able to discover and install apps for your computer with pleasure. This is a initial release, so there are still many improvements that could be made.

LXDE is a desktop environment, which aims the low-performance hardware and old computers. However, you can use it on with modern computers and accessories too, making them flashing fast. LXLE is an Ubuntu based distribution using LXDE desktop with the LTS kernel. It has some added features not found in Lubuntu. We will try to mimic them in Debian.

For a long time its been stated that to secure your Linux machine you should change the default port number of services such as SSH and your favorite web server. While this is still a good step to take if you’re overly paranoid (or tired of port scanning alerts…), there’s got to be better ways to do this, right? Well, you would be correct! Here we will secure SSH with Google Authenticator to create a two-factor authentication method.

Worried about the NSA and other online eavesdroppers? Then startup QSAlpha is working on the smartphone for you.

Today in Open Source: Linux might be the future of gaming. Plus: Download Firefox 24, and 12 essential Android apps

Despite the rise in the number of patent trolls launching lawsuits affecting open source software, there are some glimmers of hope. The America Invents Act that was signed into law in September 2011 has provided new ways to prevent the issuance of over-broad software patents that could fuel future lawsuits.

GNOME 3.10 should be released this month, on September 25, and every Linux users who uses it expects the unexpected, so we thought it will be a very good idea to preview some of its upcoming features.

If you want to know what video/audio codec are used for the video file you downloaded from somewhere, you can play the video itself with VLC or MPlayer. There are also command-line utilities that allow you to determine video properties quickly. This tutorial describes how to check video formats from the command line on Linux.

Rising open source tide carries all boats, IBM hopes After opening up its Power chips to bit fiddlers through an ARM-style licensee model, IBM is pouring $1bn into Linux development on the architecture.…

Nearly a decade ago, two friends set out to create a full project management platform for open source software called Bountysource. The year was 2004 and the friends were Warren Konkel and David Rappo, and their vision included creating code repositories, file hosting, issue tracking, and bounty support.

For those of you needing to install Ubuntu for the first time, you may not be sure how to install Ubuntu or what steps are included in this install. Thankfully, you found an article that may help you completely. In this tutorial, I will walk the readers through the whole installation process of Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring). The previous and most likely future versions are the same plus or minus a few options.

The gamers among us waited... very... patiently... for Steam to come to Linux. This week, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell came to LinuxCon to talk about Linux, gaming, and how important open source is to the future of gaming, which given the audience, he described as "sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the Pope." In even better news, he also strongly hinted at a Steam Box announcement next week. A company built on Linux sees the future of gaming

Acrosser announced a Fedora Linux-ready Mini-ITX single board computer (SBC) equipped with a dual-core 1.86GHz Intel Atom D2550. The AMB-D255T3 supports up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, can run dual displays via VGA, HDMI, or 18-bit LVDS interfaces, and offers both PCI and Mini-PCIe expansion. The Intel Atom D2550-based “Cedar Trail” platform has been a […]

In most of the environments Linux and windows operating system are used , and to share the files & printers between linux and windows platform Samba is used.