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Pipelight, which allows to run your favorite Silverlight application directly inside your Linux browser. The project combines the effort by Erich E. Hoover with a new browser plugin that embeds Silverlight directly in any Linux browser supporting the Netscape Plugin API. He worked on a set of Wine patches to get Playready DRM protected content working inside Wine and afterwards created an Ubuntu package called Netflix Desktop. This package allows one to use Silverlight inside a Windows version of Firefox, which works as a temporary solution but is not really user-friendly and moreover requires Wine to translate all API calls of the browser. To solve this problem we created Pipelight.

Finding the right project management solution for your team can be very hard. Finding an open source project management solution may be even harder. That's the mission of OpenProject: to build an enterprise-ready, web-based, open source project management solution that allows teams to collaborate throughout the project life cycle. Additionally, the project aims to replace proprietary software like Microsoft Project Server or Jira.

Elementary OS Luna is based on the long term support release Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. Which mean it will receive official security updates and packages from Ubuntu until April 2017. Unlike the previous version of Elementary OS “Jupiter” which based on Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat” non-LTS release, it usually received official security updates for 2 years. So, this a really good point to make the base of Elementary OS on LTS release.

Hey, geeks: Hate the great outdoors? Now you can stay in a tent in a big tent Pic London's O2 is this week hosting Campus Party - a four-day tech-fest during which as many as 10,000 software developers from across Europe get together for coding, talking and drinking. The marketing people like to call it Glastonbury For Geeks.…

How might you use the Open Data Policy Guidelines? To define open data To understand why open data is useful To make open data To share with policy makers Authored by Laurenellen McCann, national policy manager for the Sunlight Foundation. As more communities recognize the power and possibilities of sharing public data online, there is an increasing need to articulate what it means to open data—and how to create policies that can not only support these efforts, but do so in a sustainable and ambitious way.

Microsoft to buy Nokia for less than they paid for Skype. Steven Elop to transfer back to Microsoft after the transaction is complete. Read the full Microsoft press release...

New kernel, new backing for Kubuntu and OpenBEL

The open-source Python programming language has continued to steadily improve its code quality in recent years and now surpasses that of its open-source and proprietary peers, according to a study published by development testing vendor Coverity.

For those not paying attention, Linus Torvalds has done a Labor Day release of the Linux 3.11 kernel...

The main reason I don’t usually pay any attention to these discussions on choice, however, is that I’m already firmly rooted in the camp that supports choice. Of course there are a gazillian distros. That’s the Linux gene pool. It’s a strength that helps keep Linux healthy and what keeps the operating system from being a one-size-fits-all solution that actually fits no one (like, say, Windows).

On September 1, 2013, Arch Linux users were happy to find out that the Arch developers updated the LibreOffice packages to the latest stable version, 4.1.1, which was released a last week, on August 29, 2013.

A few hours ago, on September 2, 2013, Linus Torvalds happily announced the immediate availability for download of the final release of Linux kernel 3.11.

Versions don't matter, because Google now controls the platform behind the platform. Android 4.3 was released to Nexus devices a little over a month ago, but, as is usual with Android updates, it's taking much longer to roll out the general public. Right now, a little over six percent of Android users have the latest version. And if you pay attention to the various Android forums out there, you may have noticed something: no one cares.

Rumors are swirling that Windows 10 will be based in the cloud; this is fantastic news for Linux!

While Btrfs isn't always the fastest file-system, it makes up for in other areas not covered by benchmarks like transparent file-system compression, checksumming, online resizing, native RAID, online disk management, error recovering, and snapshot support. Since deploying Btrfs on a local storage server, the engineering manager of product strategy at Canonical proclaimed in today's blog post, "I love Btrfs."

Here's how you can install Wine 1.7.1 to your 32-bit or 64-bit Elementary OS 0.2 Luna computer. This tip also works for Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint 14.

Some of you may remember back in June we did an interview with John 'Irritant' Diamond and the guys working on 'Alien Arena', the fast-paced multiplayer deathmatch. During our conversation, John mention Alien Arena Tactical.

Today in Open Source: GNOME dumps Google from web search. Plus: Hot Tin Roof game preview, and tons of new games headed for Linux!

One of the most basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a clock utility. The clock typically resides in the taskbar /menubar, showing the current system time.

Besides being a server administration panel, Ajenti may also be used by developers as a rapid-development platform to create Web frontends, and by hardware vendors to create Web interfaces.