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Stallman speaks about erosion of freedom on the Internet

In this article, we will see different methods to get the count of the total lines in a file.

Linux vendor Red Hat today announced the appointment of former VMware exec Scott Musson as Red Hat's new VP of Global Strategic Alliances. That's a big job and a critical one for the present and future growth of Red Hat.

XenServer, the first major open-source hypervisor, returns to its open-source roots with its latest Citrix release.

After recently delivering a 15-way open-source Intel/AMD/NVIDIA GPU comparison, here are the benchmarks when tossing in the proprietary AMD Catalyst and NVIDIA graphics drivers too. Besides comparing a diverse selection of graphics processors from the three main desktop GPU vendors, this comparison also shows how the current open-source Linux graphics drivers compare to the official proprietary drivers.

Before the PC, computers were devices: custom hardware combined with software specifically written for the machine, and the machines themselves were usually designed for a select few (if not single) purposes. The problem that PCs seemed to address was diversity. Where customers had previously relied on one company to support both hardware and software, the PC clones opened the doors to a brave new world where anyone could build, support, or maintain a computer. It was a revolution that made computers affordable enough for anyone to own, for any business to adopt, and allowed countless entrepreneurs and skilled technicians to find work for themselves: outside the confines of long established corporate hierarchies. Unfortunately, the open source software revolution took much longer.

These games are designed for toddlers (age 1 - 3), but if the child has no experience with a computer/mouse, these learning games are great for children above this age. All the games can go in full-screen mode and all of them have sounds. They only require the mouse to play the games, however, some of them have optional keyboard commands also...

According to PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) 2013 Patent Litigation Study, 2012 was a "banner year for patent infringement litigation." Patent actions continued their dramatic rise in 2012 with 5,189 filings—the highest number ever recorded, and a 29% rise over last year, primarily resulting from the impact of the anti-joinder provision of the America Invents Act. Meanwhile, the 2012 median damages award, boosted by several unusually large damages awards, rose to nearly $10 million, which is double the average award seen over the previous six years.

The hostname defaults to localhost. If you are logged in, you can verify that by typing hostname at a shell terminal, or clicking the Details module in System Settings, where the hostname should be listed in the Device name field.

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and SquirrelMail.

For every business organization on Internet, viruses, worms, and crackers are but a few security threats. Above all we cannot tell as to when, where and how our data or any other valuable information will be compromised. The only thing we can do to ensure the safety of our data is to take preventive measures. Honeypots are one such preventive software that are employed in a network to study the trail of unauthorized access and at the same time alert the network administrator of a possible intrusion. Actually, it is a trap set to detect attempts at unauthorized use of information system. The attacker always thinks that he is extracting some useful information but in turn a honeypot installed system attracts him away from the critical resources and traps him by following his trail. The value of a Honeypot lies in unauthorized and illicit use of that resource.

There are any number of such repos that you can enable. The recommended ones to install are RPM Fusion and rpm.livna.org. The latter is complementary to the former, shipping only those applications that, for one reason or another, are not available in RPM Fusion.

Deep underground lies a reminder of Boarkind’s darkest hours. All it takes is one little boar to dig it back up. A block puzzler with an exploratory twist, Full Bore throws the player into an open world of crumbling mines, arcane ruins, and technological wonders with only curiosity to lead the way. Full Bore is coming to Windows and Linux PCs this Summer!

The latest chapter to our lengthy Intel Haswell on Linux saga is virtualization benchmarks. From Fedora 19 with the very latest software components for Linux virtualization, the performance of KVM, Xen, and VirtualBox were benchmarked from the Intel Core i7 4770K "Haswell" CPU.

David Herrmann has a GSoC project for working on DRM render and mode-set nodes and so far he has been making great progress. On Sunday he posted his second revision of his unified VMA offset manager patch-set and DRM render node work.

The second beta release of gNewSense 3.0 (code name 'Parkes') is available for download. The following issues have been fixed: the live installer (which can be started with the icon on the live desktop) works now, you also still have the text and GUI install boot menu options; the graphical installer now looks like gNewSense instead of Debian; OpenOffice.org is included in the default install; the boot menu is shorter so that items at the bottom are more easily readable. There's only a live CD for i386 so far. Netboot images will follow shortly. I will provide a live CD for amd64 too, but that needs a bit more work.

The precise amount of time the vulnerability was active is in dispute, with Cryptocat developers putting it at seven months and a security researcher saying it was closer to 19 months. Both sides agree that the effect of the bug was that the keys used to encrypt and decrypt conversations among groups of users were easy for outsiders to calculate. As a result, activists, journalists, or others who relied on Cryptocat to protect their group chats from government or industry snoops got little more protection than is typically available in standard chat programs. Critics said it was hard to excuse such a rudimentary error in an open-source piece of software held out as a way to protect sensitive communications.

A new update to the Source Development Kit has been released which supports Linux now.

Desktop files are text files, with .desktop extension, that launches applications. In this tutorial, I wish to explore different ways you can use desktop files to run range of applications.

This article offers a survey of Linux podcasts, and podcasts that have close links to Linux. Whilst the survey does not offer exhaustive treatment, it gives an opinion on 20 different podcasts.