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Ubuntu’s SABDFL (“self-appointed benevolent dictator for life,” as he’s known) Mark Shuttleworth just added comment No. 1834 to Ubuntu’s Bug No. 1 — “Microsoft Has a Majority Market Share” — and closed the bug.

This is the default desktop. According to sources from deep inside the Linux Mint team, this is the best desktop background ever designed by man, or woman. That’s why it will be the default desktop on all releases of Linux Mint or Linux Mint Debian from now till Thy Kingdom Come.

SolydK is pretty amazing, and so is SolydX. Both are recommendable to newbies.

In this tutorial i will show you how to install local repository in Ubuntu 13.04 server in two methods. If you use external hdd then it will your portable repository. You can use it in multiple locations other than your LAN. Both are easy to install and configure, finally pick one of them for your requirement.

The choices offered on the poll were Symbian, Ubuntu, Android, Windows, Firefox OS, iOS, MeeGo, Mer, Blackberry 10 and Other. Voters were allowed to choose only one operating system and those choosing Other were provided a text box to enter their choice. Voters were blocked from taking the poll multiple times by IP address. A total of 238 people took this poll.

Dietrich Schmitz of linuxadvocates.com asked the question about Canonical's financial solvency. I look into the matter to see if there's more to the story.

In this post, I will try to provide enough resources for you to get started on mobile application development using QT Meta Language (QML). Although QML is not Ubuntu specific package, there will be some libraries and convention used in this tutorial that is specific for Ubuntu. However, you could easily use resources mentioned in this post to port your application to the platform of your choice.

Many Linux applications allow users to customize a program’s appearance. These alternate looks are skins (themes for individual applications); themes are another term (for example, themes used in Firefox). Below are three common media players that users may want to customize.

For seeing where the current OpenGL driver performance stands for Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors, the very latest Linux kernel and Mesa development code were tested across four different processors to stress the HD 2000, HD 2500, HD 3000, and HD 4000 graphics capabilities atop Ubuntu.

But Paypal refused to pay. Why? At 17 years of age, Robert Kugler, according to Paypal, does not meet the age-related eligibility requirement for participating in the program. Curiously, that specific requirement is not stated in the publicly available description of the program, which is available here.

Per Aaron Seigo, the once-hotly anticipated –and still hotly-anticipated-by-me — Vivaldi tablet is in the very final stages of design. Many of the necessary components are in place and the new design belongs almost entirely to the Plasma Active team.

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu Linux bug #1 -- "Microsoft has a majority market share" -- is closed. Rather than simply boasting of Linux's victory, Shuttleworth offers an olive branch.

Linux Mint 15 is a good release. It’s very similar to Debian in a sense that it really achieves what it sets out to do as a Linux based operating system.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Debian Wheezy server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

As those steeped in the policy wonk geekery of open data are likely already aware, last Thursday the President of the United States issued an Executive Order Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information. This is, quite frankly, a big deal. Further down in the post I’ve got some links and some further explanations why. That said, the White House called and asked if I would be willing to provide some context about the significance of the order – which I did. You can read my reaction, along with those of a number of people I respect.

As technology advances, video codecs come and go naturally enough. But while H.265 is still waiting in the wings, we should pay tribute to the groundbreaking H.264, which is a decade old this month. H.264 is possibly not the snappiest or most memorable name, but even 10 years on it remains an important video coding standard, one that made HDTV possible. John Watkinson has had the phrase "industry standard" attributed to most of his numerous publications on digital audio and video – he really did write the book on MPEG – and he examines the life of this enduring codec for The Register.

Making a success of Mono as a key element in the free software development stack was always going to be an uphill task, given Mono’s origins as an explicitly Microsoft technology. Mono was a free software implementation of the .NET framework, which the developers, led by Miguel de Icaza, hoped to take to the heart of the free software ecosystem as the tool of choice for the rapid development of applications for GNOME.

Duplicity is an easy-to-use system that allows you to make encrypted backups that are stored at a remote location or even in a locally accessible directory. I t has a good selection of networking back-ends (SFTP, SSH, Google storage, S3 etc), so you should be able to fit it into your organisation. The backups are incremental, which saves on bandwidth and storage space when making subsequent backups. Incremental backups also allow the user to step back to a specific point in time to retrieve an older version of a file.

The administration of the city of Munich in Germany has completed the switch to the open source desktop, says Peter Hofmann, head of the migration project last week Wednesday. The IT department is now securing the strategy, to make sure it can be maintained by the city and to sustainably support interactions with citizens, businesses and other public authorities.

Third time's the charm, and after a week of scarcity regarding bundles and sales, here comes a new edition of The Cheapskate's Corner with exciting news for you!