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Intel released version 1.2.0 of libva and libva-intel-driver over the night. The updated Video Acceleration API (VA-API) now has support for MPEG-2 encoding along with new H.264 profile encoding API support.

With Fedora 19 being released soon, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has begun evaluating potential changes/features for Fedora 20. One of the features that was approved today is a build change for the RPMs that can yield greater code security but at the potential cost of performance. The change that was approved today is a GCC flag change for now using "-fstack-protector-strong" on building Fedora RPM packages rather than just the "-fstack-protector" argument. The -fstack-protector flag has the compiler generate extra code automatically to check for buffer overflows.

The Cubieboard open SBC project began shipping a faster Cubieboard2 version of its open source Linux and Android SBC, and revealed prototypes of a new, larger, enhanced Cubietruck model. Like the $59 Cubiboard2, the Cubietruck uses an Allwinner A20 dual-core Cortex-A7 SoC instead of the original’s single-core A10, and adds a 2GB RAM option, WiFi, Bluetooth, gigabit Ethernet, VGA, and SPDIF ports.

Digia has been experimenting with porting Google's open-source Chromium web-browser in the Qt world. This experimental prototype of Chromium in the Qt world is still very primitive and for now only works on Linux/X11 and gyp/ninja is used as the build system wrapped around qmake.

In this article, I've decided to follow up on a topic I wrote about not in my column directly, but as a feature article called "PXE Magic" in the April 2008 issue. In this column, I explain how to piggyback off of the work the Debian and Ubuntu projects have done with their PXE configuration to make your own fancy PXE menu without much additional work.

In the open source development world, the influence of the Eclipse Foundation cannot be underestimated. While Eclipse started off as 'just' an IDE over the years it has evolved with its coordinated release train effort that sees piles of project all released on the same day. Today is that day.

Canonical is hiring more engineers to work on their Mir Display Server and Unity desktop interface. For their Mir software engineer they are looking for someone that's great at C++, knows how to use the CMake build system, experiences with performance/robust/application-architecture designs, has experience with Linux development, and is experienced with OpenGL. Past experience with X.Org or Wayland isn't mentioned at all on the page. The Unity engineers they want are for working on the Unity APIs and Unity user-interface, as well as a quality engineer working on the UI.

Void of Darkness is a Starship action RPG inspired by Starflight 1 & 2 by Binary Systems 1989 and Distant Worlds by CodeForce. Explore, trade, fight, upgrade!

In this article, we will see several command methods about how to swap two columns or fields in a text file.

If you don’t have a need for certain international visitors to your Linux server, its easy to block them out! First, you’ll need to make sure that CSF is installed. Once that’s done, read on to block access from Russia, China, etc..

We're happy to announce that as part of the LQ Birthday Celebration, we're able to offer a completely gratis pass to OSCON 2013 in Portland, OR. Visit this LQ thread for information on eligibility.

aLinux 17.0 Beta 3 has been released. Fixed a problem with some USB hardware not being detected during the initial "Install" or in general, "Live!" mode. Now allowing more time for some SCSI devices, e.g. USB-Pendrives,. and CD/DVDs to "spin" up, before booting into "Live!" mode. aLinux (formerly Peanut Linux) is an independently developed Linux distribution with RPM package management.

Rkhunter stands for RootkitHunter. It is an open source scanner software or a shell script in UNIX like operating system that detects known rootkits and malware on linux servers.

Unfortunately, some of those tweakings have to be carried out at the command-line. But they are all easy to accomplish, so don’t panic, if you are not very comfortable at the Linux command-line. In this article, the few steps you can take to make a default installation of Linux Deepin 12.12 more secure and user-friendly are presented.

The Wine development release 1.6-rc3 is now available.

Battle against intelligent monster AI in this procedurally generated dungeon crawler. Featuring gorgeous art from Matthias Andre! This Kickstarter has already been fully funded and was using Flash with Air, they have now switched to Unity and will fully support Linux!

Piwigo is photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. Piwigo version 2.5.2 is available, for a fresh install and for upgrade.

Mint is a relative newcomer to the world of popular desktop distros, but it has recently started to take the GNOME and Unity-hating Linux world by storm. The recent release of version 15, called Olivia, should help it secure a reputation as “the” alternative desktop. If you'd like a modern set of desktop tools without a completely new desktop interface to go with, then Mint 15 has what you're after.

On Saturday, I traveled to New York City with my chief photographer, my wife, and was fitted with my very own Google Glass. This slideshow on Internet Evolution documents the experience. It was a fun day, let's put it that way and Google made it feel like a special adventure.

The first thing on your mind when setting up a new Linux server (dedicated or VPS) is how you can increase security. One of the best tools in your bag of tricks should be the CSF (ConfigServer) LFD (Login Failure Daemon) firewall.