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Upstart can now monitor files, reporting when certain files are created, deleted or modified. The event daemon also has a graphical monitor to track events that have been initiated

It's time to do a little prior art searching, don't you think? Can you help? Nokia just disclosed a list of patents that it claims VP8, the video compression format used by the WebM Project, infringes, and the way they filled in the form, the list looks as long and scary as it could possibly look, and just as the IETF was trying to reach consensus on VP8. But when you break the Nokia list down, country by country and then by patent, it's not so impressive after all. As it turns out, there are just a few patents repeated over and over. I think it's short enough that we can sensibly try to find prior art.

Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft (in no particular order) were recently attacked by hackers. This led to a number of questions being raised. How did they manage to get into the servers of such big corporations? Why did they want to do it? And most importantly: Is Google any safer than these websites? To find the answer, we must study the problem.

My point is you can’t force people to contribute to projects they don’t want to contribute to, so the idea of every distro being dropped to help support Ubuntu isn’t going to happen. There’s no boss here who can control the whole FOSS development resource like a big company. You just need to put this idea out of your mind. Accept it can’t happen. There is however more to discuss than just “can we coerce people to work together?”. The following is just my opinion and I’m certainly open minded enough to change if people bring forward new points, so lets investigate some of the gripes people have with fragmentation.

I'm among the first to admit that when I find a Linux distribution that I like, it takes a lot for me to be impressed with any of the alternatives. I've looked into countless distros, such as Arch, Fedora and Linux Mint, among others. Yet at the end of the day, I kept finding myself coming back to Ubuntu. And in many ways, I find this comical since I was one of the early naysayers about their use of Unity and other controversial decisions. But something happened over time – I found myself growing comfortable with the way Ubuntu does things. With my busy schedule, a distro that "just works" appeals to me.

David Laing, a senior analyst at VDC Research, examines the emergence of ARM's "big.LITTLE" processor architecture, whereby a single chip integrates multiple high-performance CPU cores along with a power-efficient core, enabling it to deliver greater performance at lower power-points than before.

The trend of mini computers is still going on. A new kid just showed up into the family of cheap, mini computers. MiiPC, a mini-Android based PC aimed to provide a safe environment for children to use the internet under the watchful eye of their parents.

In recent years, there has been no shortage of new Ubuntu derivatives to cater to different needs. Those have including different desktop editions (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu) and needs (ie. Ubuntu Studio Edition). Now Canonical, the lead sponsor behind Ubuntu is building a new version of Ubuntu specifically for China. The new version is call Kylin and is being developed in partnership with government agencies in China. Kylin will have Chinese language input and localization and will also have a Chinese calendar. The first version of Kylin will coincide with the Ubuntu 13.04 release set to debut in April. Moving beyond the initial release, Canonical plans on providing further specific Chinese integrations including the use of Baidu maps and Taobao shopping.

nginx (pronounced as engine-x) is a lightweight, high performance http server, reverse proxy server, IMAP, SMTP and POP3 server. In this tutorial my test box hostname and ip address are “server.unixmen.com” and “192.168.1.200?.

Mature, Open Source turn-key platform widely used for delivering scalable, full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.

One of the best-known Android developers is leaving Samsung for a new, as yet unknown, project.

The recently released version 3.0 of OpenELEC, the minimalist media centre Linux distribution, supports more hardware. Based on XBMC 12.1, it now includes images for the Raspberry Pi and Arctic MC001 computers

Oracle reported a modest loss in its most recent quarterly earnings report, but it could be a sign of a more fundamental underlying problem as the company faces pressure from cheaper cloud and open source alternatives.

The board voted last week, but the announcement came out today, so it’s officially official: Apache CloudStack is now a top-level project under the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). In the grand scheme of things, this may not sound like a big deal – the ASF announces new TLPs pretty often, and Apache currently boasts more than 100 TLPs. But a fair number of projects don’t make it, and the amount of work required for a project to go from incubation to graduation isn’t trivial.

In part three of this series, we discover that no file is so tough that it can't be deleted. And if you make a mistake, you can always live under an alias.

Cairo-Dock is a fast and light desktop interface, that is a good addition/replacement of the classic Shells (Unity, Gnome-Shell, KDE, XFCE, etc). Its strong points are: being very customizable, having a lot of ready-to-use themes and tons of useful applets.

OpenShot, the leading (currently) open source video editing package for Linux has reached the halfway point in its Kickstarter campaign today. OpenShot, which seeks 20k in funding to release upcoming versions of its software for Windows and Mac, has crossed the 10k threshold and is inching towards 11k. And with 22 days left to go in their campaign, it seems like they might cross the finish line early.

Surely many Ubuntu users will want to experiment with the new KDE 4.10 desktop which was recently released. KDE 4.10 can be installed on Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and even Linux Mint with the instructions we have provided. Follow these few simple steps and you can enjoy all the new features offered by KDE 4.10.

Steve Kondik, founder of the CyanogenMod project and creator of its popular alternative ROM for Android devices, has left Samsung. Kondik revealed that he is no longer employed by the company as an aside in a Google+ post concerning the Galaxy S4 hardware. The well-known Android hacker, who also goes by the online name Cyanogen, started at Samsung's mobile division in August 2011 to work on "making Android more awesome". It is not currently known what Kondik's future plans are; when queried he replied "ask me in a couple of months".

One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks.