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Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz gives a 'thumbs up' to a super speed demon lightweight Distro: #! CrunchBang 11. Read why.

Sometime this July will mark my seventh anniversary of becoming a desktop Linux user. While I may or may not bake a cake to celebrate the occasion, it has gotten me thinking about what has changed in the world of Linux since I entered it -- and, especially, how much more usable my Linux PC has become then. And what better way to quantify those improvements than to take stock of just how many apps are now available for Linux users that were not seven years ago?

There are times when you have to stress test your linux/unix box to see how the proxy, database, memcache or other applications running on top would perform under stress or resource crunch. Enter stress which is a deliberately simple workload generator for POSIX systems. It imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, and disk stress on the system. It is written in C, and is free software licensed under the GPLv2.

Short synopsis of a long discussion with the UEFI Forum regarding ‘secure’ boot

We have already shown you how to install and configure a basic Samba server in our previous articles. Today i am gonna to show you how to install and configure samba domain controller with LDAP backend i.e the users created in LDAP server can login to your domain controller.

LXer Feature: 27-May-2013

In his article "Smartcars – dangerous or simply can’t make money out of the apps?" Ray Shaw wrote:

Quoting:“The motor industry is slow to adopt because it fears it would lose its control over the process and its profit. "No it is too dangerous to have smartphone/tablet control” say the motorcar companies “What if it failed and crashed?”. More FUD

In his article, he proves to be totally clueless about the automotive industry: All software companies would be bankrupt if they made cars. Besides, fear, uncertainty and doubt about customer safety in the car industry is less acceptable than in software companies who have been selling bug ridden defective products for years without problems. Please let me explain you the difference.

Expectations were high for the release of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, but let's see if the hype was well deserved. 13.04 delivers improved performance, and some refinements for the Unity desktop. The critics and the community have spoken, but as always I demand the final word.

Welcome to The H Roundup, your rapid review of the week with the most read news on The H, the security alerts and open source releases, and the essential feature articles – all in one quick-to-scan news item. This week: Continuous database migration, Google chat drops Jabber compatibility, possible VP8/WebM patent licensing problems, development plans for Ubuntu 13.10, Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 and a ready-to-roll robotics kit from Arduino.

The Linux Foundation today is releasing its annual Enterprise End User Report. Because this is the third year we've surveyed the world's largest enterprises and The Linux Foundation's End User Council about Linux adoption, we're able to share some interesting trending data.

Tizen is a Linux-based operating system that’s backed by Samsung and which is expected to ship on Samsung smartphones this year. But the OS isn’t just for mobile devices like phones and tablets. The folks at Tizen Experts got a chance to check out an early demo of Tizen running on an ultrabook, and it looks like a pretty it offers a pretty decent desktop Linux-style user experience.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz finds himself conflicted at Google's decision to remove open protocol XMPP in favor of a proprietary 'Hangouts' solution. Read why.

The most recent Linaro Connect (Linaro Connect Asia 2013 – LCA), held in Hong Kong the first week of March, really put a spotlight on the incredible momentum around ARM based technology and products moving into the Data Center. Yes – you read that correctly – the DATA CENTER!

This 2-month old article serves as a really good illustration as to how companies optimize the Linux-kernel together to run on the newest energy efficient ARM server-hardware, this 'cooperation' model instead of Intel's model who basically does all the heavy lifting alone - hkwint

After years of work near single-handedly by James Simmons, the independently-created DRM kernel mode-setting driver for many VIA Chrome IGPs is finally looking for inclusion into the mainline kernel...

Element4l is an immersive and experimental indie platform game, with a strong focus on flow and smooth gameplay, wrapped in an exceptional soundtrack by Mind Tree.

In Most of the UNIX like operating System swap partition is created during the installation time , However with the kernel 2.6 swap files can be used as swap partition.

Riku Voipio of Linaro, Andrew Wafaa of ARM, Olof Johannson of Google, Sonny Rao of Google and Marcin Juszkiewicz of Linaro talk about hacking and using the full performance of the ARM Powered Samsung Chromebook to run Ubuntu, Debian, Open Suse on this ARM Powered laptop, talking about how much the Mali-T604 is being used in this ARM Powered Chrome OS, which feature improvements the ARM Powered Chromebook may get to possibly improve battery life, and a bit about the possibility of running Chromium OS or Chrome OS on older/cheaper ARM Powered laptops such as ARM Cortex-A9 and previous.

Note: This is not an article, but a Youtube-blog - hkwint

Mozillux is basically Lubuntu with a set of applications the developer has decided would make Lubuntu a better distribution. ozillux looks a lot like the stock Lubuntu 12.04 release. The main difference is the panel down the left hand side. When you have a distribution like this that is so heavily based on another distribution then the thing that I think you have to review is the selection of applications that are included, and that is exactly what I have done with this review.

We are very happy to present to you the final release of siduction 2013.1 'Firestarter'. Siduction is a distribution based on Debian's unstable branch and we try to release snapshots quarterly. Version 2013.1 ships with five desktop environments - KDE SC, Xfce, LXDE, GNOME, and Razor-qt, all in 32-bit and 64-bit variants. New in this release cycle is GNOME 3, that we are happy to officially present. Also officially shipped for the first time is 'noX', a variant without an X server.

Some days ago I’ve published an article about copy.com, a service similar to Dropbox where a copy of one of your folders is synchronized on the cloud, this is true for any computer where you install the copy.com/dropbox/ubuntu one applet and so you can easily share your documents among your computers and have a copy on the cloud. But what if you don’t want to share a copy on the cloud of your documents but you need to quickly share a document among your computers? Usb stick is usually the best option, but there is also an alternative that use the local network to send data among computers: NitroShare

Great news Football/Soccer fans! Football Manager 14 will be officially supporting Linux as stated by the developers!