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Some big movement this week in the popularity rankings! While the top ranks are unshakable, SnowLinux gets a huge bump up 2 spots to number 17.

The copyright surveillance machine known as the Copyright Alert System (CAS) is finally launching. CAS is an agreement between Big Content and large Internet Service Providers to monitor peer to peer networks for copyright infringement and target subscribers who are alleged to infringe—via everything from from “educational” alerts to throttling Internet speeds.

After almost exactly a year of development, SpringSource has released Spring for Hadoop 1.0 with the goal of making the development of Hadoop applications easier for users of the distributed application framework. VMware engineer Costin Leau said in the release announcement that the company has often seen developers use the out-of-the-box tools that come with Hadoop in ways that lead to a "poorly structured collection of command line utilities, scripts and pieces of code stitched together." Spring for Hadoop aims to change this by applying the Template API design pattern from Spring to Hadoop.

Five years later, I still think Adam Jackson’s “Linux is not about choice” might be the best thing ever posted to fedora-devel-list. Seriously. Go read it, if you haven’t already. I almost know it by heart. To paraphrase slightly, the heart of the post is this: The chain of logic from “Linux is about choice” to “ship everything and let the user choose how they want their system to work” starts with fallacy and ends with disaster.

Jeff Griffiths, the product manager for Mozilla's Add-on SDK, known as Jetpack, has announced that, from Firefox version 21 (which will include SDK 1.14), the SDK will synchronise releases of the SDK with releases of the browser.

Here in the Linux community, most of us enjoy high-level debates about strategies and trends just as much as the next technology enthusiast does. At the end of the day, however, it seems safe to say that what we tend to relish most of all is a good ol' nuts-and-bolts discussion of the tools and tricks of the trade.

Normally, when you want to rename a single file, you would use the "mv" command. However, if you have a bunch of files to rename, the faster and more efficient command is "rename".

Maps touch our lives daily. Whether you are trying to find a nearby point of interest or directions to a faraway land, maps help us find our way. In recent years, maps have moved from paper into the digital world of cartography and open source contributors have been in the trenches gathering data for the masses.

As you already know, Steam requires the Flash Player plugin to be installed on your Linux box in order to play videos, which are encoded as Flash. Moreover, Steam requires the 32-bit version of the plugin for you to be able to watch the movies. And if you're running a 64-bit version of Linux, you will encounter a problem. We have discussed and resolved this problem in my first tutorial on this subject, using manual downloads from the Adobe site. Several people emailed me asking for additional methods, possible audio problems and how to work around the fact you must manually manage the plugin, which can be considered a hassle and maybe even a security risk. Not to worry, in this guide, I will provide answers for all these questions.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) server (with nginx, BIND, Dovecot) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache or nginx web server, Postfix mail server, Courier or Dovecot IMAP/POP3 server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. This setup covers nginx (instead of Apache), BIND (instead of MyDNS), and Dovecot (instead of Courier).

ClockworkMod Recovery and ROM Manager developer Koushik Dutta has released a beta version of a new super user application for Android that is open source, can be built using the NDK and is ready to be included in AOSP-based ROMs

People want access to content. And creative commons allowed me to give them access to my content. One man decides to publish his own book—but there's no road map, no previous information to help him navigate how to do it! How will he sell a copy to people he doesn't already know?

Ubuntu's not the only half-baked mobile OS around The Mozilla Foundation doesn't expect the first phones running its Firefox OS to appear until this summer – and even then, only in select markets – but developers can start tinkering with the platform on real hardware today, thanks to Sony Mobile.…

No one, but no one, in the Linux community likes Microsoft's mandated deployment of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) Secure Boot option in Windows 8 certified PCs. But, how Linux should handle the fixes required to deal with this problem remains a hot-button issue. Now, as the debate continues hot and heavy, Linus Torvalds, Linux's founder and de facto leader, spells out how he thinks Linux should deal with Secure Boot keys.

Google recently opened up a public code repository that contains their experimental work to re-base Android off the recently released Linux 3.8 kernel...

Following the recent release of The Cave and Guns of Icarus, the real-time strategy game Wargame: European escalation has been released for Linux on Steam. The game is about a conflict over Europe during the Cold War.

When it comes to kernel mode-setting and open-source graphics drivers, the BSD operating system with the best support is presently FreeBSD. For those, however, using NetBSD, improvements are forthcoming with an investment by the NetBSD Foundation...

Future developer meetings to be held on Google+ Ubuntu Linux maintainer Canonical has canceled its semiannual Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) conferences in favor of a new, more-frequent series of events to be conducted online only.…

Linux companies or organisations that have paid for, and obtained, keys from Microsoft to ensure that their distributions can be booted on secure boot-enabled devices, have to abide by the terms of a contract or else may have their keys revoked.

Earlier today were the results from a 9-Way Low-End NVIDIA/AMD GPU Comparison On Open-Source Drivers using the open-source Radeon and Nouveau Gallium3D drivers. For those more concerned about the 2D Linux desktop performance, here are some results for reference...