Showing all newswire headlines

Ubuntu's Technical Board has decided nine months is long enough to support some new releases of its operating system.

In an online meeting noticed by Phoronix (and available for all-text IRC replay here), the Board decided that “regular” Ubuntu releases will only receive food, water, warm lodgings and security updates for nine months after they emerge screaming into the world. Such releases previously received around 18 months of loving care.

The new policy takes effect as Version 13.04,aka Raring Ringtail, due in April.

While halving support sounds nasty, it's not entirely terrible news for Ubuntu users because the distribution has two types of release. “Regular” releases are perhaps best understood as “minor” releases. “Long Term Releases (LTS)” releases get a full five years of support.

Dot Categories: DeveloperKDE Telepathy fixes having a notification "a new contact has added you" even when you are offline, adds .desktop-based tubes channel approver Nepomuk changed DBus interface to the FileIndexer for status messages Improvements in kscreen API Calligra changes as to when config ui are in a docker and when it is in a tool Work on new dashboard in Skrooge

The European Commission (EC), the central governing body of the EU, has in the past several years pursued ICT policies that increasingly have been good for "openness" in the areas of standards, data, and software. Its recent announcements on cloud computing have continued this theme. However, as with any broad strategy of this magnitude, there are parts of the strategy (many well-meaning) that could lead to trouble. Attention, engagement, and follow-up with the Commission are needed to assure a positive outcome.

The new version of Windows 8 — Blue — seems to be well under way, but it appears to be coming with the same old dreadful Metro interface.

The objective here is to show how to install it on an HDD alongside an existing installation of Windows 7, with the Windows 7 boot manager as the “master” boot loader.

In this howto post we'll show you how to use the nagios monitoring plugin to monitor your Drupal CMS installation using Opsview's application monitoring software. With this module you'll be able to use Opsview to tell you if your Drupal website is running as expected.

Version 3.0.0 of OpenELEC has been released, which is a Linux distribution with a multimedia bent that is shipping with XBMC 12.1 Frodo...

Ubuntu Kylin has been selected by the Chinese government as the basis of a new reference architecture for operating systems. Canonical is working with Chinese organisations to customise the distribution to their needs

We celebrate the first birthday of the Raspberry Pi with an exclusive interview with its creators covering its first year on sale and goals for 2013

It was just one week ago that AMD released the Catalyst 13.3 Beta 2 driver while now it has been succeeded by Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3...

Fenrus Linux is a new Linux distribution being led by a well known Intel Linux developer. Goals of Fenrus Linux include focusing upon an optimal developer experience rather than world domination and also maximizing the performance and power management of the open-source operating system...

The Intel Linux graphics driver should now work better when overclocking your Intel graphics core thanks to a new Linux kernel patch...

Wayland and Weston along with other key branches like GTK+ and QtWayland have been forked by an independent developer under the "GH-Next" project name...

This one looks to be pretty damn exciting with crafting, building etc kinda like Minecraft on steroids. They plan to release on Windows, Mac and Linux.

The big news here is the removal of MySQL in favor of MariaDB. This shouldn't really be a surprise on any level. The poll on LQ showed a large majority of our users were in favor of the change.

The LXLE (Lubuntu Extra Life Extension) project is a Lubuntu-based distribution which attempts to be very light on resources while also improving support for older hardware.

A unique voxel based sandbox, adventure rpg. This one looks to be pretty exciting with crafting, building etc kinda like Minecraft on steroids. They plan to release on Windows, Mac and Linux.

Here are some SlackBuild scripts to build and install the MATE desktop environment on Slackware. Currently, they build and install MATE 1.5 which is the development branch of the upcoming 1.6 release, due at the end of March or early April, 2013.

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the RC4 for the Linux 3.9 kernel on Saturday evening, but its development still has not slowed down...