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LXer Feature: 04-Feb-2013

The latest installment of the LXer Weekly Roundup. Enjoy!

If you ever wanted to have a personal robot then you are reading a correct article. This tutorial is a brief demonstration on how easily you can configure your personal or company robot, then soon after, connect it with one of available adapters like: shell, campfire, hipchat, irc, gtalk or skype. In this tutorial I'm going to teach you how to set up Hubot with its default adapter Shell. Although it's the simplest option, it's the solid foundation for your future modifications.

Dan Horák announced that the Fedora 18 (Spherical Cow) operating system for IBM System z (s390x) 64-bit systems is now available for download.

The development team behind the powerful Evolution email client announced earlier today, February 3, that the fifth unstable version of the upcoming Evolution 3.8 application is now available for download and testing.

This screenshot tour will guide you through the process of installing Arch Linux (2013.02.01) using the Arch Install Scripts. These screenshots may be used as a companion to the Installation Guide on ArchWiki

Hairy Tales, the first game fully developed by Arges studio, is an Action/Puzzler built with Unity3D. It is already available for Win/Mac on Desura.

At a presentation at FOSDEM 2013, three of the developers behind udev fork eudev, stated that their primary aim in launching the project back in November was to learn something. Dislike for the udev/systemd developers was, as they repeatedly stressed, not the reason for launching the project – it was not a "hate based fork". The developers also noted that their "pet project" was anything but mature and that users foolish enough to use it in its present state could really mess up their systems.

In the past I’ve presented some clients for twitter that run on linux terminal, such as twidge and turses , they are really useful not just for connecting to social websites via your terminal but also to do scheduled jobs or procedure that will print a result or a message on these websites. Fbcmd is a command line interface (CLI) for facebook. It is open source and is both “free as speech” and “free as in beer”. It works in Windows, Mac and Linux. Let’s see how you can use it.

Following on from discussion of my recent Humble Bundle article (including here on GOL), PCGamingWiki contributor Soeb and myself have launched a community campaign to research and centralise additional information about Humble Bundle titles.

This weekend in Brussels I heard about the state of Intel's initiative for migrating to an LLVM-based shader compiler for their open-source Mesa 3D driver to replace their existing custom compiler embedded within the driver. Unfortunately, the state of this LLVM-based compiler is rather meager...

With yesterday’s updates, Canonical uploaded a new Indicator Sync, updating the old Ubuntu One indicator, which was used in previous releases of Ubuntu.

The open-source "Freedreno" Gallium3D driver that provides reverse-engineered 3D support for Qualcomm's Adreno/Snapdragon graphics processor is turning out to be in quite good shape. Freedreno is one of the first good ARM Gallium3D drivers and it might soon be merged into Mesa...

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Contao 3.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

Search for movies in http://www.themoviedb.org through the Unity Movie Lens and watch their trailers. Available via PPA for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal.

Ballmer: Bring me the head of Alicia Keys, and let's end this What is it with technology giants plonking award-winning pop vixens into top jobs to tout their new gear? Are they a mere distraction or underrated business executives?…

The aim of Linux Lite is to be easy to use and lightweight. This review of Linux Lite determines whether the objectives have been achieved.

A minimalist distribution does not present a very good candidate for the type of reviews I normally write, but I’ll do my best to give non-Bodhi users an idea of what it brings to the table.

Linux Lite 1.0.4 final for 32-bit processors with PAE support has been released. If you already have the CVF version installed, there is no immediate need to install this final version, just keep updating via Install Updates on the Menu. The only change of note is the updating of the Help [he] Support manual. Changelog: all system software updated[/he] Firefox 18.0, added new default theme and icon set; added Steam for Linux (requires NVIDIA driver 304.22 or higher or ATI experimental drivers); added keyboard shortcuts information to the Help [he] Support manual[/he] added open USB storage device in file manager on insert; added two new right-click menu options..

Could Microsoft's implementation of secure boot be, one day, the reason why Linux vendors get into strife with each other? Could Oracle one day go to Microsoft in order to get a key issued to Red Hat by Microsoft revoked?

Wargame European Escalation is from the developer of R.U.S.E. and Act of War. Wargame EE is a real-time strategy game like World in Conflict.