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In short, Canonical will be running a server much like the existing products.ubuntu.com server which will accept queries and return a bunch of results as json. The current implementation searches Amazon and the Ubuntu One music store and a few other places. The new one will do the same, plus more server-side searches, plus a new feature altogether which is a list of good scope names for the client to search. Your client will now send a list of all locally installed scopes to the server (actually a list of scopes you have added and a list of scopes you have removed or turned off from the standard set) along with your query. The server then returns results it found and wants to put in your dash, plus a subset of the local scopes you sent it, in order, that the server thinks would be good places to hunt for your search term.

Whether you are administrating a small home network or an enterprise network for a large company the data storage is always a concern. It can be in terms of lack of disk space or inefficient backup solution. In both cases GlusterFS can be the right tool to fix your problem as it allows you to scale your resources horizontally as well as vertically. In this guide we will configure the distributed and replicated/mirror data storage. As the name suggests a GlusterFS's distributed storage mode will allow you to evenly redistribute your data across multiple network nodes, while a replicated mode will make sure that all your data are mirrored across all network nodes.

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian 6.0, using GlusterFS and SAMBA, and custom scripts and settings to make life easier. The SAMBA share will reside on a GlusterFS share which consists out of two storage nodes for high-availability.

A preview version of Linux Deepin 12.12, a popular Chinese community distribution, has been unleashed for testing. This is the first version that ships with the brand new Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE), which replaces GNOME Shell as the default desktop. DDE along with its Deepin System Settings (DSS) is regarded as a milestone for the Deepin project. DSS is implemented with the Deepin UI library and it features automatic screen brightness adjustment, support for the Chinese lunar calendar, convenient network configuration, and so on. Also included in Deepin 12.12 Alpha is Deepin Software Center 3.0 Alpha, where the software applications are reorganized with better classification. Multimedia utilities for video and audio playback as well as screenshots have been upgraded to new versions for testing.

So you will all know by now Counter Strike 1.6 is out for Linux while in beta of course there are lots of bugs, like actually getting into a server.

Yesterday I mused on Google+: I used to do a "seigo on kde" live video cast back in the day ("straight from his bedroom, heeeeeeere's aaron!" ;) with viewer interaction, and they were a lot of fun and pretty well attended. Years have passed, and I'm considering starting up again using Google+ Hangout, though with a slightly broader scope to encompass the bigger world of things that make up the Free software user experience landscape. It'll retain a KDE perspective, but not be limited exclusively to "things KDE makes". The response was quite good .. and so I've decided to go ahead with it. I'll be hosting the first Hangout tonight (!) at 18:00 UTC. Why the short notice? This will be something of a dry run to get the feel for "on air" Hangouts, both in terms of the production bits and the audience management. If all goes well tonight with the technical details, I"ll make this a weekly thing with a regular schedule posted and a proper announcement a day in advance to remind all you wonderful peoples.

However, there’s something about version 12.12 that begged for an article. Maybe it’s just the cool, new UI or the combination of the UI and Chinese characters that did it.

Both Fedora and openSUSE will be replacing Oracle's MySQL with its open-source fork MariaDB.

What a difference a day makes -- or, in this particular case, eight months or so. Less than a year ago, retailer Barnes & Noble yanked an issue of Linux Format magazine from its U.S. shelves because of a cover story on the topic of "hacking." "A complaint was made," explained the announcement last May on Linux Format's TuxRadar blog.

You read that title right folks. The first showing of Enlightenment DR18 (or E18 for short) has become a reality.

In this article are some early benchmark results comparing the OpenGL gaming performance of the Unity, Xfce, Openbox, LXDE, KDE, GNOME Shell, and Enlightenment desktops when running on a recent development snapshot of Ubuntu 13.04. As many earlier benchmarks have shown, the OpenGL frame-rate for Linux games can sway quite greatly depending upon the desktop in use and more specifically the desktop's compositing window manager.

The open government movement in the United States is well underway, though still brand new in terms relative to the pace of the workings of government. Change tends to be delivered slowly, as evident during President Obama’s re-election campaign this year when many of us had to remind ourselves that though some change has trickled down over the past four years, much of it has yet to come to pass due to the inherent processes of government bodies. And yet, it still astonishes me how quickly ‘open’ ideas are being accepted, built, and implemented into city governments from east to west coast.

The best publicity comes from others, yet companies are increasingly trying to manipulate public opinion by being their own best friends and spreading their own, masqueraded word. Red Hat, the biggest and best-known Linux company, has been hard at work on this front for the last three years.

Red Hat has let it be known that by this time next year it will wash its hands of the third version of its Enterprise Linux. In a notification sent to customers and CERTs, the company has pointed out that its product lifecycle for Red Hat Enterpise Linux 3 is about to run out of life. The product debuted in October 2003, ceased production in the same month of 2010 and has been coasting in “extended life phase” mode ever since.

Most people use TunnelBrick to setup OpenVPN client connections on Mac OSX, i prefer using the command line. To get OpenVPN up and running off the command line is a simple process. The commands below need to be run as a privileged user if your root account is not enabled use sudo to run the commands.

US District Judge Lucy Koh, who oversaw the blockbuster Apple v. Samsung trial in San Jose last summer, published three orders late yesterday that cover all but one of the post-trial issues in that litigation. The orders cover a wide range of issues, but there are two clear takeaways. First, Apple isn't getting anything more than the $1.05 billion it won at trial. And for Samsung, there's no big escape hatch from the poor results of this trial.

Git support coming to VS2012, Team Foundation Server Microsoft's developer tools division has taken another step closer to the open source community, with the announcement that both Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio will soon incorporate support for decentralized source code version control using Git.…

So folks I am wandering what ideas you all have on how we can grow GOL to get more visitors and have more people to chat with?

A number of Samsung laptops are dying after they are booted with a live-usb image of Ubuntu 12.04 using UEFI, according to information at the Ubuntu bug reporting site.

Kaspersky Lab continues to develop a cyber secure operating system project. It’s designed to protect utilities, nuclear reactors, transportation systems and other mission-critical infrastructure from hackers, malware and state sponsored cyber warfare. So what’s the latest? CEO Eugene Kaspersky offered our editors an update during the Kaspersky Cyber Security Summit in New York. Here’s a recap.