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It's all in the fine print Feature I'm not a very good liar, I haven't got the memory for it, which is why it always pricks my conscience whenever I tick the yes box to the prompt "I have read and understood…" when installing software. I am, of course, fibbing. I never read a word. In fact, even though we all tick yes to these agreements every day, unless you're a legal bod, I doubt you could find anyone you know who could quote a single line from any of them.…

Which gadget from our Gift Guide are you most likely to give? Raspberry Pi Arduino MaKey MaKey BeagleBone Ice Tube Clock SparkFun Inventor's Kit i-Racer NanoNote Flora MintyBoost Other (tell us in the comments!) It's getting really close to the holidays. Hopefully you've seen our gift guide and giveaway, and we'd love to know which gadgets you're most excited about.

Top app earners carve up $60m pie Apple's App Store and the Google Play store each claim to offer over 700,000 apps to choose from, but only a tiny fraction of them bring in significant revenue for their developers, according to research from analyst firm Canalys.…

The hacker Kingcope, has demonstrated how to more efficiently brute force passwords on the MySQL database and all it takes is an unprivileged login for the database

If the iPad is indeed delivering 98% of the tablets' web traffic, then Google Android's open source business model has failed. By making Android open source, Google has not gotten the traffic from Android devices in return.

After almost eight years, the developer of the PHP Gift Registry web application has finally responded to a notice regarding a serious security vulnerability. Apparently, the problem has now been fixed

Potification platform indie game trailer released

LXer Feature: 04-Dec-2012

I think UEFI Secure Boot is a shuck and a bald-faced Microsoft anti-competitive tool. I'll get to my reasons in a moment, because my most important point comes first:

Every purchase of a Windows license is an attack on Linux. Linux has not won, and Microsoft is as dangerous as ever.

If your business lives and dies by its Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, here's your chance to get a quick peek at what's coming next.

If you're starting a new open source project, or open sourcing some existing code, you'll need a publicly accessible location for the version control system holding your code (if you're not planning on setting up a publicly accessible VCS, reconsider; no public source control is a red flag to potential contributors). You could set up your own repository hosting, but with so many companies and groups offering existing setups and services, why not use one of those and save yourself some time? Here's an overview of some of the more popular options.

Indie real time strategy and shooter game McDROID has been released for Linux. In the game, you control the McDROID, a farming/combat modular robot and defend your shuttle against mutants while farming strawberries at the same time.

Two years ago, I met some open data advocates from Brazil and Ottawa, and we schemed of doing an international open data hackathon. A few weeks later, this blog post launched International Open Data Day with the hope that supporters would emerge in 5-6 cities to host local events.

Every few years, it seems as though yet another hardware vendor tries its hand yet again at building and releasing Linux hardware. The latest entrant is the Dell Sputnik laptop, aka Dell XPS 13 'inch developer edition. The Dell Sputnik uses Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (no 12.10 here). It's a beefy beast with an Intel i7 CPU, 8 GB of RAM and a 256 GB SSD. Going beyond having just Ubuntu Linux installed on top end Dell hardware, Dell has also included a pair of community projects on Sputnik as well. The Profile Tool provides easy access to github projects enabling users to setup development environments with ease.

Well-known developer Matthew Garrett has just made it easier for Linux to boot on PCs locked down with Windows 8 Secure Boot.

Last month, Jos Poortvliet's job as openSUSE community manager brought his career full-circle. He was chosen to lead a discussion on open governance at the Summit of New Thinking in Berlin. The open innovation concept is what got him interested in free software communities while studying organizational psychology, and it's an idea he tries to merge into growing the openSUSE community.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, December 4, the immediate availability for download of the ninth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a concrete5 web site on a Debian Squeeze 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. concrete5 is a free and open-source content management system (CMS).

The main point of this article is that whilst the base install of Xubuntu 12.10 is fully functional it lacks the applications by default that would make it a really useful operating system.

So this is simply a list of 20 must have applications to improve Xubuntu 12.10.

Google turned heads this summer when it released its Nexus 7 tablet. Together with Asus, the company produced a solid Android tablet that offered an affordable price tag, nice design and smooth performance to rival the Amazon Kindle Fire HD. But can the company do it again with a 10-inch version to take on the reigning leader, the Apple iPad? The answer is mostly yes.

Linux developer Matthew Garrett has released a version of his Shim Secure Boot bootloader that has been signed by Microsoft and allows any Linux distribution to be launched on Secure Boot systems