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A new installation image for Arch Linux is now available that sees the distribution's default boot process switch from the previous System V implementation to systemd for booting the live system. Because of the change, initscripts are no longer available on the live system. However, the developers note that they are still installed by default, but this "is likely to change in the near future".

Scratch is a free educational programming language for kids, available in 50 different languages and runs on just about any modern computer: Linux, Macintosh, or Windows. The new guide book, Super Scratch Programming Adventure!, was authored by The LEAD Project (Learning through Engineering, Art, and Design), in Hong Kong, to make Scratch more accessible to children around the world by teaching them how to use it.

Cinnarch is a 32 and 64-bit distribution that offers a completely Arch based and compatible system with Cinnamon pre-installed. Apart from the popular desktop environment, it offers every day use applications like the Chromium browser, LibreOffice suite, Adobe Flash Player etc. The installer is not there yet as it is a text installer, but I am sure this won’t a problem for the majority of you.

This past week, Linux 3.6 was released, but perhaps the bigger news is what is coming in Linux 3.7 as the continuous evolution of Linux pushes development forward.

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More specifically, from Amazon.com. But it goes beyond just the search results because in the latest beta that I have been playing with, Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2, there is an icon for Amazon.com right on the Dock.

And there is one on the Dash too.

In this article, we will take a look at three of the major cloud based Linux operating systems that seem to point the way forward in new OS design.

One of the most heartening developments recently has been Africa's current embrace of computer technology. That includes open source: for example, Nigeria has been running an open source conference for several years now, and the Kenyan government is starting to deploy free software widely.

Sadly, this increasing interest in open source has called forth something far less welcome: Microsoft FUD against it:

Guess what? With two weeks ahead of the final release of Ubuntu 12.10, Canonical decided to open up their shop with DVDs for the next major release of Ubuntu.

Rob Clark has put out a new release of the Texas Instruments' xf86-video-omap X.Org DDX driver...

FreeBSD developers are still working on bringing up ARM hardware support for various platforms so that it's in a similar state to Linux...

There are a lot of CMSs available both commercial and non commercial. And really you can do a whole lot of things by using a free or non commercial content management system. Take a look at the list below and some of these might be familiar to you (Joomla, WordPress) and some might not. I’ll try give a comprehensive analysis of each and every CMS and It’s up to you to decide which is best. Please don’t forget to give us your opinion about the article and let us know if there are any more free content management systems that you think should be in this list and why?

Work on version 2 of Rekonq, the popular QtWebKit-based web-browser focusing upon the KDE desktop, is now underway...

While LLVMpipe may be a different story, when using hardware-accelerated graphics drivers with the recently released Unity 6.8 desktop, the performance doesn't change much. For at least one driver, there's even a new OpenGL performance regression under certain workloads. Here's some test results of Unity 6.6 vs. Unity 6.8 on the Radeon and Nouveau drivers.

Hi all, in this post we will make the note taking app made in previous post better .

We will make the app to store multiple notes and shall display them in our main screen.

PS: This is second part of my previously published story, kindly reconsider. Sources of knowledge are also well attributed.

nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can set up nginx as a reverse proxy on front of an Apache2 web server on Ubuntu 12.04.

This article explains the basics of Linux vim editor through images and examples. It is intended for those who are either new to vim or think that vim is too complex to understand.

Version 3.7 of the Linux kernel will be the first to support multiple versions of the ARM processor—a starting point toward a much-needed consolidation of Linux support for the system-on-a-chip architecture. In the long run, the changes could mean broader support for ARM by popular Linux distributions, making it easier for developers to build versions for a broader variety of target devices—everything from enterprise servers based on massive arrays of ARM processors to tablets and smartphones. And other changes in the 3.7 kernel could make it more attractive for low-cost touch tablets and other mobile devices—as well as a hacker's replacement for Windows RT.

John the Ripper is a free and Open Source password cracker. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords and It is one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs. It combines a number of password crackers into one package, autodetects password hash types, and includes a customizable cracker. JTR is available in official Ubuntu repositories. A custom JTR build includes a nice gpg2john binary that converts your key file into a format that JTR understands.

It is unquestionably the case that only a small percentage of Linux users would be truly satisfied not having access to a graphical user interface. The graphical desktop environment has become so ingrained in almost everyone's computer activities. Nevertheless, even in 2012 there are many reasons why console based applications have an important part to play.