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A new report titled An Overview of the "Patent Trolls" Debate is a balanced but ultimately devastating indictment of "patent trolls." It was prepared by the Congressional Research Service for members of Congress, who could actually do something about the "troll" problem. It's a useful primer for those new to the area.

In a former article I’ve wrote about the command locate, an useful command to find quickly a file in your computer. An alternative to locate is the command find : GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given file name by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of precedence, until the outcome is known (the left hand side is false for and operations, true for or), at which point find use the defined action and moves on to the next file name.

find can use many options to compose an expression and as standard action it print in the standard output the file name that match the expression.

"Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root," Shuttleworth says in Canonical's defense.

The new version of Ubuntu Linux slated for release in October introduces a feature that some users claim is at worst a violation of privacy or, at best, generally annoying. Ubuntu 12.10 introduces search results from Amazon into the Dash. That means you could be searching for a file or application on your computer and get shopping results under a "more suggestions" section after your general results.

Gnome Files 3.6 is far from completed and is more like an experimental version of what is coming next, in 3.8. Overall, I think it is an improvement over 3.4 but this has to do in what way you’re using it.

Some things are done faster in new Files and some things are done slower. For common tasks? It is lot lot faster!

The 1.4 branch of KDE’s music player Amarok is admittedly the best music player that ever existed :) Unfortunately, the Amarok developers decided that it was too good to be true and they destroyed it with version 2.0, but Clementine did the trick by forking 1.4 and evolving into an even greater music player. Clementine uses Qt though, and we don’t prefer this toolkit in our system…so what about an Amarok 1.4 “clone” that uses GTK?

Recently a discussion in Gnome Mailing Lists took place about sync Files with OwnCloud. That might isn’t interesting to the most of us -besides who will abandon Google Drive, Ubuntu One, DropBox for a personal cloud storage service?

As I have set up lots of OwnCloud instances for companies that I work for, the answer is simple. Companies are way too interested for this, because OwnCloud offers the ultimate Open Source solution for storing and managing files.

New Manager for SUSE, New Management for openSUSE

Updates for the 9.2.x and 9.1.x branches of the relational database have been released to fix two critical bugs that could lead to data corruption. The 9.0.x, 8.4.x, and 8.3.x branches have also been updated to fix other issues

If a milestone on the path of a language becoming popular is when it is found being used to develop malware, then Google's Go has just passed that milestone. Symantec says it has found some Go-based malware in a trojan

ADF Essentials gives away the basics Battling against an increasingly crowded field of Java web development frameworks, Oracle – ordinarily never one to turn away a buck – has decided to bite the bullet and offer a version of its Application Development Framework (ADF) as a free download.…

An interesting bug report cropped up on Launchpad a couple of days ago. Apparently, it is quite easy to bring up search results for sex toys, pornographic materials and other adult-related merchandise in Ubuntu 12.10 via the Dash.

I bit the bullet and did some repartitioning of my Debian Wheezy-running laptop to give myself more space on the Linux side, taking it from the seldom-used Windows side of my dual-boot system.

Vector Linux is a distro that has been around for quite a long time. It is based on Slackware, with Xcfe, KDE and LXDE as the available desktop environments. According to the official website, the aim of Vector is to keep the distro simple and small and let the end user decide what their operating system is going to be.

Red Hat’s testing ground and all around number 2 Linux distribution Fedora, turns 9 today. A post by Fabian Affolter reveals on planet.fedora the historic day in which the project’s homepage was first registered.

We all know that the threat of cyber attack is growing dramatically (don’t we?), and that the most urgent duty of government is to protect the populace (isn’t it?) Assuming that’s the case, how are we to explain the recent collapse of an effort to pass essential cybersecurity legislation? And what, if anything, can be done about it?

The inclusion of a lens in Unity dedicated entirely to Amazon results has caused a stir in the community, but Canonical founder Shuttleworth has come out to defend it

Today after reading a great review of SnowLinux 3 E17 Crystal from mylinuxexplore.blogspot.ca I decided to do a short video review of this Linux Distribution. After downloading the amd64 ISO, I spun it up to take a look.

Cortex Command has been in development for more than 11 years. Data Realms has been releasing development builds of the game from time to time and Cortex Command was also included in Humble Indie Bundle 2.

Gestures in KDE Plasma aren't just tied to the browser, but pretty much anything in the desktop environment. With a few flicks of the mouse, you can make magic happen across your desktop.

After the release of Unity and Gnome Shell, XFCE gained more popularity, fans and support for being the reliable “traditional” desktop environment. Fast, modern, mature, light and beautiful, XFCE is naturally becoming the default DE on big distributions like Debian. This week we meet Nick Schermer for a quick interview about the present and future development situations and plans of the XFCE project.