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Zorin OS 6 Educational: the operating system for students' and pupils' home computers

Edubuntu is not the only distribution with the purpose of helping people to teach and learn. Another example in this area is Zorin OS Educational.

The five best things coming in Ubuntu 12.10 Linux

  • ZDNet; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by sjvn on Sep 9, 2012 2:46 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Ubuntu
Ubuntu 12.10 has just gone beta, here's what we have to look forward to in this forthcoming popular Linux distribution.

Google Drive Linux App `Insync` Beta 4 Adds GNOME Shell, Cinnamon And KDE Support

Insync is an unofficial Google Drive client that runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. Insync beta 4 for Linux has been released yesterday, bringing support for GNOME Shell, Cinnamon and KDE.

Creating Advanced MySQL-Based Virtual Hosts On Lighttpd (Ubuntu 12.04)

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Sep 9, 2012 12:00 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
This guide explains how you can create advanced virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Ubuntu 12.04 that are stored in a MySQL database. The method described here does not use the lighttpd mod_mysql_vhost module, and unlike mod_mysql_vhost (which allows you to store only the hostname and document root of a vhost in a database), this method allows to store individual configuration directives for each vhost in the MySQL database.

6 Great Linux Statistical Analysis Tools

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Trevor James (Posted by sde on Sep 9, 2012 11:02 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
Linux is particularly strong in the field of open source statistical software. The purpose of this article is to identify software for performing statistical analysis. This type of software helps to summarize data in a shorter form, and helps scientists understand a concept or representation and make possible predictions based on this understanding.

What’s on tap in Zentyal 3?

  • LinuxBSDos.com; By finid (Posted by finid on Sep 9, 2012 10:05 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Zentyal is primarily managed from a browser interface. After installation, the first task is to determine what role you want Zentyal to play in your network environment, then install the modules associated with that specific role.

SCALE 11x Call for Papers begins

Have something to say? Working on a project others should know about? Get those papers ready: The Call for Papers for the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 11x is now underway.

Gentoo Linux vs. Linaro ARM Benchmarks

The latest Linux ARM benchmarks at Phoronix are comparing the performance of Gentoo Linux against Linaro 12.08 from a 1.4GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 development board.

Mageia 3 Alpha 1 Begins A New Cycle

The first alpha release for Mageia 3 is now available for testing...

The H Roundup - Nautilus "catastrophe" and UDID leaks

In the week ending 8 September - Linux Mint's Nautilus fork, NVIDIA's Linux driver plans, iPhone UDID leaks and still-vulnerable Java 7. Also, Diaspora's lessons and what's coming in Linux 3.6's networking

Linux Multi-Monitor Support Could Be Improved

While some want Linux multi-monitor support removed, others are looking for it to be improved. Multiple display support for Linux has improved over the years with X.Org and desktop environment advancements, it's still generally less than ideal, especially for Linux gamers...

GameTree Linux Isn't Growing (Cedega)

Back in January of 2011 it was announced that TransGaming would be retiring Cedega, the proprietary software formerly known as WineX that began as a fork of the MIT-licensed Wine. Cedega was to be succeeded by GameTree Linux, but this new TransGaming project hasn't been making much headway...

Does openSUSE 12.2 support secure boot?

One of the questions surrounding openSUSE 12.2, which was released mid-week, is whether it already supports secure boot, the Microsoft initiative that will be an integral part of Windows 8 when that operating system is released on October 26.

Sysprof 1.2 Can Better Track Time Spent In The Kernel

Sysprof, the system-wide profiler that can at fine detail track down and profile kernel and user-space processes on Linux, has seen a new major release with new features added...

Lightworks Linux Alpha Planned For Next Month

Lightworks, the professional non-linear video editor that was open-sourced in mid-2010, is finally about to see its long-awaited Linux release...

Released Intel Driver Gets PRIME'd For Sharing

Chris Wilson has continued in his weekly trend of putting out new Intel X.Org driver releases. This weekend's Intel 2.20.7 driver lands the PRIME support...

Trisquel GNU Linux, the “most Free” Gnome Distro

  • WoGue; By alex diavatis (Posted by wogue on Sep 8, 2012 10:16 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: GNOME
Yeap it is official by FSF Free Software Definition. Fedora isn’t free software. Linux (kernel) isn’t free software. Firefox isn’t Free Software. Pretty much there isn’t Free Software (FS), but we can baptize things by occasion as FS.

Trisquel according to FSF is one of the nine distributions that they meet the FSF’s strict guidelines by completely eschewing proprietary components.

Raise ‘em with PokerTH!

  • WoGue; By bill toulas (Posted by wogue on Sep 8, 2012 9:18 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Playing poker under Gnome is a relatively hard situation. There are almost no GTK poker clients, and those who are lack many things. The good news is that we can use the Qt based PokerTH just fine!

PokerTH has been around for 6 years now making it a mature application that keeps the poker linux fans amuzed. It offers both a local game mode and the ability to play with others over the internet. You can also connect and play with someone else using the IP.

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 216

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Sep 8, 2012 8:21 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Welcome to issue 216th of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Building a Linux distribution from scratch | Interview

Here’s a quick interview with Constantine Apostolou who is the creator and maintainer of the Cinux Linux distribution. Creating an operating system from scratch has its difficulties, but also its good parts. Constantine explains this process and gives us more details about his own baby – Cinux!

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