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Background Project Neon provides daily builds of KDE modules for Kubuntu. It is an easy way to get the latest code without having to build the entire KDE-SVN tree and maintain the checkout. Project Neon is unstable, but it installs alongside stable packages. It is suitable for contributors such as new developers, translators, usability designers, documenters, promoters, and bug triagers. With Project Neon, people can experiment freely without risk to a working KDE environment.

Transmission 2.61, the open source, cross-platform and famous BitTorrent client used in many of today's Linux distributions, has been released last evening, July 23rd.

LPinguy 12.04.1 is released. LPinguy (Light Pinguy) 12.04 is based on Ubuntu 12.04. LPinguy has both preconfigured GNOME Classic and Enlightenment desktop.

I just tried Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon today and realized that when you right click on the desktop, there is no option to create a launcher. Of course, you can just drag the applications in the menu to the desktop to create the launchers but this is not very efficient in case you want a custom launcher.

Claiming that Linux users are different reminds me of F. Scott Fitzgerald's comment that "the rich are different from you and I" and Ernest Hemingway's alleged reply, "Yes, they have more money." After all, computer users are computer users. A few geeks may argue over the differences in operating systems, but aren't average users more interested in simply getting work done?

How do you create a business that's profitable based on free software? Paul Salazar explains 4 insights to selling and marketing open source software.

Once the Power Pwn is deployed, if it engages network access control and runs in stealth mode, it is essentially undetectable, "but we would hope that people would be able to walk around, look around, and question things in the environment," said M. Anthony Hughes, customer development manager at Pwnie Express. That difficulty of detection has raised fears about its being a useful tool for hackers.

Peppermint OS Three the newly released lightweight distribution based on Lubuntu 12.04 focuses on machines that have low resources and also uses a lot of cloud based applications.

Oracle will not pursue any further development of the object-oriented programming language Fortress. The database maker had acquired the research project when it took over Sun in 2010. The announcement was made in a blog post by Guy L. Steele, a member of Oracle's Programming Language Research Group, which has been largely responsible for designing, developing and implementing Fortress. Steele stresses that ten years is a long time for a research project, most of which last for just three years, according to him.

The latest stable release of Google Chrome has brought in a number of regressions making it almost unusable for for some Linux users.

In this tutorial were going to set up a glusterfs cluster with a replicated folder for use as webroot (/var/www/html) for our webservers. This means that all the servers we run have the same files in the webroot. I’ve run this set-up on Raymii.org in combination with a Round-Robin DNS on 8 OpenVZ servers. I’ve now switched to something different because GlusterFS consumed more ram than available on my low-end servers. Note that this only covers file-replication, not database replication. This for example can work good for static media files (images, video) or websites that run without a database (like mine, or static html). In combination with a round-robin DNS it provides a semi-HA setup.

Like usual, the Intel Linux graphics package isn't some new software component release, but rather it's just what Intel recommends their customers and Linux distributions use for appropriate versions of the upstream Linux components to deploy when running Intel integrated graphics.

Linux Mint is a Linux desktop distribution based on Ubuntu desktop and is one of the most popular Linux distributions still in active development.

This is the second post from the “Making GTK3 themes”series. The first post can be found here. We will name our theme as “Dream”. So create a directory named “Dream” under “~/.themes” and then create another directory named “gtk-3.0? under “~/.themes/Dream/gtk-3.0?. All the files we create will be inside this directory.

The following tutorial will teach Linux users how to install the Spec Ops: The Line game on their open source operating system.

Usually, VirtualBox creates its virtual machines in disk images (.vdi, .vmdk, etc.). This tutorial explains how you can use RAW devices from the host (partitions, LVM volumes, etc.) and create a VirtualBox VM in it. I will also explain how to mount a RAW device in an existing VM.

Canonical announced a few hours ago, July 23rd, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now available, fixing one security vulnerability discovered in the Linux kernel packages.

CodePorting C#2Java Engine automatically converts C# Out and Ref keyword to java arrays while converting code to java.

All it began at July 16, 2012, when the American video game company called Valve made this glorified statement: Steam’d Penguins. For those who don’t know who Valve is, they are the company who brought Half-Life, probably one of the best First-Person-Shooting games ever. Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Left 4 Dead and DOTA 2 are some samples of their kick-ass titles. Even the most powerful tool for gamers, the Steam, is a another Valve’s work. So, what’s this excitement all about ?

After months of development, Slackware 14.0 reaches Beta status on July 22nd, as announced by its developer, Patrick Volkerding.