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Gnome Web 3.5.3 and beyond!

  • WoGue; By alex diavatis (Posted by wogue on Jul 16, 2012 2:34 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: GNOME
Gnome Web (Epiphany) is a misjudged and underestimated project when web-browsers are the most popular and significant software in any OS. The reasons? The two powerful open source alternatives, Chromium and Firefox, but also the bad quality and poor in features Web. Well, Web 360 has the ambition to change all these and join the club of mightiest!

How To Take Screenshots Of VirtualBox VMs

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Jul 16, 2012 1:37 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
VirtualBox is a great virtualization solution, however if lacks one big feature: the ability to take screenshots of a virtual machine. Of course, you can use the host operating system's print screen feature, but this will take a picture of the whole workspace, including window decorations, etc. which you will have to remove in your iage editing software which is a tedious task. This tutorial describes how you can create a little script that automatically takes a screenshot of a VirtualBox VM when you click on it; it makes use of the VirtualBox command line tool VBoxManage.

XBMC for Android set-top boxes is coming soon

The XBMC team has announced that it has been working on porting a fully fledged version of the open source media centre to Android. The application is aimed at set-top boxes but should work on other devices too

Kororaa 17 Is Now Available for Download

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 16, 2012 11:58 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Chris Smart proudly announced earlier today, July 16th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable release of the Kororaa 17 Linux operating system.

Linux 3.5 approaches with RC7

A seventh release candidate for Linux 3.5 was published over the weekend, following a large number of small pull requests submitted by kernel developers. This led Linus Torvalds to tell the developers, "Not cool guys. Not cool."

BSD For Human Beings? | Interview

  • Unixmen (Posted by zinoune on Jul 16, 2012 10:04 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Interview
Continuing our BSD summer interviews, we introduce today a very interesting interview with Kris Moore, the founder and current leader of development of the desktop user-friendly PC-BSD project. Enjoy!

Unix Commands Cheat Sheet

  • Cemdesign Blog; By Christine Moore (Posted by cm381 on Jul 16, 2012 9:06 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Below is a cheat sheet of Unix commands that are useful for Linux server administration.

How to create animated GIF image with GIMP

The GIMP, a free image processing editor published under GNU GPL licence, has many advanced features for creating and editing images in various formats, and it's capable to create animated GIF images without any aditional plugin.

Pear Linux 5 Officially Released

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 16, 2012 7:45 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
David Tavares, the developer of Pear Linux, has announced today, July 16th, that the fifth iteration of the Pear Linux operating system is now available for download.

HeliOS/Reglue 2012 Volunteer of the Year

  • http://www.reglue.org; By helios (Posted by helios on Jul 16, 2012 6:48 AM CST)
  • Groups: Community
It is with great pleasure and gratitude that the Directors of Reglue and The HeliOS Project name Carolyn Smith as our 2012 volunteer of the year. Wish I could buy you a new truck kiddo, but we can't so I will get you a cheesy certificate and I'll hug you for your efforts. You are indeed one of a kind.

Did Apple Call Galaxy Nexus A Stolen, Pirated And Counterfeit Product?

  • muktware; By swapnil bhartiya (Posted by muktware on Jul 16, 2012 5:50 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Apple is stooping to a whole new level. The company is evidently scared of competition in the mobile and is using every legal means to 'kill' Android.

The same company which stole UI from Xerox, whose founded shamelessly admitted that they have been shameless about stealing ideas from other companies is putting the Galaxy Nexus phone it the category of 'stolen, pirated, counterfeit, or infringing products.'

Download Linux Kernel 3.5 Release Candidate 7

Linus Torvalds announced on July 14th that the seventh and probably the last Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel is now available for download and testing.

2 new mini Linux boxes

After the success of Raspberry Pi, it seems mini PCs that run Linux has become a technology trend. Recently, 2 new mini Linux-enabled PCs have joined the party.

LXer Weekly Roundup for 15-Jul-2012



LXer Feature: 16-Jul-2012

The latest installment of the LXWR of the weeks big stories for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

Ubuntu and Thunderbird: What the Future May Hold

  • http://www.thevarguy.com; By Christopher Tozzi (Posted by thevarguy2 on Jul 16, 2012 1:33 AM CST)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
For years, Ubuntu’s default email client was Evolution. Then, last year, Canonical switched to Mozilla Thunderbird. But now recent doubts over the future of Thunderbird — most of them pretty speculative — have spawned worries that Thunderbird might, in its turn, disappear from Ubuntu. Will it? And more importantly, would it really matter to many people? Here are some thoughts.

New Intel Driver Takes SNA Accel Mainstream

Chris Wilson released the xf86-video-intel 2.20 driver on Sunday, which brings SNA acceleration to the masses...

Why I Went Back To Gnome From KDE?

  • muktware; By Swapnil Bhartiya (Posted by muktware on Jul 15, 2012 6:48 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
I recently became a KDE user, that was the time when Gnome Shell was going through transition and extensions were missing and I was looking for something which I could use without much frustration. One of the things that I love the most about KDE is the polishes interface and total control over your desktop. You can customize almost every aspect of KDE. In addition, the familiar UI (simple and aimed at the traditional desktop) makes it easy to continue to work without having to learn new tricks.

Break free with Miro!

  • WoGue; By Bill Toulas (Posted by wogue on Jul 15, 2012 5:51 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Miro is a free and open source music player, video player, media converter, internet tv application, podcast organizer, downloader and generally a feature-rich multimedia playing, organizing and synchronizing application.

DebConf 12: Linux Gaming, Mobile, 64-bit ARMv8 Planning

The DebConf 12 developer summit ended on Saturday in Managua. Here is a recap of the prominent Debian Linux and open-source discussions that took place in Nicaragua's capitol for the past week.

Softpedia Linux Weekly, Issue 208

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jul 15, 2012 11:03 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups
Welcome to the 208th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

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