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In bid for patent sanity, judge throws out entire Apple/Motorola case

One of the most outspoken judges in the craziness that is the US patent system made a bold move tonight, throwing out a lawsuit in which Apple and Motorola were seeking injunctions against each other's mobile products.

US District Court Judge Richard Posner previously canceled a jury trial in Chicago in the case, and then castigated both Apple and Motorola while calling the entire US patent system chaos. Posner issued a ruling late today (Scribd link) that shows he wasn't just joking.

ROSA 2012 LXDE review

  • LinuxBSDos; By finid (Posted by finid on Jun 23, 2012 12:51 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
The first beta of this LXDE edition of ROSA Linux was released in mid-April (this year). That beta release was previewed here. This article provides a more detailed review using a 32-bit installation image. The boot options are shown in the image below.

How to Install VMware Player in Linux Mint Maya 13

  • xjonquilx | Sabayon, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux, Oh My!; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on Jun 23, 2012 11:54 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
By default, the virtual ethernet service fails to start when running VMware Player 4.0.4 on Linux Mint Maya 13. This article provides an updated patch for this issue.

9 of the Best Free HTML Editors

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Trevor James (Posted by sde on Jun 23, 2012 10:56 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
An HTML editor is computer software for creating web pages. As this type of editor helps to remove the frustration out of creating web pages, it represents an indispensable tool for graphic and web designers.

Linux memory management

  • linuxaria.com; By Linuxaria (Posted by linuxaria on Jun 23, 2012 9:59 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
I think that is a common question for every Linux user soon or later in their career of desktop or server administrator “Why Linux uses all my Ram while not doing much ?”. To this one today I’ve add another question that I’m sure is common for many Linux system administrator “Why the command free show swap used and I’ve so much free Ram ?”, so from my study of today on SwapCached i present to you some useful, or at least i hope so, information on the management of memory in a Linux system.

HD Widgets Turn Ugly UIs Into Things of Beauty

HTC is on its fourth incarnation of Sense, and in my opinion, no one has come close. In fact, they've got nowhere near. However, a browse around the Play Store will uncover downloadable themes, sets of widgets and UIs, one of which is HD Widgets Beta from Cloud TV.

Google updates Android developer site ahead of Google I/O

Google has updated its Android Developers site and will be giving developers the ability to respond to reviews in the Play store. Meanwhile, it seems that "Jelly Bean" will be the code name for Android 4.1

Wine 1.5.7 Has Dynamic Device Support

Two weeks after the Wine 1.5.6 development release where they began work on a Direct3D shader compiler, Wine 1.5.7 now brings several more features for running your Windows binaries on Linux and other platforms...

Zarafa Z-Push 2.0 Release to Facilitate ’Bring Your Own Device’

  • http://www.zarafa.com; By Press Release (Posted by sharonpr on Jun 23, 2012 5:29 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Press Release
Availability announced today

Game developer: HTML5 not yet ready for mainstream use

Game developer Wooga has released its Magic Land Island project as open source code. The game was intended to demonstrate the capabilities of HTML5, but it ultimately only met some of the developers' expectations

Sponsoring Open-Source Drivers For $1 Per Day?

An idea is being kicked around within the forums about sponsoring open-source driver development for one dollar per day...

NVIDIA Loses Huge GPU Order Due To Linux Blob

NVIDIA has lost an order of at least ten million graphics cards because their GeForce/Quadro driver is closed-source...

Short Linux and Open Source news overview for week 25 of 2012

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 25 of 2012. It features fedora ranting and small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes again ranting on Fedora, Beatbox, Linus Torvalds talk at Aalto, Tiny Core, Wikimedia, Ubu tu and Secure Boot, Lightworks, TAILS and Torchat, oh and did I mention fedora ranting?

How to preview Plymouth splash screen theme

  • Linux and Life (Posted by annamese on Jun 23, 2012 12:08 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
How to preview plymouth splash screen without rebooting.

Review: Video Review Mageia 2 KDE – ReviewLinux.Com

  • ReviewLinux.Com; By M Perks (Posted by ReviewLinux on Jun 22, 2012 11:21 PM CST)
  • Groups: KDE, Linux
I am going to do a short video review of Mageia 2 with some screenshots. This is my first look at Mageia 2 and as you may know it is rapidly moving up the Linux List at DistroWatch.Com

Friday FOSS Week In Review

  • FOSS Force; By Chris Hall (Posted by brideoflinux on Jun 22, 2012 10:34 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Roundups
The most immediately important story has to do with a ruling made by a Washington, DC federal appeals court that will definitely slow down the trolls and might put them out of business altogether. Basically the ruling requires patent holders to sue each alleged offender separately and not bunch them together in a single lawsuit. Daniel Fisher at Forbes explains it this way:

Screen Lock Vs Login Screen in the upcoming Gnome

  • WoGue; By Alex Diavatis (Posted by wogue on Jun 22, 2012 9:46 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNOME
Gnome developers work on a Screen Lock that is useful mostly for touch devices. They also work in a new Login Screen. The main purpose of screen lock is obviously to prevent accidentally actions to happen in the system. While Screen Lock shares lot of similarities with Login Screen -currently GDM- , it seems that these two aren’t compatible and will not be merged.

Survey Finds Shifting Cloud Attitudes

  • Tech Target View From Above; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Jun 22, 2012 8:59 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial
There's been a remarkable shift in attitudes toward the cloud over the years and a new survey shows a surprisingly positive feeling, but that doesn't mean IT still doesn't have to ask cloud vendors the tough questions.

Audacious 3.3 Alpha 1 Released With Improved UI, More

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Jun 22, 2012 8:12 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Audacious 3.3 alpha 1 has been released recently with user interface improvements, a more intelligent search tool, improved MPRIS2 plugin and other important changes.

Wireshark 1.8.0 can capture from multiple interfaces at once

Version 1.8.0 of the popular open source network protocol analyser supports capturing from multiple interfaces at the same time, and now allows users to add, edit and save packet and capture file annotations

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