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In this article I will discuss everything you need to get started with Linux Mint 13 Maya. This is going to be a really long article so kick back and relax while you read it. This article assumes the user has installed Linux Mint 13 Maya on their system and has a basic knowledge of how to set up an internet connection.

Canonical, through John Pugh, proudly informed us on June 20th that the upcoming major release of the Unity game engine will support publishing to the Ubuntu platform.

Here's an interesting finding: at least when running under Wine, Half-Life 2 is faster on the open-source AMD Radeon Linux driver than when running on the proprietary Catalyst driver. There are also some other similar results where these Windows games have the advantage when running on the Gallium3D open-source driver.

Well it's been a Linus-heavy month here in the Linux blogosphere, what with Torvalds winning the Millennium Technology Prize and all, and even now that trend appears to be continuing. The most recent conversation, however, has focused on comments Linus made in the wake of his big win.

The US digital rights advocacy organisation has launched a new patent reform project aimed at promoting seven suggested "fixes" for the American patent system, including one which questions whether software patents are even necessary

No matter how much you change your desktop background image and switch distro themes, staring at the same computer's screen day in and day out can become humdrum. Conky can be used to decorate the desktop in endless ways and provide a stream of useful system monitors in the process.

I think that every user that has some skill know that a simple rm of a file or deleting it via any file manager is not enough to really remove it from your hard disk.

In Linux there are some tools that can offer you way more secure to really delete your files: DBAN if you need to erase completely a hard disk o partition or if you just have to delete some files you can use Shred or Wipe

Oracle Database Express Edition 11gR2 is free for download and is available for variety of platforms including various distros of Linux and Microsoft Windows without needing a license. in this this guide will help you how to install Oracle Database Express Edition 11gR2 on Ubuntu Server 12.04

The general availability release of Fedora 17 "Beefy Miracle" for ARM hardware is now available...

If you are a computer user and have been around for a while on the internet, you must have heard about Linux already. Contrary to what many people believe, you do not have to go through the labyrinth of complicated command-lines in order to get an experience with Linux. In fact, you do not even have to install any fancy thing on your computer to try Linux. In this article, I will show you two easy ways to try Linux without the fear of crashing your computer.

We all know now that Steam is really coming to Linux. According to Gabe Newell, you can expect it this year. The ‘Steam-engine’ picked up additional locomotion yesterday when it brought developer David White on board. This is of course after being influenced my Michael Larabel, founder of Phoronix.

If you have tried Gentoo in the past but its compile times have put you off using it, maybe try again with Sabayon 9 KDE, which couples Italian elegance with Gentoo’s raw power…

Zorin OS is one of those distributions that attempt to bring something different to the Linux desktop. But what exactly does Zorin OS bring to the table? An Ubuntu-based distribution with a Microsoft Windows 7 theme. The objective is to make it easier for Windows users to switch to Linux.

SolusOS is currently the fastest-growing Linux distro. Just right after the release of its first version, Eveline, SolusOS has jumped from nowhere into the middle of the distro ranking chart on Distrowatch . And the SolusOS team didnt stop there, they have already worked on the next release of SolusOS. Last week, the team has released the Alpha 3 version of SolusOS 2 with many new things.

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.04) to a distributed replicated storage with GlusterFS. Nodes 1 and 2 (replication1) as well as 3 and 4 (replication2) will mirror each other, and replication1 and replication2 will be combined to one larger storage server (distribution). Basically, this is RAID10 over network. If you lose one server from replication1 and one from replication2, the distributed volume continues to work. The client system (Ubuntu 12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem.

New Deadline for openSUSE Summit papers to coincide with SUSECon’s Call for Papers, and more information about the Summit has been released

Isaac Joseph created a customized version of the Unity interface for the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, called Unity Revamped.

Smartdevices Inc. announced the immediate availability for download of a firmware for its SmartQ T20 tablet device.

In the discussion last night about AMD not having any plans to suspend their proprietary Linux driver, John Bridgman of AMD shared some interesting information about AMD planning to provide a full execution stack in open-source form...

Today, Introversion Software has announced the immediate availability of “Uplink” for iOS devices, with an Android build coming soon. When it debuted in 2001, ”Uplink” was Introversion Software’s first commercial release and garnered the critical and financial success that put Introversion on the map as one of the best independent game developers in the industry.