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From time-to-time unique/crazy/odd discussions get born on the Fedora development mailing list -- such as talking nasty about Ubuntu's Unity, trying to make Fedora a rolling-release distribution, etc. The latest discussion that's been very active has been about whether ARM hardware is a dead-end.

The inspiration of this post is the fact that as much as it is easy to create a custom widget class in gtkmm, it is just as complicated to add it to Glade, the interface designer tool of GNOME. As gtkmm is C++ we only have to derive from the desired parent class and customize its behaviour to implement a brand new widget. It would be nice to add the instances of this new class just like stock GTK+ widgets in Glade.

If you are looking for an Awesome window manager for your desktop, you found it! This window manager remains simple but offers flexible configuration as well.

This week we look at issues Africa faces as it embraces the cloud and mobile, the growing popularity of Hadoop and agile testing issues.

When LIMBO became a part of the Linux gaming world through the latest Humble Indie Bundle, I knew I should take the journey right away. This game has won over 90 awards, and many gamers of all platforms consider it to be the best indie game ever. Time to have a more extensive look on this unique platform game…

Here’s a surprise! After years of neglect, Microsoft ships a new major version of Skype, the popular VoIP program, for Linux. You could have knocked me over with a feather. The last thing I expected was to see a new version of Skype, the popular Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) program, arrive for Linux. But, just in time for Skype’s new in-your-face advertising program, Skype 4.0 for Linux has arrived.

Reports of the demise of the fax machine may be premature if research in Chico Harlan's article in The Washington Post last week is to be believed. Fax machines are still in 59 percent of Japanese homes, Harlan found. They are still popular because of a cultural interest in the use of paper and handwriting.

For my money Calibre is one of the most indispensible pieces of software in GNU/Linux. It can handle all your e-books in all the major formats, including PDF, EPUB and Mobi. It supports up to thirty e-reader devices but this article will tell you how to use Calibre to convert RSS feeds to EPUBs (which can then be read in Calibre's own E-reader or synced and transferred to your external reader of choice).

read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

Yesterday, June 14th, we were prepared to announced the release of openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 1, including a detailed screenshot tour. Unfortunately, Stephan Kulow informed openSUSE users that there will be no release until they catch up with the slip of the Milestones and Beta versions.

That is another big step towards to make Gnome more polished and usable for people that aren’t satisfied with its default shape. Extensions are written from indie developers but they are part of the “core” Gnome desktop and can completely change the user-system interaction experience .

Last night, as I was perusing social media, a post from a friend caught my attention. It seems that the web-types at Kogan, an online electronics retailer in Australia and the UK, have tired of the additional work required to support Internet Explorer 7, and to even the score, have imposed a 6.8% tax on shoppers using IE7. While others were celebrating the move, as a Linux user, I was appalled. "What? Appalled? You should be cheering — it's a master stroke against evil and outdated software!" No, no it isn't. It's discrimination, and of a type that every Linux user has suffered.

openSUSE team has announced that RC of openSUSE 12.2 which was scheduled to be released today is not going to happen as Factory, their development project, is still far too unstable. This has affected the release of openSUSE 12.2 which was scheduled to be released in July. openSUSE 12.2 is now expected to be released in mid-september.

Normally when you use the terminal to launch a program, if you want to close the terminal, you will have to close the running program as well. This trick is about how to close the terminal without killing the running program.

The Lithium open source PHP framework has just received a major boost: Engine Yard has signed up to be the project's first official sponsor. As well as financial support, the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider also plans to help the project out in other areas. In a blog post, Elizabeth Naramore, PHP Community Manager at Engine Yard, says that the company intends to promote the framework at conferences, meetups and in webcasts, and will recommend it to customers and partners.

GNU/Linux may not have any pro-grade film editing software for the consumer market, but the film studios use Linux in every aspect of film production. Now Red Hat has added another feater in its hat as DreamWorks Animation SKG is using Red Hat Enterprise MRG as the grid infrastructure of DreamWorks Animation's 30,000+ core render farm. The mega studio is also using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as the platform to run mission-critical services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 12.04) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage servers. The client system (Ubuntu 12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

in Ubuntu-Based distro (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and others) the “Start up program” on Startup Applications Preferences dailog only appear partially, I do not know what the reason, but but there is one way to get all the startup program could appear in Startup Applications Preferences.

Microsoft this week ushered in the era of the cloud OS. But IBM, HP, Intel and other technology giants are set to rally around Red Hat Enterprise Linux (particularly for cloud computing) within the next two weeks. The VAR Guy isn’t picking favorites, but here’s the blow by blow.

The Rascal board is compatible with many Arduino shields but offers considerably more processing power, a built-in web interface, and runs the Linux OS.

The programming community and the furry community are an interesting pair. In one way, they are polar opposites of each other, and yet both of them share what seems to be a ubiquitous aspect of humanity - a small percentage of them are completely ... insane. The difference is that the furry community is about positive feelings, and the programming community is centered around negative feelings.