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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 You should be cheering — it's a master stroke against evil and outdated software!"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.

This guide will walk you explain a little bit about How to Installing nginx with php5-fastcgi and mysql Support on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, Nginx (pronounced “engine x”) is a free, open-source and high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. Follow the step by step installing and setup nginx with php5-fastcgi and mysql Support on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS in below

Meltemi was a Linux-based operating system that was intended to be Nokia’s successor to the S40 feature phone platform. Used in conjunction with the Qt development toolkit, Meltemi was going to be the cornerstone of Nokia’s strategy for connecting the “next billion” smartphone users.

Nearly five years ago, three senior developers from the Samba project showed the rest of the FOSS community what could be achieved by resistance which was based on integrity.

The sponsor of Ubuntu, one of the popular operating systems, is organising a contest titled 'the Ubuntu App Showdown' to create an app from scratch for Ubuntu in three weeks, and delivered in the Ubuntu Software Centre.

This article will give you an introduction to Markdown. Markdown is a lightweight markup language used by bloggers and web-writers a lot. It aims to be readable in non-converted form. This article will also give a tutorial and go over the syntax vs. raw html.

The GNome Audio Converter offers an alternative to Sound Converter for GTK+ 3.

When it comes to Twitter, there are three ways to use it: the web interface, a desktop/mobile client, or tweet from the command line (for the real Indiana Jones). The last way, despite its apparent complexity, can become very useful for people who want to reach a higher level of control over their favorite micro-blogging system. If you want to use some scripts, send your tweets automatically, or just get rid of the graphical application, TTYtter is an excellent program to start with.

Ever wish you could help design the TV of the future? If so, you’re in luck: Canonical developers are currently soliciting the open source community’s feedback to help plan features for Ubuntu TV. Here’s what they want to know, and how you can have your say.

The open source cloud made waves in the news this week with the results of a RightScale study that claims widespread adoption among enterprises of open source cloud computing services. VMWare and IBM showed their agreement by announcing plans to expand their open source cloud investments. These positive stories offset the shocker that NASA has abandoned OpenStack entirely for Amazon Web Services.

I’ve discovered this Indie game thanks to Humble Indie Bundle Number 5, buying it I’ve got this one as Bonus game, and I must say that it’s been a great, and positive surprise. Lone Survivor is a psychological survival adventure, with art, design, and music by the one-man studio, Superflat Games. The surgical-mask wearing protagonist has survived a disaster and must now face the world’s twisted creatures, as well as the potential unraveling of his own mind.