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Moving Beyond the Desktop Era to Whatever Comes Next

  • Real User Monitoring; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on May 23, 2012 8:58 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Life was a lot simpler for IT when everyone used Windows PCs and applications, but today employees are interacting with a variety of devices and different approaches to software, and you need to find a way to manage this new environment.

Python modules you should know: PyGPGME

  • topdog.za.net; By Andrew Colin Kissa (Posted by topdog on May 23, 2012 8:01 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Next in our series of Python modules you should know is PyGPGME. This package lets you sign, verify, encrypt and decrypt messages using the OpenPGP format. It is built on top of the GNU Privacy Guard and the GPGME library.

How to Defensively Partition Your Hard Drive in Linux

  • xjonquilx | Linux for the Masses; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on May 23, 2012 7:04 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Hardly a day goes by that I don't see a post in Yahoo Answers about how someone installed Linux, messed up the installation beyond repair, and now is facing the possibility of losing all their personal files. This doesn't need to be an issue in Linux, however. In this article I'm going to tell you how you can defensively partition your hard drive in Linux.

Red Hat lures in JRuby power pair

Red Hat has lured two of the brains behind JRuby, Charles Nutter and Thomas Ebeno, who once worked at Sun Microsystems. The duo are joining the Linux distro shop to expand their work on JRuby, Java Virtual Machine (JVM) languages and OpenJDK, Nutter tweeted.

The Linux USB Library Has Been Forked

Libusb has been forked as libusbx and it appears this library for user-space USB data transfers on Linux and other operating systems is gaining traction...

Free software and the necessity for idealism

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Richard Hillesley (Posted by russb78 on May 23, 2012 4:12 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Free software idealism is a necessary and desirable part of the software landscape, says Richard Hillesley…

VIA reveals Rasberry Pi competitor running Android

  • Linux User & Developer; By Rob Zwetsloot (Posted by robzwets on May 23, 2012 3:15 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
VIA has announced a new ARM-based SoC board for $49 that seems to be aimed directly at the Raspberry Pi market...

OpenOffice – A House of Sand

“When Apache foundation released OpenOffice 3.4, many people wondered what is the point of OpenOffice existence, and what is, or what should be the current relation with LibreOffice. Unixmen came in contact with the people behind the project, and did an attempt to answer these questions through an interview with Rob Weir. It seems that many things remained unclear, or somewhat vague, so what about some more food for thought regarding this matter?

Google did not breach Oracle patents, a court has found

  • BBC (Posted by bob on May 23, 2012 1:54 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Google did not infringe patents owned by software developer Oracle, a jury in a California court found on Wednesday.

How Debian has grown: Stefano Zacchiroli speaks

  • iTWire; By Sam Varghese (Posted by linuxwriter on May 23, 2012 1:39 PM CST)
  • Groups: Debian
Last month, Stefano Zacchiroli was re-elected as leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project for a third term, the first leader to earn such a mandate. Only the founder, Ian Murdock, has headed the project for anything approaching three years.

Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon: A Spectacular GNOME 3 Fork

  • Muktware (Posted by muktware on May 23, 2012 12:42 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
I recommend you give Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon a spin as soon as you can. It's still just a release candidate but in my opinion this release couldn't get much better than it already is.

The Open-Source Graphics Card Is Dead

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by tracyanne on May 23, 2012 11:45 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The effort to create an open-source graphics card suffered a premature and quiet death some time ago. Prior to LinuxTag Berlin later in the week, I have been visiting with Egbert Eich, the SUSE engineer, long-time X.Org developer, and former RadeonHD driver developer. Among the many Linux graphics topics being discussed in Frankfurt-Darmstadt, Egbert and I realized "that project to come up with an open-source graphics card" hadn't been heard of in years. Hell neither of us could recall the name of the main project even though it was presented just four years ago at FOSDEM.

Virtual Multiserver Environment With Dedicated Web & MySQL, Email & DNS Servers On Debian Squeeze With ISPConfig 3

  • HowtoForge; By Michel Käser (Posted by falko on May 23, 2012 11:05 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
This tutorial describes how you can set up a single dedicated server as a virtual multiserver environment using OpenVZ with dedicated Web & MySQL, Email and DNS servers on Debian Squeeze. Also, you will learn how to maintain all these servers. As an addition, you will learn how to install some very useful packages on all of them, how to protect them and how to monitor them. At the end you will have a fully functional virtual multiserver environment, ready for shared hosting.

The Scarygliders X11rdp-O-Matic and RDPsesconfig : hotness upon hotness!

Configuring and installing the X11rdp back-end server is a bit of a pain. This release does it all for you.

How to Install Elementary Desktop Environment In Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Elementary Desktop Environment is A new lightweight, modular desktop environment primarily written in Vala and GTK+, for the elementary project. It comes with a Gnome style top panel, main menu on the left and indicators, user menu on the right. At bottom of screen it’s the launcher (Docky)

Book Review: The Artists Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition

  • BeginLinux.com; By Andrew Weber (Posted by aweber on May 23, 2012 8:56 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
I recently got the chance to read and work through many of the tutorials in the book The Artist’s Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition: creative techniques for photographers written by Michael J. Hammel. Having only a sloppy, self-taught understanding of GIMP going into this I wanted to accomplish two things. Learn the fundamentals and equip myself with a stack of GIMP techniques I will actually use day to day.

Meet Google, Your New Hardware Supplier

Is Google poised to become one of your major hardware suppliers? Before you dismiss such an idea, keep close tabs on Google’s recent buyout of Motorola Mobility plus the upcoming Google I/O conference, where plenty of news involving Google Android tablets, Google Chromebooks and smartphones may surface. Here's the update.

OpenMoko's New Endeavor: Giving Out IDs

With the OpenMoko project being largely irrelevant these days and not vigorously pushing new software or hardware, the OpenMoko company has resorted to giving out USB IDs and MAC addresses...

Open source driving cloud, big data, mobile, survey finds

Open source continues to make big strides, and leads in key growth segments including cloud, big data, mobile applications and enterprise mobility, according to a survey published yesterday. At the launch of the Open Source Business Conference, two key backers in the open source space, Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, issued their sixth annual survey results including key findings and challenges for open source in 2012.

Geary: A Simple Email Client For Linux That Supports Threaded Conversation

here are plenty of email desktop clients for Linux. Some are being integrated into the distro (such as Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail) and used as the default email client while others require you to install manually. Geary belongs to the latter.

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