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LXer Feature: 07-Jun-2012

Fie on ye, Red Hat. It's a sad bad day when you polish the Microsoft road apple.

In November 2006, when Novell signed a patent licensing deal with Microsoft, the free and open source software community, for the most part, was predictably appalled.

Lightspark is alternative free and open source Flash player and browser plugin for linux, development is focused for Linux Platform but it can also be compiled for Windows platform.

The second milestone release of JetBrains Kotlin language can now compile code that runs on Android. The IDE support for the language also lets developers try out Kotlin's compile-to-JavaScript capabilities

With today's updates, Canonical upgraded the default web browser in all its supported Ubuntu operating systems to Mozilla Firefox 13.0.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is one of the older real-time communications methods still in active use on the Internet. Due to its popularity, flexibility and cross-platform nature, it still has a very vibrant user base today.

Mozilla released Firefox 13 Wednesday, which it says is a speedier, safer version of the open source web browser. The newly launched Firefox also boasts a new home page and tab page layout similar to those of competing browsers such as Google's Chrome. Before the upgrade, when Firefox users clicked to open a new tab, they saw simply a blank page.

Google announced on Tuesday it will begin displaying a warning to users who the internet giant believe are under state-sponsored malware attack. Google has not revealed what criteria or technology will be used to detect the attacks.

Today is the last day of the crowdfunding campaign Carmageddon: Reincarnation on KickStarter. Although there are still a few hours until completion of the project financing and the goal of $600k set for the Linux and Mac versions of the game has not been reached yet, the indi games studio Stainless Games has confirmed the release of the Linux version today.

PCLinuxOS was there for me when I needed it most.

Mozilla Thunderbird is the brother of Firefox that aims to deliver a fast, easy and secure email and news client. The application is free and open source and is developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Version 13 of Thunderbird got released yesterday and the bug fixes are more than many.

High-performance computing users get one-click access with NoMachine

With the 8th birthday of Phoronix yesterday, here's a collection of the most popular Phoronix stories about Linux and open-source that were written since its creation in 2004.

The Linux world is vast, and extends far beyond Linus. Here is a second batch of talented, creative people doing wonderful things with Linux and FOSS; a followup to Unsung Heroes of Linux, Part One. There are literally thousands of contributors doing excellent work that benefits all of us, and it's high time to start saying, "Thank you."

Linux Mint 13, the Maya release, is an impressive upgrade that builds on the progress found in version 12. It contains few additional innovations to the operating system. But it updates numerous core elements and provides more solid performance from the two new desktop interfaces introduced in Mint 12.

Red Hat clarifies the rational behind its decision to adopt Microsoft's UEFI boot lock certificate.

In Part One about Gedit I covered three neat plugins to make it more productive and user friendly. More recently, I discovered another plugin that I simply couldn't ignore. The good news is that it really is cool; the not so good news is that the plugin is not available from the repositories, there is no PPA and no third-party stand-alone binary (yet). Bummer--but it can be installed from a source tarball. Easily. So, what is Dashboard and how do you install it?

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine

The newest version of DotNetNuke, the open source web content management tool, got more social, enabling users to build internal and external social networks directly in the tool.

Jono Bacon, Ubuntu Community Manager at Canonical recently replied to user questions while doing 'Ask Me Anything' session. Check out some of the excerpts.

In order for other OSes to run on this hardware, the community and the company needed to find a solution, a practical solution. Red Hat/Fedora found a workable solution, which will make it easy for users to run the Linux of their choice.