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This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 25 of 2012. It features fedora ranting and small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes again ranting on Fedora, Beatbox, Linus Torvalds talk at Aalto, Tiny Core, Wikimedia, Ubu tu and Secure Boot, Lightworks, TAILS and Torchat, oh and did I mention fedora ranting?

How to preview plymouth splash screen without rebooting.

I am going to do a short video review of Mageia 2 with some screenshots. This is my first look at Mageia 2 and as you may know it is rapidly moving up the Linux List at DistroWatch.Com

The most immediately important story has to do with a ruling made by a Washington, DC federal appeals court that will definitely slow down the trolls and might put them out of business altogether. Basically the ruling requires patent holders to sue each alleged offender separately and not bunch them together in a single lawsuit. Daniel Fisher at Forbes explains it this way:

Gnome developers work on a Screen Lock that is useful mostly for touch devices. They also work in a new Login Screen. The main purpose of screen lock is obviously to prevent accidentally actions to happen in the system. While Screen Lock shares lot of similarities with Login Screen -currently GDM- , it seems that these two aren’t compatible and will not be merged.

There's been a remarkable shift in attitudes toward the cloud over the years and a new survey shows a surprisingly positive feeling, but that doesn't mean IT still doesn't have to ask cloud vendors the tough questions.

Audacious 3.3 alpha 1 has been released recently with user interface improvements, a more intelligent search tool, improved MPRIS2 plugin and other important changes.

Version 1.8.0 of the popular open source network protocol analyser supports capturing from multiple interfaces at the same time, and now allows users to add, edit and save packet and capture file annotations

Facebook has joined Netflix in offering edge servers to ISPs to help break content delivery bottlenecks around its growing photo collection. And your company could learn from Facebook's highly efficient approach.

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up vsftpd with TLS on a Debian Squeeze server.

This week, we look at 23 questions about Microsoft Surface, Linux super computer domination and walking the Agile walk instead of just talking the talk.

And updated version of CyanogenMod 7, based on 2.3 Gingerbread, has been released and adds support for more phones as well as Ice Cream Sandwich features

It's here! It's improved! It works even better!

I call this the "ssta release", in honour of a pal of mine who made a request which I've now implemented. ( --justdoit option, see below).

I have sweated and toiled, lost sleep, learned a lot, re-learned a lot, tested, tested again, and ended up with something which should work for just about everyone – everyone that is, who's users are local to the system – anyone using Active Directory to login still won't be handled by the RDPsesconfig utility yet...

This is nothing official by Gnome Foundation. We are collected all the modules that Gnome is working on and we built a brainstorming tentative list of features that we want to see and we might see in about a year from now, in the second semester of 2013 or the first of 2014.

So, at this point, despite the fact that we clearly don't want to be part of delivering locked-down PCs to users, it looks as though we need to use a boot loader with a more liberal licence in order to protect ourselves from accidents.

Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn't as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe.

It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up remotely in a fast efficient way was nice – but it soon became apparent to RDP users that not all was well – RDP users couldn't do some of the nice convenient things that local desktoip users could do.

Bitwig, a Berlin based company is bringing professional grade music production software 'Bitwig Studio' to Linux. They have released a new video showing us a demo song and the actual software in action.

Before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" next month, here's a look at how the latest point release of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is performing compared to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and the latest development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux.

The non-profit organisation behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia has announced the launch of a new prototype of its open source Visual editor, which is designed to make creating and editing pages easier to attract new contributors

It looks pretty slick, but it's just too quirky and inconsistent (for my tastes, at least).