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Since its launch, Google's Chromium browser has proved to be immensely popular. Chromium introduced many new and innovative features but it also brought along with it a familiar problem. Memory hogging. However, as Google released subsequent versions they addressed it. This short article will show you how to gain some traction over Chromium when, after prolonged browsing, it starts to seriously hog that resource.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

I honestly doubt that Canonical has helped so greatly the Linux DE, that people have to promote Ubuntu so much. I also don’t believe popularity of Linux helps proportional the open source ecosystem outside of strictly Desktop. I want to ask all people that write on public view to stop using Ubuntu Defaults and show to their readers that there are more choices.

Newly released Ubuntu based distribution Hybryde allows you to switch between desktop environments without even logging out, and comes with Unity, KDE, and LXDE by default...

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Squeeze. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system 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.

Following up on the performance comparison earlier this month of comparing Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge graphics between Windows and Linux, up today are the results of a comparison of Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS when using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" graphics card.

Learning and understanding Regular Expressions may not be as straight forward as learning ls command. However, learning Regular Expressions and effectively implementing them in your daily work will doubtlessly reward your learning effort by greater work efficiency and time savings. Regular Expressions is a topic which can easily fill up entire 1000 pages long book. In this article, we only try to explain the basics of Regular Expressions in a concise, non-geeky and example driven manner. Therefore, if you ever wanted to learn Regular Expression basics now you have a viable chance.

Google proudly announced last evening, May 15th, that they have unleashed the stable and final version of the Google Chrome 19 web browser for Linux, Macintosh, Windows and Chrome Frame platforms.

I'm putting an old laptop out to pasture that's dual-booting CentOS 5 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. And even though I'm updating both systems (for old time's sake, you might say), I'm turning to Lubuntu 12.04 for my next ancient-laptop Linux installation.

There are two major terms connected to software you can freely use, study, share and improve: Free Software and Open Source. Based on them you can also find different combinations and translations like FOSS, Libre Software, FLOSS and so on. Reading articles about Free Software or listening to people involved in Free Software often raises the question why do they use one term or another and how they differ from each other. But no matter which term we use, we should not allow people to split our community just because of different terminology. At the end most of us work on the same set of software, improve it and foster software freedom no matter what our motivation or preferred term is. The community needs to stay together to have an impact on all levels of involvement and to improve Free Software in all aspects. Don’t let other use the strategy of “divide and conqueror” to harm our movement.

The basic steps to install Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS from CD or USB stick are the same for installing any operating system from CD. Unlike the Ubuntu 12.04 for Desktop, Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS does not include a graphical installation program. but, Instead Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS uses a console menu based process or called text-mode installer based:

ThinkPad X1 Carbon is top-notch hardware but you still get the ‘bloated’ and ‘boring’ Windows. In order to compete with Apple and create its own niche in the market Lenovo should pick Ubuntu and offer and extremely customized Ultrabook which gives it an edge not only over Apple but also over Windows players. Lenovo can position these laptops as a new breed of devices which are extremely fast, powerful and secure.

The battle to position Linux on the desktop has always been tenuous. Because the OEM relationships, discussed by Walter (read Why Linux on the Desktop is Wrong) and marketing dollars will always promote the proprietary solutions.

With the x32 ABI for Linux finally coming together, Ubuntu developers are making plans to support this interesting ABI in the future...

Bitcoin mining is so last year. Put your expensive GPU to use cracking passwords.

When the Bitcoin mining craze hit its peak, I felt the tug to join this new community and make some easy money. I wasn't drawn only by the money; the concepts behind Bitcoin mining intrigued me, in particular the new use of graphics processors (GPUs). With a moderately expensive video card, you could bring in enough money to pay off your initial investment and your electricity bill in a relatively short time.

This infographic provides an overview of three big open source content management systems: WordPress, Drupal and Joomla!.

How a Unix killer crawled from the dot-com bust Comment Making a Linux distribution is easy, and lots of people have done it and continue to do it. All you have to do is get the source code and integrate the pieces you like and slap your logo on it.…

This article takes a detailed look at the design principles, the basis for deploying VPN, and the IPSEC protocol concept, providing a description of the general features of IPSEC and of the mechanisms required for its implementation. This article was specially selected for translation by developerWorks Russia as an example of developerWorks world-wide offerings.

Window Buttons is an extension that displays the minimize, maximize and close window buttons on the top GNOME Shell bar, like in Unity. The buttons order or theme can be customize and the extension comes with 5 built-in themes: Ambiance, Radiance, Zukitwo, Zukitwo Dark and a generic (default) theme.

Patrick Verner proudly announced last night, May 14th, that his Parted Magic 2012_05_14 Linux distribution is available for download.

Murmurs about Google's supposed plans to launch its own tablet soon are growing to a roar. Source code from Google and Samsung indicate that a Nexus tablet is in the works, Slashgear reports. "It seems logical that it will be a Google Nexus device consistent with the Nexus smartphone, but the problem is there's nothing unique about the Nexus smartphone," suggested Andrew Eisner, director of community and content at Retrevo.