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This post follows up Bug #998435 qemu-kvm-spice doesn't support spice/qxl installs Build bellow is based on upstream (vs linaro) version of qemu-kvm 1.0 on Ubuntu Precise. View bug description above regarding details of qemu-kvm-spice misbehavior.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 21 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes NMAP 6, Mandriva/Mageia, Kernel 3.4, Simon Phipps, Google Drive and more.

BackTrack 5 is a Linux distribution designed for penetration testers and other security professionals, or those who want to mess with all the best security and penetration testing applications the free software community has to offer.

Editors, like file managers and browsers, are legion. To carve out a niche for itself an editor needs to have some compelling or unique feature(s). QuiEdit is unique. No, really. It is. If you want to write, unplugged from the distractions of the digital world, it has to be a contender. How?

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Cisco Systems has killed its Cius tablet, which runs Google Android. I'm hardly surprised. Cisco didn’t offer any Cius updates during Cisco Partner Summit 2012. And Cisco executives had rarely, if ever, been seen using the Cisco Cius tablet. So what went wrong with the Cisco Cius tablet strategy? Competition from Apple’s iPad? Not exactly. The real Cius killer was Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Here's why.

Today we have for you an interview with the developers of the Sage mathematics system project. Note that the answers were given as a team. Sage is an open source project that provides an environment very similar to Matlab, Maple and other proprietary well known mathematics systems. It is widely used in academia and scientific research. Version 5.0 was released in mid-May 2012. Enjoy the interview!

The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to jailbreak their Apple iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad 1, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPod Touch 3G and iPod Touch 4G devices.

You may not be aware that Linux supports many different audio architecture sets. The most commonly installed on mainstream Linux distributions is Pulse Audio. But ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) is also another popular framework. And there are of course others. OSS (Open-Source Sound) is probably the third most common framework set that you may or may not have heard of.

This week we look at open source file syncing and sharing, HTML5 security considerations and IT's love-hate relationship with BYOD.

I've got fond memories of physical keyboards embedded in smartphones. My Palm Treos -- I had three -- were superb at composing email and SMS text responses. I even made notes for a book I was writing on one Treo. I speculate that the hardware keyboard is the principal differentiator keeping BlackBerry's brand alive, along with its super-secure, cheapo messaging system that was used to organize riots in the UK last year, of course.

Robert Shingledecker announced last evening, May 24th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.3 Linux operating system, including the Tiny Core Plus edition.

So, here is a poll to understand which cloud service do you use on your Ubuntu OS. In addition we are also asking where you do keep your data- /Home or on the partition of your choice so that you can access it from Windows as well as Ubuntu.

Open publishing accounts for a relatively small proportion of scholarly publishing, though its impact is growing and affecting the commercial publishing models.

The UK based, independent ISP Redstation has started up a program for dedicated resellers, with savings up to 35% off of list pricing

Lennart Poettering recently spoke at a BarCamp in Warsaw, Poland where he talked about systemd. In the 100+ minute presentation, he covered where systemd came from, where it's going, and other details.

From May 24th to June 1st, World of Goo creator Ron Carmel is arranging a sale of 383 indie games by roughly 180 developers in an enormous event titled Because We May.

As all geeks know, today is the 35th anniversary of the release of Star Wars (and it's also Towel Day too). What you may not have known is that today also marks the release of Apache Wookie 0.10.0.

Something is in the air – and it's certainly not spring, judging by the weather. But everywhere we turn in the digital world, we seem to find monopolies. That's worrying, because monopolies are generally regarded as bad things, for reasons Wikipedia explains: Monopolies are thus characterized by a lack of economic competition to produce the good or service and a lack of viable substitute goods. The verb "monopolize" refers to the process by which a company gains the ability to raise prices or exclude competitors. In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power, to charge high prices.

Besides the Fedora hot dog marketing strategy going on at LinuxTag in Berlin, another interesting aspect of this leading German Linux conference is the sponsors for this year's event. Microsoft and Nokia are among the leading sponsors.

This tutorial describes how you can install Apache2 with mod_fcgid and PHP5 on CentOS 6.2. mod_fcgid is a compatible alternative to the older mod_fastcgi. It lets you execute PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners instead of the Apache user.