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The Fedora Project developers approved yesterday, July 9th, in a FESCo meeting the 256-color terminal support for their upcoming Fedora 18 operating system.

Cuttlefish is a tool which can execute various actions when specific events are triggered. For example, you can change the proxy mode depending on the currently connected wireless network, unlock your computer when a specific Bluetooth or USB device is connected or disconnected and so on.

You know this guy, right? It was hard to make a prologue for this interview because Allan talks for lots of things, but I highlight two of them. Do not compare Gnome3 with Gnome2, Gnome 3 is something completely new.. and.. Gnome OS, what is it?

Keith Packard announced earlier today, July 10th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the first Release Candidate of the upcoming XOrg Server 1.13.

iPPea TV is powered by a MIPS XBurst processor gunning at 1.2 Ghz with support for 3D graphics acceleration (Open GL ES 1.1 and 1.2). It also comes with 512 MB of DDR2 RAM and 2 GB of NandFlash storage expandable to 32 GB via a microSD slot.

Coby Electronics and Aluratek have signed patent portfolio licensing agreements with Microsoft and will be joining the long list of companies that pay the Windows maker royalties for Android devices.

In this post we will check out what Enlightenment distributions you should choose to enjoy this magnificent window manager + set of libraries.

A New Zealand judge savages the process used to target Megaupload's Kim Dotcom.

There was a big difference between the pre-release days then and the current situation as we wait for Windows 8?s big official debut. Back then, all the Windows fans were actually looking forward to Vista. XP had been a big hit, and the Redmond fan boys thought Vista would be even a couple of notches better. After all, they’d been working on it for ages; all that work was bound to turn into the most super duper operating system ever.

Ouya might have assembled the right ingredients to make its open source entry into the video game console competition a success. "It is a good time, and I'm glad to see it start," said M2 Research analyst Billy Pidgeon. "This is one area where third parties can easily build on top of Android and do so freely."

Google Chrome team has made life easier for web developers and users. Google has implemented getUserMedia API in the beta channel of Chrome browser which allows users to grant web apps access to their camera and microphone right within the browser, without a plug-in. It opens doors to immense possibilities for developers to create 'open' and standard based apps which can use your webcam and microphone.

Andreessen Horowitz is investing $100 million in GitHub, the San Francisco startup that provides online resources for software programmers. It's the largest investment the venture capital firm has ever made. Github's acceptance of the cash is notable. Unlike many startups, the company has been profitable since its 2008 beginnings, and it's turned down investment offers in the past.

The web browsers in the software repository of Linux Mint are usually set to use some custom search engines. For example, Yahoo search and DuckDuckGo are used as the default search engines in Firefox, the preinstalled web browser of Linux Mint 13. ( learn how to change the default search engines of Firefox in Linux Mint 13)

GitHub has received its first ever outside investment, a huge sum of $100 Million from Andreessen Horowitz

The German Ubuntu Forum Lens is a Unity Dash plugin that allows users to search the Wiki of the ubuntuusers.de German Ubuntu forum. It is currently only available in German language.

Ahhhh, Sun Valley....Playground of the rich and famous. Music and Movie industry honchos will be meeting in Sun Valley soon to discuss how to better address online piracy. Their term....not mine. I found it refreshing to read an honest assessment of industry leader's reaction to the outrage over SOPA and PIPA. Spoiler alert here. Many voiced regret over trying to twist political arms to do their bidding. An amazing revelation in itself, methinks anyway.

NYTimes is mostly a pay site and this article may jump behind a paywall soon. If it does, my apologies. This is an interesting read for those interested in the ongoing and global flap over copyright, IP and the such.

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-6.3 for i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-6.3 is based on the upstream release EL 6.3 and includes packages from all variants. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to work with. There are some important changes to this release compared with the previous versions of CentOS and we highly recommend reading this announcement along with the Release Notes. There is also a minimal install CD that will get you a very small base install that you can add to.

phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on a CentOS 6.2 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

On July 9th, Karanbir Singh announced the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 6.3 operating system for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Puppy Linux is very versatile and can be used for multiple purposes from retro gaming to system recovery. Other than as a main operating system here are 5 potential uses for Puppy Linux.