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Canonical announced on May 25th, in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available.

Welcome to the 201st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Mageia is based on the Mandriva distribution and comes with a lot of software installed by default. This is the answer to those who enjoy Mandriva and will feel right at home

There is Linux Mint 13 MATE, which features MATE, a desktop environment forked from GNOME 2, and Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon, which features Cinnamon, a desktop environment built atop GNOME 3. So, Linux Mint joins a growing list of Linux distributions that do not ship an edition running the GNOME 3 desktop in its default state.

The author was asked how to enable Active Directory users to be able to log into xrdp. He found out.

I believe that the current market trends make Canonical’s Ubuntu for Android project the most important development in the recent history of Linux.

owncloud 4 has been release by ownCloud developers team, is a free and open source software alternative to some proprietary web services that you can install on your own computer or server, which includes file management with built-in file sharing ike Dropbox, music streaming, calendar, contacts and more

Linux Mint 13 LTS with code name “Maya” released and announced by Clement Lefebvre (the creator and Lead developer of Linux Mint). it based on the recent release of ubuntu 12.04 LTS precise pangolin and available in Mate 1.2 Desktop environment and Cinnamon 1.4 Desktop environment

With the OpenMoko project being largely irrelevant these days and not vigorously pushing new software or hardware, the OpenMoko company has resorted to giving out USB IDs and MAC addresses...

Hi Folks. Well the big news with this version is that SelekTOR For Windows like the Linux version is now free (as in cost), and that both versions can be used in conjunction with Torbutton add-on for Firefox. For those that don’t know what SelekTOR does see here for more information. I will be updating the instructions on the website to include how to install and configure TorButton to work with SelekTOR very soon but for now here is a quick guide.

Milton Friedman the American Economist said “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” and even though Open Source is free to use, alter, and pass on, there’s still a price to pay. To date, I have used two Open Source Content Management Systems (CMSs) to run five on-line communities and paid the price.

Do you write HTML, PHP, Java or some other code ? You probably don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars for software that you would use maybe only as a hobby? Today, I present an amazing solution, a multi-platform software that can wins ten to zero with the most popular programming editor on the market! Today I talk about Bluefish!

Nowadays, we mostly interact with our computers using a Graphical User Interface. The operating system as a whole uses several elements of the GUI to make the user experience more human-like. Can users get to unleash some of the GUI's power? The answer is yes: welcome to Zenity, a GTK+ application that works in GNU/Linux, BSD and Windows. In this short article I will show you how to create a simple script that interacts with the user using the GUI.

Read the tutorial at Free Software Magazine.

As data center resource pools grow, it becomes nearly impossible for humans to track and monitor. Paul Maritz, CEO at VMware, says we are going to require systems that are self-monitoring and that report to us about significant issues.

Google recently announced its Google Drive which is clearly positioned as a competitor to iCloud, SkyDrive or alternative to services like Dropbox or semi-open source Spider-Oak. A lot of Linux users are upset as there is no client for Linux at the moment. The good news is Google Drive will be coming to Linux soon. That doesn't mean that Linux users were cloud deprived. Almost every cloud solution has its Linux client, including Dropbox and Spider-Oak, and excluding Ubuntu One. Then we have ownCloud for those who want complete control over their cloud. That makes one wonder what future holds for Ubuntu One, Canonical's personal cloud offering?

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?

Read the article at Free Software Magazine.

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.