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Canonical announced last night, April 12th, on their Ubuntu One blog, that their working hard on a new feature called "Send to Ubuntu One."

The new version comes with a huge list of bug fixes but also a small yet useful feature which completes the Ubuntu Software Center Unity integration: when you click the install button, the application icon "flies" from the Ubuntu Software Center to the Unity launcher using an animation. Also, the launcher icon wiggles when the installation finishes.

I found out how to install and use Compiz 0.8.6 in MATE in Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot", and I'm using a different GTK+ theme now. So now I have my old desktop back, for real this time!

Linux Tycoon, which the developer claims to be the “worlds premier Linux Distribution Building Simulation Game”, is getting some pretty big improvements in the near future. Not the least of which is a version for Android and iOS, as well as real-time online gameplay.

Canonical announced last evening, April 12th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fixing four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

Firefox developers are considering making web plugins like Adobe Flash an opt-in feature. A very early version of the “click-to-play” option for plugins is now available in the Firefox nightly channel. Whether or not the click-to-play approach that Mozilla is considering will ever become the default behavior for Firefox remains to be seen.

FUD is a lot like commodity open source software. It just keeps moving up the stack. A decade ago, the FUD was all about operating systems and database software. Now? It's migrated up to the cloud stack. FUD may be mobile, but it hasn't gotten any prettier.

Google tried retail once with a Google branded Nexus One phone and failed miserably, but instead of learning from that experience, it's going to try another shot at retail -- this time selling Android tablets. What makes it think it will get different results?

The first development release of Phoronix Test Suite 4.0-Suldal is now available. There's some exciting features met in this first milestone that will please those using this open-source automated testing infrastructure if you're using it for benchmarking or if you're just a Phoronix.com reader of our many published benchmark results...

The open-source ARM Mali graphics driver, known as the the Lima project, has achieved a major milestone...

Being discussed following the Ubuntu 12.04 Desktops Impact Performance, Power Consumption was the impact that KDE's KWin compositing window manager (and others that don't redirect fullscreen windows by default) has on the OpenGL gaming performance...

This article describes two instances where open source is making an impact. It clearly has potential to improve the quality of our lives.

Verizon's new HomeFusion LTE fixed wireless Internet service opens up interesting opportunities in rural areas for Bohemians and makers. The FOSS and maker culture overlap a lot, too.

Besides a complete set of office productivity application that you will find on most office suites, Calligra also comes with two graphics applications (Krita for drawing and Karbon for vector graphics) and a project management application named Calligra Plan.

In an interesting example of life imitating art, the events unfolding in North Korea this week are directly paralleling those that I envisioned in my book, The Alexandria Project. 

OpenGameArt, Creative Commons and the Free Software Foundation have teamed up for a new game making contest: Liberated Pixel Cup. This is a really great opportunity as we don't see these kinds of competitions in open source gaming very often.

Seats are now available for the 4th Annual Enterprise End User Summit, held at the New York Stock Exchange and hosted by The Linux Foundation...

In the editorial for the 3d issue of Firebird SQL newsletter we'd like to draw your attention to the upcoming Firebird 3. Firebird Project needs more testers for Firebird 3, and even if you are short in time, you can help Firebird with very simple quick test - download Firebird 3, make backup backup/restore of your current Firebird database and try to work with it.

Mosh is replacement of SSH for remote connections to Unix/Linux systems. It brings a few noticeable advantages over well known SSH connections. In brief, it’s faster and more responsive, especially on long delay and/or unreliable links. In this article you'll find why it makes sense to use Mosh instead of plain SSH.

The Calligra team has announced the first release ever of the Calligra suite. This marks the end of a long development period lasting almost one and a half year. It is the first release in a long series which is planned to make improved applications every 4 months. Take the tour to discover some of the apps of Calligra. read more