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Dick MacInnis is a rock musician and music composer that cares about the tools of creation. He is the creator and maintainer of the DreamStudio distribution that recently released its stable 12.04 version. On this interview, Dick MacInnis explains the uniqueness of his project, and talks about libre music creation. Enjoy!

An alias is nothing but shortcut to commands. The alias command allows user to launch any command or group of commands (including options and filenames) by entering a single word. Use alias command to display list of all defined aliases. You can add user defined aliases to ~/.bashrc file. You can cut down typing time with these aliases, work smartly, and increase productivity at the *nix command prompt.

A MySQL/MariaDB authentication bypass has been revealed and exploiting it is remarkably simple. The flaw depends on who compiled MySQL; some Linux distributions are more affected than others

If you are connecting to the internet behind a proxy in Ubuntu 12.04/11.10 or older, you can find this tutorial very useful because it will show you the steps to make your system update via proxy.

Many developers love to use open source software for the variety of benefits that come along with it. Although many people code using these languages, are there any major reasons not to use them?

Linux operating systems comes with various set of tools allowing you to manipulate the Wireless Extensions and monitor wireless networks. This is a list of tools used for wireless network monitoring tools that can be used from your laptop or desktop system to find out network speed, bit rate, signal quality/strength, and much more.

In this post we will see how to install Flash player in Fedora17

Don came to us a while back and explained that he was going to have to give up his project but it wasn't all bad news. While HeliOS worked under the non profit umbrella of Software in the Public Interest, REGLUE is formed as a registered 501(C)(3). Since he knew our ultimate goal was to register HeliOS as a non profit, and we were no where able to afford doing so...Don graciously offered to "transfer" REGLUE to us.

Well, probably not quite yet – just look at how long it’s taken Unix to die in the data centre. However I can’t but feel that Microsoft’s announcement this week, that they will now be supporting Linux under Azure, represents a fundamental shift in the balance of power of server operating systems.

LXer Feature: 10-Jun-2012

All kinds of big news this week for you LXWR readers out there. Linus express his true feelings for the newest Gnome, Red Hat decides to get into bed with Microsoft, Our own Carla Schroder has an opinion on it, Mark Shuttleworth thinks Windows Azure is great..and here I thought I had heard it all. Nope, not even close. Enjoy!

You've probably heard of this intriguing new crowd-funding service called Kickstarter, right? (If not, how are you getting this website from that cave of yours?). A lot of people are using it to fund all kinds of exciting new things, and it's obviously useful option for free software projects. Properly used, it can allow us to close the gap against proprietary applications that still have more polish or exist in niches that require more capitalization. But the idea that it is somehow immoral to ask for money to work on free software has got to go.

Read the article at Free Software Magazine.

Not long ago, after giving a speech about free software I was asked by an audience member whether the free software community had come up with free (as in freedom) gambling software. I answered "no", and... I was wrong. A bit of research told me that there us such a platform: that's Cubeia's Firebase. Yes, it's fully free software/open source, the real deal. I couldn't resist: I asked its founder (and software engineer) for an interview. So, here we go!

Read the interview at Free Software Magazine.

Welcome to the 203rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

The mythology and history tell us of great struggles between sworn enemies. David and Goliath, Caesar and Brutus, Robespierre and Louis XVI are only a few. But for some years now in addition to this huge list we have two big names in the information technology! The multinational Microsoft and the GNU/Linux open source operating system. The struggles between the two never ends!

While Microsoft is trying by all means to keep under its control the market of the desktop, Linux itself in recent years is reaching incredibly important goals, mostly on the servers and embedded systems (Android ?). Despite the low blows of Microsoft, we can just take a look at the mythological UEFI chips, Linux does not give up though. Indeed, it always win a larger slice of users thanks to its distributions. Each of which, of course, choose a different path.

After you edit the login screen, you may want to share your work on blogs and forums. However, you simply cannot just press the print-screen button to take screenshot of the login screen in Ubuntu. To do so, you can use a workaround command to preview the login screen and take screenshot of it.

This script can download wallpapers from wallbase.cc via the command line using bash and wget. It can download the newest wallpapers, it can search for wallpapers and download those and it can download a bunch of random wallpapers.

This week… GNOME received 1469 commits, in 159 projects, by 206 happy hackers. Winner project this time was sysadmin-bin with 171 commits and top author Owen Taylor with 110 commits. Well, instead of re-printing GNOME Commit-Digest we decided to do something more exciting :) We are gonna weekly track the progress of GNOME by committing with charts just ..for the curious in you!

I have only recently discovered Netflix and signed up without thinking there may be issues playing back the streaming media on Linux.

Last week we wrote about a 0-day exploit with cPanel. Now that all the cPanel servers have auto-updated, and patched the vulnerability, they have released additional info on the security update. They actually fixed 2 major security issues. Both issues were labeled as "important", which seems to be one of the highest, if not the high classification, and includes among other things remote code execution exploits, which thankfully were not the type of these 2 exploits.

Media Explorer is a media center originally target for MeeGo, but also is the first real native GNOME 3 multimedia box powered by Clutter and Mx. It started as an internal project inside the Intel’s Open Source Technology Center and released open in April 21, 2011.