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what you need to know is how to safeguard data and have a back-up of your phone. Imagine your Android phone falling off your hands and losing all your data. Sounds shocking and unacceptable, right? Indeed, it is. So, you need to have a backup of all the info. Here’s a guide that will help you in learning the methods of backing up your Android phone.

If you hated Ubuntu's Unity desktop then the shock of your first encounter with the Gnome-shell likely caused your entire digital weltanschauung to implode. Make no mistake about it, it takes you right out of your comfort zone to a strange and unfamiliar place even if you've already tried Unity and decided to throw it back or put it in the keep net. Be shocked, very shocked.

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When Red Hat recently announced its long-term strategy for OpenShift, I began to think about potential implications for cloud-focused application developers and emerging cloud consultants -- especially those who are trying to sort through OpenShift, VMware Cloud Foundry, OpenStack and CloudStack. Here's some perspective.

For any unfortunate souls still stuck to crippled graphics hardware, there's five X.Org drivers that have been updated this weekend...

For those of you who don’t already know about FAUmachine (FAU), it’s a virtual machine that allows you to install full operating systems and run them as if they were independent computers. FAUmachine is similar to VirtualBox, QEMU, and other full virtualization technologies. It is a project sponsored by the Friedrich Alexander University Computer Science Department in Germany (Erlangen-Nuremberg*). FAU is a computer simulator that is an independent virtual machine project. The CPU is based on the virtual CPU in QEMU.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Frederik Gladhorn writes about the current state of development in KDE-Accessibility. As usual, there is also a change list that includes: Marble gets the first version of FlightGear position provider KPhotoAlbum saves the video length in a database; search for the length is also possible read more

Fix for the leaking overlay problem of Flash and Nvidia in Linux. This causes flash to "leak" into other pages or solid black backgrounds.

In the battle of the desktop operating systems (OS), there are only three dominant players left - Windows, Mac and Linux. At some point, Windows was cast as the platform for the common man, Mac as the one for the artist, and Linux as the geek's playground.

Judge Chris Hensen, who ordered the Dutch Pirate Party to censor all links to The Pirate Bay recently, appears to have quite a bit of dirt in his baggage.

The final version of Fedora 17 does not arrive until May 22nd, 2012. I have installed the final Beta version, and it is the best version of the Fedora operating system that I have ever used. In TLWIR 37, I will look under the hood of Fedora 17, and let you know what you can look forward to in the “Beefy Miracle”.

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available.

Damn! I did not know the dress code was blue tie and male. I am at Dells big summit with Michael Dell in Copenhagen. Here we learn how to say “shut up *****” and that women don’t belong in tech. (Not a Linux story, just another way that Dell stinks in addition to being a crummy Linux vendor-- TC)

And Dell non-apologizes to CNET: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57431869-256/why-we-need-t...

As indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's Clang compiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD operating system. The developers are also making much progress in a GNU-free C++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're aiming for Clang as the default C/C++ compiler, deprecate GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++ stack...

For the first three months of the 2012 calendar year, the FreeBSD project achieved a lot when it came to advancing their open operating system. Here's some of the interesting highlights from their quarterly status report...

In the final day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.10 that took place in Oakland, USA, the Ubuntu developers talked about a possible GNOME flavor of the Ubuntu operating system.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 19 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes 2 games, OpenMW (TES: Morrowind) and UFO:Alien Invasion, Puppy, EA, Dell and the FBI!

Jan Hoffman the creator of Gnome Shell Ubuntu Remix informed that Jeremy Bicha has posted on Google Plus that it is planned to create a Ubuntu Gnome flavor for 12.10, "Goal for the 12.10 release cycle: Ubuntu GNOME, shipping GNOME apps with the default GNOME configurations."

There was a very interesting session at UDS by Google developer Thomas Bushnell. He talked about how Ubuntu, its derivatives and Goobuntu (Google's customized Ubuntu based distro) are used by Google developers. He starts by saying 'Precise Rocks' and that many Google employees use Ubuntu including managers, software engineers, translators, people who wrote original Unix, people who have no clue about Unix etc. Many developers working on Chrome and Android use Ubuntu.

The 12th annual LinuxFest Northwest was held on April 28-29th, 2012 in Bellingham, Washington. This was my 6th year in a row attending and wow, what a great show. From the presentations / sessions, the exhibits, the food, the party, and yes... the World Famous Raffle... LFNW 2012 was great. I recorded all of the presentations I attended and have posted the videos. Read more for all of the details.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin has just been released by canonical and bring with new features and support 5 years. It is one of the most anticipated Ubuntu release ever. Well, today I will write a guide about Two Method That is Helping Ubuntu User to upgrade Ubuntu 11.10, 11.04, and 10.04 to Ubuntu 12.04