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Believe it or not, what actually attracted me most to Linux was the Compiz desktop effects software which I thought was “cool” when I first saw it on YouTube.

OpenStack community leaders say they are desperate to find and train more open source cloud experts — and there could also be need for an OpenStack certification. Here is why.

LXer Feature: 22-Apr-2012

In the Roundup this week we have word of the first Raspberry Pi computers being delivered, Larry Ellison knocks Oracle's own Linux strategy, Linus Torvalds is up for a Millennium Technology Prize, Joey Bernard expounds on science the GNU Way, The Slackware website continues to be down, Guillermo Garron's iptables cheat sheet and contrary to popular belief Mandriva is alive. Enjoy!

Mozilla uploaded earlier today, April 22nd, the final version of the Mozilla Firefox 12.0 web browser for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.

Last October I wrote about the sad state of the Free Software Foundation's high priority projects... Most of the projects are basically not going anywhere. Many of them at the time were not really advancing in their goals, haven't had releases in a while, or coding hasn't even started. It's been more than a half-year and still there's no significant work towards clearing many of projects from the FSF list.

This guide explains how to install the phpMyAdmin alternative Chive. Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. It takes advantage of the capabilities of modern browsers. Features include an SQL editor with syntax highlighting and built-in profiling of SQL queries.

I just release RapidDisk 2.2b which can now be pulled from the rxdsk-2.x git repo. Also the tarball has been added to the Sourceforge project page.

GNOME 3.4.1 released a few days ago, but its progress didn’t stop. The releasing cycle for 3.6 has already begun. To be honest, I don’t think that 3.4 release was quite exciting, apart maybe from GTK 3.4 that brought a lot of new features.

It looks like Pantheon, the elementary OS DE will be getting a new notification daemon called Pantheon Notify which supports several notifications at once, it expands on hover if the text is too long to be displayed in a regular notification and it supports closing the notifications.

One of the oldest and best sources for news regarding Linux powered devices, LinuxDevices, is worryingly silent today. Attempts to reach both the main page and the forums return database errors. This comes a few months after its publisher, Ziff Davis Enterprise, was acquired by QuinStreet.

Welcome to our first ever movie review at +The Powerbase. I can’t predict the future, but I can say that we probably won’t be doing many more of them. Today is a special case however, as the guys over at Humble Bundle, producers of many fine cross-platform gaming bundles, gave away a special gift to those who spent more than the average purchase price.

Reinventing the wheel is frequently cited as a barrier to the development of open source software. Critics point out if developers worked together on projects, instead of duplicating software that already exists, this would help to simplify matters for users, and actually significantly advance the development of established open source projects.

Usually I would set up a Linux dhcp server using the dhcp3-server package. With the arrival of Linux Mint 12 the configuration is slightly different. This tutorial will outline the new steps.

Published articles on this subject include how to compile and install it on Linux Mint 12 KDE and how to install it on Fedora 16 KDE. In this article, the steps required to replace Kickoff menu with Takeoff Launcher on Kubuntu 12.04, are presented in an easy to follow manner.

Is it possible, in those countries, to study today the computer science of yesterday? Is it useful? To whom? Is it useful just to leave these people in a state of “submission”? The point is, such practices do not provide knowledge that is useful to improve one’s life. What if they invested in Linux and Internet access instead? Why does that “polytechnic” has no server and no Internet access?

The latest and greatest thing to come out of Canonical Design is the Linux based, Kickstarter funded, E-Pebble smart watch which recently began taking pre-orders (via their Kickstarter page) after successfully reaching their target funding.

Welcome to the 196th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

There's more improvements building for Suldal that yield greater CPU and GPU verbosity when detecting graphics and processor comparisons under Linux...

Kot-In-Action has released an Alpha version of its upcoming first-person dungeon-crawling game Tomes of Mephistopheles for Windows and Linux. I decided to give the game a try in order to give you a preview of what is to come.

(Matthias) Kalle Dalheimer is the President and Founder of KDAB, and also one of the founding members of the KDE project and KDE e.V. He hasn't personally been very active in KDE lately, but some of the old-timers will remember that he served as President and Treasurer of KDE e.V. for a few years. He also wrote the first C++ class ever used in kdelibs (KConfig) even though it's doubtful that any of the code is still left in today's codebase. read more