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In future releases, more design changes will be introduced to Gnome 3 and there will be a better login and notifications experience.

This is a short post on how I replaced MySQL with MariaDB and then installed mod_ruid2 as an alternative to php-fcgi (for Apache), for enhanced performance on Debian Squeeze.

CNET learns the FBI is quietly pushing its plan to force surveillance backdoors on social networks, VoIP, and Web e-mail providers, and that the bureau is asking Internet companies not to oppose a law making those backdoors mandatory.

For reasons mentioned in yesterday’s blog item, I’m not at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Oakland. Oh, I could go up there and attend — it’s only 80 miles from the cozy confines of the Felton redwoods — but I value my life and I’d like to keep it, thank you very much.

This is not to say that I don’t hear about what’s going on there from friends, as well as from members of the Ubuntu Apocalypse, who are in attendance and are blogging, tweeting and communicating in some form or another (no smoke signals yet, sadly). I do hear a lot of what’s going on, and I thank everyone for posting the updates.

Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the first (stable) release of the free software office suite since its development was handed over to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), has been released. The announcement was made earlier today.

Get a sneak-peek at the new Vivaldi Content Store for the Vivaldi tablet!

All eyes on Judge Alsup as big questions remain unanswered Analysis No judge has tried harder than Judge Alsup, presiding over the Oracle-versus-Google case, to persuade two warring parties not to go to court. But he hadn't counted for the egos of the two billionaire Larrys.…

ITTIA DB SQL version 5.4 provides features such as clustered indexes, scrollable SQL cursors, a Python scripting API, Unicode SQL query strings, for any environment with or without operating system.

“IQnection has rewritten the website code and is rebuilding Linux.org from the ground up. Our developers are currently working on the next roll-out which will add some pretty incredible social aspects to the site.”

Mark Shuttleworth, father of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, proudly announced earlier today, May 7th, at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland, USA, the goals for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 operating system.

Google showed incredible stupidity, arrogance or both when it sniffed not just WiFi networks, but private information such as email addresses while it was at it. When you purport to do no evil, you better have a better grip on what's going on inside your business.

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is pydkim. This package is used to sign and verify email according to the DKIM standards from within Python programs.

OSHackers is a website that aims to count GNU/Linux users and place them geographically using their Linux distribution as the marker. You can visit OSHackers and put yourself on the map, and you can search for people that use Linux around your area.

A few days ago, a post on the Ubuntu Forums was announcing a PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 that adds two patches for Unity: 'Dodge windows' and minimize/unminimize on click for the Unity launcher, but initially, the patches had a few bugs (including a bug that prevented minimize from working with multiple windows) which have been fixed recently.

Breaking: The jury deliberating over Oracle Corp.’s claims that Google Inc. infringed copyrights protecting Oracle’s Java technology reached a mixed decision Monday, which could leave Google on the hook for only a relatively minimal amount of damages.

Google vs Oracle court case reached a milestone today as the jury gave its verdict. The verdict is clearly in favor of Google as in this phase Oracle gets nothing out of this expensive court case.

Dell has announced a new project to create an Ultrabook aimed specifically at developers.

Last evening, Chris Kenyon, Vice President & GM, Alliances & OEM Services at Canonical, announced at the Ubuntu Developer Summit that the Ubuntu operating system will ship on 5% of personal computers worldwide, doubling last year's shipments to 18 million units.

Install Mplayer and Multimedia Codecs (libdvdcss2,w32codecs,w64codecs) on ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)

The system was relatively fast on my laptop with dual core Centrino 1.7 GHz and 1Gb of memory. I found no significant delays or unexpected waiting time. The system was solid. I faced no crashes during my Live run. Both these points say that Kubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin is good enough for Long-term support version. But, on the other hand, I found 13 suprises in this operating system during the Live run. And only two of them are...