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It's here! It's improved! It works even better!

I call this the "ssta release", in honour of a pal of mine who made a request which I've now implemented. ( --justdoit option, see below).

I have sweated and toiled, lost sleep, learned a lot, re-learned a lot, tested, tested again, and ended up with something which should work for just about everyone – everyone that is, who's users are local to the system – anyone using Active Directory to login still won't be handled by the RDPsesconfig utility yet...

This is nothing official by Gnome Foundation. We are collected all the modules that Gnome is working on and we built a brainstorming tentative list of features that we want to see and we might see in about a year from now, in the second semester of 2013 or the first of 2014.

So, at this point, despite the fact that we clearly don't want to be part of delivering locked-down PCs to users, it looks as though we need to use a boot loader with a more liberal licence in order to protect ourselves from accidents.

Like the title suggests, this will be relatively brief – mostly because Policykit isn't as difficult to understand as I originally led myself to believe.

It all sprang from starting to write about how to get X11rdp/xrdp up and running on your Linux systems. Sure, getting the desktop up remotely in a fast efficient way was nice – but it soon became apparent to RDP users that not all was well – RDP users couldn't do some of the nice convenient things that local desktoip users could do.

Bitwig, a Berlin based company is bringing professional grade music production software 'Bitwig Studio' to Linux. They have released a new video showing us a demo song and the actual software in action.

Before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" next month, here's a look at how the latest point release of Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" is performing compared to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" and the latest development snapshot of Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux.

The non-profit organisation behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia has announced the launch of a new prototype of its open source Visual editor, which is designed to make creating and editing pages easier to attract new contributors

It looks pretty slick, but it's just too quirky and inconsistent (for my tastes, at least).

On this tutorial I will shown you how to reset windows with linux/ubuntu in a second. There are two option to reset windows password with ubuntu, fisrt. If you are using computer or laptop that installed ubuntu and windows (dual boot), you can directly install reset password windows

There's work under-way on implementing input method support for Wayland that was spawned by an earlier proposal...

LXer Feature: 22-Jun-2012

Can you believe it? Our esteemed Editor-in-Chief has been toiling at LXer for five freaking years!

When it comes to website performance, Varnish is a hot technology. With a simple installation and configuration, it’s possible to boost the performance of any website and serve up to a million pages with only a small virtual private server. In this article, I'll show you four possible configurations that will help you improve the response time of your site, whether you serve hundreds, thousands or millions of pages.

It's not only NVIDIA with Linux problems that cause upstream developers to publicly bash companies, but AMD has come under scrutiny too. The developers of the popular cross-platform XBMC multimedia project shared a little story about enthusiasm, hope, and disappointment. In this guest posting by Peter Fruhberger on Phoronix, XvBA is what is principally talked about, which is AMD's lead choice for video acceleration when using their proprietary Catalyst driver. Unfortunately the XBMC developers aren't too happy about the state of video acceleration using AMD's Catalyst driver for Radeon graphics hardware, hence why they have reached out to Phoronix with this rather lengthy public message. Whether AMD even cares about Linux users and when XvBA will support missing functionality are among their open questions for AMD.

Okular is the PDF reader for the KDE desktop. You can run it under any other desktop environment too, but you can also get some more mileage out of it with these three simple tips.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

According to the VLC for Android page, "Packages on the Play Store should be available in the next few days."

If you just dropped in from outer space, Apache OpenOffice, or what used to be called OpenOffice.org, was a Sun Microsystems-sponsored project. It was at one time, the most popular office suite, as it was pre-installed on almost all Linux and BSD desktop distributions.

When developing internal mobile app development strategies, it's important to get things like security architecture done up front. Then you can build apps freely on top of that without worrying (as much).

Though it’s not likely to happen, there is a possible way, however, to make Linux the next “big thing” in consumer computing. It would require a lot of money, thought and work – and the stars would have to be aligned just right – but if executed properly might just give Tux some lasting traction on the desktop. What if a commercial Linux distro with deep pockets, say Ubuntu, decided to become an OEM and follow the Apple model? What if Shuttleworth decided the best way to sell Ubuntu was on his own machines? After all, right now he can’t really sell the desktop version of his operating system at all, he has to give it away. But if he packages the OS with an impressive Ubuntu branded computer, there might be some money to be made.

(Sacramento, CA, USA and Madrid, Spain: June 21, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced an innovative "School-to-Work" Linux training and certification program in Spain sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (http://www.educacion.gob.es/portada.html) and the European Social Fund (http://ec.europa.eu/esf/). This program (http://mil.lpi.org.es/), led by Spanish secondary schools and LPI-Spain, will initially prepare 300 students in careers as Linux professionals and IT trainers.

In my opinion, the login sound of Linux Mint is quite annoying so I believe many people would want to disable or change it. Although the method to disable login sound in Ubuntu 12.04 does not work in Linux Mint 13, there is another very easy way to do the task.