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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the OpenBox Special Edition of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database. This tutorial is based on CentOS 6.2.

Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 has been released, in this quarter update, Enlightenment has been built from a fresh SVN pull from March 20th and the default Midori browser has been updated to the latest version, a more current build of Linux Kernel ( 3.2.0-19 ), software in repositories were updated to the latest version (Firefox11, chromium 17, LibreOffice3.5…) ,

We are running an online poll to find the most popular DE (desktop environment) among Muktware readers. Please cast your vote below.

Last year, Linux celebrated its 20th anniversary. The kernel that Linus Torvalds started as a hobby project helped the Internet bloom, challenged proprietary operating system dominance, and powers hundreds of millions of devices. From hacker toys like the dirt-cheap Raspberry Pi to most of the Top 500 Supercomputers, Linux dominates the computing industry. But it wouldn't have been possible without GCC, which turns 25 today. Before Torvalds started hacking away on Linux, Richard Stallman and started the GNU (GNU's Not UNIX) project and part of that was the GNU C Compiler (GCC). Eventually that became the GNU Compiler Collection (also GCC) but we're getting a little ahead of the story.

A few hours ago, March 22nd, Nvidia released version 295.33 of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems.

Following recent advancements in the open-source Radeon Linux driver like 2D color tiling support, I've carried out some new benchmarks of the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver compared to AMD's official Catalyst driver. This time around, the open-source driver is seeing tests against AMD's binary blob when various performance-optimizing tweaks are enabled to see where the performance stands today.

The open source web site of the European Commission is reporting that Iceland's government has started a project to prepare for the migration of all its workstations to open source software. This project is scheduled to be completed within a year and according to its leader, Tryggvi Björgvinsson, the city of Reykjavik, the National Hospital and all of the country's ministries are setting good examples for such migrations.

Wasteland, the original post-apocalyptic RPG game will have a sequel as Wasteland 2. Brian Fargo who Executive Produced both Wasteland and Fallout will be heading the team.Wasteland 2 was on Kickstarter for last few days with a target of $900k. A Linux version was promised at $1.5 million funding and they have made it to this mark. So yes, there will be a Linux version and you can confirm a DRM free copy for yourself for $15. The game won't be a first person shooter. With a top down perspective you will get a tactical feel for the situation. It will be turn based, tactical, with a storyline that will be deeper and broader.

Fragmentation in the Android universe is causing some developers to flee, according to a recent study from Appcelerator and IDC. "It's not just that Ice Cream Sandwich is new; it's also the fact that very few of the tablets currently available actually support [it]," said Appcelerator's Mike King. Further, there are many devices that cannot run ICS, he added.

Canonical’s next long-term support release of its flagship Linux distribution, Ubuntu 12.04 is in late beta. This next release, due out on April 26th, is in beta now. I’ve been using it for several weeks now and so far, so good. Indeed, the new Ubuntu is good enough already that I’ve it on my default Ubuntu system: a 2009-era Gateway DX4710. This PC is powered by a 2.5-GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor and has 6GBs of RAM and an Intel GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) 3100 for graphics. No, it’s not fast, but unlike Windows 8’s beta, you don’t need a fast computer for Ubuntu.

In part one we introduced you to Linux editors and gave a storm course on vim. It's now time to dismantle the rumors that we're subjective and talk about the other side, emacs. In some ways, the two editors are opposite one another, mainly from historical reasons, as you will see. We hope you will enjoy this tour and that we'll help you make up your mind.

One can never say it enough: the terminal is a very powerful tool, and is probably the most interesting part in Unix. Among the plethora of useful commands and scripts that you can use, some seem less practical, if not completely useless. I’ve selected for you a couple of commands that are useless because they are funny, but not funny because they are useless (or maybe the other way around for some). If you are searching for ASCII art, random math curiosities, or various (in)utilities, this is the best of the useless.

It's pretty good, and it's definitely quite a bit better than MGSE (and way better than GNOME 3/Shell), but it's still missing a few things that keep me with GNOME 2/MATE.

Iain Farrell, project manager at Canonical's Design Team uploaded today the new wallpapers for the up-coming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system. The wallpapers are not yet officially uploaded in the current development release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but we have the originals and there are 16 new beautiful photos.

The Document Foundation (TDF), which produces the leading open source office software suite LibreOffice, is on schedule for the release of a cloud version of its software next month.

Just released 2.0.1b. With a bug fix (bug #5) in the rxadm admin tool and a few cleanup changes in some of the module print messages. I will upload a tarball of this release on Sourceforge by the end of this weekend.

Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. recently was released version 1.0 that comes with support to new cameras, new modules: shadows [he] highlight, enhanced tone curve [/he] refactored modules, new image cache and more.

Soon, the kernel will support several AMD graphics cores that are used in recent Radeon graphics cards and in various upcoming processors. In systems with Intel graphics, using hibernation can cause memory corruption. The development of Linux 3.4 has started.

The latest edition is BackTrack 5 R2 (the “R” is for Revolution), and the most recent article about it published on this website, before the publication of this one, is Install BackTrack 5 Revolution 2 on external hard drive. In this article, the steps required to dual-boot the KDE edition with Windows 7 (there is also a GNOME edition), are presented.