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10 things to do after a fresh install of Linux Mint 13 (MATE edition)

LXer Feature: 13-Jun-2012

This "selfishness" business has never sat right with me, and lionizing Linus' "cute" insults is tiresome and counter-productive. Characterizing the motivations of FOSS contributors "selfish" is wrong, and here is why.

In a newly approved patent, an economics professor hopes to bring to the academic publishing world what seems to be forthcoming in the video game industry—new restrictions that would seemingly eliminate a secondary market for digital goods and prevent legal borrowing.

He was nominated for the award in recognition of the fact he had created the original Linux operating system and has continued to work on it, deciding what modifications should be made to its kernel - the code that lets software and hardware work together. Today variants of the system power much of the world's computer servers, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, network routers, PCs and supercomputers.

This tutorial shows how you can install a new generation of syslog servers by using Rsyslog on CentOS 5. It also shows you how to upgrade obsolete Rsyslog 4.0 on CentOS 6. According to Rsyslog web site (www.rsyslog.com), Rsyslog is an enhanced syslogd supporting, among others, MySQL, PostgreSQL, failover log destinations, syslog/tcp, fine grain output format control, high precision timestamps, queued operations and the ability to filter on any message part. It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop-in replacement. Its advanced features make it suitable for enterprise-class, encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user.

According to the independent web analytics firm, StatCounter Chrome has excelled as the world most popular browser with the highest browser usage share for the month of May 2012. But does that apply to Linux platform too? Is Chrome the best browser for Linux? The post compares the widely popular Mozilla Firefox browser version 4 with relatively new Google’s Chrome version 16, distinctly for Ubuntu!

The Raspberry Pi, the CuBox, the Cotton Candy, the Beagleboard... This is an overview of all the small linux/android ARM based PC's which are available. Including pictures, specs, goals, prices and information about all of them.

While there are many commercial Bible study programs available, there are also several very excellent free and open-source Bible study applications. They have many of the same features as their proprietary counterparts, yet they are available for free thanks to the many great open-source programmers. Below are 5 of the best open-source Bible study applications available. Click on each one for more info, screenshots, and installation instructions for Windows and Linux (Ubuntu and openSUSE).

A security vulnerability in virtualisation software built into Intel's hardware allows an attacker to execute code in Ring 0 of the CPU on certain 64-bit operating systems and the Xen hypervisor

Android is the new operating system on the block. It has claims to being open source but exactly how far do those claims hold up?

The following presentation video of Ryan 'Icculus' Gordon's talk is a must for those, who are interested in the modern game development, want to learn more about the technology behind it, or even going to port or develop a game to Linux. In his talk at the conference Flouish 2012 in Chicago Icculus presented some of the leading open source technologies that are used for the development of modern games like Crysis or World of Warcraft, and which he has used porting games to Linux and Mac OS X. Among other things, he talks about SDL, OpenAL, SQLite, LUA and many others.

I've been busy with lots of different Bodhi things of the late. The latest of my many projects has been getting the Bodhi desktop functional on the RaspBerry Pi.

Sabayon is a rolling-release distribution, so existing users do not have to reinstall to get the latest core and applications of a Sabayon release. That is one of the best features of the distribution.

Learn to evaluate Linux on POWER performance issues that focus on compiled language (such as C or C++) environments. This article explains the POWER7 CPI model and demonstrates the use of commonly available Linux tools to show potential CPU stalls, pipeline hazards, and performance issues. Analyze and optimize an algorithm for POWER7 in the final section.

Nagios, one of the most popular network monitoring software out there. While the software itself is pretty intensive very robust, the web UI leaves a bit to be desired. For starters, it does not graph trends regarding to hosts and services. This isn't a big missing feature, but it would still be nice to have. However, there is one feature that I really wish was implemented, especially with the general concept being easy to handle, and that is ACL (access control list). With Nagios, you can have multiple accounts to login to the web UI, but everyone could see every server. As I wanted my clients to view just theirs, this was not acceptable.

Netflow with Cisco routers can be set up and integrated with Nagios for detailed information about traffic data on your routers and switches. Using nfdump and nfsen this data can be gathered and charted and then connected to the Nagios interface.

The Linux Foundation has announced the 2012 Linux Training Scholarship Program, which will award five scholarships to computer science students, Linux developers and architects who show promise but "but do not otherwise have the ability to attend Linux Foundation training courses".

In that beautiful moment when your partner has proposed to you and you open your mouth to kiss him, only YOU can understand the massive amount of disaster that could happen when a creepy mosquito gets inside your mouth! It might sound a little funny, but if it really happens, I am sure you will feel doomed.

As a user who has found perfection in Linux Mint 9 LTS "Isadora" GNOME, I had high hopes. Unfortunately, this new version has taken a few steps backward, and that makes me sad.

He is one of the most mysterious bloggers in the Linux world. Nobody saw his face. Nobody read his replies to the comments below the articles, simply because there are no comments. But still, he owns one of the most respectable and popular resources.