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Patches were published today that introduce pinging support for Wayland clients, in an attempt to determine if a client is dead or alive. Should a client not respond to the ping request, the Wayland client's surface is faded-out...

Open source software company Inverse released the version 3.3 of PacketFence - a fully-featured network access control (NAC) solution running on Linux.

While the NVIDIA 295.40 Linux graphics driver closes a high-risk security vulnerability, there's many reports coming in that the proprietary driver's performance has effectively fallen off a cliff and also caused stability issues...

A review of Aura, the new desktop concept for Chrome OS. Chrome is an intriguing but very limited OS that needs to figure out who its audience is — especially given the price of Chromebooks.

It is selling faster than they can make it, with global demand proving insatiable, but can the Raspberry Pi live up to the hype? Gareth Halfacree reveals all…

How do you get an IPV6 tunnel working over OpenVPN? This post shows you how.

Fantasy and Open Source Author Thomas A. Knight runs us through his recent experience with Linux Mint 12 and the new window manager, Unity.

Netflix is planning to open source their Simian Army, a series of cloud tools developed by the company that help maintain their busy infrastructure...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 15 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a new sponsor for Kubuntu, Aura window manager for Chome, a new version of Syllable OS and more...

Network-attached storage might not be the most glamorous of topics to cover on these pages, but there is no doubt that a highly specialized operating for sharing files on a local network can be a perfect solution in many scenarios. Today we launch what should become a series of articles on these useful operating systems, starting with a first-look review of FreeBSD-based FreeNAS. In the news section, Stefano Zacchiroli becomes the first Debian Project Leader to assume office for the third consecutive year, Kubuntu finds a new sponsor in a mysterious Germany company called Blue Systems, and Mandriva seeks feedback from users hinting at a new community-oriented beginning. Also in this issue, an overview of DoudouLinux, a Debian-based distribution with a simplified user interface designed for very young children, and a tips and tricks section dealing with timeless classics - cron and crontab. Happy reading!

One of the big patent cases in tech will finally come to trial this week, as Oracle takes on Google in court over its use of Java software in its Android operating system. Oracle laid hands on the Java platform when it bought Sun Microsystems in January 2010 and it had filed suit against Google under the new Sun moniker of "Oracle America" by August that year.

You were once a newbie, standing wide-eyed at the base of a long, steep learning curve and wondering whether it would really be worth the enormous effort it would take to climb it. On the way, it wasn't always clear you'd ever get to where you wanted, but you kept at it and succeeded. Good for you! Now it's time to give others a hand up.

Last week, I received, in CC:, an email from a Mandriva Linux developer. This email was entitled “A foundation for Mandriva Linux *NOW* or Mandriva Linux to *DIE*?” That suggested to me that maybe Mandriva was not going very well. This, of course, hurted me. At the same time it leads to the interesting question of a Foundation for a project like Mandriva Linux.

Gaël Duval is the founder of Linux Mandrake, which later became Mandrake Linux and, after a merger with Conectiva, Mandriva Linux.

Actually, writing about the Qur’an Inserting text in LibreOffice Writer is inspired of Plugin Quran in Word in the Microsoft Office 2003. Plugin Quran in Word is plugin Microsoft Office 2003 which has a feature automatically insert Qur’an verses in Microsoft Word 2003 without typing the Arabic alphabet one by one.

Say what you will about the mainstream viability of Google Plus, but anyone who has spent even a few days on Google’s rapidly developing social network can tell you that the userbase seems unusually knowledgeable and tech-savvy. There have been numerous posts and articles attempting to explain this phenomena, but the most...

This Monday we meet Aviv Sharon, in an effort to learn more about the details behind this fantastic game (0. A.D), that many people already “love” although it is still in alpha state.

This guide describes how to easily create your own personalized theme for Google Chrome. Choose the background image and colors of the New Tab, the Background Tab and the Frame.

Welcome to the 195th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

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This tutorial explains how you can simulate network devices for testing purposes with the free Verax SNMP Simulator. Verax SNMP agent simulator is a tool that can simulate multiple SNMPv1/v2c agents on a single host on standard 161 port through multi-netting. It allows IT personnel to build virtual, simulated networks of devices without purchasing any additional hardware, for instance for testing purposes. Individual simulated agent responses can be initially retrieved from existing devices and modified at runtime by user defined rules.