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If you have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or upgrade earlier versions of ubuntu to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, one thing that you will find missing in ubuntu precise is Hibernate feature

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, May 12th, that the seventh and probably the last Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel is available for download and testing.

Even this year I was in Bolzano (Italy) for the annual conference organized by Wuerth-Phoenix on Monitoring with Open Source products. I found the conference very interesting, with speakers from around the world that have described several open source products and best practices on monitoring but also on configuration and management tools. A big surprise for me has been the strong push for alternatives softwares to Nagios for monitoring in particular Shinken and Icinga have received many praise.

LXer Feature: 13-May-2012

In the LXWR this week we have all kinds of FOSS news including our own Dr. Tony Young asking how long a piece of string is, Dell announces Linux laptop designed for devs, Microsoft wants to restrict access to its OS..I know, I wasn't surprised either. Dinotrac asks for some advice, Larry the Software Guy gives an apology, Carla Schroder asks where Linux innovates or imitates as well as a Ubuntu 12.04 review. Enjoy!

It’s often associated that open-source is referred to Linux and FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software). But as equally as important is the community. And what I want to touch base on is not only the open-source community, but how “open” the development community is as opposed to the development community of Microsoft Windows. And particularly at a corporate and managerial level.

what you need to know is how to safeguard data and have a back-up of your phone. Imagine your Android phone falling off your hands and losing all your data. Sounds shocking and unacceptable, right? Indeed, it is. So, you need to have a backup of all the info. Here’s a guide that will help you in learning the methods of backing up your Android phone.

If you hated Ubuntu's Unity desktop then the shock of your first encounter with the Gnome-shell likely caused your entire digital weltanschauung to implode. Make no mistake about it, it takes you right out of your comfort zone to a strange and unfamiliar place even if you've already tried Unity and decided to throw it back or put it in the keep net. Be shocked, very shocked.

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When Red Hat recently announced its long-term strategy for OpenShift, I began to think about potential implications for cloud-focused application developers and emerging cloud consultants -- especially those who are trying to sort through OpenShift, VMware Cloud Foundry, OpenStack and CloudStack. Here's some perspective.

For any unfortunate souls still stuck to crippled graphics hardware, there's five X.Org drivers that have been updated this weekend...

For those of you who don’t already know about FAUmachine (FAU), it’s a virtual machine that allows you to install full operating systems and run them as if they were independent computers. FAUmachine is similar to VirtualBox, QEMU, and other full virtualization technologies. It is a project sponsored by the Friedrich Alexander University Computer Science Department in Germany (Erlangen-Nuremberg*). FAU is a computer simulator that is an independent virtual machine project. The CPU is based on the virtual CPU in QEMU.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest, Frederik Gladhorn writes about the current state of development in KDE-Accessibility. As usual, there is also a change list that includes: Marble gets the first version of FlightGear position provider KPhotoAlbum saves the video length in a database; search for the length is also possible read more

Fix for the leaking overlay problem of Flash and Nvidia in Linux. This causes flash to "leak" into other pages or solid black backgrounds.

In the battle of the desktop operating systems (OS), there are only three dominant players left - Windows, Mac and Linux. At some point, Windows was cast as the platform for the common man, Mac as the one for the artist, and Linux as the geek's playground.

Judge Chris Hensen, who ordered the Dutch Pirate Party to censor all links to The Pirate Bay recently, appears to have quite a bit of dirt in his baggage.

The final version of Fedora 17 does not arrive until May 22nd, 2012. I have installed the final Beta version, and it is the best version of the Fedora operating system that I have ever used. In TLWIR 37, I will look under the hood of Fedora 17, and let you know what you can look forward to in the “Beefy Miracle”.

The Wine development release 1.5.4 is now available.

Damn! I did not know the dress code was blue tie and male. I am at Dells big summit with Michael Dell in Copenhagen. Here we learn how to say “shut up *****” and that women don’t belong in tech. (Not a Linux story, just another way that Dell stinks in addition to being a crummy Linux vendor-- TC)

And Dell non-apologizes to CNET: http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-57431869-256/why-we-need-t...

As indicated by the Q1-2012 FreeBSD Status Report, LLVM's Clang compiler is quickly replacing GCC for this popular BSD operating system. The developers are also making much progress in a GNU-free C++11 stack. For FreeBSD 10 they're aiming for Clang as the default C/C++ compiler, deprecate GCC, and to have a BSD-licensed C++ stack...

For the first three months of the 2012 calendar year, the FreeBSD project achieved a lot when it came to advancing their open operating system. Here's some of the interesting highlights from their quarterly status report...

In the final day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.10 that took place in Oakland, USA, the Ubuntu developers talked about a possible GNOME flavor of the Ubuntu operating system.