Showing all newswire headlines

Why would you spend a few hundred dollars on a device that is little more than a smartphone (with a bigger screen, without the phone)?

The latest version rock 12.3 of the Linux deployment tool m23 comes with added support for deploying clients with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and a range of desktops to choose from. A client output monitor has been added to the web interface and the virtualization functions of the integrated virtualization have been extended. Several improvements and bug fixes complete the new release.

I originally planned on writing an article over Common Table Expressions (CTEs) but since MySQL does not currently support CTEs, and there has been much debate as to why they should implement it, I decided not to write an article about it. MySQLs answer to CTEs is Temporary Tables. A temporary table is a base table that is not stored in the databse, but instead exists only while the database session in which it was created is active. In this article we will look further at what a Temporary Table is, how to use them and when it is appropriate to use them.

Gwenview is the default image viewer for the KDE desktop. Out of the box it's good looking but nothing obviously exceptional. Except for two things: Phonon and plugins. That combination really does make Gwenview a pretty useful bit of kit. Let's see what it can do.

Via Technologies started to accept pre-orders onto its Android PC (APC) platform for $49 on Sunday and managed to sell the first batch of mainboards within several hours.

Skype proudly announced today, June 14th, that Skype 4.0 for Linux operating systems has been released and it’s available for download.

An interface for system updates will be integrated into a new software store tentatively named 'App Center'.

Nokia took an axe to much of its non-Windows software capacity today, leaving all but a core team working on S40, company insiders say. Among the 10,000 casualties officially announced are teams working on Meltemi, Qt and QML. The team imported via the Smarterphone acquisition will work on S40, we understand.

The Release Candidate of openSUSE 12.2 has been delayed, ultimately delaying the final product, and causing the team to rethink their strategy

A Cambridge University entrepreneur, who has created a handheld device to detect weapons, drugs or explosives at airports and other high risk environments, has won CambridgeElevator's inaugural KickStart Competition.

Zorin OS is based on Ubuntu and, until version 6, on GNOME 2 functionality. It means system resource requirements are quite high. But what if your computer is not the newest one? Does it mean Zorin OS is not available for you? Not at all! The Zorin team releases a special edition for people like you: this is the Lite version. This operating system uses the LXDE desktop environment, not the GNOME one.

The openSUSE project is facing major problems with its release process. Release manager Stephen Kulow has asked the community how the project should address these issues. A change in the project's release cycle seems a likely outcome.

This tutorial shows how you can configure Compiz on an Ubuntu Linux 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) Unity desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop. Ubuntu (Unity 3D) must be selected as your desktop environment.

To all our readers, here is an opportunity to win an iPad. What does it take to do that? Simple. Just complete a survey from our ad partner and you will be automatically entered to win one of two iPads.

Renowned free software journalist Carla Schroder did not like the use of term selfishness and wrote an interesting piece. She took it as an insult of the thousands of free software developers. She wrote, "Let's stop insulting the many thousands of contributors to Linux and FOSS by calling them selfish, because that it is untrue and unfair. How about a bit of well-deserved praise and appreciation instead?"

I think it's totally fine to be selfish, what is important is the motive behind that selfishness. In fact all of us are selfish and no matter how 'selfless' our deeds are they are driven by selfishness.

Earlier this month when talking about the Baseio game that's being worked on by the ioquake3 project, many Phoronix readers were quick to bring up in the forums that the artwork done by the free software community for these open-source games often aren't up to par...

An invitation to brainstorm and build apps for the internet of the future Tomorrow at the White House, Mozilla and the National Science Foundation will announce the launch of “Mozilla Ignite,” an open innovation challenge that invites designers, developers..

We've covered plenty of stories concerning Apple's ridiculously arbitrary nature as the gatekeeper for iOS apps, approving or pulling them with little reason. And, of course, we've discussed a variety of ridiculous patent lawsuits -- including one we wrote about back in March, concerning a fight over an iPad app for "augmentative and alternative communications." This was the case of the mother of a 4-year-old girl, whose daughter Maya was unable to speak, but had finally found an iPad app, called Speak for Yourself (SfY) which actually helped her communicate with her parents. There were alternative products on the market, but most did not work for Maya -- and were many time as expensive (one is described as running $7,000 -- which the family appeared to be willing to pay, but not after they realized it wouldn't work for her). And, of course, a patent dispute threatened all of this. Two companies who make some of the expensive offerings, Prentke Romich Company and Semantic Compaction Systems (PRC/SCS) have sued SfY for patent infringement, over a patent (5,920,303) on a dynamic keyboard (held by SCS, but licensed by PRC), which they claim SfY violates.

Linux Feed Reader, aka "Liferea," is part of a highly specialized category of apps. It is an aggregator for online news feeds, weblogs and podcasts. As such, it provides a tool for pulling into one spot an eclectic collection of your newsfeed content so you do not have to go to each separate source.

I have loads of epubs on my computer, and I have traditionally used Calibre's server feature to share them with our phones. In the past, I've kind of clobbered together things on an Ubuntu box that also served as my main desktop computer. That worked well in the past, but I've recently set up a headless Debian Squeeze server, and I decided to migrate my Calibre server there.