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A Slackware user's week of experimentation with Xfce 4.10 and Gimp 2.8, upgrading the kernel, and fixes regarding gtkmm compatibility.

Yorba software group announced the new lightweight email client for Gnome desktop called “Geary”. It comes with a simple and organized user interface to ease the way you browse/read your emails. Also it’s written in Vala programing language.

Barry Kauler announced a couple of days ago, May 5th, the immediate availability for download of the Puppy "Slacko" 5.3.3 Linux distribution, based on the Slackware Linux 13.37 operating system.

Linux ecosystem consists of so many people doing a great job, and it is only natural for someone not to know everyone out there. Many worthy developers are unknown to the majority of users and sometimes their magnificent projects are unused, or underused due to low publicity. Salih Emin is one of those, and his projects are simply very useful especially for the millions of Ubuntu users, so we decided to do this interview and have him explain everything. Enjoy!

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.4-rc6 kernel on Sunday and signalled that the final release of the Linux 3.4 kernel is in sight...

Originally we would use Squid for this caching tier, however for recent deployments we have used Varnish instead, as we find it is far more flexible.

There's only about one week left until LLVM 3.1 will be released and with that will come the 3.1 release of the Clang C/C++ compiler. While we have previously looked at some of the LLVM 3.1 changes, here's a quick look at some of the Clang-specific compiler C11/C++11 improvements...

Agustín Benito Bethencourt (aka "toscalix") recently joined the KDE e.V. Board of Directors. He will be presenting the KDE Community Keynote at Akademy 2012 in Tallinn. read more

Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS now includes support for the Xen Hypervisor (version 4.1.2), Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) packages and XCP OpenStack plug-ins

In this phenomenal times for Linux Gaming there are even more great things to come for Linux soon. As some of you know, Ubuntu Developer Summit is going to take place in California on 7–11 May this year.

Agustín Benito Bethencourt (aka "toscalix") recently joined the KDE e.V. Board of Directors. He will be presenting the KDE Community Keynote at Akademy 2012 in Tallinn. Tomaz: You are active in the KDE Community—the Promo team, KDE e.V. Board of Directors, new ideas, big ideas, helping wherever you can. It seems from your blog posts that you do free software even in your sleep. What you do in Madrid in your free time? read more

Pondering the "big questions" is all well and good, but it matters little if words are the only results. To have an effect, the ideas need to be translated into action and Free software did that in a big way. While GNU Hurd may not have gotten very far, the Linux kernel certainly did as did thousands of other Free software projects big and small.

While Btrfs, XFS, and EXT4 remain the far more popular choices when it comes to Linux file-systems, there still exists projects focused upon providing ZFS file-system support under Linux...

For the new folks joining KFN, here's the history behind me trying to get Linux -- any Linux -- to run on this goofy tablet. Finally!

At long last...behold!

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First attempt, described at Ubuntu Forums

A post chronicling some experimentation with UEFI (on ThinkPads, but relevant as the Samsung is UEFI)

Initial, if incomplete, success at getting Ubuntu to boot

My rant about Microsoft "accidentally" sending me a 1099, claiming I owed taxes on the tablet

Balsam's build of Plasma Active Two, running but mostly non-functional

First actual useful install, KFN post created with Kubuntu Active

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is IPy. This package is used to manipulate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in Python programs.

An uninformed comment on a Linux community blog has led to questions over the stability and finances of the Slackware GNU/Linux project, but its founder assures iTWire that the project is alive and kicking.

A text editor is software used for editing plain text files. This type of software has many different uses such as modifying configuration files, writing programming language source code, jotting down thoughts, or even making a grocery list. Given that editors can be used for such a diverse range of activities, it is worth spending the time finding an editor that best suites your preferences.

Today is the Free Software Foundation's "Day Against DRM" and it seems like an auspicious time to launch a Kickstarter campaign to support the completion of the Lib-Ray standard for publishing high-definition videos on fixed media. I've been posting my progress on the prototypes here in Free Software Magazine, and it's clear to me that this is now just a matter of being able to dedicate the time and resources to finish the job.

Read the article at Free Software Magazine.

About one week ago, NVIDIA released new hardfp-built Tegra Linux drivers...

While the Intel Linux graphics developers have postponed the OpenGL 3.1 support until probably next year, the Intel Windows driver developers have now managed OpenGL 4.0 support, which compliments the OpenCL 1.1 support on Ivy Bridge -- another feature not found at this point in the Intel Linux GPU driver...