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When Nokia’s N900 smart phone was released on November 11th, 2009, it was a revolutionary device. The N900 truly contained the power of a desktop computer in the form factor of a mobile phone. It ran the Maemo 5 Linux-based operating system, and its hardware specs made geeks around the world drool. So why did Nokia turn their backs on a device so far ahead of its time? They were offered a deal that they found too good to refuse. That deal led to the Lumia 900, and other Windows Phone 7 Nokia smartphones. In this edition of the Linux Week in Review, I will take a close look at how the three year old Nokia N900 measures up against the much newer Lumia 900. Is the Lumia 900 doomed or is it destined to become a smashing success?

PDF files are easy to read, review and disseminate. While there is software out there that converts files into PDF documents. Actually By default in Ubuntu you can save most documents into PDF format by selecting ‘Print to File’ and choosing PDF as the output format . But I have simple trick will show you how to do it if you don’t already know.In just a few simple steps.

GIMP 2.8 will bring major new features including single-window mode, layer groups and on-canvas text editing. Just few days back, GIMP 2.8 RC1 was released which is probably last snapshot before final version 2.8 is available. GIMP PPA by Matt Walker has not been updated with latest packages yet. However, Strycore has created a handy script that will compile and install GIMP 2.8 RC1 without touching existing packages available in repositories.

Educators face a constant variety of challenges that can impact classroom management and the learning process. An inattentive audience, mobile phone texting, disruption by unruly students, absenteeism, time constraints, students forced to take a course they would rather have avoided, and regular changes to the curriculum are just a few examples of the difficulties faced by teachers. Fortunately, there are many different ways for those involved in education, whether in teaching, training, or leadership, to help to improve student's learning in the classroom, and overcome the obstacles that are encountered.

It's been a while since someone came along, arguing that the GNU General Public Licence isn't needed any more and clearly stating their motivation for doing so.

Installation involves downloading and installing Jitsi’s .rpm package from here. After you click on the package link, the window shown below should open. Rather than opening it in Apper, Fedora’s graphical package manager, save it to your home directory.

TermSaver is a pretty cool screensaver that can run from the command-line interface or terminal in Ubuntu/Linux. TermSaver isn’t supposed replace other screensavers that come with your desktop such as GnomeShell, Unity,KDE, or other Desktop Environment. And it also might not be able to carry out the actual purpose of a screesaver since it lacks a lot of pixel movements (screen animations), which otherwise helps to prevent “screen burns” on display devices

Red Hat's Matthew Garrett talked this week again about the troubles in supporting UEFI under Linux...

PySDM (Python Storage Device Manager) is an application allow us to mount disk partition without edit file /etc/fstab manually. Developed using PyGTK programming language (Python GTK) and supports ext2, ext3, fat, ntfs, reiserfs, swap and xfs.

Ring, ring. Collect call to Research In Motion and the BlackBerry team. You lost more executives this week. Your stock is down 80 percent since February 2011. And you’re seeking a chief marketing officer and a chief operating officer. Other than that, things are just dandy. So what exactly should RIM and the remaining BlackBerry team do? Here are five pieces of urgent advice.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KDev-Python's new debugger gains a DUChain-supported local declaration list Digikam adds loc.alize.us support to their geolocation service Okular now remembers exact bookmark positions and more than one bookmark per page KWin adds Global Shortcut support for scripts and scripted effects and cursor-key navigation to Flip Switch and Cover Switch effects read more

Swap partition is used as a backup memory, if memory or RAM built computer is not sufficient to run the process. usually swap partition size is 2 x RAM. If a computer has a memory 128 MB swap partition was made into 256 MB. Ubuntu 11.10 by default using the Swap Partition as large as the existing memory if the memory more than 1GB

Multiple readers asked me today if I suffered from a “new” Mac OS X virus. Let’s slow down, folks. The alleged Mac virus reports spreading across the web have little to do with Apple and Mac OS X, and a lot to do with a small security hole in Java — which is owned by Oracle. And by the way, there’s a simple security fix. Here are details.

Trine 2 is the continuation of the magnificent side-scrolling puzzle platform adventure game named Trine. This game is one of the best games that you’ll see this year for the linux platform, and it surely is one of the most unforgetable stories that you’ll “witness” in front of your computer screen.

So Fedora 17 beta was supposed to have been released on April 3. Today is April 5 and we are still waiting. But that is the way it is with the Fedora project. Release dates are not set in concrete. They will release something when it is ready, not to meet a predetermined release schedule.

Gloobus Preview is an quick file previewer which supports images, documents (pdf, odf, ods, etc.), source files, audio (mp3, wav, ogg and more), video (avi, ogg, mkv, flv, etc.), folders, archives, fonts, plain text files and more.

Well today we at Only Human Studio have hit a milestone in the development of Ensign -1. We have reached a point where we feel happy to release the public Alpha build of Ensign -1 to all those that have backed us via Kickstarter and 8-bit funding.

There are a great number of Linux users who dual boot their computer with Windows. And in situation like this, one has to make different partitions to separate Windows and Linux partition. Windows usually (not always) uses NTFS file format while Linux is usually (again, not always) installed in Ext3 or Ext4 file format. While using Linux, one has to manually mount the drives. It doesn’t take time in mounting but in some situation you might prefer to have it automatically mounted at each start-up for e.g., if your Music files are on the NTFS partition and you want to use the same directory in Linux it is advisable to auto mount that drive. In this tutorial I will show you the easiest way to mount Windows NTFS partition at each start-up.

Bug trackers are great. They are a critical tool for open source development – as a collaboration medium for teams, as a way for projects to communicate back-and-forth with users, and as an organizational tools for individual developers. But as open source software spreads further and further, one inevitably finds oneself with a bit of a Web 2.0 problem – every major project uses its own, separate bug tracker. The more projects you're involved with, the easier it is for information to get lost among all the clutter and noise. That's where Entomologist comes in, providing one interface for multiple bug-tracking systems, whether you are a developer managing your code or a user following progress.

With iOS and Android dominating the mobile space, it’s sometimes hard to remember that it’s actually a congested and cluttered market. They are quite a few operating systems that are either in an incubating period, or already in your local Verizon store vying for your attention.