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A test with user agent switcher reveals some very shady behavior from Google.

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ownCloud, the open source file storage and syncing service, has recently released the first version of their Android application. While it isn’t in the Google Play Store yet, users who want to get an early look at the new application can install a test build from the ownCloud blog.

Nginx is an emerging Web server (it claims to power around 12% of the website) and is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

Personally I’m using it from 2010 and so far so good, no particular problems, it does perfectly his work and is frequently updated by the developers, I’m really happy of how is performing on my VPS and in this time I’ve learnt some small tricks and tips that perhaps could save you some time in the future.

First impressions may be fleeting, but I like what I see so far in Xubuntu 12.04.

Welcome to the 198th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

MagPI is a new dedicated magazine for Raspberry PI will be released monthly for free. This magazine aimed to provide a variety of tutorials, articles, how to setup your Raspberry PI and much more. It has been written by many volunteers with many levels in mind. Check more information about the first issue of MagPI down below.

KDE is a free and open-source advanced desktop environment. It provides a Plasma workspaces and variety of applications for different cross-platforms. Now the latest KDE plasma and applications version 4.8.3 is available to update for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and for Ubuntu Precise derivatives as well.

In a recent gaming interview, Blizzard's director of the forthcoming Diablo III game was asked about a Linux client...

As a word of caution for anyone that was hoping Thunderbolt (a.k.a. Light Peak) was in good shape for Linux, the Intel technology doesn't appear to be quite ready yet...

LibVNCServer, an important VNC library used by many free software projects and might even be used in Wayland, had a major release on Friday...

The jury in Oracle v. Google is reentering the courtroom, according to the tweeting journalists at the courtroom, asking what to do.

Xubuntu is the only lightweight based Ubuntu version that is getting long term support from Canonical. It features the XFCE 4.8 desktop and also comes with the Ubuntu Software Centre

It's time again - a new version of <a href=www.Ubuntu.com>Ubuntu</a> with the support for the next 5 years has been released. What offers the new version to the Linux gamers?

OpenMW is a free and open source engine for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable and improved implementation of the game's engine and functionality. OpenMW is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, and all source code has been written completely from scratch. It also builds on various other open source tools, most notably OGRE for graphics, and Bullet for collision (and possibly physics).

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 18 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes XFCE, the Vivaldi (spark) tablet, GIMP, fedora, ReactOS and more!

The first ever Blue Drop Awards for excellence in Drupal development were announced yesterday. Organized and led by Ben Finklea of Volacci, the awards were both a community effort to celebrate the great work of Drupal Developers, and also a vehicle for Drupal and open source evangelism. more>>

Gimp users, rejoice! After 3.5 years of development, Gimp 2.8 has finally arrived. This version of Gimp brings a plethora of changes and improvement, making Gimp a even better image editing software than its previous version.

This time we will take a look at the power manager for the Xfce 4 desktop. This tool can be used to reduce the power output of your system, and control a few useful options.

Canonical announced earlier today, May 4th, that the Mozilla Thunderbird 12 email client landed in their supported Ubuntu distributions.

The copyright phase of the Oracle v. Google trial is winding down. While the world waits for a jury verdict on the facts, the judge overseeing the case is wrestling with the complexities of the law. Oracle has argued that the "structure, sequence and organization" of the Java API is eligible for copyright protection, while Google disagrees.