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KWin May Drop Support For Catalyst, Vintage GPUs
The KWin compositing window manager for KDE may drop its older OpenGL renderer, which would remove support for vintage GPUs/drivers, but this would also include eliminating -- at least temporarily -- support for the AMD Catalyst graphics driver...
You know what I’m excited about? Windows 8.
Is Windows 8 the most hated operating system yet? I don’t care. I’m excited about it.
How the CRTC Helped Stifle Internet Throttling
Hockey may be Canada's national pastime, but criticizing the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) surely ranks as a close second. From the substitution of Canadian commercials during the Super Bowl broadcast to Canada's middling performance on broadband Internet services, the CRTC is seemingly always viewed as the target for blame. Yet if the commission is criticized (sometimes wrongly) when it makes mistakes, it surely deserves kudos when it gets things right.
Hackers In Space: Hackerspace Global Grid Interview
The open-source driven Hackerspace Global Grid. Founding member interviewed.
Ubuntu: you’re doing it wrong
Ubuntu is awesome and it’s all about the community — at least if you believe the marketing (from both Canonical employees and unpaid volunteers). But if you start looking beyond the hype, a somewhat different picture emerges. Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I ever installed and I have been following news about the project for about six years now, but in the last two years a new pattern is emerging.
KDE Commit-Digest for 12th February 2012
In this week's KDE Commit-Digest:
Important improvements in simon. The first working speech recognition implementation based on stock Julius (continuous speech recognition system) Text To Speech (TTS) to RSS and email
Konsole gains a Clone Tab action, DBus objects for each Konsole window
Work on annotation view in Kst: items can now move with data
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Firefox To Get A New Default Theme, Other Enhancements
According to the Firefox 2012 roadmap, Mozilla plans to introduce some major changes and new features this year, including a new default theme called Australis (available on all supported platforms):
Tails 0.10.1 Screenshot Tour
The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails), version 0.10.1, is out. This is a bug-fix release mainly aimed at fixing serious bugs and security issues. The (Amnesic) Incognito Live System is a Debian-based live CD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace. Tails 0.10.1 Screenshot Tour
on the economics of Spark
A question about Spark that we're hearing fairly often is how the economics behind it will work. This question has come in a few different forms such as requests to explain the price point we settled on or how much of the proceeds will go where. I thought since it has come up a few times instead of answering it in blog comments repeatedly I'd answer it here in a proper blog entry.
How to Kickstart an Open Source Music Revolution with CASH Music
On February 10, 2012, CASH Music launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than 70% of their $30,000 goal in about 24 hours. What is CASH Music? And why does it already have vocal support from musicians, Firefox, and even Neil Gaiman?
Nmap Inside & Out
There is certainly no shortage of Nmap material online. This article, however, is unique because it fully describes the various Nmap command types, lists all of the Nmap command options, and provides several sample commands to practice with.
LibrePlanet 2012 registration opens
Free Software Foundation also announces list of speakers for Boston conference
Security biz scoff at Apple's anti-Trojan Gatekeeper
Apple dev ghetto fears - plus it only probes executables
Security watchers are expressing reservations about whitelisting security that Apple plans to integrate with OS X Mountain Lion this summer.…
Ubuntu Command Center: Gnome Control Center
Ubuntu 12.04 is all about pixel perfecting everything and focusing on the quality of the overall release.
Install Ubuntu 11.10 on external hard drive, with an ntfs partition at the end
How to install Ubuntu 11.04 on external hard disk, showed how to install Ubuntu 11.04 on a portable USB hard drive. This tutorial, written for Ubuntu 11.10, takes it a step further by showing how to add an NTFS partition at the end of an external drive – after installing Ubuntu.
It is a very simple process, but if you a new to this, and need some hand-holding doing it, this tutorial should be all you need.
It is a very simple process, but if you a new to this, and need some hand-holding doing it, this tutorial should be all you need.
OpenChrome VIA KMS Has A Goal For This Summer
Last week a status update was issued concerning the plans for OpenChrome kernel mode-setting (KMS) support for VIA hardware under Linux. There's finally a goal set for a release this summer...
The Document Foundation finally incorporated - Update
The legal process of incorporating The Document Foundation as a German Stiftung (foundation) has been completed in Berlin, Germany. The creation of a legally based foundation was part of the founding plan of the organisation when it forked from OpenOffice in September 2010. The foundation, which will be the legal entity managing the development of LibreOffice, now has a set of legally binding statutes that define the foundation's objectives, the use of its assets and its management structure.
The Transparency Grenade
No matter where you look these days, there's a profound sense here in the west that the people no longer having any tangible control over what our governments do. Sure, we are allowed to vote every once in a while, but effectively, most of our countries are governed by backroom deals and corporate interests. If matters really do get out of hand, how do we fight this? Well, with technology of course!
Ubuntu One Available on Vodafone AppSelect
Ubuntu One team announced today, February 20th, that the Vodafone company has recently added the Ubuntu One Files app on their Vodafone AppSelect app store for the Android platform.
Is Windows 8 a Linux Copycat?
"M$ does what it always has done, and that is borrow other people's ideas for software," asserted blogger Robert Pogson. "There's nothing wrong with that -- it is normal in the world of software ... ." What's wrong is when "M$ calls it innovating and applies for software patents on other people's ideas and sues people over them. ... May M$ rot in Hell for that."
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