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The first official Alpha for the upcoming release Fedora 17 is available to download. After Jared K. Smith “fedora project leader” announced the name suggestions for the upcoming release fedora 17, many people had participated for suggesting and voting for the codename, and it concluded with the codename “Beefy Miracle” Yummy!!

Getting the correct time on computers running Linux is more complicated than you might think, and formatting it can be even more challenging. Let Wazi walk you through the forest of options.

Interview with Terrence O'Brien of Engadget, where he talks about his Ubuntu setup and his dreams for Ubuntu for Android.

I’m going to show you that you can put together a Linux based workstation designed for graphics based tasks that can easily rival that of commercial workstation systems.

Fedora 17, which is codenamed the Beefy Miracle, is now up to its alpha milestone with many new features for this exciting Red Hat sponsored release...

The cat and mouse game of zero day exploits eventually became more than I was willing to tolerate. I decided that I would run Linux full time at home, and never use Windows again. I still use nothing but PCLinuxOS on all my home computers. There are several reasons why I stay with it.

Coverflow ALT-TAB is a great extension for cinnamon that let’s you Alt-Tab through your windows in a cover-flow manner.

Andy Rubin, Google's Android head honcho, made a very public statement this week at Mobile World Congress about a firewall between the Android division and the company's new Android handset maker, Motorola Mobility. After "Don't Be Evil", perhaps Google should have learned to avoid such blanket declarations.

Eben says there will be an announcement at 06:00 GMT on Wednesday, Februaary 29th. It might be that the Raspberry Pi is on sale or when the Raspberry Pi will be going on sale.

The first alpha milestone of the Fedora Linux 17 release is now available. This is the release that is known as the Beefy Miracle and it's not just a marketing message, it's also a statement about how much 'beef' has been packed into this release.

The Fedora Project proudly announced a few minutes ago, February 28th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Alpha version of the upcoming Fedora 17 operating system, due for release in May 2012.

Specifications revealed for the tiny computer that runs Ubuntu and Android 4.0...

Subversion (svn) is an open-source version control system (VCS), used in the development of many software projects. This tutorial shows how to install Subversion on Ubuntu 11.10 and how to configure it to allow access to a repository through different protocols: file://, http://, https://, svn://, and svn+ssh://.

Descent|OS 2.1 has been released. Descent|OS is an Ubuntu-based desktop distribution featuring an optimised and modernised GNOME 2 desktop environment.

Barbiarians at the IP gateway Part one The Gated Kingdom guarded by the mobile industry is the last great frontier for Silicon Valley to crack.…

The Mobile World Congress 2012 event takes place these days in Barcelona, Spain, and our hard working team is there to bring you the latest news headlines. Today, February 28th, Canonical made a short demonstration of the Ubuntu TV device for Softpedia (check the video above).

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last night, February 27th, that the eight maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 series is available for download.

Easily one of the best RPG games for Linux and winner of Roguelike of the Year Award 2011, Tales of Maj'Eyal (ToME) has just been updated to Beta 38. ToME is an open-source, single-player, tactical role-playing roguelike and action game set in the world of Eya. You are an adventurer, looking for old powers, treasure and glory. You boldly go in lost and forgotten places, untamed forests and sealed ruins.

Apache Pig is a high-level procedural language for querying large semi-structured data sets using Hadoop and the MapReduce Platform. Pig simplifies the use of Hadoop by allowing SQL-like queries to a distributed dataset. Explore the language behind Pig and discover its use in a simple Hadoop cluster.

LXer Feature: 28-Feb-2012

If you have been using Ubuntu for several releases now, you know the time you had to spend on your computer on the installation day, e.g to configure different nuisances, install your work software, your favorite stuff etc. One such thing is multimedia support, sometimes networking issues, graphics issues and so on. If you break your system during that process you either dig deeper into the problem or start over again. Even after installation of Ubuntu, you want certain things Ubuntu ships to not be there. Many times I have had to remove certain default packages to make Ubuntu more to my liking. Today I will show how to create your own custom ubuntu DVD.