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Interesting development with today’s Chrome OS dev update: for the first time in the history of the Chrome OS project, Google’s own CR-48 reference device is not receiving the latest version of their experimental operating system. From the release announcement:

In this post i will show you step by step to install conky and configure this awesome conky script called Conky-Lua in Ubuntu, Linuxmint, debian and Fedora. This howtos has been done in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta1.

Today's announcement of the beta release for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is sure to dominate the Linux news headlines, but the coming of Precise Pangolin means more than a snazzy new desktop. Okay, not really, I was just trying to be dramatic. It's really a snazzy new desktop. But that's the whole point--one that many detractors of Canonical, Ubuntu, and Unity seem to consistently miss in their quest to smack Mark Shuttleworth and crew around.

Add-ons have long been the weakest link in the chain of Firefox security. In Firefox 13, Mozilla is to close the gap a little tighter by forcing add-ons to do something they should have been doing all along: Implement ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization).

Clang, the C/C++ front-end compiler for LLVM, is progressing quite quickly and is capable of building the Debian archives quite well, at least for a majority of the packages and on popular architectures...

A version of Arch Linux for ARM is now available for Raspberry Pi, only days after the device initially went on sale. It's lightweight design is not suitable for beginners though...

An interview with Noah Lorang of 37signals, where he discusses the Linux tools he uses for data analysis and other day-to-day work.

Apache TCPMon, an open-source tool, monitors data being transferred on a TCP connection, and displays all communication it captures in its GUI interface. This is an introductory tutorial on using TCPMon for debugging network communication.

One of the most popular features of the new Unity desktop are the Lenses. You can uses lenses to sort and search for items inside the Unity dash. For example, a lens for music will allow you to filter your searches for all of your music items and display music only in your search results. There are several lenses that can be added to the dash, each providing its own impressive functions as well.

Potential buyers have been clamoring over the new KDE Spark tablet. Though predicted to perform otherwise, demand has been incredibly high as suggested by the sheer volume of pre-orders over at Make-Play-Live. Well, you don’t have to wait in line…

Jos ponders the openSUSE 12.2 releases and openSUSE upstream development for the next SUSE Linux Enterprise release…

The Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project has been quite interesting as one of the official Debian operating system ports. Debian GNU/kFreeBSD pairs the FreeBSD kernel with the Debian GNU user-land so that users can enjoy their traditional Debian applications while taking advantage of the FreeBSD kernel. With the recently released FreeBSD 9.0 kernel having worked its way into Debian Wheezy, how is the FreeBSD 9.0 kernel performance compared to the Linux 3.2 kernel? This article provides those benchmarks.

We are still sorting out our choices and options so there really isn't much to say except I have contracted throat cancer and at first look, the prognosis isn't good.

Pong pioneer to Bushnell: 'Screw you, I'm not making it round!' Interview The phrase "Once you're lucky, twice you're good" should be applied to Allan "Al" Alcorn, the engineer behind Pong, the world's first successful computer arcade game which celebrates its 40th birthday this year.…

The 2011 Members' Choice Awards from LinuxQuestions.org has honored the KDE Community with "Best Desktop Environment of the Year". In addition, Tech Radar has declared that KDE Workspaces are the best desktop environment. KDE innovation, performance and stability have particular appeal for users. read more

MNTOS (Multi Nagios Tactical Overview System) provides a way to view a distributed network of Nagios servers. In the example all the Nagios servers are Nagios Core.

rovclock is a useful command line tool to control GPU and memory clock speed of ATI Radeon graphics card. rovclock can use on laptops and PCs that using ATI Radeon graphics card.

Despite paying due credit to Microsoft’s more mature platform and dedicated development input, the increase in contribution and excellent open governance model is fast moving LibreOffice to streamline its suite and offer a great package.

Some of you have asked how to dual-boot Android-X86 4.0 ICS (which uses GRUB legacy) with Ubuntu (GRUB 2), so here's how to do it, including a video showing all the required steps as well as installing Android-X86.

On Sunday marked the release of the 58th point release for the Linux 2.6.32 kernel by Greg Kroah-Hartman. The Linux 2.6.32.58 kernel now marks the passing of this kernel series into its extended-long-term maintenance window...