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This article is about how to create a DVD image of your machine with the exact same software included on the disk. This can be done using a software called Relinux. Relinux is a fork of the recently discontinued Remastersys.

Isn't it time we promoted Linux administration as a career choice?

Wine application allows you to run Microsoft applications on Linux/Unix platforms. After many development releases for wine 1.3 here comes the first release candidate for the upcoming stable release wine 1.4. Check the what’s new in Wine 1.4 RC1, changes since Wine 1.3.37 and download options.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from February 13th - February 15th, 2012.

If you're using Maverick Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10) or an older distribution, Natty Narwhat is a whole new animal. Continue reading →

While Mesa/Gallium3D is still a ways off from fully supporting the Unigine Engine's advanced OpenGL 3/4 renderer with decent frame-rates, there is work both by Mesa and the Unigine Corp developers to better this open-source graphics support...

Patches have landed so that the Wayland Display Server can now handle surface transformations. Separately, there's also an easy-to-understand guide for using the Qt 5.0 tool-kit with Wayland...

Keith Packard released X.Org Server 1.12 RC2 in time for weekend testing. At the same time, Apple's Jeremy Huddleston released the X.Org Server 1.11.4 stable version...

Committed to the kernel repository for the open-source Nouveau driver for providing reverse-engineered NVIDIA hardware is now the initial GPU core/memory re-clocking support...

During his talk last week at the SCALE 10x LA event, Chris Mason of Oracle mentioned that an error-fixing Btrfs fsck tool will be ready by next month. He mentioned a hard deadline of 14 February for this btrfs.fsck tool capable of fixing file-system errors because it must be ready for the next releases of Oracle Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Chris confirmed that Oracle will be supporting Btrfs in their Linux distribution, which is derived from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux code-base.

SOCKet Secure (SOCKS) is an Internet protocol that routes network packets between a client and server through a proxy server. SOCKS5 additionally provides authentication so only authorized users may access a server. Practically, a SOCKS server will proxy TCP connections to an arbitrary IP address as well as providing a means for UDP packets to be forwarded.

As SOCKS (as it was already marked above) transfers all data from a client to a server, nothing adding from itself, from the point of view of a web-server, a socks proxy is a client. Therefore anonymity of this type of proxy servers is really always absolute.

In this article we’ll see how to use redsocks to achieve a SOCKS proxy.

The KDE Telepathy team has made the first beta release of the new KDE Instant Messaging suite. This 0.3 release coincides with the release of KDE Workspaces, Applications and Platform 4.8. KDE Telepathy (click for larger) read more

Listen up ZDNet readers, Cellrox has the Android-based solution for your conversion to a BYOD model.

Welcome to the 184th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Aaron J. Seigo, from KDE Plasma Active development team has revealed a tablet which could be the first device to come with Plasma Active pre-installed. Named 'Spark', the tablet features an open Linux stack on unlocked hardware and comes with open content and services market.

This guide describes how to make your GNOME Shell look like Android Ice Cream Sandwich by using Holo theme with GNOME Tweak Tool.

After illustrating Linux power regressions and other problems for months, with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS developers at Canonical are finally taking a serious look at Linux power management and how it can be bettered...

Let's have a look at Unity Heads-Up Display (HUD). By now, I'm sure most readers will have seen the screenshot of HUD and the old Machintosh, and some may have read or heard the expression WIMP for the first time. And you've most likely read at least one article under headings such as Ubuntu replaces menus with HUD. Of course, this is only the media being paid-per-click. It isn't true. In fact, it is the opposite of the truth. In all the official statements, it has been made explicit that the HUD is an addition to the menus and not a replacement. The news media, of course, will never let facts get in the way.

A glimpse at the results of a real life attack on a real life MySQL server, and the emotional end result of the damage caused.

As Google proposed a controversial new privacy policy, the EU proposed radical new data protection rules of its own and both illustrated the growing clash between data collection and privacy in the cloud.