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Canonical provide version of Ubuntu with pre-installed software focused on corporate use.

We all know that Debian is a production like GNU/Linux operating system, thus the software available by default in the repository servers is not always the newest version. I created this tutorial to help those interested in running the latest version of the graphical Internet browser Mozilla Firefox.

Sabayon follows a rolling release development model, which means that once you install a new system, you may never need to re-install – ever. While the project provides installation images for all known desktop environments, only those for the 32- and 64-bit editions of the K Desktop Environment, GNOME 3, and Xfce, have so far being made available for download. Going by the distribution’s release history, installation images for other (supported) desktop environments should be released soon. This article offers a summary review of Sabayon 8 KDE.

The letter in which the story was found, dated 5 September 1936, was donated by Hans Jahnke, son of Giorgio Joyce's second wife, Asta, to the Zurich James Joyce Foundation. The Foundation has called its publication an "outrage", stressing that it has not granted permission for the book's release.

"We have been completely overlooked and ignored. It's only common decency to ask the owner," said the Foundation's Fritz Senn. "We are outraged. We have had no hand in this unfair thing and feel not just ignored but cheated."

Although the published works of Joyce entered the public domain in Europe on 1 January this year, Senn says it has not yet been determined whether the non-published material is now out of copyright as well. "Copyright has been lifted only, we believe, from the published material. All the huge amount of non-published material we believe is still under copyright, so this is, we believe, an infringement of that," he said, adding that he is concerned the "very belligerent" Joyce estate might sue. "We haven't heard from them [but] what I'm afraid of is that with the large amount of copyright taken away from them, their remaining territory will be defended even more fiercely."

Blackhatters desperate for props from pals, says security firm Cybercrooks have embraced the open-source model in the development of banking Trojans following the release of source code for the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit last year.…

Groundhog Day again already? Intellect 2012 Open source and open standards are the direction for UK government IT, the civil servant leading the government's technology change agenda has said.…

Herb Sutter dives into the repercussions of parallel's reach from mobile devices, to the desktop, to clusters, and — at the highest level of granularity — to the cloud. This welter of different parallel implementations presents significant challenges for programming. The free lunch of sequential programming is well and truly over.

Opera Widgets, unlike most other browser plugins, can be downloaded to serve as browser-independent desktop widgets. These are managed through Opera Widget Manager, so the Opera process remains open (without running the browser). This tutorial explains how to use Opera Widgets as desktop widgets on Ubuntu 11.10.

These two distributions have recently partnered together for future development and resources, so they will probably converge in some way. For now, though, Netrunner stands out.

Alex Fiestas has restarted working on a project called AppMenu Runner which implements the same ideas of Unity's HUD. 'Actions Lookup' as Alex Fiestas named it more than a year ago (the blog was posted on December 22, 2010) can be a very useful tool, if it can be integrated with krunner. He has made another attempt at Actions Menu (which he now calls AppMenu Runner) and has published the code.

An East Texas patent case that has attracted the attention of the technology world came to a screeching halt Thursday as the jury ruled that the key patent in the case is invalid. Eolas, a patent troll that has been shaking down technology companies for the better part of a decade, now faces the prospect of losing the patent.

When I play a game that runs full screen on Linux but still want to have things running in the background I'd like to check on here and there without closing my game I typically launch my game into a new Xserver instance.

"Open your source, Open your mind" is the motto of the Sabayon Linux which is based on Gentoo Linux released its version 8 with many updated software packages by default. It comes with many environment like GNOME, KDE, LXDE, Xfce, Fluxbox, Openbox. It is first Extreme-Rolling release with automated Entropy Matter.

PC-BSD offers you a fully functional desktop environment based on rock solid FreeBSD technology, which makes it the perfect operating system for your first steps with BSD…

VGEM, the Virtual GEM provider for the Linux kernel, is still being developed and a new version has been published.

Everyone's been in this situation at least one time. You find a song on YouTube love, want to download it to keep it for future uses only to find there's no real way. There's those websites that convert videos for you, but out of the few that actually work they place restrictions on you too. Plus, what's the fun in letting someone else do the work for you? I mean, we are using Linux after all.

Stella is a remix of CentOS with a desktop focus. It is available as installable live media and contains standard CentOS software, the GNOME 2 desktop and some multimedia and desktop additions. Stella 6.2 Screenshot Tour

Lots of front-page bad news about Android malware, but instead of giving into FUD, educate yourself and more importantly educate your users about security fundamentals. And that's true no matter what mobile device you're using.

Nearly all of the X.Org/Wayland coverage from last week's FOSDEM 2012 event is available on Phoronix. There's one other Phoronix point to make from FOSDEM 2012... For those that don't know, openSUSE is in the beer business. Yes, the Linux project does really sell openSUSE beer...

The polls are closed and the results for the 2011 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are in.