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Canonical reveals Ubuntu OS that launches on Android ahead of its debut at MWC

Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop might be remembered as the Thomas Watson of our time, based on his remark you don't need quad-core processors for smartphones. "You don't need a quad-core phone unless you want to keep your hands warm in your pocket,” said the Yankee CEO brought in to re-float the Finnish ship.

Linux User sits down with Mint creator Clement Lefebvre to get a measure of the past, present and future of one of the biggest success stories in Linux distro history…

Sorry for being late, I don't have a lot of free time at the moment. Here's PlayOnLinux 4.0.14.

PCLinuxOS 2012 "Phoenix" has been updated to version 2 in Xfce desktop environment on 20th Feb, 2012. Linux Kernel is 2.6.38.8 and Xfce version is 4.8.3, X.org 1.10.4, Mesa 7.11.2 and many other updates like 3D support for most Intel and N-VIDIA graphics cards have been done in this update.

Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Global Jam event for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system will take place in one week, between 2nd and 4th March, 2012.

FlightGear, a free and open source flight simulator has received yet another major update and many new features have introduced. FlightGear features more than 400 aircraft, a worldwide scenery database, a worldwide multi-player environment, detailed sky modelling, a flexible and open aircraft modelling system, varied networking options, multiple display support, a powerful scripting language and an open architecture. Best of all, being open-source, the simulator is owned by the community and everyone is encouraged to contribute.

CUPS, is the printing standard that open source projects have used successfully to convert desktops and computers to become printer servers, allowing plug-in, modular type of printing. However, now Apple after it acquired it from its developer Michael Sweet, at Easy Software Products, in 2007, has chosen to abandon certain Linux exclusive features, and continuing with popular Mac OS X features.

The past week on the LinuxPlanet saw the return of SCO, a company most of us have long ago written off a footnote in the history of Linux's success. It also saw a new study from Ubuntu showing how broad and diverse its base of Linux users have become.

This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface.

I like KDE and prefer it to Gnome but when I was a Gnome user I got used to the Gnome desktop switching.

We’ll hear it when we reach the end of a line, we’ll hear it when we hit tab to complete a word and there’s more than one choice, in about 2 minutes you won’t hear it anymore. It’s the simplest thing to do but we never look into it – because most of the time when the bell goes off we’re in the middle of something else.

The acronym “FRAND” is very much in the news today, and with good reason. So intense is the competition to control the future of mobile devices that not only standards, but the finer details relating to the pledging of patents to facilitate the implementation of standards, have become the subject of headlines in the technology press.

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...

Is Windows 8 the most hated operating system yet? I don’t care. I’m excited about it.

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.

The open-source driven Hackerspace Global Grid. Founding member interviewed.

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.

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 read more

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):