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For those that may have extra time this weekend and have been meaning to try out the experimental Wayland Display Server, one of the easiest ways to try out this eventual X.Org Server replacement is by using a Wayland LiveCD that's dubbed Rebecca Black. Besides including a recent snapshot of Wayland, it also integrates the support for various tool-kits and other applications...

DeadBeeF is a minimal and lightweight music player for Linux. It is highly customization through plugins and focuses on an interface that is fast and responsive without any extra cruft. A new version for DeadBeeF has been released bringing in lots of new features and fixes.

This tutorial shows how to prepare a Debian Squeeze (Debian 6.0) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx or Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more. The idea is to use the fast and memory efficient nginx web server and Dovecot which is also said to be more memory efficient. You will need to use the Dotdeb repository for nginx.

XBMC, the very well known open-source multimedia / HTPC project, has finally reached its XBMC 11.0 (codenamed "Eden") milestone...

According to some FCC leak and rumoring, it looks like Sony is about to release a new Chromebook and the FCC info may point towards it running on an ARM Processor! T25 is the leaked processor info, that sound like the Tegra 250 T25.

There's new releases of some key EFL -- Enlightenment Foundation Libraries -- packages. This round of Enlightenment package updates has also introduced some new components...

Intel's open-source Linux graphics developers remain confident that we're likely to the final chapter of the lets-try-rc6-by-default-one-more-time saga. The RC6 power-savings feature for Sandy Bridge graphics hardware should hopefully be -- finally -- sane to keep enabled by default...

The story of Drupal is one great open-source success story. Buytaert's life kinda parallels Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg without the mean attitude and lawsuits (if the Hollywood version can be believed). Buytaert also started Drupal in college and it took him years to figure out how to make a living from it. Linus Torvalds even helped him figure out how.

Bodhi Linux is a lightweight distribution based on Ubuntu which uses the E17 version of the Enlightenment desktop. It has a pretty cool feature called profiles which can change the look and feel of Bodhi in an instant

Welcome to the 192nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Ryan "Icculus" Gordon will be talking about using open-source tools for game development next weekend at the 2012 Flourish conference...

Unity 5.8 has landed into Ubuntu 12.04 with new features and fixes. It seems lots of work has gone under the hood as I have never seen Unity interface so fast. Its just flying and for a moment I really thought that its Unity 2D as after Unity 5.8 update, the dash menu got lots of UI tweaks and it now looks very much like Unity 2D's dash. There is also improved multi-monitor support as an option to display either a single launcher or a launcher on each display has been added.

Being a Linux user for many users I am using command line a lot. A very useful functionality of Linux command line is autocompleting commands by reverse searching history. What I mean by that? Let's say that while I am typing some commands I want to reuse a cat command I had typed 10 commands ago. Instead of pressing the up arrow 10 times to find this comand I will just type cat and pressing up arrow will bring back only those commands I have already typed starting with cat. Here's how to enable it.

This feature focuses in selecting the finest Linux applications that are targeted at guitarists. All of the software featured here is released under freely distributable licenses, to download at no charge, and are easy to install and intuitive to use.

The report of KDE e.V. for the fourth quarter of 2011 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported in the last 3 months of last year. The report has a message from the President of the Board reflecting on the first 15 years of KDE and looking forward to more opportunities. There are stories about exciting product announcements and the various sprints that produced exceptional results. Read the full report (PDF). read more

Sony has reportedly submitted a filing for its first Chromebook to FCC. FCC E-filing is showing a Sony device which fits the bill of a Chromebook. Any doubt over it being a Chromebook is removed on the 'manual' page which specifically points at ChromOS.

Learn how to employ some of Apache’s most useful and effective modules to restrict access to your Apache-powered website.

Developers have got to make a living too- if they’re offering free stuff, they put ads there. That’s ok. But the problem arises when these apps appear everywhere and access personal information to pass on to advertisers.

Introduced by Softpedia last month, the final version of the Comice OS 4 Linux operating system, built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment and customized to look like Mac OS, has arrived today, March 23rd.

The Kickstarter fund drive for Wasteland 2 has now passed the magic $1.5 million marker which means that a Linux (and Mac) port is officially a go. Brian Fargo actually jumped the gun a and in a tweet commited to the ports about a hundred thousand dollars before the the goal was met.