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Linux Mint altered the Banshee Amazon MP3 referral code to that of its own, taking 100% of all profits made in the process.

Aldebaran Robotics have launched a new version of their popular robot Nao - Nao Next Gen. Nao is an autonomous, programmable, medium-sized humanoid robot running a custom Linux OS. It is fitted with a new on-board computer, based on the powerful 1.6GHz Intel® AtomTM processor, which is suitable for multi-tasking calculations. It also has two HD cameras that are attached to a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). This set-up allows the simultaneous reception of two video streams, significantly increasing speed and performance in face-and-object recognition, even under poor-lighting conditions.

… and likes it … well, mostly. Hopefully this article will help you if you are searching for that “just right for me” GUI on your Unix/Linux system. But be sure to give e17 a try yourself, do not just pass it over because of anything you may read on the web.

Linux distros such as Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu have quite a lot of data back-up tools which allows a user to back-up their data with greater ease. One such tool is called 'Back In Time'. The project description says, "Back In Time is a simple backup system for Linux inspired from “flyback project” and “TimeVault”. The backup is done by taking snapshots of a specified set of directories."

This tutorial will explain instructions to disable bluetooth and Wifi in Ubuntu 11.10 during start up .

The FFmpeg project has moved closer to its 1.0 release with the Sunday release of FFmpeg 0.9...

LXer Feature: 12-Dec-2011

In this week's Roundup we have another dagger in the heart of the desktop proclaimed, the Mozilla - Google deal still lives, a cool developerWorks article on shells in Linux, HP to contribute webOS to FOSS, Glyn moody and the Open Source TCO as well as the late addition of a LXer Feature entitled "Gnome 3, Try 3". Enjoy!

2011 is coming to its end. It is time to make final roundups and see what happened in our life in this year. So, what was new in Linux world in 2011? What were greatest failures in 2011 from my point of view?

2011 is coming to its end. It is time to make final roundups and see what happened in our life in this year. Let's have a look at greatest successes in 2011 in Linux world from my point of view.

In less than one minute, it's now possible to build the Linux kernel from source on a desktop...

One of the best indie games to come out this year, infact dare i say it ever has announced an expansion pack to their game Dungeons of Dredmor named "Realm of the Diggle Gods"

Bash has been around since pre-historic times, at least before GNU/Linux’s first release in 1991. In this article I'll present how i used this powerful tool and some of the links I've used to solve some common problems. My first personal encounter with Bash was in 1993. This was two years before Microsoft Windows 95 was released and Windows 3.1 was just a bad joke. The Software Development Company I was working for was using SCO Unix running on i486 systems to power Kiosks for displaying, printing and selling sheet music.

The libbluray project put out its first official release a few weeks ago. This open-source (GNU GPLv2) library is intended to support Blu-Ray disc playback by media players such as VLC and MPlayer. The libbluray 0.21 release is the first from the project and it happened on the 30th of November. This release hasn't been widely publicized and I just happened to know about it this morning from an indirectly-related message on another mailing list. This project was born out of the Doom9 community and has been under development since 2009.

It seems something I installed recently drug pulse audio in with it as a dependency - this would be fine and dandy except for the fact that my Skype audio (input and output) 100% stopped with the addition of pulse audio to my system. Apparently the authors of Skype (in their infinite wisdom) made it so that if Skype is launched while pulse audio is installed Skype will use pulse (and only pulse) without the option to change back to Alsa...

HP doing Touchpad fire sale via eBay on Sunday evening. Via identi.ca I found the engadget post about the sale. It's supposed to kick off 18:00 central time (US) in HP's eBay store. They're refurbs and only come with 90 day warrantees, so buyer beware.

LXer Feature: 11-Dec-2011

I just finished my third try with gnome 3. This time was the longest. I spent the month of November using it daily.

The idiom 'don't judge a book by its cover' can be extended to 'don't judge a computer game by its graphics'. Whilst the games featured in this article have extremely basic graphics, they have many redeeming qualities beyond evoking fond memories of the early days of computer gaming.

The combination of GNOME 3 and MGSE is an attempted to improve on the user-experience of a stock GNOME 3 installation, however, it still leaves the user fighting the desktop just to get things done, and MATE is not yet ready for prime time. While I am not exactly a fan of Ubuntu’s Unity Desktop, I think it presents a better user-experience than GNOME 3 with MGSE. So, this tutorial shows the steps necessary to install and run Unity Desktop on Linux Mint 12.

This article is about how to use the S/MIME encryption function of common e-mail clients to sign and/or encrypt your mails safely. S/MIME uses SSL certificates which you can either create yourself or let a trusted certificate authority (CA) create one for you.

I just released RapidDisk version 1.3.1b. I added check in the management utility to make sure that rxdsk node is present before archiving and restoring compressed/ decompressed images. This is a very minor update and is mostly for the restoration portion of the utility so we just don’t accidentally create a file named /dev/rxd[x] instead of using an actual rxdsk volume, if that volume is not present on the system.