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We can expect at least another 10 years of unbridled and irrational fear about the threat of cyber war before things calm down. That's according to security expert Bruce Schneier, who reckons it will be people's attitudes to the threat of hackers, terrorists and rogue nations that will grow up first, and essentially help make us safer, before the technology that might be used to stop potential attacks matures.

The Southern California Linux Expo is proud to announce a conference for the next generation of free and open source (FOSS) community enthusiasts. SCALE: The Next Generation will be held Saturday, January 21, 2012, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel. We invite the youth of the FOSS community to share their enthusiasm and excitement about FOSS projects with the other young people. Talk submissions are reviewed by a committee of youths, parents, and volunteers planning the conference and evaluated solely on their merits. We request that submission dates be strictly honored in order to provide the committee enough time to choose the best set of proposals.

CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver Games for Linux and Mac.

As it stuggles with Itanium, HP is trying to save face with a server initiative code-named Odyssey. But here’s the big twist: Odyssey’s biggest potential winner is Red Hat rather than HP. Here’s why.

Among the interesting package updates for the latest GNOME 3.3/3.4 development update are some of the changes to Clutter and Cogl (the Clutter OpenGL component) in preparation for their version 2.0 releases...

Mageia 2 Alpha 1 is now available with an updated Linux kernel, systemd, and other features...

You have already been exposed to a small part of what flow control is in our previous part, namely the section about relational operators. As you start writing more complex programs, you will feel the need to control the order in which your program executes various parts. Flow control is present in most programming languages in one form or another, and what you're about to read here is essential to writing C programs.

Linux Mint 12 was released and we have a screenshot tour of the install process. Enjoy....

LXer Feature: 29-Nov-2011

This is article is in response to the article, "Disadvantages of Using Linux." from DarkDuck; By Lisa Hann

ARM announced a free edition of its Eclipse-based development toolkit that's aimed at Android developers. ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE) helps create performance- and power-optimized native software by integrating a graphical debugger for code generated for the Android Native Development Kit (NDK) and a version of the ARM Streamline Performance Analyzer, the company says....

Setting up a proxy with a content filter and configuring programs to access them correctly is hard enough without broken implementations and bugs getting in the way.

Kontron has added AMD's G-Series processors to its line of ETX computer-on-modules (COMs). The ETX-OH offers LVDS, VGA, and DisplayPort graphics interfaces, has two SATA ports, accepts up to 4GB of RAM, and features an optional TPM (trusted platform module), according to the company....

Cool tools to project song lyrics or videos, study the Qur'an & Bible, & get your church online

Ibase announced a network security appliance based on a dual-core Via Nano X2 processor clocked at 1.2GHz. The FWA7404 includes four gigabit Ethernet ports, a serial console connector, two USB 2.0 ports, a 2.5-inch drive bay, plus CompactFlash and Mini PCI Express slots, according to the company....

A review of GNOME 3.2 running on the new OpenSUSE 12.1. GNOME 3.2 is a surprisingly pleasant desktop experience that is well-worth exploring. And OpenSUSE 12.1 seems to be a strong release and a nice GNOME implementation.

Pre-order the 2011 Linux Journal Archive DVD. Normally $34.50, our Cyber Monday price is just $24.50. (Use discount code DVDNEW at checkout.)

The Fuduntu distribution is just over a year old, and its first release had a modest but respectable ten thousand downloads. However, with the growing interest in alternatives to GNOME 3 and Ubuntu's Unity, the new 14.12 release is receiving more notice. It's easy to see why: using borrowed tools, Fuduntu tweaks a GNOME 2 desktop to roughly resemble both GNOME and Unity, while offering an unusual but highly serviceable selection of applications and customization tools.

Chris DiBona recently showed the antivirus software industry who’s boss. He slapped them around like the proverbial red-headed step-child. Kudos to Mr. DiBona for being one of the few industry giants with the chutzpah to speak the truth; a truth thought by many, but one that most would NEVER publicly voice. Libreoffice is built on the hard work of great supporters who create a lot of wonderful tools for the office suite, usually voluntarily. The Ipad 2 is a great device with very poor support for free software. Finally, Linux Mint has risen to the front of the GNU/Linux queue.

The final version of Linux Mint 12 (& Lisa& ) was released, with & MGSE& extensions to GNOME 3.2 that let users create a more GNOME 2.3x-like environment. Based on Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux 3.0, Linux Mint 12 features upgrades to Firefox 7.0, LibreOffice 3.4.3 and Thunderbird 7.0.1, and introduces a new DuckDuckGo default search engine....

With the upcoming tsunami of Linux Mint 12 Lisa articles about to wash up on the FOSS shore, Larry the Free Software Guy goes against the tide to point out that CrunchBang GNU/Linux also has gone through some remarkable and profound changes in its new release, out over the weekend. Not only this, lead developer Philip Newborough not only talks the FOSS talk but walks the FOSS walk: He has decided to leave his job to work on CrunchBang full-time.