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How much Apple's founder Steve Jobs hated Android is evident from his last conversations with his biographer, Walter Isaacson. Steve Jobs claimed that Android was a rip-off of Apple's iOS and that he will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong, to destroy Android. This created an uproar. In an interview with Reuters, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, said that all these allegations are baseless and that Android project started well before the iPhone effort. Let's find out how true a statement that is.

Here's a tutorial on how to quickly get started with remote terminal sharing on a Linux box. In this article, I describe my thoughts about options related to the 'screen' command.

Linux Mint 12 codenamed Lisa brings Gnome 3 to the helm with a lot of new addons that will make your Linux experience a much better one. We take an in depth look at this newly released distro.

Today I want to present an open source software created for the asset management OCSInventory, and in the next days i want to post information about Fusioninventory and GLPI. I will focus on programs that allow you to have an inventory of your hardware and software that allow you to manage everything with discovery tools, reports and alerts, but first let’s see what’s the mean of Asset Management:

As promised in the 1.3b release, I just uploaded a patch for RapidDisk 1.3 to be able to build and install the module on the older 2.6.18 Linux kernel. That is, if you are still using Red Hat or CentOS 5.x.

Charlies games for Black friday and Thanks giving weekend has knocked 70% off Scoregasm which amounts to a measly £2.

GNUstep, the leading free software implementation of Apple's Cocoa Objective-C libraries and related Mac OS X components, has reached a new version. GNUstep runtime 1.6 is this new version with many new features after being in development for more than one year...

Welcome to the 175th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

A full review of openSUSE 12.1, including a gallery of images.

An American company, which registered the name Koha as a trademark for software in New Zealand, has offered to hand ownership of the name to a non-profit representing the Koha community.

For those interested in the GTK3 tool-kit on Windows, improvements are forthcoming...

Richard Hillesley talked with Dave Neary about his experience working with open source communities and companies, and discovered that the important thing is not so much what the rules are, but that everyone knows what they are.

Finally Linux Mint 12 has been released with a code name “Lisa” and it’s available to download. Few weeks ago we have seen the earlier Release Candidate of Linux Mint 12 with Gnome 3 desktop, Mint Gnome Shell Extensions “MGSE” and new panels Mint-Z theme, backgrounds artwork.

There's an active discussion on the Fedora mailing list concerning a "software center" for Fedora Linux...

You may have noticed several Phoronix articles in recent weeks using a ZaReason notebook built around Intel's "Sandy Bridge" processor. This is one of the new notebooks from ZaReason that had been in our labs for testing. Here is a last look at the Strata 6880 notebook from this Linux-focused PC vendor.

Minitube is the powerful software for watching youtube video and for downloading youtube video. It is not clone of youtube interface but tries to privides you a TV-like experience.

The Bash shell has a builtin test command that can be used to check for multiple aspects in a script. This exercise helps you build a script that checks to see if a file exists and if it does, checks to see if it is writable.

"So I thought I found your porn folder, in calendar/backup/PORN..."

The April release of Ubuntu is all about quality

Don't let touts cloud your judgement Open ... and Shut The software risk silly season is upon us again. Every so often a big trend washes over the industry, and soon afterwards well-intentioned people start telling us why we should be afraid to dip our toes into the water. Or perhaps they are not so well-intentioned...…