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If you installed the Linux boot loader to the MBR and want to restore the Windows boot loader, this short tutorial shows you how to do it. It is an easy, point-and-click process. And the application that makes it that easy is called EasyBCD, a free-for-personal-use application from Neosmart Technologies.

APITrace, the versatile open-source utility for tracing OpenGL calls from games and other programs, is now at version 3.0 with the introduction of several useful features...

Wine 1.4 Stable Version Has Been Released – Wine enables Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris users to run Windows software without a copy of Microsoft Windows

Models, tools, and concepts start this series of articles that describes the use of software bundles, image management, and other tools on IBM SmartCloud Enterprise to solve practical problems in enterprise IT management. This article presents an overview of software bundle and image management concepts, explains the resource model, compares this platform to other software package management platforms, discusses use cases, and surveys the tools available. The concepts are illustrated with the use of an example energy-saving calculator application.

Unsettings is an Unity tweak tool that comes with some unique features, like: disable the global menu and overlay scrollbars or easily add applications to the systray whitelist. Besides these, the application also comes with features found in other Unity tweaking tools such as changing the Unity launcher look and behaviour, change the theme (icons, GTK, Metacity or cursor) and fonts and more.

The broad objective, if it is not already evident from the title of this article, is to: Dual-boot Windows 7 and Chakra Archimedes on a computer with one hard drive; then, create an NTFS partition at the end of the drive that will be shared between both operating systems. When completed, you should see this screen when you reboot or restart the computer.

Welcome to the 190th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Every six months, we will do a review of the latest version of Ubuntu and see what features/improvement Canonical has added to the popular distro. The next version of Ubuntu – 12.04, Precise Pangolin is now available in beta and this is particularly important since it is the next Long Term Support (LTS) version. As of all LTS version, the emphasis is always on stability over new features experimentation, so it is interesting to see how the 12.04 will perform. Let’s proceed with the review.

For the first time in decades, the major players in the computing industry are making sweeping changes to the core of how we interact with computers. Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Canonical are reinventing the graphical user interface, leaving the desktop metaphor behind, and moving into a newer, and hopefully simpler, age of computer interaction.

The OpenStreetMap Foundation blog welcomed Apple to the list of existing users of its crowdsourced, open source map data. Apple has, so far, said nothing about apparently using the OSM map data for areas outside the US in the desktop version of iPhoto.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer Linux system administration bootcamp on March 24 - 25, 2012 near San Francisco (South Bay). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas. All attendees get a Linux laptop.

"Nobody likes the idea of having to practically beat their operating system into submission,... but this is the reality with Linux," asserted Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson. "One good idea layered over another good idea added to another good idea sometimes ends up with really bad results. We don't all want to be 'protected from ourselves' by more and more features that assume the user is a dummy. There's another OS for that."

Johnny Hughes has announced the availability of the Community Enterprise Operating System [CentOS] 5.8 on 8th Mar, 2012. This version is available in both i386 and x86_64 both architecture. This version contains many bug fixes, new updates and new functionality.

Earlier today, March 9th, Canonical posted a tweet asking users around the world to participate in this year's Ubuntu User Survey.

One of those, is BackTrack, a hackers delight, one that is loaded with all the best Free Software and Open Source penetration testing applications available. The latest edition is BackTrack 5, code-named Revolution. We are actually at BackTrack 5 R2. Keep in mind that BackTrack is not a distribution for newbies. This is serious stuff.

Last year in November we've reported that Canonical decided, during the Ubuntu Developer Summit, to increase the size of the ISO image of Ubuntu from 700 MB to 750 MB, targeting USB flash drives and DVDs instead of CDs.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 10 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling the big open source related news in one small page. This week includes the new Crossover release, the PClinuxOS magazine and passwords covered by the 5th amendment.

Joe Brockmeier wrote an interesting piece on ReadWrite entitled "What We Lose in a post-PC World," and Larry the Free Software Guy hopes, at least, that Hallmark is ramping up the greeting card presses for the dawning of the new age, and the others that accompany it.

A compendium of Jolt Award winners through the years with links to Dr. Dobb's editorial coverage where applicable

Kernel devs are a tight community and work together at conferences, IRC and mailing lists - something that we already knew. What I personally did not know was how those interactions combined to set broader policies.

Kroah-Hartman and his 'cabal' of developers devised such a 'conspiracy' for the 2.6.32 kernel, which at the time became the base for every major enterprise distro.