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One of the big things that Mozilla's Thunderbird has been missing for years is a calendar. It's usually the number one thing I hear about whenever anyone compares Thunderbird against Outlook. That's where the Mozilla Lighting project is supposed to come - providing a Calendar plugin (based on Mozilla Sunbird) for Thunderbird. The only problem is that the project has seemingly been delayed, for years.

This is a solution to the issue that I faced today while installing a javascript file from userscripts.org as an extension into google chrome (Yes, Chrome supports installing greasemonkey javascripts as extensions). I had already installed this script once into my browser earlier but when I tried installing it again today, it started giving me a weird error “Could not read source file”. I tried all possible means, like putting it on a different server, installing from local disk, changing versions, deleting all cache, etc but still the issue persisted.

It isn’t as straightforward as it could have been to install just about any version of Java on Ubuntu, since Synaptic Package Manager and Ubuntu Software Center only show the latest OpenJDK version.

Desura Linux client is finally available as a closed beta for testing and bugfixing. Once the testing is finished, the client will be opened for all in coming few weeks. Desura website has also been updated and a whole lot of new Linux games have been added. The main page of Desura now features a nice Tux icon at the top. Users are taken to Linux games database once clicked.

Firefox 7 beta is now the default web browser in Ubuntu 11.10 Onceric Ocelot beta and for the first time ever, Firefox scores a perfect 100 in Acid3 tests. Congratulations Mozilla!

One area that chews up a lot o' cycles on machines aroun' th' world is CFD. What is CFD? CFD is short fer Computational Fluid Dynamics. The general notion is t' model th' flow o' gases an' liquids (or fluids) as they interact with solid surfaces.

A friend of mine brought me his computer for fixing, a Compaq Presario with XP Home. It was in a reboot loop. I told him about Linux, and all its advantages, and he agreed to try it. I grabbed my PCLinuxOS CD and installed it in a matter minutes. Everything was working, but ...

Deutsche Telekom wants to create a European cloud that's free from US Government prying. It will be interesting to see how US cloud companies and government officials react to this proposal.

Many writers and bloggers often need to jot down important ideas that they come across. For years, people have relied on notepads, sticky notes and even paper napkins. Even though the traditional method is the best, there are some tech-savvy folks like us who prefer using their smartphones to do the same. If you’re one of those people, then here are some of the best Android applications for capturing new ideas and thoughts.

Synapse is a semantic launcher similar to Gnome Do or Kupfer, powered by Zeitgeist. It comes with many plugins for controlling Rhythmbox or Banshee, connect to SSH hosts, upload to Imgur, search the web, Dictionary and more.

After many years of development, the GeeXboX team proudly announced a couple of days ago, September 17th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable release of GeeXboX 2.0, the perfect MediaCenter distribution for HTPCs.

The Linux Mint team announced the release of LMDE 201109 with updated ISOs for Gnome & Xfce.

This small HOWTO will show you how to set up a small virtual machine to speed up and secure your home / small enterprise web surfing network using CentOS 6, Squid 3.1 and QuintoLabs Content Security 1.4 applications deployed in a VMware Virtual Player running on Windows 7 x64 as a host operating system. This howto is targeted at novice users and may sometimes seem too thorough for more advanced gurus.

How you know you've arrived in the tech world "Is this for real?" the Torvalds of Drupal tweeted this weekend, before continuing: "Dries Buytaert Android App". Yes, Dries, it is real.…

This is a LinuxConfig.org's last post ! Over 4 years I have been working on this project with a single aim and that is to deliver Linux Tutorials and Linux guidance to anyone who possess an Internet connection and thus promoting GNU/Linux as an Operating System of choice. I can say that my effort was quite successful as over this short time LinuxConfig.org served literally millions unique visitors. For this success my big thanks goes to you as a reader for your encouraging comments, to all GNU/Linux developers who made GNU/Linux possible, GNU project, lxer.com and tuxmachines.org.

Today I am happy to let all of our users that have limited or no-internet access machines know that our service pack 2 is ready for download. For those that do not know our service packs allow for a single download upgrade of your Bodhi system from the previous stable release to the current.

A disc burned with NetbootCD allows you to download and run one of several Linux netboot installers, which can install a full GNU/Linux system with only a hard drive and Internet connection.

Last month I alluded to a 40-way graphics card comparison being worked on at Phoronix. This comparison is to extensively compare the performance of the open and closed-source drivers for each graphics card and to comprehensively comment on other areas of the Linux graphics driver support. Not only is the OpenGL performance being evaluated, but the thermal performance, CPU utilization, and power consumption is being looked at too. Being published today to mark the beginning of the Oktoberfest 2011 articles are the ATI/AMD Radeon results. This includes 28 of the 40 graphics cards, with GPUs as old as the Radeon X800XL and as new as the AMD Radeon HD 6950.

It is however with deep regret that I inform you that we can’t give you that… because you see, after 7 days of non-stop development we have reached the conclusion… that we can do better. Therefore, it is with great pleasure (and pride) that I present to you Rocket Launcher, v0.2 (codename: Project 2027).

Yesterday has been released the version 5.0 of Trisquel, an Ubuntu based GNU/Linux Distribution. In what we can now call it a tradition, we celebrate the Software Freedom Day by publishing our latest release: Trisquel GNU/Linux 5.0 STS, codename Dagda.