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Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) is taking place these days (October 31st - November 4th) in Orlando, Florida, USA.

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement.

AV Linux is perhaps the most complete multimedia distribution on the market. It comes with everything you could possibly need to edit multimedia, and even includes programming utilities, graphic utilities, and office software.

What makes a great open source project? Well, first off you have to have an idea. Then you need to execute said idea. Oh and of course - Team work.

HP launched its Redstone server range using low-power processors from both Intel and ARM vendor Calxeda. HP claims Redstone servers are designed for testing and proof-of-concept, presumably the concept that it can produce ARM-based servers.

I was a huge ubuntu fan. They got it *right* for a few years there, from 9.10 through 10.10 which I currently run on my netbook and desktops. My son's machine is still on 10.04, and now I have a problem. It seems they just decided that 10.04 is reaching end of life and now I can't perform updates on his machine. Further, the option to easily upgrade to 10.10 is no longer available in the update manager, they want us all to move to 11.10.

One of the most hyped features of recently launched iPhone 4S was Siri, the new voice assistant application for iPhone. I don't own an iPhone 4S and hence I can't comment on how good Siri works. But upon searching a bit, I found out that there are quite a few good Siri alternatives for Android readily available in the Android Market and most of them are free too. Here is quick collection of top free Siri alternatives for Android.

All Media Online (Amo) has recently released the Android market’s first app exclusively devoted to streaming multimedia to Android smartphones and tablets via Navi-X, an extensive, open source, community supported, media indexing web-service.

New research shows that apps are gaining in popularity, and if you want to attract younger workers and customers, you need to start developing now.

The Bash shell provides a builtin command that allows you to test the exit status of a command to determine if the command was successful or not. The test command provides a way to make decisions about what will happen next in a script.

The Ubuntu Developer Summit has started this week and there were two very interesting sessions today: GNOME version and default applications in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin.

Harald Hoyer and Kay Sievers, two Red Hat developers, made an announced their attempt to simplify the Linux filesystem, to clean up the "mess" created when the /bin and /sbin directories were separated.

Fedora Linux is always pushing the bleeding edge, and has evolved into a versatile, flexible distro with something for everyone, for little old ladies with netbooks to students to powerhouse enterprises. Fedora 16, Verne, is due to be released November 8, 2011, so let's take a sneak peek at what's inside.

Microsoft engineers have done what would have been unthinkable a few years ago - made a code contribution to Samba under the terms of the GPL.

I’ve been with Sabayon Linux for over a week now and it has already made it to my top Linux distribution list. Its speed and convenience is unparalleled by most of the mainstream Linux distributions. And besides Gentoo I have never seen a Linux distribution with such a large and complete collection of software in its repositories. But enough of my ranting and raving; let’s get on to the reasons why I love this Linux distribution more than the rest:

After yesterday's announcement of HP's Project Moonshot, a programme that will accelerate the use of ARM low-power CPUs in data centers, Canonical also announced today that it will be involved in the Moonshot project.

This post is sample of utilizing optimized paravirtualized PVHVM drivers (also called PV-on-HVM drivers) with Xen fully virtualized HVM guests running Ubuntu 3.1 kernels at Xen 4.1.2 Dom0. Xen PVHVM drivers completely bypass the Qemu emulation and provide much faster disk- and network IO performance. First thing I had to do it was rebuild the recent Ubuntu kernel for precise - Ubuntu-3.1.0-3

There are times when I think that there is a special, darkened room at Microsoft peopled by a bunch of guys who seem to have nothing better to do than sit and think up some new wheeze to nobble the opposition. The rap sheet is an inditment in itself: trusted computing, internet driving licenses, DRM, bullying hardware vendors and attempting to strong arm sovereign nation states. You wouldn’t think the list could get any bigger. It just has; but then, recidivism in incurable. It may not, as has often proved in the past, come to anything but if it does it would be problematical for GNU/Linux.

Read the article at Free Software Magazine.

We all know about the overwhelming supremacy of proprietary software in the desktop market. But not everybody knows that some steps have been taken to try to limit it, in favour of a more fair competition among vendors, and between the proprietary and free software worlds. A key player in assuring that the markets are not artificially biased is the European Commission for Competition. In this article, I review the cases it brought against Microsoft Corporation, with particular attention to the one concerning the bundling of the Internet Explorer web browser to the Windows operating system.

Read the article at Free Software Magazine.

id Software has always been Linux friendly with most of its games having native Linux versions (Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake etc.). With source code release of Doom 3, community will now have access to the sophisticated ID Tech 4 Engine which can lead to some awesome user created mods and other goodies in future.