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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.

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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.

Naming is unusual in SMB/CIFS networks. Although modern clients can use Internet domain names to refer to each other, older clients relied on a Microsoft-specific system known as the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server, or the NetBIOS Name Server (NBNS); the two terms are synonymous. Configuring Samba properly for name resolution is therefore important. So is configuring browsing, which is the mechanism by which servers learn what shares are available on specific servers.

A startup called Upgrade Industries has developed a modular motherboard kit with an open source design that aims to improve upon the Arduino concept. The BoardX kit lacks a processor or any required operating system, but provides a breadboard system for stacking circuit boards, including an available, Arduino-compatible Atmel Atmega AVR module....

I’ve already talked about fail2ban and logcheck, 2 tools that can scan your logs and do actions, based on rules that you can give/modify, usually modify your iptables rules to stop active attacks against your server or simply send you a warning if some thing is found in the logs. Today we’ll see a similar tool, sshguard, it is different from the other two in that it is written in C, so it’s uses less memory and CPU while running, but still achiving the same results.

What hath Alfred E. Neuman wrought? The OpenBSD Foundation has released version 5.0 of the popular operating system and has made it available for download – or for purchase via CD if you want the bonus party pack.…

Canonical added a couple of days ago a selection of games from the MumboJumbo software publisher, available for purchase only via Ubuntu Software Center.

This tutorial is supposed to show you how to install .exe files on your Linux system. I am using Linux Mint 11 as an operating system, however the steps should not differ greatly from other distributions. The software I am going to use as an example will be VLC Player. I am aware that there is a version of VLC for Linux, in some cases even preinstalled, but it serves well for the purpose of guiding through the steps of installation.

In this post you are going to learn how to build a USB Flash Drive that contains a fully automated Debian installation system. At Wallix this installation system is used in addition to our traditional PXE/preseed system to deploy our products Wallix LogBox and Wallix AdminBastion.

# Friendly conference organizer: And I'm glad you flew in 24 hours in advance; it will give you some time to enjoy our city. That is, if you're not too busy doing work.

# Stallman: Please don't try to pressure me to "relax."

Larry the Free Software Guy heard what Mark Shuttleworth had to say at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Orlando recently, and he's right. And he's wrong, not to mention he's off-topic. But that's OK -- those cool Linux power users can give him a pass as soon as he lets them know when Unity will really work.

This week we have for you another interview with a company whose business model is built on top of open source software: Equalis. The open source software in question is Scilab and Dr.Neil Mitchell, COO and Co-founder of Equalis, will be answering our questions.

While KDE 4.0 has been around for nearly four years (and most complaints regarding the initial KDE4 fallout have been addressed) and the last KDE 3.5 stable snapshot (v3.5.10) came three years ago, the Trinity Desktop Environment has issued an official release today to keep the KDE 3.5 desktop living.

Since in our first part of this article we said we expected you, the reader, to have some programming knowledge, in this part we want to help you get a on where C stands in comparison to other programming languages you might know. The choice of those languages was pretty tough because of various criteria, but in the end we stopped at C++, Perl and Python. Since programming languages can be classified in lots of ways (depending on paradigm, syntax or style, for example), we didn't try to find languages that are in the same category as C.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from November 16th - November 18th, 2011.

OpenMAMA is an effort to standardize and simplify the MAMA APIs that have been in use since at least 2002. The basic idea behind have an open source implementation of MAMA is to have a level-set, a baseline implementation that is used to promote interoperability.

Extensions support is one on the most widely appreciated feature of GNOME Shell. In our previous post which listed those stunning GNOME Shell themes, we all saw how difficult it is to do such trivial stuff like installing themes in GNOME Shell. Well, there is a GNOME Shell extension called User-Theme Extension that makes everything about GNOME Shell theming a lot simpler and easier, exactly how it should have been in the first place. Learn how to install GNOME Shell themes the easier way in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Unity looks nice, but who is its audience? It's not great for older hardware. It's too different for enterprise. And experienced Linux users seem turned off by it. What good is an innovative interface if there's no one who wants to use it?

Joy! A new humble bundle is here! Well... This is not a real "bundle", but it's humble for sure! This time, Humble Bundle team has created this package which includes the very first alpha version of a cute platform indie game called "Voxatron". From the site: "Jump into the Voxatron alpha and shoot your way through twenty challenging areas filled with blocky baddies, destructible toys, and palliative powerups."

Sierra Wireless and the Eclipse Foundation announced an Eclipse working group to define an open development standard for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Together with founding members IBM and Eurotech, the M2M Industry Working Group will establish an integrated development environment for M2M networks, as well as a Linux-based, lightweight communications protocol, based in part on Sierra Wireless' Koneki project and the Lua scripting language.