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User management is one area that received slight modifications in Ubuntu Desktop 11.10, the latest stable release of the popular Linux distribution. This short tutorial presents some information about the guest session, what you can do about it -if you can do anything at all without messing up your system, and how to create a regular user account.

First footage of a new game Tomes of Mephistopheles. Alex from Kot-in-Action sent me a video on the first proper footage of their new game!

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot final release happened sometime ago. I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 as my default netbook OS ever since Oneiric Alpha 2 was released. So it's not like I am installing Ubuntu 11.10 just for the sake of reviewing it. Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has been the OS of choice in my netbook for sometime now.

The big news in openSUSE 12.1, whose first beta has recently dropped, is the arrival of GNOME 3 – in this case GNOME 3.2. Unlike Fedora, which is already into its second GNOME 3-based release, openSUSE had – thanks to its release schedule – stuck with GNOME 2 for its last release earlier this year. OpenSUSE 12.1 embraces GNOME 3.2 and, like Fedora 16, drops support for the GNOME 2.x line.

Edward Shishkin, the lone developer that took over development of the Reiser4 file-system following the conviction of Hans Reiser, has shared a new update with Phoronix regarding the efforts towards pushing Reiser4 into the mainline Linux kernel. Reiser4 has been in development going back to 2004 and had a promising future until the conviction of Hans Reiser and demise of his Namesys company following the murder of Reiser's wife, but since then it's development has been stagnate. In late 2009 I was told by Edward Shishkin that Reiser4 may go for mainline inclusion in 2010. Before pushing again for mainline integration he wanted to publish an article in a scholarly magazine regarding Reiser4's design in order to facilitate some independent expert review.

Microsoft has already scored two big time Android IP licensing deals, one with HTC and the other more recently with Samsung. The boys in Redmond have now secured one more epic deal, this time with Taiwan’s Quanta Computer Inc. Wait, who? You might not recognize Quanta — they’re not exactly a household name, after all. But they are a Taiwanese OEM that produces tablets, laptops, and other electronic gadgets for names you do know — folks like RIM, for whom Quanta designed and built the BlackBerry PlayBook. Starting to put the pieces together?

After 3 weeks, we have the semblance of a Development Team for an application that will help autistic kids learn how to use a mouse.

The SquirrelMail package from the Debian/Ubuntu repositories comes with a configuration file for Apache, but not for nginx. This tutorial shows how you can use the Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04 SquirrelMail package in an nginx vhost. Nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

LXer Feature: 17-Oct-2011

Welcome to this week's collection of big stories from the LXer Newswire. Enjoy!

Friday's filings indicate a couple of things. First, it is becoming increasingly clear that Judge Alsup does not expect this trial to start on schedule, and second, he is going to give latitude in hearing disputes outside of trial to try to reduce the number of issues to be handled at trial. Consequently, while Oracle filed objections to allowing motions on patent marking and striking of portions of Dr. Serwin's rebuttal report, Judge Alsup is allowing both of those motions to proceed along with Oracle's requested motion to strike portions of the Cox/Leonard reports.

I guess many old school admins reading this will "crucify" me for trying to say that there is another process scheduling system besides cron. While cron does its' job and does it well, other more recent systems offer new capabilities that might help the administrator one way or the other. One example is lance, a young project written in Python which offers, among others, remote task administration and web-based control. Since the project is sometimes a little rough around the edges, don't start replacing cron tasks just yet.

A quick method to access your favorite websites and RSS feed posts through Google Readers indicator on Ubuntu 11.10 Unity Panel.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

ModSecurity is sophisticated application firewall that monitors the content of ports 80 and 443. ModSecurity can protect you from hack attacks, zero day exploits, directory traversals, SQL injection and a lot of other bad stuff. This script will help you locate the blocks that ModSecurity is performing for you so you can evaluate.

I’ve just built locally and uploaded to Launchpad Libvirt 0.9.6 via Debian Unstable, applying standard set of Ubuntu’s patches updated for 0.9.6. It allows follow http://planet.spice-space.org/ update VM’s XML profile under /etc/libvirt/qemu/ as suggested in second blog entry of Hans de Goede manage VMs via virsh or VirtManager having USB redirection support active in Spicy’s sessions. View for further details my previous posting to LXer

As an Ubuntu 11.04 user, Ubuntu 11.10 came knocking at my doorstep a few days ago. But the upgrade process wasn't the smoothest of operations. In this article, I've mentioned a few thoughts about switching to the new system.

An October 5 press release from The Document Foundation provides a bit of information about a vulnerability that was fixed in recent versions of LibreOffice (LO). The vulnerability sounds fairly serious: "This flaw could have been used for nefarious purposes, such as installing viruses, through a specially-crafted [.doc] file." It was evidently fixed, silently, in versions 3.4.3 and 3.3.4 of LO, which were released in August. The details (such as they are) were withheld "until users have been given time to migrate to the new version", but it isn't at all clear that Linux distributions have put out fixes yet. Worse still, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is vulnerable as well, but there has been no release from that project since January.

Installation problems with some key packages makes me not recommend that newbies install and use it regularly, but it's officially a pretty awesome live distribution again.

A mild rant on Microsoft Hotmail's odd "sweep" feature. A Microsoft employee responds in the comments section, and gets into a short conversation.

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has been released now. Here is a list of things you should immediately do after a fresh installation.