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The final part of our installation jigsaw puzzle is to create the answer file, in SUSE this is known as AutoYaST. If we were only ever to install one server or one desktop then maybe we could do without answer files; however where we need to install a few or many then AutoYaST provides us with an unattended installation:- a build script to create consistency and compliance we regulatory bodies governing security. In short we need answer files.

The Wine development release 1.3.34 is now available.

Pointing and clicking is fine for most day-to-day computing tasks, but to really take advantage of the strengths of Linux over other environments, you eventually need to crack the shell and enter the command line. Lots of command shells are available, from Bash and Korn to C shell and various exotic and strange shells. Learn which shell is right for you.

A list of games from great studios that proves that gaming on Linux is not dead! In fact, it's far from it.

Outerra 3D Plenatary Engine is capable of seamlessly rendering full 3D world right from Planets in the space to surface down at the earth. You will be able to go on a Himalayas Trip or can fly an Apache Helicopter over the terrain. The 3D graphics are very realistic and high quality. Outerra Engine uses open source technologies including OpenGL and OpenAL. It will be made available to Linux users in the future.

What's 338 days late between friends? Last year Hexxeh promised ChromiumOS Lime builds "within the next two weeks." Unfortunately, the schedule slipped just a little, and Lime builds didn't come out until December 2nd. Better late than never, though.

Continuing on with this project it became necessary to look a little deeper on how apt based software repositories handle version numbers. At first I thought this was the silliest overly complicated mess I could imaging. For instance, how does one compare package versions that look like this ’2:1.0~rc3++svn20100804-0.2squeeze1? with versions that look like this ’2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1? to determine which is newer? Luckily this is actually well documented, makes perfect sense when you stop to think about it, and (through the power of open source) easy to accomplish programatically.

With the first Alpha of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS unleashed to testers worldwide, Canonical decided to change the official release schedule for the upcoming Precise Pangolin distribution and remove the Release Candidate version!

A packet filtering firewall, designed to regulate incoming and outgoing packets from a network or an operating system, is akin to security personnel guarding the entrance to a commercial or residential property. Such a system has very little authority, unless given additional powers, in what applications inside the operating system or network are able to do. That is where an application “firewall” comes into play. It is designed to ensure that applications in an operating system (or in some instances, a network) adhere to access control rules that govern their “activities.”

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2011 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

The Kindle Fire is nice device for $200, but just because it shares the broad tablet category with the iPad doesn't make it an iPad substitute anymore than driving a Honda Fit would be an Audi A4 substitute.

Although it’s not without passionate supporters, Unity, Ubuntu 11.10?s new default user interface, has generated lots of controversy and consternation among faithful Ubuntu users. For those who prefer a traditional Gnome desktop, this post provides a straightforward method of setting up and configuring a Gnome Shell-based Ubuntu 11.10 Linux desktop.

On the Linux Planet, success begets more success. Linux revenue continues to rise, which continues to fuel more demand for Linux and more development. This past week, the first alpha release of Ubuntu 12.04 debuted, and GNOME developers came to the conclusion that every detail matters.

We all know the procedure for taking the screenshots of the computer screen in the form of images, but what if we have to make the video recording of all that appears on the computer screen?

Finally! Ultimate Edition 3.0 is here, officially released today, December 6th, and based on the Linux Mint 11 (Katya) and Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating systems.

After being based on the Ubuntu distribution for so many years, Ultimate Edition has finally switched tables and it is now built from the Linux Mint 11 (Katya) operating system, which itself is based on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narhwal).

While I am a little late with this news (real life issues) CoreBreach a futuristic racer (think Wipeout) has been updated for cross platform play for Linux and will soon be coming to Desura as well.

The last time I followed a distribution’s suggestion to remove some packages that were no longer needed, I completely hosed the system. Could not use it afterwards. Though the machine was a test machine, the experience thought me to always let sleeping dogs lie.

Turns out spammers behave a lot like deadly virus... Researchers at Microsoft have discovered that tools first developed to fight email spam can be applied in helping to understand how the process by which HIV mutates to avoid attack by the immune system.…

The 2011Q4 Linux graphics driver package has been released...