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If you use Amarok and have a large music collection have you ever thought about using a database to manage your collection? This article will describe how to configure MySQL and Amarok to allow for the integration of one of the world's most popular databases to one of Linux's most popular media players.Works on any Linux Distro! This article covers Debian & Ubuntu, Fedora and ArchLinux.

More info on the Postal 3 game for Linux for you lovely lxer readers.

For the first time ever, the Southern California Linux Expo will host the SCALE Kids Conference, a free and open source event where the community leaders of tomorrow will be able to spotlight their talents and ideas.

We often see Android devices being used as a music player. Android has a fairly capable stock audio player. However, that player has a number of deficiencies. For example the lack of gapless playback is a showstopper for anyone who likes to listen to classical music.

Owen Taylor announced earlier today, October 18th the immediate availability for download and upgrade of the GNOME Shell 3.2.1 user interface for the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

Free Game Alliance is a collection five free and open source games spread across a variety of genres. All these games are cross platform and works on Linux, Mac and Windows. FGA aims to support these projects and increase awareness about them, so more developers and contributors can join them and collaborate. FGA is open to new open source games and may add more projects in future.

Take your PC back to 1985 with a cool selection of tools and tricks that build a fully functioning desktop computer on the console!

What does the future hold for eager, talented software developers, and people with related essential skill sets? The overriding trend, as in all industries, is you're on your own, chum. But free/open source software (FOSS) offers considerably more richness of opportunity than anything else. Let's peer into the crystal ball and see what the future holds.

For those interested in Linux KVM virtualization, Red Hat has published the videos from this year's KVM Forum conference...

A big definitive NO should be the answer. But I found this strange new bug with the two brand new Ubuntu 11.10 installations of mine. When I tried to change the default application for AVI files from Totem to SMPlayer, an error came up with the warning that says, "Error while setting "SMPlayer" as default application: Can't create user application configuration folder /home/manu/.local/share/applications: Not a directory".

Now that Ubuntu 11.10 was released, we are proud to announced today, Octomber 18th, the immediate availability for download of a new Linux operating system based on the newly released Ubuntu 11.10 distribution.

The Puppy Linux project announced version 5.2 of the Puppy Linux distro, codename Wary. Puppy Linux is available as an 123 MB ISO image & can load entirely into RAM for faster performance, according to the project.

In this post you will see how to restrict commands executed on a remote server accessed via ssh for a particular user. You can have multiple reasons to do this..

PC makers are being lobbied to install Windows 8 on machines in a way that will afford users the freedom to boot Linux or any other operating system. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is urging PC users to sign a statement demanding that OEMs which implement Windows 8's UEFI Secure Boot do so in a way that allows individuals to disable it, or that the PC makers provide a "sure-fire way" to install and run an operating system of the user's choice.

Nautilus Terminal - a Nautilus extension that embeds the terminal into the Nautilus window -, finally works with Nautilus 3.

ABLEconf is soliciting proposals for the March, 24th 2012 conference in Tempe, Arizona.

This year, in addition to presentations, ABLEconf is also seeking tutorials, panel discussions and hackfests.

ABLEconf: Free Software for Free Enterprise

While there's many ongoing improvements for Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics and the next-generation Ivy Bridge graphics within the Linux kernel, Mesa, and xf86-video-intel (namely the SNA acceleration for the DDX), here's some benchmarks from two older Intel systems using the latest Linux 3.1 kernel to see if there are any improvements there.

A full review of Ubuntu 11.10, including a gallery of images.

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

In a large organization, no single IT staffer will be able to observe all the millions of system events and glean from them a pattern worth paying attention to. It's a problem with the level of knowledge decreasing in proportion to the rising amount of data.