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My son was watching TV the other day and he shouted through to me to come and look at something.

"Isn't that the Linux penguin," he said, and sure enough, there he was, bold as brass on a Kellogs Froot Loops commercial.

Panasonic unveiled a rugged, 10.1-inch Android 3.2 tablet for the enterprise market with extended temperature, drop, and ingress resistance. The Toughpad FZ-A1 is equipped with a dual-core 1.2GHz Marvell processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, a full range of wireless features, a security co-processor, and an anti-glare, 500-nit display with 1024 x 768 pixels and an active digitizing pen....

Hang on, lads, I've got a great idea Open ... And Shut Cloud computing may be the future, but it appears to be one fraught with unpredictable downtime and security breaches. In other words, it's very much like the bad ol' days of corporate data centres, except that this time Amazon, Salesforce and other cloud providers get the blame when things go wrong - rather than one's local IT folks.…

For people who prefer the KDE 3.5-style desktop, a new version of the Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) has been released. Trinity is a continuation of the KDE 3.5 Desktop Environment with ongoing updates and new features. Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13 source code and packages for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora are available. The upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release will even feature the Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13 as part of their release. Read on for an overview of what is new in Trinity 3.5.13! read more

Fedora 16, dubbed Verne, has been released earlier today, as expected by all its fans on November 8th, bringing lots of cool stuff and new artwork.

It appears that Mark Shuttleworth, father of the Ubuntu project, gave an interview to Amber Graner, an Ubuntu contributor involved in the community since February 2009.

If it seemed like the Internet was slow or broken on Monday, it wasn't your imagination. It really was.

As of yesterday, November 7th, Ubuntu has a Google+ Page for its fans around the world, where they can find interesting information, video interviews, and news about Ubuntu.

Here you can get the tutorial of how to install Bodhi Linux which is based on Enlightenment desktop manager. This article give you the clear idea about the installation with all the screenshots.

CrunchBang Linux is a power-user oriented, minimalistic distribution focused on clear, simple elegance of the Openbox desktop, with a low memory footprint, a robust behavior, and a spartan set of programs. Not one to fawn over you, it's the other way around, although, based on the facts and figures, it should not be too difficult to setup.

Yesterday we published about Linux Mint's secret project for Gnome users and Clem's claims that soon they will overtake Ubuntu. Seems like he spoke too late. Today Linux Mint has broken the 6 year old record and replaced Ubuntu as the most popular Linux-based distribution on Distro Watch. Linux Mint sits on top with 2199 and Ubuntu slides to the second spot with 2011 rating.

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) has more menu styles than any other desktop environment available. There is the Classical type, the Kickoff style (which most users dislike), Lancelot (better than Kickoff, but with a few shortcomings), the ROSA Launcher (for Mandriva Desktop 2011), and the Takeoff Launcher. I have already written about the Lancelot menu and the ROSA Launcher. In this article, you will get to see screenshots of Takeoff Launcher, which I regard as the best of all five menu styles.

This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.

After years of holding the top spot on the Linux desktop leaderboard it looks as if Ubuntu is starting to slip.

Finally! Softpedia is proud to announce that the highly anticipated Fedora 16 (Verne) Linux operating system has been released on the official torrent channels of the Fedora Project.

Long time Ubuntu users have been complaining loudly about Unity's lack of stability, limited options and an overall unfinished feel. Distros that have watched Ubuntu gobbling up the Linux mind-share are suddenly getting a second look by unhappy Ubuntu users seeking alternatives to Unity.

Many Linux mail servers use clamav to scan for viruses. This application is dependable and has a history of updating virus rules quickly as new viruses are discovered.

The second milestone release for Phoronix Test Suite 3.6 (codenamed "Arendal") is now available. There's improvements to the Phoronix Test Suite core itself along with the Phodevi library and graphing components...

Lisa goes both ways, with shell to ease transition The forthcoming release of Linux Mint will see it shift to the Gnome 3 desktop for the first time, but it will continue to support Gnome 2 users with a separate root, and has a shell to ease the transition between the platforms.…

It will be four to six months before Android 4.0 (& Ice Cream Sandwich& ) is widely available on handsets, a Motorola Mobility executive has warned. Motorola does not even have the operating system's source code yet, Ruth Hennigar, the company's vice president of software product management, reportedly added....