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The user can alter the Bash shell environment by adding functions to their .bash_profile or by editing the global /etc/profile script for all users. This feature provides a great deal of flexibility for the administrator and user.

Cincinnati Bell announced a 4G wireless network touting speeds & twice as fast as other national wireless companies,& as well as a new Android phone to go with it. The Huawei Ascend X 4G includes a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 4.2 inch touchscreen, 512MB of RAM and 2GB of flash storage, GPS, and a five megapixel camera with geotagging, the company says....

In the last years a lot of new software is come for music production on Linux, and LMMS is in this category.

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

It's actually pretty nice, like Facebook but without the stupid privacy issues. That said, since installing the new Google Talk plugin for Linux, I have been having issues.

When you’re choosing a database, you’re making a long-term decision, because changing your mind later is difficult and expensive. You want to get it right the first time. Two popular open source databases, MySQL and PostgreSQL, are often the final two candidates when admins are preparing a new rollout. This high-level overview of these two open source powerhouses should help you choose which is more appropriate for your needs.

The consensus amongst those of us who think it is even possible to build a space elevator is that it will take more than 20 years. But how can you say how long it will take to do something until you specify how many resources it will require and how many people you’ve assigned to the task?

Many people argue that Android has put Linux into the hands of millions of users. While there is no doubting that Android has been a raging success, I would argue that Google has put Android into the hands of millions of people - not Linux. The following are my reasons for claiming such.

From the 'Cloning Takes....Time' files:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) was officially released in November of 2010. Since then, Red Hat has managed to already push out RHEL 6.1 and migrate a decent book of business to their next generation Linux platform.

With the RHEL 6 release now 8 months past, for those that are looking for a free (as in beer) version of RHEL 6, there has been a key choice that has lagged behind. CentOS which is a clone of RHEL, is still pushing out their version of CentOS 6.

As of Friday July 8th, CentOS 6 became available on some of the mirrors, which means full/final release is soon.

IT'S ABOUT TIME.

gDEBugger, a program developed by Graphic Remedy for debugging, profiling, and analyzing OpenGL (and OpenCL) applications, was a very useful tool for graphics developer. gDEBugger worked with GPUs from all major vendors, is capable of locating graphics pipeline performance bottlenecks, allowed dynamically editing GLSL shaders in real-time, and had many other capabilities. This powerful utility was even made free of charge to Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux users. Graphic Remedy was acquired by AMD last month and already the non-Windows users have been shafted with their OS support being dropped.

UCubed, the Ubuntu & Upstream Unconference, is a compact unconference that brings together Ubuntu and Debian users in one place to exchange notes, talk about what they are passionate about and share knowledge and experience. This year's UCubed happened a few months ago at the Madlab in Manchester, and The H decided to look up organiser, Les Pounder, to see how it went and what's next.

If you work with Debian-based systems, you probably know the basics of working with dpkg and APT's tools, but there's much more available. To find out which packages have release-critical bugs, hog the most disk space, or still use older versions of files that have been upgraded, you want Debian Goodies.

SeaMonkey Logo The SeaMonkey Project developers have made version 2.2 of their "all-in-one internet application suite" available to download. SeaMonkey 2.2 is a major update that is based on the same Gecko layout engine as the recent Firefox 5.0 release.

CERN announced version 1.1 of its Open Hardware License (OHL), a legal framework & designed to facilitate knowledge exchange across the electronic design community. The license is intended to become for hardware what the GPL (General Public License) is for software, the organization says.

For an independent game with no storyline, no tutorial, and graphics that make Windows 95 look slick, Minecraft has developed an amazing following. Who could have ever predicted that shuffling virtual cubes around could be so fun and so full of possibilities? And if, somehow, you find yourself running out of ideas for your virtual world, many clever folks have come up with tools to improve, extend, and just plain cheat. While there are dozens of such tools out there, not all of them are Linux friendly. Of those, several seem to do the same job. We decided to run through all the Minecraft utilities for Linux we could get our hands on, several from each category, to find out what works and what’s better left to the Creepers.

Linux is popular in cloud computing infrastructure largely thanks to its flexibility and source code availability for customization and fine-tuning. Similarly, the open source OS is used by supercomputer system engineers as a resource that can be expanded or stripped down like no other option.

Have you ever been busy at work and missed calls and messages on your Android phone? If so you have your problems solved. In this post I have reviewed 3 apps that will enable you to remotely access your Android phone right from your desktop browser!

Open source software is used extensively by CERN, the particle physics lab behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments. In fact, the organization even maintains its very own Linux distribution—based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux—called Scientific Linux CERN. Inspired by the productivity of Linux development, a group of CERN engineers have decided to bring the advantages of the open source software development model to the world of hardware.

MSI announced what it says is the world's first motherboard to offer PCI Express 3.0 expansion, for bandwidth up to 32GB/sec. The & Z68A-GD80& accepts & Sandy Bridge& Core processors, has seven expansion slots, includes 6Gb/sec. SATA and USB 3.0, and sports a BIOS that has a graphical user interface and supports 3TB drives, the company says....

Gradually all the data from our desktops is moving into the cloud on the web. We seek to accomplish most of our day-to-day jobs (and rather trivial jobs) from preparation of document, presentations and spreadsheets to computation, media conversion, minor photo editing etc. via web-apps. As the web becomes the center of our daily computing, web-browsers turn out to be all the more important.

Google’s New Facebook Alternative Sparks Personal Data Liberation War. Along with the latest news on the matter, you’ll find a hot-off-the-press step-by-step guide to extracting your friends’ information from Facebook using Open-Xchange. Now, get out there and enjoy this new found liberation. And by all means, go forth and enjoy YOUR data.