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LXer Feature: 05-Dec-2011

In the LXWR this week we have the news of a secret application on millions of smart phones that logs everything you do, Cloud predictions for 2012, Continued debate over Distrowatch rankings, R.C. Harner responds to Lisa Hann's "Disadvantages of Using Linux." article and Linus says he is actually starting to like Gnome 3. Enjoy!

Looking for a few good engineers Social media giant Facebook is not just coming to New York to raise $10bn in its initial public offering on Wall Street. The company is also coming to the Big Apple to do a little coding.…

LibrePlan is free and open-source advanced web application for projects planning, managing resources, monitoring projects progress, tracking progress with advanced reports and even more. LibrePlan formerly known as NavalPlan for the earlier releases.

This tutorial shows you how to configure Thunderbird in order to send and receive mails of Gmail account .

We had informed you about the imminent arrival of award winning World of Goo puzzle game for Android based smartphones and tablets few weeks back. Now it's here and it is already getting some rave reviews from users and reviewers alike.

The Internet is a great place to scratch the itch of curiosity. I’d heard some interesting things about Arch Linux so I Googled it. I wanted to know what the Distro was all about and a bit of it’s history.

I accidentally discovered The GNU/Linux Distribution Timeline which informed me where Arch Linux was derived from (Crux) and what had branched off from it (7 current branches)

It charted the Galaxy of GNU/Linux Distributions. Organized the mess that Linux Distros have become into an understandable chart. A huge svg graphic measuring 2,120 x 8,330 pixels

A chart that is very detailed. Remember that Distro of Linux meant to be a replacement for Windows, “Lindows”, that first appeared in 2001? It had it’s security dumbed down to about the Windows 95 level.

A couple of months ago, Mark Shuttleworth, Ubuntu’s benevolent dictator, announced on his blog that by 14.04 (April 2014), he plans to bring Ubuntu to tablets, mobiles, and TVs. The announcement was met with surprise, shock, and some criticism. However, before Ubuntu takes its first steps into the world of mobiles, tablets and TVs, it can learn a lot from the mistakes of its soon-to-be competitor, Android.

Patch StarTopia to the 1.0.2 version to avoid the using of a noCD patch!

Carrier IQ: A widespread rootkit tracking everything on your mobile phone from location to web searches and text messages. How to detect it and remove it from your Android phone and iOS device.

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz on a Xubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce 8200 here). Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment which is a fast and stable alternative for those that are not happy with Unity or Gnome 3. With Compiz you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

Gnome team has triggered a new wave of excitement around Gnome 3 Shell with the extensions website. Even Linux Torvalds now find Gnome 3 to be more usable. That leaves Ubuntu users behind who are stuck with Unity which has not seen any customization at all.

Popular Linux game SpaceChem is now free for Schools encouraging use of games for educational purposes. Interested schools can now request free license of the game before the end of January 2012. SpaceChem is an intriguing, "problem-solving centric" puzzle game by Zachtronics Industries that combines the logic of computer programming with the scientific domain of chemistry, set in an original science fiction universe. Players build machines using mechanics similar to visual programming that assemble and transform chemical compounds. Players later connect those machines together to form complex pipelines, and ultimately construct special pipelines to fight back against space-monsters that threaten humanity

A year ago, thousands of you followed the cyber security adventures of Frank Adversego through to their surprising, cliff-hanger conclusion. As an election year approaches in the U.S., there's new evil afoot, and only Frank can get to the bottom of it.

Wnotes allow you to stick Post-It (tm) type notes nearly anywhere on your Linux desktop portably, using your existing desktop configuration. They're simple to install and use, and designed to co-exist with as many graphical programs as possible, even other note programs.

The older way of doing this, with gconftool-2 doesn’t seem to work anymore in GNOME 3, however, there is still possible to change the background image, by using the gsettings tool instead.

It's been awhile since I've sunk my teeth into a good book review so I'm finally glad to get my appetite back and start consuming Trevor Burnham's "CoffeeScript: Accelerated JavaScript Development" book. I'm actually just as interested in trying out CoffeeScript itself as in having a look at what the book has to offer. Well then, let's get started.

fpmurphy has create a Gnome 3 extension called Auto Hide Top Panel (uploaded to Gnome Extensions by erguille), which hides the top panel and give you full screen - it not only saves time but also removes distracting elements. When you take the mouse on the top, the panel will appear. Since all the menus remain with the respective windows (unlike Unity's global menu) there is no productivity loss.

Canonical announced yesterday, December 2nd, that several more security vulnerabilities were discovered in the Linux kernel packages, this time affecting the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system.

Over the last four years or so, I have attended numerous conferences in many different locations. It has been, really without any exceptions, an incredible experience. Conferences are one of the main ways that our communities come together and meet face-to-face—something that's important to counterbalance the standard email and IRC development environment. In that time, I have also seen many different ways to organize, schedule, and produce those conferences, and, as is the case with free software projects, there are bits and pieces that conferences can learn from each other. What follows is my—fairly opinionated obviously—distillation of what works well and less well, which will hopefully be useful as new conferences spring up, or as existing ones plan for next year.

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