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The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to release Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot). The beta version of the Canonical's free and open source Linux distribution is released now.

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

Following a Digitimes report that Intel is planning to temporarily halt the MeeGo project, Netbooknews.de confirmed the news and claims Samsung is interested in acquiring the open source project. Meanwhile, Samsung's CEO stated that with his company's Bada operating system on the move, it would "never" buy WebOS -- another mobile Linux platform in limbo....

As entities on the Web, we have devolved. Client-server has become calf-cow. The client—that's you—is the calf, and the Web site is the cow. What you get from the cow is milk and cookies. The milk is what you go to the site for. The cookies are what the site gives to you, mostly for its own business purposes, chief among which is tracking you like an animal.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 15 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Zotac announced its smallest ZBox mini-PC yet, featuring a 1.6GHz AMD & Brazos& E-350 processor and integrated home theater PC (HTPC) functionality, including dual IR receivers. The 5.0 x 5.0 x 1.7-inch Zbox Nano AD10 offers a gigabit Ethernet port and four USB ports including two 3.0 ports, and a & Plus& version comes with 2GB of DDR3 memory and 320GB of storage....

Nemesys, a game studio run out of Budapest, is porting their game titles to Linux. The studio's current titles include Fortix 2, A.C.S, and Ignite. Nemesys Ignite, in particular, is a very promising racing game that will surely roar things up for Linux...

For those that missed it, the Linux 3.1-rc5 kernel release has been widely reported as it's being hosted on GitHub. Due to the hacking of Kernel.org and bringing down the infrastructure until all systems are reinstalled, Linus Torvalds decided to move it over to GitHub temporarily...

Ok, Debian Squeeze is out for a while and now it`s time to setup a new FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) install server. In this tutorial, I will describe, how to setup FAI with dhcpd3 or dnsmasq for bootp and DHCP.

We get a lot of questions about Plasma Active, and I'd like to address a few of the more common once in this entry.

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Over the U.S. holiday weekend, Intel quietly released 16 new & Sandy Bridge& processors -- 11 desktop and five mobile models. The CPUs range from a 1.6GHz, single-core Celeron G440 ($37) for low-cost desktops to the 2.7GHz, quad-core Core i7-2960XM ($1,096) for high-end portables....

There are number of interesting use case of git rebase. One of them, is that git rebase cleanly merges the remote branch with local branch. This blog post will try to explain it in more details.

It looks like with Qt 5.0, V8 will become the JavaScript Engine for the Qt tool-kit as well as for Qt Script and Qt Quick.

It's been around awhile...the Learning Perl book I mean. Now in its sixth edition, this O'Reilly classic is still going strong. But first things first. Who is this book for? You don't find out until the first page of Chapter 1, but it's called "Introduction", so I guess that's OK. Is this book for you? Depends.

The stable version of Ubuntu 11.10, code-named Oneiric Ocelot, will be released sometime in late October, but the first beta has just been released on September 1 2011. This article just presents a few screenshots to showcase some of the new aspects of the desktop. In line with recent releases, Oneiric Ocelot does not look like it will come with any new features in the installation program and installation process. But the Software Center looks much different, and better.

...After months of effort, Plasma Active has gone "beta". We're currently a little more than a month away from the first release, and so starting this month we are focusing on polish, integration and fixing defects. So how does it look? Judge for yourself from this quickly-made five-minute video of Plasma Active on an ExoPC device running packages that are just a few days behind our upstream development:...

Get a comprehensive intro to working with Linux through the command console. Ideally suited to serious users of Linux -- including Linux system administrators, developers, and power users -- this knowledge path also prepares you for the Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 certification exam.

Many organizations are navel gazing and assessing ways of increasing productivity and decreasing costs in order to stay afloat in the current business climate. As a company’s IT spend is one of the larger costs of running a business, it makes sense to look closely at how you run your IT shop. Linux may just answer both prayers: offering increased productivity at decreased cost. So why is Linux such a successful solution, which companies have made the switch, and how will the Linux jobs landscape change in the future?

andLinux is a Linux distro with a difference. It’s based on a port of the the Linux kernel to Windows coupled with an X server and other software. In short, it allows you to run Linux software seamlessly on the Windows desktop without recompiling it or using a virtual machine.

Amazon's Android tablet is a seven-inch, Kindle-branded device that will feature a customized operating system and sell for $250, according to a TechCrunch reporter who claims to have spent an hour with the device. In other Android tablet news, Samsung pulled its freshly announced Galaxy Tab 7.7 from the IFA show in Berlin after Apple won a preliminary injunction against the tablet from a German court.