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Plans for the First Qt Contributors’ Summit Continue

  • Linux Pro Magazine; By Amber Graner (Posted by akgraner on Apr 6, 2011 5:04 PM CST)
  • Groups: Community
The first Qt Contributors’ Summit is scheduled to be held at the ParkInn Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany on June 16-18, 2011.

How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Ubuntu 10.10

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Apr 6, 2011 4:07 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to accept TLS sessions on an Ubuntu 10.10 server.

Linux 2.6.39-rc2 Is Uncommonly Calm

Linus Torvalds describes the just-released Linux 2.6.39-rc2 kernel as being an "uncommonly calm" release and points that may lead it to being a "simple release" if nothing changes...

Nokia admits 'open' Symbian is not open

Open is the new closed. Nokia has admitted that its "open and direct" Symbian source code is not open, proving – once again – that the word has been stripped of all discernible meaning. Late last week, a little over three months after the Symbian Foundation shut down its web servers, Nokia returned the Symbian source code to the web. It announced the move with a blog post entitled "We are open!", and the post was penned by Petra Söderling, the "Head of Open Source" for Symbian smartphones.

Canonical Discontinues ShipIt Program; Approved LoCo Teams Can Still Request CDs

Gerry Carr of Canonical made the announcement on the Canonical Blog yesterday stating, "It’s with some regret that we are announcing the end of the ShipIt Programme and the CD distributor programme."

Firefox 4 review – was it worth the wait?

  • Linux User & Developer magazine; By Dmitri Popov (Posted by russb78 on Apr 6, 2011 1:20 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
After a lengthy public beta period, Mozilla has finally released version 4 of its popular web browser. Linux User kicks Firefox 4’s tyres and peek under the bonnet to find out whether it was worth the wait…

Novell Announces Mono for Android

  • Dr.Dobb's; By Adrian Bridgwater (Posted by bob on Apr 6, 2011 12:39 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Novell
Novell has renewed its efforts in the mobile arena by today announcing the availability of Mono for Android, a set of tools for developing .NET applications for the Android platform using Microsoft Visual Studio. Following the Mono Project's core tenet of making Microsoft .NET applications capable of running cross-platform, Novell says that it is now enabling Visual Studio, .NET, and C# developers to utilize a common code base to create applications for the industry's most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based phones and tablets, Apple iPad, Apple iPod Touch, and Apple iPhone.

Interview: Charles H. Schulz on LibreOffice and The Document Foundation

Charles H. Schulz answers some questions about LibreOffice, the Document Foundation and their present and future.

MeeGo releases pre-alpha tablet platform

  • Linux for Devices (Posted by bob on Apr 6, 2011 11:00 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The MeeGo project released a pre-alpha version of its promised Tablet User Experience (UX), officially opening up development for the UI layer. Based on MeeGo v1.2 core and Linux 2.6.37, the preview version includes a touch-optimized user interface for tablets, as well as a new panel UI concept and a suite of built-in browser, personal information management, and media playback apps....

iOS versus Android Arguments Escalate

  • Internet Evolution; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Apr 6, 2011 10:44 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial
With all the noise about which OS is a better bet for developers, it's hard to know what's right. But be watchful for FUD as you make your decision because there appears to be a lot of it around these days.

GNOME 3.0 Hits Desktops Today

  • Linux Pro Magazine; By Amber Graner (Posted by akgraner on Apr 6, 2011 9:47 AM CST)
  • Groups: Community, GNOME
"In the face of constant change, both in software technology itself and in people's attitudes toward it, long-term software projects need to reinvent themselves in order to stay relevant. I'm encouraged to see the GNOME community taking up this challenge, responding to the evolving needs of users and questioning the status quo," says Matt Zimmerman, Canonical CTO.

The GNOME Desktop Project Unleashes GNOME 3.0

After five years of planning and design, GNOME 3.0 has been officially released.

Canonical Will No Longer Ship Free Ubuntu CDs

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 6, 2011 9:11 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Canonical, through Gerry Carr, announced last evening (April 5th) that it will no longer distribute free CDs with the Ubuntu operating system, via the ShipIt Programme.

Ditching KDE Applications

  • Das U-Blog by Prashanth (Posted by PV on Apr 6, 2011 4:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: GNOME, KDE
I like a lot of KDE applications, but they were starting to slow down on my GNOME system. Plus, Gloobus Preview is awesome.

April 2011 issue of The PCLinuxOS Magazine released

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

for Loop Example

  • BashShell.net; By Mike Weber (Posted by aweber on Apr 6, 2011 2:15 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Using a for loop to examine a series of IP Addresses to use in a firewall script to block Zombie networks.

Introducing Gnome Tweak Tool - GUI To Configure Gnome 3 / Gnome Shell

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Apr 6, 2011 1:18 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNOME
If you've been following the Gnome Shell development, you probably know that it doesn't provide a GUI tool to tweak some basic settings like changing the GTK, Gnome Shell theme or icon theme, re-enable the minimize and maximize buttons, and so on. For this reason, John Stowers has created "Gnome Tweak Tool", a 'power user' application you can use to tweak Gnome 3. But I think this tool will become very popular for any Gnome 3 user and not just power users considering how useful it already is. Read on!

Canonical kills free Ubuntu CD program

Try-before-you-don't-buy moves to cloud Say goodbye to Ubuntu on CD. Canonical is killing the free distribution of its Linux on disc, while ramping up cloud trials for penguin-curious Windows fans.…

Eben Moglen on freedom -- and the lack thereof -- in the cloud

I just listened to this. It's all about rethinking our "relationship" with services such as Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and the like -- and what we can do about it to reclaim our freedom from a technological standpoint.

Android tablets must balance freedom with functionality

Who'd have predicted that overpriced slivers of silicon, covered in oleophobic glass trying its best to repel your sticky fingers, would become the first great technological innovation of the 21st century? Most of us thought this would happen decades ago. We were promised by those mouldy second-hand sci-fi books of our youth, and I've since wasted far too much time and money pretending the time has already come.

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