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Oracle is seeking "billions of dollars" in damages from Google with its sweeping copyright and patent infringement lawsuit over the use of Java on Android. According to an Oracle court filing released on Thursday, Google attempted to hide the scope of Oracle's damages claims and other related information from public view. But Larry Ellison and company want this out in the open. "Oracle’s damages claims in this case are in the billions of dollars,” the Oracle filing reads, and these claims, it says, are "based on both accepted methodology and a wealth of concrete evidence.”

First of all I’d like to thank TuxArena’s readers for giving good feedback in the first part of this series, which overviews 15 of the tools I consider particularly useful in a console. This article overviews 10 more such tools, and most of them were suggested by you. Screenshots included.

Microsoft seems to have a tough ride ahead, they seem to have lost the patent case for its Office suite. Now open source tools from Open Office.Org and LibreOffice Suites are competing aggressively with MS Office for market share. The main reason is the Open Source tag associated with the first two choices. It is inexpensive and enjoys backing from a large community of developers. Today let us take a look at the latest release from the LibreOffice Suite- the LibreOffice 3.4.

On my site I had a small problems with feeds, I’ve them managed with feedburner and I have one feed for every language, so you can choose to have the feeds in English or in Italian. The problem is that I would like that when a user types http://linuxaria.com/feed it land on my feedburner page for English while typing http://linuxaria.com/feed?lang=it, should land on the Italian feed page. I’ve tried with the wordpress plugin for feedburner, but that it’s good only if you have 1 feed, because it blindly redirect everything to 1 feedburner address, so it’s not a good solution for my 2 bilingual feeds. And so I’ve done it with a rewrite in Nginx.

Gnome 3 includes support for themes, but does not include a convenient way to select them. The Gnome Shell Theme Selector Extension by Finnbarr P. Murphy provides a simple way to change themes from the Activities screen.

BoxeeBoxTips has announce its second "Win a Boxee Box" contest. Everyone who visits the site by July 31 and rates tips there is entered into a sweepstakes-style drawing for a D-Link Boxee Box. Time to cut the cable...

Hardware compatibility, ease of use, the size of a software repository. These three attributes are unique to each Linux distribution. But at the same time, each Linux distribution is at liberty to take and mix whatever it wants from any other. This creates a rather unique situation, where good ideas quickly spread, and bad ones fail. And as a result, there are dozens of distribution updates each month, hundreds each year, in a race to leap-frog each other in the race to the top of the DistroWatch.com charts.

Cybernet announced a "zero footprint" computer built into a keyboard, featuring a dual-core Atom processor and a multi-touch trackpad. The Linux-ready ZPC-D45 is under one inch thick, but it provides features such as a CD/DVD drive, both VGA and HDMI outputs, stereo speakers, and dual Mini PCI Express slots, the company says....

What's better, a graphical interface or the Linux command line? Both of them. They blend seamlessly on Linux so you don't have to choose. A good graphical user interface (GUI) has a logical, orderly flow, helps guide you to making the right command choices, and is reasonably fast and efficient. Since this describes a minority of all GUIs, I still live on the command line a lot. The CLI has three advantages: it's faster for many operations, it's scriptable, and it is many times more flexible. Linux's Unix heritage means you can string together commands in endless ways so they do exactly what you want.

Good documentation matters...

In the end, I chose to do what most people suggested: I'm sticking with what I know works, and that is Linux Mint 9 LTS "Isadora" GNOME.

Here it is time for a new q4wine release tagged by the 0.121 version.

Check out Fedora's respins including Fedora Games, Fedora Design-suite, Fedora Electronic Lab, Fedora Security Lab and the LXDE/XFCE/KDE versions of Fedora.

TermKit by Steven Wittens is a refreshingly beautiful graphic replacement for terminal. If you are wondering, TermKit is not a flashy GUI for Terminal, instead its very much a command line based system made on top of WebKit, the rendering engine used in web browsers like Google Chrome and Chromium. TermKit has been originally designed for Mac OSX, but there is a TermKit fork which you can install and experience in Ubuntu right now! Read on.

We already know that Ubuntu Server developers are heavily invested in the cloud, a focus that continues during the current development cycle. But that’s not all to expect next fall: Ubuntu Server will also add support for ARM architectures. Here’s a look at exactly what to expect.

Yesterday we delivered the news that PathScale was open-sourcing their high-performance EKOPath compiler suite, which in previous days was talked about on Phoronix under the Dirndl codename when showing how fast this compiler was in relation to GCC. The community indeed is excited for EKOPath now being open-source (GPLv3) and in the Phoronix Forums are currently 15+ pages of comments. In this news posting are some more EKOPath details from the forums and some of what Christopher Bergström, PathScale's CTO, has relayed in our community portal.

Canonical's role in the effort arises from the fact that Calxeda has selected Ubuntu as the official OS for its 120-node, 2U server box. Each of the Calxeda server nodes contains a single quad-core ARM chip, a bit of memory, and some interconnect hardware that, all told, consumes about 5 watts. Calxeda can cram 120 (480 cores worth) of these into a single 2U rackmount server chassis, which makes for an incredibly dense cluster of cloud compute resources.

An industry group has formed to try to establish a common set of standards on which companies can judge cloud purchases. It's a worthy goal, but getting cloud vendors on board might help.

Helena the 3rd is an action platforming game available on Linux and Windows. Helena uses varying viewpoints within the game e.g. 3d, fps, 3rd person and 2d. You take control of an upgradeable hi-tech tank, Helena the 3rd travelling over rough terrain and battling hostile enemies. You will need to leave your tank to access areas Helena can't reach in search of upgrades and other treasures needed to progress further into the game.

Has it really been twenty years? Yes, yes, it has been twenty years since Linus Torvalds announced that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” Twenty years of Linux later, The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating Linux’s growth, has announced the program for this year’s LinuxCon North America taking place in Vancouver, B.C. August 17-19, 2011.