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So Midori is going full speed ahead, we support the new libSoup cache now (WebKitGTK+ 1.3.11 or greater required), private browsing has received a number of improvements and lastly some fixes with the User Agent now resolves typical issues with popular websites.

I didn't just upgrade my Mozilla-made mail program (call it Icedove if you wish, or Thunderbird) because I wanted a higher version number — or any other feature except for one.

Shipping in 3 flavors the Trim-Slice sports a dual core Nvidia Tegra 2 A9 processor clocked at 1GHz, 1GB ram/mem, HDMI and lots more. And it ships with end-users' favorite operating system--Ubuntu 10.10 but supports others as well with the Trim-Splice being supported by the mainline kernel starting from 2.26.39. . .

burg is a brand-new boot loader based on GRUB. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS, including Linux/Windows/OSX/Solaris/FreeBSD, etc. It also has a highly configurable menu system which works in both text and graphic mode. In this post we will show you how to install Burg in Ubuntu 11.04 natty Narhwal.

The Nagios World Conference™ will be held on May 12th at Bolzano/Italy and is organized by wuerth-phoenix.

The agenda seem is interesting and there is the participation of namable speakers such as Nagios founder Ethan Galstad, Nagios Plugin coordinator Ton Voon or the NS Client creator Michael Medin. Moreover, there will be presentations of the new OTRS version and the interaction of OSS monitoring solutions such us Nagios with the integrated CMDB and the Change Management workflow engine.

Finally ntop's Luca Deri will take an introduction on application latency monitoring using nProbe via NetFlow.

Sandia National Laboratories is demonstrating its latest mini supercomputer at ESC Silicon Valley this week, incorporating 196 TI OMAP3530-based Overo Tide modules running Linux. Being used for botnet research as part of Sandia's MegaTux project, the StrongBox product combines 28 Gumstix Stagecoach boards, each with seven Gumstix Overo Tide computer modules....

German insurance company LVM has switched 10,000 laptop and desktop machines over to Ubuntu Linux with the help of Ubuntu creator Canonical (announcement). Some early reports on the net have hailed this as a victory for Linux, but it seems like the company was already a mixed shop of Windows and Linux machines with a long history of reliance on open source software.

Ubuntu is a popular Linux-based distro but, like everything in life, it isn't perfect. There's plenty that could be improved, both in terms of software and the way it goes about doing things. Here's what we think would improve it.

Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal is released finally and it is getting some rave reviews from around the web. Eager to buy a laptop or a netbook pre-installed with Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal? Here is a quick list of Ubuntu 11.04 pre-installed laptops and netbooks from prominent manufacturers.

While I tend to push back against the easy negative responses to each and every cloud disaster, when Amazon reported some customers experienced unrecoverable data loss last week after their outage, it got me thinking.

Recently there were benchmarks on Phoronix looking at the Ubuntu 11.04 boot performance relative to past Ubuntu Linux releases. This was done with five mobile systems and going back as far as Ubuntu 8.04. The tests showed around Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was where the boot performance in Ubuntu's been the best but Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 have slowed down a bit in how fast it's reaching the desktop. In this article we are looking at the boot performance when simply changing out the kernels. Every kernel from Linux 2.6.24 to 2.6.39-rc4 was analyzed.

As a general rule, programmers should never be allowed to name anything. The more competent the programmer, the more likely this is to be true.

I tried out the Fedora 15 Alpha. GNOME Shell wasn't working on my hardware for some reason. I also tried Ubuntu 11.04, and Unity does work. OpenBSD 4.9's release is imminent. Am I excited? No. I'm in user mode. Not fanboy mode. I'm in no mood to run alpha-level software, or the dot-0 release of a new desktop environment (as in GNOME Shell and/or Unity). I kind of, sort of, need Flash on occasion.

I've been using Linux Mint for exactly two years, and I've been loving 99.8% of it. I can only give it my highest recommendation.

Data mining (also known as knowledge discovery) is the process of gathering large amounts of information, analyzing that information and condensing it into meaningful data. It brings together the fields of computer science, statistics and artificial intelligence.

LXer Feature: 01-May-2011

Among the big stories to hit the newswire this past week we have GUI isolation security issues, why patents and software need a divorce, Glyn Moody brings up the not new idea of a blanket Linux PR strategy, our own Carla Schroder learns a lesson in humility, Ken Starks talks about some simple yet big things we could fix and a review of the OpenPandora handheld gaming device. Enjoy!

I easily got myself to new Unity desktop. Did I like it? Yes and No. Let's try to list all my findings and discuss them a little.

Ubuntu’s latest release (code named Natty Narwhal) is finally out and I grabbed a copy of it to check it out. Canonical has gotten some flack for this release since it uses Unity as the default desktop instead of the usual GNOME interface. Some users seem to love it and others have vowed to switch away from Ubuntu and find some other distribution as their main desktop Linux.

Review of Qubes OS beta 1, Linux distribution aimed at security through isolation using disposable virtual machines. Qubes OS comes from an elegant concept: if you can isolate functional components within disposable containers, and you can separate those components that can be tainted through their interaction with the outside world from the core subsystems, you stand a good chance to preserve the integrity and security of the base Operating System at the possible expense of needing to jump through some hoops to move data around the system. All in all it sounds like a good proposition if it can be demonstrated to be practical.

The new Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) has just been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 11.04.