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Even as Microsoft extols its cloud credentials, it fiercely protects its desktop business, and with that approach risks creating confusion about its priorities in the marketplace.

Recently I decided I needed a new guitar amplifier for my studio. Its sole employment would be studio work, so I looked for a small lightweight amp with a good sound, high-quality digital effects, and amplifier/cabinet modeling. Of course I'm always on the look-out for hardware that can be edited from a computer running Linux, and did I mention that a low cost would be nice ? Well, thanks to a timely tip from an on-line friend I discovered that Fender manufactures an amplifier that meets - and exceeds - my expectations. Read on to learn how a Fender Mustang amplifier found a home here at Studio Dave.

NASA is playing host to the Open Source community by hosting a Summit on March 29thand 30th at its Mount View, Ames Research Center in California. The Summit is part of NASAs contact program between its core team of development engineers and with leading names in the open source community.

The first of the bashshell.net "5 Days of find" series, this tutorial breaks down the basics. With the Linux find utility, you can perform powerful searches on just about any criterion you can think of, and then, from the same command-line entry, invoke another utility to do whatever you need to do with the results.

Following bellow is attempt to test mentioned patch to resolve problem with loading KVM with “-vga qxl” by /usr/bin/qemu-kvm (v. 0.14) on Fedora 14 ( Libvirt Preview Environment ) . View : http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/84704/. Test was successful for SL6,F14,W2K3,W7 KVMs (without QXL driver installed) and failed on Ubuntu 10.10 KVM no matter of presence or absence of QXL driver.

I was sad to hear that Sir Maurice Wilkes passed away in November. Sadder still to see that it didn't make nearly the news splash that some other early computer pioneer deaths have made.

This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on an OpenSUSE 11.3 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.

Classic top down arcade shooter Steel Storm is all geared up for release of Steel Storm Episode 2 'Burning Retribution'. The game is available to pre-order and users will get access to beta build as a bonus. Steel Storm Episode 1, released in October last year, is highly popular among Linux gamers because of its addictive gameplay and rich 3D cel-shaded graphics. Steel Storm Episode 1 made into the Top 100 indie games for the year 2010 in a contest announced by IndieDB. The game is also available on Desura.

openSUSE 11.4 brings a host of KDE and GNOME updates, the first release of OpenOffice fork LibreOffice, and numerous speed improvements. Perhaps the biggest news, though, is what's not included. That would be GNOME 3.0. Unfortunately for openSUSE fans, the distro's release schedule just didn't quite mesh with GNOME's, so GNOME 3.0 will have to wait for openSUSE 11.5, due at the end of the year. Perhaps another reason for GNOME 3's absence is that KDE is the default openSUSE desktop. Prior to the release of openSUSE 11.3 last year, the openSUSE project announced it would shift its default desktop to KDE. While the distro is still ultimately desktop agnostic - the DVD installer packages both KDE and GNOME - the project is clearly putting the emphasis on keeping up with KDE ahead of GNOME.

LXer Feature: 13-Mar-2011

In this week's LXWR we have Recovering from motherboard failures, dealing with no Max or Min buttons in Gnome 3, Linux From Scratch 6.8 is released and Dr. Tony Young gets some answers from inside KDE itself when Stuart Jarvis responds to his e-mails in Part IIII of his two part series..;-) Enjoy!

We will set up a dedicated fund to provide our HeliOS kids with Internet service. Now, the point I want to make clear is this. This is an Austin problem and I am going to seek an Austin solution. We'll update our website soon to announce the presence of the program and to make people aware of it. I'm going door-knocking. I will approach businesses within the community to let them know what we are doing and what they can do to help.

Storing your photos on a server or network disk? Want to manage them from several Linux-based machines using digiKam? Here is how to do that.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Debian Squeeze server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

Linux powered, Enlightenment desktop with a touch screen optimized interface running on an Asus T101MT Tablet/Netbook covert-able. See how powerful Linux can be on your touch screen computer.

NVIDIA isn't the only one looking to expand its Linux team, but AMD is now in a mad dash to dramatically ramp up its engineering teams. AMD has been looking to hire at least another open-source developer in recent months to work on its graphics stack, but Advanced Micro Devices has now announced they're looking to hire over one thousand "tech professionals" where the software engineers are skilled in Linux and open-source development.

Right now, someone, somewhere is developing the killer operating system feature of the future - a feature that will change computing and make us wonder how we lived without it. However, the person responsible probably isn't grafting away in the labs of Microsoft, Apple or Red Hat - he or she is more likely to be working in a bedroom or loft.

Ryzom 3D MMORPG for Linux has removed lots of limits and caps for new players who want to play the game without a paid subscription. Instead, the developers have chose to keep a Level limit of 125 beyond which new players will stop getting experience points. This is a nice move as now it is almost free to play the game without any time or place limits.

For many years HTML has simply been a way of marking up bits of text and images so that they are displayed attractively on the Internet. Now there is HTML5 and the long-standing mark-up language is no longer just about building websites.

If in your work you are responsible for just one server, you will surely wonder: What is the best way to get the situation under control? In the world there are good open source software that allow you to monitor the status of servers, services and programs. In this article we’ll see an overview some of the softwares in this category, and in particular some related to Nagios

WordPress is a great online publishing system. One of its strengths, as far as I am concerned, is the administration interface, which I find flexible, efficient and easy to use. However, sometimes even that interface isn’t flexible enough. Recently, for example, I needed a quick way to create and insert into another Web page an HTML list of all and only the posts I had published in a certain date range. If you only have four of five posts to manage it’s OK, but what when, as in my case, there are many tenths of them?