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Over the last few months the KWin development team worked on bringing the Window Manager for KDE's Plasma workspaces to mobile devices. This has required porting the compositing code to OpenGL ES 2.0, the open graphics API for programmable embedded graphics hardware. With the migration of KWin's codebase to git, the code was imported into the master development tree to be part of the next release of the KDE Platform.

Linux 2.6.38 contains patches to improve the scalability of VFS that has been the topic of much discussion for the past six months and that Torvalds himself was waiting for. Ext3 and XFS now support batched discard, which is interesting for SSDs, while Btrfs and SquashFS support additional compression technologies.

Dear Ubuntu 10.04 LTS users, Kate Stewart announced a few minutes ago, February 18th, the second maintenance release of the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, which incorporates numerous security fixes and updates.

A second update to Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' LTS (Long Term Support) has been released. The announcement was made by Ubuntu release manager Kate Stewart and iso images are immediately available to download.This release include updated server, desktop, alternate installation CDs and DVDs for the i386 and amd64 architectures.

What's the right answer to a programmer that tells you "I don’t even care much for people who use Open Source Software that they didn’t pay and then demand to be treated as those who paid something"? Here's mine

Firewall Builder is a firewall configuration and management GUI that supports configuring a wide range of firewalls from a single application. Supported firewalls include Linux iptables, BSD pf, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco router access lists and many more. This tutorial is the second in a series of articles that walk through the basic steps of using Firewall Builder to configure each of the supported firewall platforms. In this tutorial we will configure Access Control Lists (ACL) on a Cisco ASA firewall.

A new Unity version was released a few minutes ago with some exiting new features. New for Ubuntu 11.04 I mean, because they are something that's always been around in Gnome but not available or removed in Ubuntu 11.04 / Unity. The biggest change is the addition of a systray (notification area) to the Unity top panel. But it's different!

The rules for Microsoft's Windows Phone Marketplace appear to mean that even Microsoft's own MS-RL open source license is banned. And perhaps Nokia should worry too.

"I often tell people that setup, configuration, writing, scripting, and other general development of any website is better done on the same web server, or at least the same operating system, that is installed on the web server that the site is going to be hosted and ran on, rather than developed elsewhere and simply dropped in place later. It doesn't matter whether you're using Apache or Windows Server, GNU/Linux or Windows."

The US government has gone full bore into the Cloud as a way to cut its massive IT costs long-term. What's holding you back?

One of the design goals of Unity is to reduce the clutter of the desktop, another is to use space more efficiently. Based on this, Ubuntu user Andrea Azzarone came up with an idea/mockup to integrate (with autohide) the menu bar in the title bar for ummaximized windows:

Originally, we intended to create a single article on Linux-based audio applications. However, it soon became apparent that the sheer number of audio production apps would not permit this. So that we don't bore casual users with audio production jabber, this article is split in two: content consumption and content creation. Most end-users will be more interested in this article, while musicians and audio professionals should look to the next one for their Linux audio needs.

After 6 plus years of service, Red Hat is moving its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) into a bug and security fix maintenance phase. The move follows the release of RHEL 4.9 which is the last update of RHEL 4.x that will include new features and hardware support. According to Red Hat, RHEL 4.9 included 200 updates including an update version of SystemTap. RHEL 4 was first released back in 2005 and was the first version of RHEL to be released after Red Hat discontinued its Red Hat Linux line (which has since transitioned to become the community Fedora Linux distro). RHEL 4 also marked the debut of SELinux which has been significantly enhanced over the years to be both more usable and powerful to secure enterprises. RHEL 4 was also the first version RHEL to have the 2.6 Linux kernel.

The Linux Foundation announced an event intended to increase & systems level& collaboration among Android and Linux developers -- and perhaps patch up an ongoing rift with Google over kernel contributions. The Android Builders Summit, scheduled for April 13-14 in San Francisco, is now open for presentation submissions, the organization says....

CrunchBang Linux is a lightweight, minimalist Debian-derived Linux distro that lets you make the most of your old (or new hardware) and customise the user experience until you get it just right.

Disk manufacturers are putting a new spin on an old product: Solid State Drives. New technology, increased power costs, space limitation, and new business requirements are driving advances in storage. Solid State Drives (SSDs) are part of that new technological push toward more efficiency, increased agility, and higher demand.

After a commenter on my entry about the Ubuntu Natty alpha called me "pathetic" for expecting basic functionality from an alpha release, I decided to go deep and look at a pre-alpha for Fedora 15 in the form of a nightly build of the distribution that won't have its official alpha release for another 12 days, nor its final release as F15 until May 10 (a full 12 days after Ubuntu Natty's scheduled ). Despite this live image of what will become Fedora 15 being a nightly build of a pre-alpha, I found it surprisingly functional and fast on the desktop, if a little homely design-wise. But work, it does.

After some heady competition from its human rivals in the second exhibition round of Jeopardy, supercomputer "Watson" handily won round three, as well as the competition. Now the SUSE Linux-powered Watson is heading to medical school to prep for a role as a diagnostic assistant, while IBM readies a more context-sensitive successor dubbed "Racr".

Exaile is a very good music player alternative for Linux. Exaile is nimble and can handle large music collections without any problems. Exaile 0.3.2.1 was released a day ago. Exaile 0.3.2.1 is a bugfix release for version 0.3.2.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: February 17, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) with the Free and Open Source Software Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA: http://www.fossfa.net/) at the Youth Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Technopreneurship Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa on March 5, 2011 at 10 a.m. This exam lab is part of a larger "train-the-trainers" program, ict@innovation, jointly sponsored by FOSSFA and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ: http://www.giz.de) and is undertaken with the cooperation of LPI-South Africa.