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In the Behind KDE Platforms series, Pau Garcia i Quiles talks about Qt on Android with Bogdan Vatra, the lead developer behind it.

You want a kerfuffle? Here it is. Canonical makes "affiliate" revenue from sales via its Ubuntu One music store, which works through the Rhythmbox music player/manager. Now that Ubuntu is changing to Banshee as its default music-management application — and Banshee happens to have a plugin for the Amazon music store, things have gotten a little messy.

Linux Mint 10 KDE comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. This edition comes with the latest and recently released KDE 4.6! The Software Manager gives you a nicer browsing experience. View the Linux Mint 10 KDE Screenshot Tour

I use rsync a lot specially to backup my important files between two computers, but also to keep my local slackware repository up to date. rsync is great to keep folders and files synchronized between two computers or in the same computer, you can backup all your important data to an external disk using rsync.

A full review of Frugalware 1.4 Nexon, including a gallery of images. I’ve gotten a fair number of requests to look at Frugalware in the past so I decided to take a peek at Frugalware 1.4 (Nexon). Frugalware has always had a reputation for not being very accessible to newer Linux users or those who simply wanted an easy to use desktop version of Linux.

One of my favorite quotes is - Nothing is ever free. I believe this statement to be true for a number of reasons. The important thing to recognize is that I believe the "free" in this quote and the "free" in FOSS are two different types of "free"...

In last month's Ask the Experts column, we talked to insiders about how to get paid to work on Linux. The experts replied with a variety of useful tips but one piece of advice was common among all of their comments: get involved in the community. So, this month we've reached out to another group of experts to learn what exactly are the best ways to contribute and/or participate in the Linux and open source software communities.

This news is a few days old, but not many people seem to have caught it while I was busy finishing up Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 and OpenBenchmarking.org: Btrfs may be the default file-system in Fedora 16.

This example shows how to use a Bash shell script to parse multiple logs for text strings and create a report.

The proc filesystem is a special filesystem found on most UNIX-based systems. It holds a great deal of information, in ASCII format, most of which is not very friendly to the average user.

Motorola's Atrix 4G smartphone provides a solid AT T answer to Verizon Wireless' Droid lineup and the various Samsung Galaxy S Android handsets, says this eWEEK review. With features like a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor and HSPA+ support, the Atrix 4G is dubbed the best Android phone from AT T yet.

More than three months after the GNOME edition of Linux Mint 10 arrived, the Linux Mint development team has released the KDE edition of version 10 of its Linux Mint operating system, code named "Julia". Linux Mint aims to be user friendly and to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including support for DVD playback, Java, plug-ins and various media codecs.

One of the greatest benefits of open source software is associated with the concept of ownership. When considering your datacenter, or, for that matter, your own computer, the software that brings the machines to life must be understood in the light of who makes the decisions for how that software performs, when it is updated, and what function the software is used for. Using open source software guarantees that you will be able to own the entire system from the ground up, and put the software to work for you, and not the other way around.

An Alpha version of Necessitas (Qt for Android) has been released a week ago. With this release, it is now very easy to create, build, debug and deploy Qt applications for Android. All of that is the result of the incredible work by BogDan Vatra, the creator of Necessitas.

LXer Feature: 28-Feb-2011

Due to some family issues I was unable to spend nearly as much time at SCALE 9x as I wanted too but from what I did get to see it was bigger and better than ever before. Kudos to the organizers and volunteers for putting on the best FOSS trade show in existence. I hope to make up for it next year.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Debian Squeeze server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and MySQL support.

Quite often businesses view alternatives if products or services offer better Return on Investment. Open Source is one such option that is often debated in terms of better returns, lower operational costs and of course minimum breakeven time depending on the size of your organization etc. However,

This document will help you to set up Qmail-Scanner with ClamAV antivirus and SpamAssassin spamfilter. Qmail-Scanner is an add-on that enables a Qmail email server to scan email for certain characteristics. It is typically used for its anti-virus and anti-spam protection functions, in which case it is used in conjunction with external scanners. It also enables a site (at a server/site level) to create "Policy blocks": i.e. react to email that contains specific strings in particular headers, or particular attachment filenames or types (e.g. *.EXE attachments).

This program is an “inotify cron” system. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods.

Alot of people seam to be having problems with proper redirection of 'sudo command' to a file. So many would rather 'sudo -s' than understand why 'sudo command > output' does not work. Wait no more, I shall tackle this problem and explain it to you!