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On the way to GNOME 2.30 and Moblin 2.2, the Clutter project has released a new developers snapshot version of its 3D toolkit with many improved details.

We're getting close to the last stops on our tour of NLEs for Linux. This week I've focused my attention on two editors, both of which surprised me in many ways.

I've once again had issues with expired Debian keys and remedied the situation by following the instructions on the Debian Wiki.

From its humble beginnings back in 1991, Linux has grown at a rapid rate. International Data Corp. (IDC) pegged Linux operating system revenue growth at 23.4 percent in 2008. IDC projects that by 2012, Linux operating system revenue will cross $1 billion for the first time, reaching as much as $1.2 billion. Not bad for a free operating system.

OAuth is an open protocol that enables users to share their protected resources among different Web sites, without risking exposure. OAuth is an ideal candidate for mashing up today's social networking Web sites like Twitter. The first part of this series gives an introduction to OAuth, followed by an example of the development of an OAuth-enabled desktop Twitter client. The second part of this series demonstrates how to develop an OAuth-enabled Web Twitter client, which will be migrated to Google App Engine (GAE) in the third and final part of the series.

But then I realize the significant absence of credit for the underlying operating system that made these extreme and complex computer generated graphics possible.

Those who buy a computer in most countries with Windows and do not accept the terms of licensing have to pay for the unused license(s). The procedure is complicated and inconsistent. In Italy, a group forming a collective complaint seeks to bring order to this chaos.

A netbook is only as powerful as the software you install on it. If you install the right operating system and focus your attention on web apps most models reveal their true nature as usable thin clients…

Most people have been asking whether the Google Nexus One is an iPhone-killer; but there's a phrase in the official Google blog that suggests it's something much bigger: the fusion of computer and mobile, with the Internet as the digital glue - a true "nexus" device. If Google can encourage other manufacturers to come out with more, lower-cost models, this could be the device that the billions of people currently with neither computer nor mobile phone could use to access the Internet. And all running on Linux.

Recent netbook moves by Lenovo and others show some promising trends — several of which involve Linux. Here's the scoop.

Ever since Fab of the Linux Outlaws podcast has been gushing over his recently acquired Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, and before that really, I've been at times on the hunt for used ThinkPad laptops, never seeming to be able to "win" them on eBay.

In the olden days of personal computing, we were on a continual hardware upgrade path seeking better performance. Now our low-end PCs would have been supercomputers ten years ago, and they're still bogging down. Is there no end in sight?

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a Linux kernel maintainer, and head of the Linux Drivers Project. At the Linux Foundation, he has helped to compile the “Who Writes Linux?” survey for the past few years. We caught up to him to talk about his work…

SQL injection attacks are executed via front-end Web applications that don’t properly validate user input. SQL Injection attack includes use of some interesting Strings which when formed and used properly act as tool for Cracking a Website. This tutorial is not going to go into detail on why these string work but it will show you how you can form and use these Strings which can be used to crack a website.

Sometimes many of us have problems with the Flash player. It just doesn't work. TinyOgg is the solution for this problem specially if you are using Firefox, Chrome, or Opera. TinyOgg is a service designed to get rid of Flash-based videos by converting them to the free Ogg format. It is not the only service to accomplish this, but it exists to replace some existing services that are built upon non-free, non-published source code.

This something I never had with windows. Confidence in my operating system. What do I mean by this? Well let me explain. Just recently I was doing a remote upgrade of Ubuntu Jaunty to Ubuntu Karmic. Everything was going along as easily as a hot knife through butter. Configuration files were changed, packages were downloaded and were in the process of being installed. Then it happened. Halfway through the upgrade. At the most sensitive part where the packages were being installed. The computer was rebooted. This could easily happen to anyone if there is a power glitch and you are not using an UPS. In this case, if you remember I was connected remotely, the end user decided to reboot the computer. After I had specifically told them not to touch it. I don't blame them. These sort of things happen.

A year ago Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon platform with ARM processor at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2010. Now the first real devices are coming to market. The operating system is Linux.

SCO, "by and through the Chapter 11 Trustee in Bankruptcy, Edward N. Cahn", has filed its opposition to Novell's Motion to Set Aside Judgment. This is the motion that will be argued on February 4. SCO argues that if Novell wanted to argue this, they should have appealed it, and that's a strong argument

On Tuesday, at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, Google introduced its first own-brand smartphone, the Nexus One. Since information about the Nexus had repeatedly appeared in the IT media in December, probably not entirely without Google's assistance, this didn't come as a major surprise. The same also applies to many of the Nexus One's features. The smartphone weighs 130 grams and is, like Google's first G1 phone, manufactured by the Taiwanese vendor HTC.

When I first started Desktop Linux Reviews, I wanted to include some Linux applications along with the distribution reviews. I’ve finally gotten around to that now and the first application review is Hulu Desktop for Linux. Hulu is one of the most popular video sites on the web. You can watch all kinds of different television shows and movies right in your browser. But there’s also another way to watch Hulu and that’s to download the Hulu Desktop application for Linux.