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Nov
30th

Ubuntu’s Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life: Whole Patent System Is A Sham

Author: Glyn Moody | Files under syndicated

Shuttleworth’s successful record in business means that his words ought to carry more weight with supporters of patent monopolies than they might if he were just a free software project leader. After all, in a world where money talks, half a billion dollars just dismissed the patent system as a "sham."


Nov
30th

Qemu-kvm 1.0 & Spice 0.10.0 & Spice-Gtk-0.7.81 USB redirection for Ubuntu Precise and Oneiric

Author: Boris Derzhavets | Files under syndicated

Following bellow is an attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry at http://planet.spice-space.org/ on Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10 with intend to build Qemu-kvm 1.0 with usb redirection network support per http://planet.spice-space.org/. Current build qe…


Nov
30th

IM from the Terminal: 2 Great Applications

Author: Craciun Dan | Files under syndicated

This article is about two popular IM (Instant Messaging) clients that can be used in a terminal instead of a graphical environment. Both have advanced features and are based on the ncurses library.


Nov
30th

How To Backup Ubuntu 11.10 Using Deja Dup

Author: Andrew Weber | Files under syndicated

Ubuntu now has Deja Dup installed by default. Deja dup allows you to backup Ubuntu quickly, easily and automatically.


Nov
30th

Five Kernel Vulnerabilities Fixed in RHEL 5

Author: Marius Nestor | Files under syndicated

Red Hat released last evening, November 29th, a new kernel update for its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Desktop and Server operating systems, fixing several more security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various hackers.


Nov
30th

Everything I Needed to Know about Linux I Learned from My Pets

Author: Rikki Endsley | Files under syndicated

My relationship with my motley crew of cats and dogs is similar to my relationship with Linux. In both cases, I’ve learned that patience pays off, and life is better with than without them.


Nov
30th

How To Install Restricted Drivers, Formats In openSUSE 12.1

Author: Swapnil Bhartiya | Files under syndicated

OpeSUSE, like Fedora, doesn’t support non-free/proprietary formats in the community version. So, if you want to use proprietary or restricted codecs you will have to install restricted formats. It’s extremely easy using openSUSE KDE.


Nov
30th

Taking Screenshots With Shutter in Ubuntu

Author: Craciun Dan | Files under syndicated

For those of you who didn’t hear about it before, it’s probably time you have a look at it. Shutter is probably the most powerful screenshot-taking application available for GNOME, including countless features and several useful tools to take scree…


Nov
30th

Sabayon 7 KDE review

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

Sabayon is a Linux distribution described by its developers as “… a bleeding edge operating system that is both stable and reliable.” It is based on Gentoo, a source-based (Linux) distribution. The latest edition, Sabayon 7 (GNOME 3, KDE and Xfce…


Nov
30th

Is Ubuntu Still The Most Popular Linux Distro?

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

Recently, there has been a flurry of blog posts claiming that Linux Mint is now more popular than Ubuntu. Is this really the case?