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Linux Mint 13 Xfce released: Installation tour
ZDNet
It's been a relatively long time since the Release Candidate arrived, but the final release of Linux Mint 13 Xfce is now available. The release on Saturday will be good news to those who are looking for a solid, stable alternative to the Gnome and KDE desktops ...
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ZDNet
Linux 3.5 Advances Open Source Stability
Datamation
After seven release candidates and two months of development, Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.5 kernel on Saturday afternoon. The new Linux kernel is noteworthy for a number of incremental improvements it includes, which could serve to ...
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Rethinking Linux Hardware: Upgrade or Buy New?
Datamation
When you come from the proprietary operating system way of thinking, it's difficult to get your mind around the idea of not automatically needing to upgrade your PC hardware every two years. While upgrading is not an absolute necessity, more often than not ...
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Linux fans rejoice: Dell XPS 13 will come with Ubuntu
BetaNews
Dell must have read my story on "What will it take to make Linux popular?", agreed with Linus Torvalds' initial thoughts, then thought that it might be a good idea to publicly announce "Project Sputnik", which despite the name doesn't have anything to do with ...
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Fear not, Linux admins: There are TOOLS to help you
Register
Sysadmin blog Most Linux distributions have a significant focus on security. This does not mean they are necessarily ready for production out of the box. Tools like SELinux, excellent firewall options, and robust access controls can make Linux exceptionally ...
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Microsoft Apologies for "Big Boobs" Coding Gag
PC Magazine
According to a message posted by Paolo Bonzini to the (unofficial) Linux Kernel Mailing List, a small snippet of code found in Microsoft's Hyper-V – a virtualization server – was used every time a user loaded Linux within the virtual environment. The joke?
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Free Guides for Getting Up to Speed with Linux
OStatic (blog)
If you're new to Linux, or perhaps thinking of switching to it from another platform, it's worth your time to look into some of the many free tutorial resources available online. There are good tutotials for digging into particular Linux distributions, and guides that ...
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Phoronix Test Suite 4.0 Advances Linux Benchmarking, Prepares For Future ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Phoronix Test Suite 4.0-Suldal expands the capabilities of Phoronix Media's leading open-source, multi-platform testing software to advance the areas of standardized automated benchmarking, per-commit regression testing, and performance efficiency ...
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Microsoft's Bad Quarter and 'Lost Decade'
LinuxInsider.com
"Claiming that businesses must use M$'s office suite, server OS and desktop OS to be in business is getting really tired as many governments and businesses of all sizes use GNU/Linux." Meanwhile, "anyone who's serious about IT these days knows M$ is not ...
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Microsoft adds sexist Big Boobs to Linux kernel
Wired.co.uk
Sometime over the past few years, as Microsoft beefed up the Linux kernel with code related to its Hyper-V virtualisation software, one unidentified developer needed a name for a piece of code used by the software, and for some unknown reason, he went ...
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Wired.co.uk
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Powers SuperMUC
Biztech2.com
SuperMUC, powered by SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was officially inaugurated by IBM during a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in Garching, Germany. Used to solve ...
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Xfce edition of Linux Mint 13 released
The H
Linux Mint 13 Xfce can be downloaded for 32- and 64-bit systems via BitTorrent or from the distribution's official mirrors. A complete list of changes can be found in the release notes, which also list workarounds for known problems in this release. This includes ...
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Hardware Hacks: Pi in the sky and Linux on the MK802
The H
Linux distributions for the MK802 – For users of the MK802 pendrive-sized computer, Liliputing has compiled a useful list of Linux distributions that run on the device (which comes with Android 4.0 out of the box). Aside from Fedora and Puppy Linux, several ...
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Microsoft no fan of 'big boobs', deletes hidden code
Pocket-lint.com
The code in question connects the Linux kernel to Microsoft's HyperV virtualisation product and was discovered recently by Paolo Bonzini, who pointed out that lurking inside was the string "0xB16B00B5". It's not the first time this kind of thing has been seen by ...
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Pocket-lint.com
ARM Server Ships From Boston Limited
PCWorld (blog)
The server runs the Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS OS and the Fedora v17+ Linux distributions, and also the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP software) stack. Hadoop, Openstack and Java have also been optimized for the server, Boston Limited said.
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Microsoft's big coding boob
The Periscope Post
"BIG BOOBS" was inserted into Microsoft's Hyper-V – a virtualization server – which is used every time a user loaded Linux within the virtual environment. For those not familiar with coding terminology, here's the How-To Geek explanation of what the Linux ...
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The Periscope Post
LXer Weekly Roundup for 22-Jul-2012
LXer (press release)
5 things about FOSS Linux virtualization you may not know: KVM and XEN are both better than you think. To help clear out some of the misunderstandings about the status of FOSS Linux virtualization technology, Elizabeth Krumbach details the tools that ...
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ISL Online Launches Remote Access for Mac
Equities.com
The latest version delivers a full cross-platform solution which allows firewall-friendly and secure unattended remote access to Mac OS X computers from any other major OS, Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android via the Internet. How to set-up remote ...
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Dell set to launch their Ubuntu developer laptop, Sputnik, later this year
TweakTown
Share on Tumblr! Submit to Delicious! Submit to Reddit! Earlier this year, Dell launched an experiment to see if they could build a compelling Linux laptop for software developers. It was called Project Sputnik, and infused an XPS 13 Ultrabook with Ubuntu ...
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TweakTown
IBM unveils Europe's most powerful supercomputer at Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
Computer Business Review
LRZ High-performance Systems head Herbert Huber said it uses frequency scaling, a Linux kernel function delivered with SUSE Linux Enterprise, which allows the campus to run applications at their optimal operating point. "This means we use, wherever ...
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Firefox OS available for test on desktop computers
Generation NT (US)
Tony Chung from Mozilla explains that Firefox OS is based on three software layers: Gonk (the Linux core and low level elements), Gecko (finishing engine, Web API) and Gaia (HTML and JavaScript user interface). Mozilla has started by publishing ...
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Mint's Cinnamon desktop integrated into Fedora
The H
Mint's Cinnamon desktop integrated into Fedora. Cinnamon running on Fedora 17 Zoom. The Fedora project's package repositories now include the Cinnamon desktop interface initially started by Linux Mint founder Clement Lefebvre. The desktop, which is in ...
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Mozilla releases early desktop version of Firefox OS for developers
Digit
The early desktop version is available for Linux, Mac, and Windows users. First introduced as Boot to Gecko last year, Mozilla unveiled its mobile OS at MWC this year, before renaming it to the Firefox OS earlier this month. Mozilla had at the time announced ...
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Intel and Valve collaborate to develop open source graphics drivers
The H
According to a blog post by Intel Software Engineer Ian Romanick, the Linux development teams from Intel and game developer Valve are collaborating to develop the open source drivers and the game engine for the forthcoming Linux port of first-person ...
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Dell's Sputnik project is a go
Technoholik
Dell has also been working on developing drivers for Linux that would improve touchpad support and other features such as Wi-Fi toggling through the keypad. The company was going to run the pilot for six months to evaluate the project for its commercial ...
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Technoholik
Application Support Manager - Investment Banking
Here Is The City
Application Support Manager with Securities, Settlements, Payments and / or Ledgers with a technical background, and skills within SQL Server, Windows, UNIX and Linux. As Application Support Manager, you will provide leadership and guidance to the ...
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Canonical's Unity Interface Reaches Fedora
The VAR Guy
And that could be a big deal, since both of those Linux distributions — like Fedora — differ from Ubuntu in important technical ways and are sponsored by companies in competition with Canonical. In other words, the expansion of Unity's presence into these ...
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Enhancing newsroom operations
Screen Africa
OCTOPUS Newsroom, now in over 100 installations worldwide, has extended the powers of its cost-effective and reliable newsroom computer system that runs on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux platforms. The new OCTOTUSv6.2 adds a number of features that ...
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Desktop Transformation Success Begins with Understanding your Users
DABCC.com
The only hardware device that his company was providing was a low powered Linux thin client for the days my friend ventured into the office. In July 2011, Forrester Research reported that 60% of companies were supporting a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) ...
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Blogs14 new results for Linux
 
Linux sys-unconfig: Reconfigure the System Upon Next Boot
By Vivek Gite
Explains how to unconfiguring Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, RHEL / Fedora) instance and reconfigure the system upon next boot.
Frequently Asked Questions About...
Linux Check Password Strength With Cracklib-check Command
Learn how to use Linux password strength checker such as cracklib-check to test password strength for ssh / ftp / sftp / email accounts.
nixCraft RSS Feed
unix - linux cal command not showing proper output - Super User
By suraj
If u type cal 9 1752 in linux terminal you will a get strange output... For Example. [suraj@avi ~]$ cal 9 1752. September 1752. Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 14 15 16. 17 18 19 20 21 22 23. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. Did u notice, the date from 3 to 13 ...
Recent Questions - Super User
MPDroid app (for android, of course) | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
By nobody@flickr.com (linux-works)
trying it out on the 2 android tabs I have; the nexus one and the nook color (with cyanogen 7.x installed). this app talks to the web back-end of mpd (music playback daemon). this is a music server that runs on linux and can be controlled via ...
Uploads from linux-works
How to Remove Linux Dual Boot - Totorus
By Nanni
How you remove Linux from a dual-boot computer varies according your initial operating system (OS X or Windows), and your Linux distribution, such as Ubuntu, Mandriva, or Fedora. Uninstall Linux Dual Boot from Mac with OS X To uninstall ...
Totorus
Jumpshot - Use Linux To Fix Windows | RefuGeeks
By Kev Quirk
Jumpshot is a fully automated solution for solving Windows PC problems - the best part is that Jumpshot is Linux based. So, ironically, you're using Linux.
RefuGeeks
Senior C++/Linux Ultra Low Latency Expert | Selby Jennings ...
By jennings
Senior C++/Linux Ultra Low Latency Expert. My client is a rapidly expanding multi-asset proprietary trading firm, with a small yet successful team of traders/technologists in London and New York. The team been successfully trading the US ...
Selby Jennings : Recruitment...
L.G.C. |How-To| — Install Slender On Linux With PlayOnLinux ...
By Venn
Another quick and dirty how-to for installing Slender on Linux using PlayOnLinux. About: Slender is a first person horror game created by Parsec Productions where your only goal is to find 8 manuscripts about the Slender Man, a paranormal ...
Linux Game Cast
The Linux Geeks » Development Release: Frugalware Linux 1.7 RC1
By TLG
James Buren has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Frugalware Linux 1.7, code name "Gaia", an independently-developed general-purpose Linux distribution designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users: ...
The Linux Geeks
Linux Mint 13 now in KDE, XFCE flavours | Linux User
By RobZwetsloot
Get the latest, greatest Linux Mint, now with even more community loved desktop environments.
Linux User
Screen – Advanced Tutorial | Geek Ride
By Napster
The Basic working of the screen is already explained in my previous article and if you are not really looking for advanced screen features, you should look at...
Geek Ride: Linux tips & tricks,...
Opening the Valve | The Linux Action Show! | Jupiter Broadcasting
The man behind Phoronix.com joins Chris to chat about the big Steam coming to Linux news. Plus some of Michael's thoughts on Valve's overall Linux plans.
The Linux Action Show! MP3
The Linux Foundation (linuxfoundation)'s status on Monday, 23-Jul-12
The Linux Foundation (linuxfoundation)'s status on Monday, 23-Jul-12 15:08:28 UTC. The Linux Foundation. Where in the world wld u be traveling from to attend #cloudopen #linuxcon. Use hashtags in ur response and win a free ticket!
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Infrared Code Database Development | Database Administration ...
We need a database programmer to create a library of IR Codes from the merge of the www.remotecentral.com and www.lirc.org databases. The merged database will.
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Web2 new results for Linux
 
Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel ...
netbuzz writes "Microsoft has apologized and promised to rectify the fact that one of its developers slipped a sexist phrase into Linux kernel code supporting ...
linux.slashdot.org/.../microsoft-apologizes-for-inserting-naugh...
TeamViewer - TeamViewer security updates for Linux released
TeamViewer security updates for Linux released. Today we released a security update for a potential issue which can be downloaded in our TeamViewer ...
www.teamviewer.com/.../362-TeamViewer-security-updates-f...


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