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Subject: Key dates for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : A Milestone Journey
Here is the release schedule of Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin". This time Canonical goes to support 5 years to this Long Term Support [LTS] version. So this may be the milestone to them and they try to make it best and more reliable, bug-free and powerful.
http://linux4everybody.blogspot.com/2012/01/release-schedule-of-ubuntu-1204-precise.html
http://linux4everybody.blogspot.com/2012/01/release-schedule-of-ubuntu-1204-precise.html
[url=http://lxer.com/team.php][img]http://lxer.com/content/Scott_Ruecker.jpg[/img][/url] [b]LXer Feature: 22-Jan-2012[/b]What a week, no? What started out as Wikipedia joining Reddit, Mozilla and others in blacking out their websites this past Wednesday in protest to the SOPA and PIPA vote in Congress, quickly exploded into thousands of websites following suit. For one, it made surfing the internet on Wednesday a scavenger hunt to find a site that wasn't dark. And two, the ensuing media storm it created had the effect of actually getting Congress to postpone their vote on it. I have been in Los Angeles all weekend attending SCALE 10x and will have my full review for you later in the week, but I will tell you that it was bigger and better than ever. Enjoy!
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/161332/index.html
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/161332/index.html
Desurium is the official name for the open sourced Desura client which is now officially open sourced as of today. The source code is available under the GPL V3.
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/desura-open-sourced-as-desurium.720/
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/desura-open-sourced-as-desurium.720/
Last week’s Wikipedia-led blackout in protest of U.S. copyright legislation called the Stop Online Piracy Act is being hailed by some as the Internet Spring, the day that millions fought back against restrictive legislative proposals that posed a serious threat to an open Internet.
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1119151--geist-the-day-the-internet-fought-back
http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1119151--geist-the-day-the-internet-fought-back
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Subject: 7 Best Racing Games For Android Phones And Tablets
Crave Speed? Love the feeling of wind rushing at your face as your watery eyes struggle to stay fixated on your opponents? Yep, we too love racing; however, sadly, not everyone can drive a Formula One car, and not everyone can break city speed limits without getting arrested.But hey, that’s not an excuse for you to get disappointed so soon; to whet your insatiable appetite, video-game makers strive every day to emulate the best racing experience on consoles, phones, and tablets. For tablets and phones, especially the ones running Android, a lot of amazing new games have emerged with photo-realistic graphics and engaging storylines that will get your adrenaline pumping even if you’re sitting in a comfy swivel chair. So, if you’ve been scrounging the marketplace for the best racing games for Android, read on as we cover some of the finest in the genre.
http://techlaze.com/2012/01/best-racing-games-android-phones-and-tablets/
http://techlaze.com/2012/01/best-racing-games-android-phones-and-tablets/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: XBMC!How to turn your Ubuntu into the Media Center of your Dreams.
Do you have a nice TV or projector? You are in the right place. Today we will see how to make an incredible and surprising combination of a low-performance PCs and a nice TV or projector. Our goal is to turn that old PC into a fantastic Media Center, which will give you many possibilities. From the view of Film and/or video, to listen to music (excellent if you have connected a good sound system), an excellent way to show photographs and browse the web with a simple click .
http://linuxaria.com/article/xbmchow-to-turn-your-ubuntu-into-the-media-center-of-your-desires?lang=en
http://linuxaria.com/article/xbmchow-to-turn-your-ubuntu-into-the-media-center-of-your-desires?lang=en
As a systems administrator, I tend to think about source code and computing platform in large numbers. Computers however are getting smaller and more powerful, and the reality of computers that we put in or on our body as a normal daily routine is coming closer, and for many is already here. When our safety, our liberty, and our sense of humanity are tied to programmable devices, should we not only hope, but expect that we should have the right to examine how these devices function?
http://ostatic.com/blog/when-should-open-source-be-written-into-law
http://ostatic.com/blog/when-should-open-source-be-written-into-law
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: RedHat Cluster Suite And Conga - Linux Clustering
This how to describes an easy step by step installation of the RedHat Cluster Suite on three CentOS nodes and how to prepare them as nodes of a cluster. You will also install the Management suite which is web based and is known as Conga.
http://www.howtoforge.com/redhat-cluster-suite-and-conga-linux-clustering
http://www.howtoforge.com/redhat-cluster-suite-and-conga-linux-clustering
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Subject: TLWIR 31: Using Linux and Free Software to Bring Back American Innovation
Free Software is mainly about innovation. Free Software engineers find radical new ways of solving old problems. In doing so, they teach those whose minds have ossified how to think outside of the box. The U.S. manufacturing sector is in trouble, partially because we have been outperformed by our neighbors in the East. They have tried bold new ways of doing things, while we cling to the past. Free Software is one of the boldest concepts yet created, and I believe that it can save American manufacturing…and jobs.
http://beginlinux.com/blog/2012/01/tlwir-31-using-linux-and-free-software-to-bring-back-american-innovation/
http://beginlinux.com/blog/2012/01/tlwir-31-using-linux-and-free-software-to-bring-back-american-innovation/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: CyanogenMod App Store To Sell Root, Banned Apps
Koushik Dutta, the co-founder of the popular CyanogenMod project has been contemplating the idea of an App Store which will sell apps for rooted devices.
http://www.muktware.com/news/3238/cyanogenmod-app-store-sell-rooted-banned-apps
http://www.muktware.com/news/3238/cyanogenmod-app-store-sell-rooted-banned-apps
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Calibre And Project Gutenberg: Liberate Your eReader
Now, I’m no stranger to ebooks. Long before the release of the first generation Amazon Kindle, I read Dracula on a Handspring Visor. Once I moved into the world of smart-phones with the Palm Treo, I read many great books with the excellent offline reader Plucker. In fact, I’ve been dissing paper quite vocally since as early as 1999. That said, I love reading on my Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch.
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/01/calibre-and-project-gutenberg-liberate-your-ereader/
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/01/calibre-and-project-gutenberg-liberate-your-ereader/
Some Linux distributions try to find their own way in arrangement of the user desktop. Take, for example, Ubuntu with Unity. Whatever is your opinion about this Desktop Environment, you can’t deny that it brought some fresh ideas as to how to organize the user’s desktop. At the other pole are Linux distros which intentionally adjust their look to something familiar to users of other operating systems, being it Windows or Mac. Zorin OS is one of those. The intent of such distros is to smooth the transition for users wishing to migrate from Windows to Linux.
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/01/linux-for-migrants-zorin-os.html
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/01/linux-for-migrants-zorin-os.html
A day after Benjaman Brunner's announcement about the end-of-life (EOL) of the openSUSE 11.3 operating system, on January 21st Bryen Yunashko published the release schedule of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 Linux distribution.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/openSUSE-12-2-Release-Schedule-248129.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/openSUSE-12-2-Release-Schedule-248129.shtml
Unity 5.0, Ubuntu’s new desktop interface has been released for testing
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/41911-ubuntu-readies-new-unity.html
http://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/41911-ubuntu-readies-new-unity.html
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Subject: Lafayette Deception, Chap. 8: The Doctor will Diagnose you Now
Frank was puffing his way up the dirt road leading away from the canyon rim, focusing on his breathing. He’d actually lost five pounds in the first week of his new regime, and had also progressed from walking fast to alternating walking with short bursts of labored jogging. He hadn’t been as successful on the technical front.
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20120122103221515
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20120122103221515
Perl has been around for more than 20 years. During that time, it has received its share of both praise and criticism, and lots of misconceptions surround it. Much of this stems from long-outdated notions of what Perl used to be, but have nothing to do with what Perl actually is today. Perl hasn't been standing still. It's been growing continuously and evolving, and that growth has accelerated dramatically in the past few years. Moose is one of the technologies at the heart of this "Perl Renaissance", which also includes other exciting projects that have emerged, such as Catalyst and DBIx::Class.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/moose
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/moose
It has been announced, across the pond, that IT analyst firm, Gartner Inc has now positioned Drupal Acquia in the Visionaries quadrant of both the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Externally Facing Social Software and the Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace, thereby raising Drupal’s visibility and promoting its accessibility amongst the top 10,000 global businesses.
http://linux-news.org/index.php/2012/01/23/open-source-closed-door/
http://linux-news.org/index.php/2012/01/23/open-source-closed-door/
At SCALE 10x a new FUSE implementation was presented that while still having the file-system in user-space, the kernel component is now responsible for more of the work.
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0Njg
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0Njg
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Subject: Cinnamon 1.2 Released With Desktop Effects, Multiple Layouts, More
Cinnamon, the GNOME2-like GNOME Shell fork, has reached version 1.2, which is considered fully stable. The new release brings many new features, but also separates Cinnamon even more from GNOME Shell.
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/cinnamon-12-released-with-desktop.html
http://www.webupd8.org/2012/01/cinnamon-12-released-with-desktop.html
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Customize your Cinnamon desktop with Javascript
We've seen, in the last years at least, a big rise of the Web in everything we do and everywhere we do it. Now, lots of people need only a browser window for work or for fun, making lots of previously-used pieces of software obsolete. With the launch of the Gnome 3 desktop environment, the Web made it's way inside our installed software in a very smart way: parts of the UI are actually writen in Javascript, a Web language by excellence. Or...maybe not that much. Fabrice Bellard wrote a PC emulator in Javascript, and here's another example: a desktop environment having important parts written in this language. So if you're feeling hacky and have some knowledge of Javascript, or even general programming concepts, this article is for you.
http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/customize-your-cinnamon-desktop-with-javascript
http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/customize-your-cinnamon-desktop-with-javascript