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Subject: Download Nvidia GeForce 302.17 Driver for Linux
Nvidia proudly announced yesterday, June 15th, the immediate availability for download of the 302.17 version of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Nvidia-GeForce-302-17-Driver-for-Linux-276049.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Download-Nvidia-GeForce-302-17-Driver-for-Linux-276049.shtml
Sabayon 9 based on the Gentoo Hardened edition brings quite a few changes over in this latest edition of Sabayon Linux.
http://gnuman.com/sabayon-9-review/
http://gnuman.com/sabayon-9-review/
Last week I asked What Are The Biggest Problems With Linux? and since then there have been more than 220 responses and tens of thousands of views regarding the biggest issues with Linux...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTQ
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTQ
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Linux gaming on the rise: EA arrives on Ubuntu and Valve plans Steam port
After indie succeses, Linux is finally attracting mainstream game publishers.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/linux-gaming-on-the-rise-ea-arrives-on-ubuntu-and-valve-plans-steam-port/
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/06/linux-gaming-on-the-rise-ea-arrives-on-ubuntu-and-valve-plans-steam-port/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Microsoft cosies up to China with Win8 weibo support
Sina Weibo users accounted for in People appHot on the heels of Apple’s China love-in at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week, news has emerged that Microsoft is planning to integrate the country’s hugely popular Sina Weibo micro-blogging platform into Windows 8.…
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/17/sina_weibo_windows_8_apple/
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/17/sina_weibo_windows_8_apple/
When there are a lot of Linux distros around, most distros are unfortunately very similar in features to each other. However, DreamLinux is quite special, this Debian-based distro is one of the few distros that use Xcfe as the desktop environment and it also has a very unique set of preinstalled applications.
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/06/dreamlinux-5-review.html
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/06/dreamlinux-5-review.html
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: How to Disable Unity Launcher and Use Your Own Dock
One of the advantages of Unity is the screen real estate optimization it can bring to desktop by combining global menu and window controls on top panel. If you don't like other components of Unity interface like the launcher on left, lenses, dash etc, there is a way to disable them and use a custom dock.
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/06/how-to-disable-unity-launcher-and-use.html
http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/06/how-to-disable-unity-launcher-and-use.html
Back in February I mentioned that Xonotic 1.0 was on the Linux gaming horizon following a discussion about the planned milestone back at FOSDEM in Brussels. Xonotic 1.0 has yet to be released, but it's coming closer...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTM
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTM
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Linus Torvalds Calls NVIDIA The Worst Company Ever
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, has called out NVIDIA for their poor graphics drivers in a public presentation. In the talk he called NVIDIA "the single worst company we have ever dealt with" and ended his green comments with "NVIDIA: F*** YOU!"..
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTc
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTc
Back in April there was an LLVM European Conference in London where several interesting technical discussions happened. Among the topics covered were auto-vectorization with LLVM, building Linux with LLVM, and using LLVM to improve the performance of OpenCL on CPUs...
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTU
http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyMTU
If you have an affected motherboard to the ASPM power regression in the Linux kernel and it's from Gigabyte, don't expect a BIOS update from them to correct the ASPM semantics in the BIOS. Gigabyte recommends you just use Microsoft Windows.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwMjg
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwMjg
Research in Motion has long-held a stranglehold on all things mobile with the U.S. DoD. Time goes on, and things change. After being turned down by Apple to have access to the iOS codebase, both the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), have announced the release of separately developed hardened versions of the Android operating system (OS) in the past year.
http://www.tech-faq.com/pentagon-goes-mobile-without-apple.html
http://www.tech-faq.com/pentagon-goes-mobile-without-apple.html
One FREE current or back issue of Linux Journal available for download today only. Pick any issue you like. As a reminder, this is Reader Appreciation Month here at Linux Journal. We are celebrating with give aways, contests and promotions the entire month of June.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/free-isse-linux-journal-available-today
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/free-isse-linux-journal-available-today
Like all the best ideas, it's simple enough. As a business, you publish a statement that you are henceforth licensing any and all patents you own under the DPL and will make such licensing a condition of sale of any of your patents. From that point, without needing to enumerate the patents you own or negotiate terms with any other business, you are entitled to use all patents ever licensed under the DPL by all other businesses. The catch? You may never again use patents offensively against other signatories of the DPL. By this simple step, all patents owned by all DPL signatories are "de-weaponized."
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/new-way-end-the-patent-madness-195611
http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/new-way-end-the-patent-madness-195611
Backing up is one of the most important things one should do to be a happy user, and although most people understand this, there are very few who actually do it. What is the reason we are not backing up our files? There may be three reasons for this. The first one is that your files are not that important so you don’t care if you loose them or not. The second is that backing up takes time and resources. The third reason is that you may think that it is a complicated process that requires special technical knowledge to perform with success. Deja Dup is the answer to the third statement, and the answer is “no”.
http://worldofgnome.org/backup-your-files-with-deja-dup/
http://worldofgnome.org/backup-your-files-with-deja-dup/
Welcome to the 204th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-204-275924.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Softpedia-Linux-Weekly-Issue-204-275924.shtml
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer board, designed to inspire a new generation of computer users to become interested in programming. However, this single-board computer also has lots of potential to be used in different areas.
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20120617120238137/RaspberryPi-Multimedia-Page1.html
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20120617120238137/RaspberryPi-Multimedia-Page1.html
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: The care and feeding of software engineers (or, why engineers are grumpy)
Cards on the table, software engineers generally have a reputation for being arrogant, disagreeable, and moody. We also have a reputation for saying “no”, for debating pedantic details, and thinking we know how to do everyone’s job better than they can. In general, this reputation is deserved. That’s exactly what we do, day in, day out, as we intermix writing code with checking in on Twitter and Hacker News.
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy/
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2012/06/12/the-care-and-feeding-of-software-engineers-or-why-engineers-are-grumpy/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL/SquirrelMail (Fedora 17)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier, so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses. The resulting Postfix server is capable of SMTP-AUTH and TLS and quota. Passwords are stored in encrypted form in the database. In addition to that, this tutorial covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses. I will also show how to install SquirrelMail as a webmail interface so that users can read and send emails and change their passwords.
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-fedora-17-x86_64
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-fedora-17-x86_64
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Secure Linux: Part 1. SELinux – history of its development, architecture and operating principles
The project involving the development of Security-Enhanced Linux® (SELinux), a system offering mandatory access control, was initiated inside the US National Security Agency (NSA). The companies Secure Computing Corporation (SCC) and MITRE were directly involved in the development, along with a number of research laboratories. It was released as a general access software product (with the source code distributed under a GPL license) in December 2000. A special press release was issued by NSA to mark the occasion (see Resources). By that time, 10 years had already been spent developing, analyzing, and testing the basic SELinux architecture as part of several semi-research/semi-military projects
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-secure-linux-ru/index.html
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-secure-linux-ru/index.html