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Subject: Valve officially announces Steam and Left 4 Dead 2 for Linux
After many rumours, Valve has now officially confirmed that it is porting its Steam game distribution platform to Linux. A port of the first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is also being worked on. The announcement coincides with the launch of a new Valve Linux Team blog, which will provide a first hand account of future Linux developments at the company.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Valve-officially-announces-Steam-and-Left-4-Dead-2-for-Linux-1643632.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Valve-officially-announces-Steam-and-Left-4-Dead-2-for-Linux-1643632.html/from/rss
Todd Robinson, an Open Source entrepreneur and co-owner of Webpath Technologies and On-Disk.com, is trying to set a world record for being able to create and release 31 different usable and complete Linux distros everyday in August 2012. And even more impressive, he will do it alone.
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/07/todd-robinson-and-31-flavors-project.html
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/07/todd-robinson-and-31-flavors-project.html
I first [cref 4704 interviewed Richard Stallman about 5 years ago]. Yesterday I spoke to him about the subject of much debate in the Free software world right now. Here is a transcript of our conversation.
http://bytesmedia.co.uk/2012/07/17/richard-stallman-uefi/
http://bytesmedia.co.uk/2012/07/17/richard-stallman-uefi/
With yesterday's updates, Canonical made some changes to the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system, regarding the Date and Time Indicator.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-12-10-Allows-Users-to-Sort-Time-Zones-281716.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-12-10-Allows-Users-to-Sort-Time-Zones-281716.shtml
As Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) continues to grow in academic, government, and commercial sectors, one might wonder just who are the current movers and shakers of the Linux HPC industry and community? These days those pushing the HPC market and the technology are not necessarily pushing top performance, but rather expanding and improving HPC application spaces. There is new steering group being developed by Intersect360 that is inviting HPC users to help shape the future of the market and community Maybe you know someone who should apply. In fact, it could be you! Let's make sure Linux gets represented!
http://www.clustermonkey.net/Select-News/are-you-leading-the-hpc-charge.html
http://www.clustermonkey.net/Select-News/are-you-leading-the-hpc-charge.html
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.3
Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nginx-with-php5-and-php-fpm-and-mysql-support-on-centos-6.3
http://www.howtoforge.com/installing-nginx-with-php5-and-php-fpm-and-mysql-support-on-centos-6.3
Steam on Linux may be a lot closer than you think, with the announcement of Steam for Ubuntu just the tip of the iceberg
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/build-games-for-steam-on-linux-right-now/
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/build-games-for-steam-on-linux-right-now/
The two types of user accounts are Administrator and Standard. The user account created during the installation process is, by default, of the Administrator type. That is the superuser. A user with that account can perform any task on the system.
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/17/how-to-add-and-manage-users-in-pear-linux-5/
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2012/07/17/how-to-add-and-manage-users-in-pear-linux-5/
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: ApacheCon Europe 2012: Call For Papers announced
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that the Call For Papers for this year's upcoming ApacheCon Europe event is now open. The ASF's official European user conference will take place from 5 to 9 November at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in Sinsheim, Germany.
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ApacheCon-Europe-2012-Call-For-Papers-announced-1643961.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/ApacheCon-Europe-2012-Call-For-Papers-announced-1643961.html/from/rss
Pidgin is a nice chatting client that is pre-installed in a lot of Linux distributions. Pidgin supports many chat platforms like yahoo, facebook, irc, AIM ... but unfortunately, the popular social network Twitter is not on this list.
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/07/how-to-use-pidgin-to-tweet.html
http://www.linuxandlife.com/2012/07/how-to-use-pidgin-to-tweet.html
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Subject: 5 Interesting Things You Can Do With PostgreSQL
One could write thousands of pages about all the features PostgreSQL offers. Instead, let's take a look at five features that are particularly interesting and find out where PostgreSQL sits in relation to other open source and proprietary database systems. PostgreSQL has a lot more to offer than might be immediately obvious.
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/75646.html
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/75646.html
Teresa W, Docs & Drive Community Manager, of Google assures, Google Drive for Linux remains a priority for the team. Thanks for following up with us!
http://www.muktware.com/3938/google-drive-linux-still-priority
http://www.muktware.com/3938/google-drive-linux-still-priority
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Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00 EST
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Subject: How to change Thunderbird's date format in Date column
A quick tip on how to change Thunderbird's date format in Date column to match your system's locale
http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linux/357-how-to-change-thunderbirds-date-format-in-date-column
http://www.my-guides.net/en/guides/linux/357-how-to-change-thunderbirds-date-format-in-date-column
Linux Deepin, one of the most active community distributions in China, today released its version 12.06 that was originally scheduled for the end of last month. This project employs a half-year release cycle and is highly attractive to Chinese university students. The desktop environment in this release is Deepin GNOME Shell, which is the GNOME Shell adapted to the way users prefer to manage the desktop. Three extensions for Hide Message Tray, Kimpanel, and Panel Settings are introduced for better GUI experience.
http://www.chrishaney.com/?linux&release=Deepin%2012.06
http://www.chrishaney.com/?linux&release=Deepin%2012.06
The most common mistake that new SSD users tend to make is installing a new Linux distro or replacing the current one without secure erase it first.
http://www.unixmen.com/secure-erase-your-ssd/
http://www.unixmen.com/secure-erase-your-ssd/
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Subject: OSI Announces It Will Open the Organization to Individual Members
Wednesday, July 17, at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announced a new initiative to open up the organization to individual members. Historically, the organization was open only to affiliate members, so this announcement marks a significant new direction for the open-source advocate. The shift represents a move from a governance model of volunteer and self-appointed directors to one driven by members.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/osi-announces-it-will-open-organization-individual-members
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/osi-announces-it-will-open-organization-individual-members
Sam Lantinga "Slouken" - co-founder and former lead developer at Loki Software, founder of Simple DirectMedia Layer, longtime development and engineering leader at Blizzard, joins Valve. Sam Lantinga announced it on the mailing-list of SDL.org recently.
http://steamforlinux.com/?q=en/node/65
http://steamforlinux.com/?q=en/node/65
Yii is a high-performance, component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications rapidly. This tutorial will learn you how to install it on Ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux distribution. Full article: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/how-to-install-yii-framework-in-xampp-on-ubuntu-linux/
http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/how-to-install-yii-framework-in-xampp-on-ubuntu-linux/
http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/how-to-install-yii-framework-in-xampp-on-ubuntu-linux/
Linux Tycoon is a management game set in the world of the Linux distributions. We will have to create our distribution with the goal of making it the most used and famous in the world. An interesting thing of this game is the economical plan that its author Bryan Lunduke is “testing”, getting paid by the community for working on open source projects, the goal is to get 4.000 $ in donations every month. In the first month (June 2012) he reached the goal in just 1 week, and so he released this game and other projects he’s working on as GPL software, but sadly just the following month he made a sad post on his blog “Open Source Funded By Donations? Not So Much” where in short he wrote ; Unfortunately things didn’t quite work out.
http://linuxaria.com/article/linux-game-linux-tycoon?lang=en
http://linuxaria.com/article/linux-game-linux-tycoon?lang=en
You might think that your phone is open, but even Android, Tizen and Firefox OS all depend upon highly proprietary code bases for making telephone calls and transferring data. When it comes to these fundamental capabilities, the open source part of a mobile software stack is only the tip of the iceberg, and behind APIs and simple interfaces for voice, SMS and data lies the technology that makes wireless communications possible – and it's far from being open source.
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/How-free-is-my-phone-1634071.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/How-free-is-my-phone-1634071.html/from/rss