It's summer. And frankly, that means no one's all that excited about working. Oh goodness no. In honor of the season of laziness, we've put together a list of some of the most fun open source downloads you can find.
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6 most talked about Linux games
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In your quest to find a good, native and free game for Linux you might have seen long lists of games mentioned on various sites and forums. I’ve compiled a small list of some of the most talked about games for Linux on the internet.
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Novell Launches Linux App Store
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Novell sometime today is expected to launch an app store of sorts called SUSE Gallery. With SUSE Gallery, partners and end users can browse and download SUSE Linux software appliances that fulfill specific business needs.
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Kernel Log: Who’s responsible for troubleshooting and quality assurance?
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Recently, a Red Hat developer got rid of a flaw in an Intel graphics driver, probably for a special corporate customer. For years, the flaw had been a thorn in the side of numerous users of systems with the 945GM chip-set. Now, Theodore 'tytso' Tso has stated in a discussion on LKML that users have to accept more responsibility for troubleshooting and quality assurance.
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Forking KDE 3: Trinity KDE's Timothy Pearson
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To most users, KDE 3 is obsolete, replaced two years ago by the KDE 4 series. Yet, many continue to lament the loss of KDE 3. Trinity KDE had started in order "to keep the KDE 3.5 computing style alive. Recently, I talked via email with Timothy Pearson about the project, its motivations, purposes, and plans.
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Dell Preparing Ubuntu 10.04 Linux Systems
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Plenty of folks are confused about Dell’s commitment to Ubuntu, the Linux distribution promoted by Canonical. In recent days, old rumors about Dell abandoning Ubuntu have returned. But in reality, Dell indicates it is preparing to ship systems with Ubuntu 10.04.
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BeyondTrust Partners with Red Hat for Secure Mission-Critical Linux
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BeyondTrust Software Inc. today announced a formal partnership with Red Hat. BeyondTrust will join Red Hat’s ISV Partner Program and create joint solutions aimed at offering Red Hat users a tightly aligned package of the Privileged Identity Management (PIM) tools needed for mission-critical servers.
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Firefox 'CPU resources' issue better but not gone
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The popular Web browser has had a longstanding CPU (Central Processing Unit) utilization issue that--in some cases--overtaxed the CPU, caused noticeable heat issues in small laptops.
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Clonezilla Live updates underlying OS
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The latest Clonezilla Live release features upgrades to the open source clone system's underlying GNU/Linux operating system, including changing to the 2.6.32-17 Linux kernel and changing the unstable branch of Debian upon which it's based
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Nokia's treatment of MeeGo smartphone UI revealed?
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The one minute, twenty-nine seconds of footage walks us through five parts -- starting up, the "powerful multitasking UI," getting connected, the Ovi Store experience, and the music player -- and as you might imagine, it's the Ovi Store portion that has us feeling like this is a thoroughly Nokia-customized experience.
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Why Ubuntu Linux Is a Good Business Choice
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When you think Linux for business, you should think Ubuntu. Chances are good that if someone walked into your office right now and peeked over your shoulder, they would see a Windows operating system on your computer. But, did you know that you have a choice of something other than Windows for that computer on your desk, and that you have the same choice for the servers in your data center?
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Ailurus 10.07.6 is released and installation instructions included
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Ailurus is a simple application installer, and GNOME tweaker. Ailurus helps to reduce the difficulty people encounter when they are using Linux. Ailurus also promotes other elegant open-source software which has not entered official repository. With 10 developers (engineers and students), Ailurus is being rapidly developed.
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Kongoni GNU/Linux 1.12.3 RC2 (Cicero) is out in the wild
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A major modification done to Kongoni, is moving from the classic kernel, found at kernel.org to the FSF kernel, which has removed all of the non-free firmware. Also removed from git repository any trace of non-free software and firmware. Kongoni now uses GRUB2 as the default boot loader and also has a very good OS detection setup. KDE updated to 4.4.5, GNU IceCat 3.6.8.
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Novell Launching App Store for SUSE Linux Appliances
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Novell is preparing to launch an app store called SUSE Gallery. It's designed to help partners and customers find SUSE Linux software appliances that fulfill specific business application needs. Plus, SUSE Gallery effort shows signs that Novell and VMware will continue their joint attack on Red Hat. Here's the scoop.
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Google fixes critical vulnerabilities in Chrome 5
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Google has released version 5.0.375.125 of Chrome, a security update that addresses three "high" risk vulnerabilities in its WebKit-based browser
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