Have you always wanted to set up your own music station to stream your latest music collection to your friends or colleagues? Have you been thinking lately of setting up an always-on music streaming server so that you can just open up your web browser and listen to your favorite tracks?
Read more »Netbooks still hot, but tablets starting to cut in, says study
First quarter global notebook PC revenues grew to $31.1 billion, representing a 31 percent year-to-year increase, says DisplaySearch. Leading the way were mini-note PCs (netbooks), and slates (tablets), which together grew 56.4 percent year-over-year, but tablets may soon start cutting into netbook sales, says the study.
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Heroes of Newerth - Charge!
Linux games are many and varied. You can find pretty much anything you need, from simple arcades via racing all the way to expansive and elaborate tactical shooters. Still, one aspect of the Linux gaming scene is underplayed, this being the Real Time Strategy (RTS). However, that is about to change.
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Digium Partner Program Shows More Asterisk Momentum
Digium is taking new steps to promote SwitchVOX unified communications and Asterisk -- the open source IP PBX -- to partners. And the efforts seem to be gaining more momentum. Here are the details.
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THE PROTECTING CYBERSPACE AS A NATIONAL ASSET ACT OF 2010
The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010 - introduced by Senators Lieberman, Collins, and Carper - will modernize the government's ability to safeguard the nation's cyber networks from attack and will establish a public/private partnership to set national cyber security priorities and improve national cyber security defenses.
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openSUSE 11.3 RC1 is available
Please fasten your seat belts, the touch down area is in sight we do have clear view and smooth weather conditions. So we expect a smooth landing for the release of openSUSE 11.3 on July 15, 2010. Let’s polish and fine-tune openSUSE 11.3 now. Get the RC1 from our software portal right now!
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Linux Desktop Stigma Draws Ire and Fire
Is it true that, if you speak up for GNU/Linux on the Desktop, you get flamed? I just had a virtual conversation with someone who claims that this assertion is fact.
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Scenari – A powerful application to create and publish documents
scenari is making it easy, understand take care of most of the tech stuff and I can concentrate on the course content, the outline, the exercises or tests I wish student to perform etc. On the teaching method and pedagogy, basically.
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Pay what you want for Kiddix OS
From Microsoft Bob to Edubuntu there have been a number of attempts at making computers of various sorts easier and more useful for young people. Another participant in this space is Kiddix.
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Scientific Linux 5.5 Screenshots
Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.5 was released yesterday featuring the Linux kernel 2.6.18, OpenAFS client 1.4.12, and X.Org 7.1. Popular applications included in this release; GIMP 2.2.13, OpenOffice.org 3.1.1, Firefox 3.0.19, Thunderbird 2.0.0.24.
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Nice fallbacks
There was a kernel upgrade today, so I updated everything and rebooted. Upon reboot I found that xorg failed to start. Luckily I have screen, mutt, elinks, irssi, wget and a few other CLI apps installed to get things done in case xorg breaks.
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SyncEvolution 1.0 now with built-in SyncML server
Following several betas, the SyncEvolution development team have released version 1.0 of the SyncEvolution synchronisation tool, which no longer requires a third-party SyncML server, as it is now able to act as a SyncML server
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Virtualization With KVM On A Fedora 13 Server
This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a Fedora 13 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g.
Read more »Boot-Up Manager (BUM) - Graphical runlevel editor
The scripts located in /etc/init.d are part of the bootup sequence of every Debian-like distro. Very often Ubuntu's documentation and guides have suggested - in order to deactivate init scripts - to change the permissions of the scripts in /etc/init.d, making them non-executable. This will have the following consequences:
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The Unity Panel Won't Allow Any Kind Of Customizations [Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10]
This was something pretty much obvious, but now Mark Shuttleworth confirmed it: the Unity panel won't allow any kind of customizations. That means not only that you won't be able to add/edit applets like in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 (which could be easily "fixed"), but the user won't even be able to right click the applets to move them or whatever - nothing will happen upon right-clicking.
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