Linux doesn’t have a CEO. Consequently, there’s no annual keynote hosted by a charismatic alpha male. But if it did, and if there were a conference covering the first half of this year, the first speech would start with three words: ‘Linux is winning’.
Read more »Astromenace- A 3D space shooter game for Linux
AstroMenace is a modern 3D scrolling space shooter with ship upgrade possibilities. You can improve your ship configuration by installing new weapons, defensive systems, power stations and much more. To improve your ship, you must earn money by destroying throngs of enemies on every level.
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New priorities for Ubuntu?
Ubuntu has come a long way. Now developers need to focus on polishing up this rough gem
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10 People Who Should Use Linux
I’ve been thinking lately that there are actually certain types of people out there that should be using Linux instead of Windows.
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How to setup John the Ripper on a Ubuntu 10.04 MPI Cluster (PDF Docment)
This tutorial show step-by-step how you can setup your own “Super computer cluster” using Ubuntu MPI Cluster from multiple machines with the goal of brutforcing strong encrypted passwords with John the Ripper for academic purposes.
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Red Hat claims fastest growing OS
Red Hat General Manager Max McLaren has told IT Brief that the company has the fastest growing operating system in the world.
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PostgreSQL CHAR(10) conference in July
The CHAR(10) conference will run from the 2nd to the 3rd of July and look at all aspects of clustering, high availability and replication with PostgreSQL
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Cortina: Yet Another Gnome Wallpaper Changer
Few years back, I always lamented that there are few and little wallpaper changer apps for Ubuntu desktop. Fast forward to today, this is no longer the case.
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A new and better Open Source Initiative
When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI.
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Not using desktop Linux? You're wasting your money
If you're not using Linux on the desktop in call center and other fixed-purpose computing environments, you're doing your company a disservice.
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Pardus 2009.2 review
Pardus is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution sponsored and developed by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. It’s not a perfect Linux distribution, but it works – out of the box.
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Google Employee Hacks Windows XP, Shows World How To Do The Same
Google is a pretty smart company, and it employs some pretty smart people. A couple of weeks ago, one of those smart people – security engineer Tavis Ormandy – figured out how to use a bug in Windows XP’s Help and Support Center to hijack PCs through hacked websites. And last week, he decided to show the world how to do it, too.
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Sugar on a Stick v3 Mirabelle released
Sugar Labs has released Sugar on a Stick version 3.0 and the Sugar Creation Kit, a downloadable DVD image that also includes a library of Sugar Activities and documentation
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Mozilla issues final Thunderbird 3.1 release candidate
According to the Mozilla developers, the latest development milestone is considered to be stable and it is expected to be the last release before the final version of Thunderbird 3.1 arrives "around mid-June"
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No Ubuntu for tablets
Ubuntu sponsor Mark Shuttleworth has made clear that rumours circulating in recent days of a special version of Ubuntu Linux for tablets are based on a misunderstanding
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