On February 14th, Valentine's Day, Free Software Foundation Europe asks all Free Software users to show their appreciation for Free Software. FSFE suggests to take this day as an opportunity to say "thank you" to one of the dedicated hard-working people in the Free Software community.
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How To Install Cinnamon Desktop On Fedora 18
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This tutorial shows how you can install Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 18. Since it has now been included in the repositories this can now be done quite quickly. Fedora's default desktop at the moment is GNOME 3.
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KDE Akademy and Qt Contributor Summit Join Forces
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In July 2013, Akademy — the KDE community summit — will host the Qt Contributor Summit (QtCS) in Bilbao, Spain. QtCS is THE gathering of the Qt Project contributor community. It will take place July 15th and 16th in the middle of the KDE Akademy conference week (13-19 July). By co-hosting, KDE and the Qt Project will increase their existing collaboration even further.
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Python Software Foundation in trademark fight in Europe
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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is calling for help from companies in Europe to help with a trademark problem with a UK company. The non-profit is setting out to oppose an EU community trademark application for the name "Python" for all computer-related uses, but needs the help of the Python community to do so.
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What about the PengPod tablet?
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A relatively new name in the tablet-space is PengPod, made by Peacock Imports, a Florida, US-based outfit. The PengPod tablet runs Linux on ARM/Allwinner SoC hardware.
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NeonView 0.8.0 Image Viewer Released With Many New Features
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For this new release the code has been completely rewritten and NeonView was ported to GTK+ 3. There is a rather big list of changes, some of the most important including a completely redesigned interface, two sidebar panels for thumbnail previews and image information, rewritten code for parsing the config file, redesigned settings window, and a whole bunch of new fixes and improvements.
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Installing And Using OpenVZ On Scientific Linux 6.3
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In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Scientific Linux 6.3 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers.
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This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.10) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 12.10 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.
Read more »Ubuntu to continue installing spyware
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Shuttleworth, the head of Ubuntu confirmed spyware will be included in the Ubuntu default install also in the future. Partners receiving the data include Amazon and Facebook. The privacy concerns brought up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) are ignored. Time to say goodbye to Ubuntu.
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Install Steam client on Fedora 18
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Since everybody seems to be Steam-ing and the Steam client is not in the default Fedora 18 repository,
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Sabayon 11 GNOME, KDE, MATE, and Xfce preview
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This article provides screen shots from test installations of the released desktop environments – GNOME 3, KDE, MATE, and Xfce.
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Built-in PDF reader for Firefox released
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Firefox PDF reader for Firefox Web browser might just be the add-on that put Adobe’s acrobat PDF reader out of business.
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Ubuntu on tablets: Who’s on board?
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Ubuntu on tablets is the latest Ubuntu platform from Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux distribution. Barely two months ago, the company announced Ubuntu for smartphones. Before that, was Ubuntu for TV and before that, too, was Ubuntu for Android.
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Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Fedora 18
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Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 18 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.
Read more »Chromebook Pixel: Wow!
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With the same type of touch-screen available on most smartphones – Gorilla® Glass from Qualcomm, the Chromebook Pixel is a touch ahead other touch-capable computers available. But all that high-end features and higher-end price tag means this is not one Chromebook I’m going to buy just to see if I can install my favorite Linux distribution on it.
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