Planetary Annihilation was already awesome for the sheer scale of the game and the fact that it's on Linux means we finally have a big RTS game. The developers have just released a brand new build containing a single-player mode called "Galactic War"....
AMD’s “Bald Eagle” R-Series processors offer four 3.6GHz “Steamroller” cores with Heterogeneous System Architecture support, plus Mentor Embedded Linux. AMD has a dual-platform strategy for embedded: G-Series on the low end and R-Series on the high end. Now, the chipmaker has launched a second generation of AMD Embedded R-series processors in both CPU and APU (accelerated processing unit) variants,...
On Wednesday morning, tech sector lobbyists thought they were in the final stages of pushing through a hard-fought compromise on patent reform. "Tuesday night it was moving forward, Wednesday morning it was moving forward," said Julie Samuels, director of Engine, a group that lobbies for startups. "Then I looked at Twitter and there was a tweet saying it was dead. What the hell?"...
In today's open source roundup: The Blue Pup distro offers a Windows-like Metro interface. Plus: The open source Novena laptop, and a review of VortexBox 2.3....
This week, we look at the growing competition for your cloud dollars, how Google has chosen to back Netflix in its battle with Comcast over resources and Microsoft's new open licensing plan for Azure. ...
Installing Guest Additions And Mounting Shared Folders In Virtualbox Virtual Machines In PHPVirtualbox In this tutorial I will introduce some tips & tricks while using the phpvirtualbox. These tricks make phpvirtualbox functionality better & much more fruitful. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!...
The Chakra team is proud to announce the first release of Chakra 'Descartes' series which will follow the 4.13 KDE releases. This new release includes new features and updates as follows: KDE Software Compilation - the latest stable version of the KDE series; Nepomuk search has been replaced by Baloo, we have implemented a patch that permits the user to disable Baloo; Chakra Tools are fully translated...
In my last article, I started a series called Command-Line Cloud. The intent ofthe series is to discuss how to use the cloud services we are facedwith these days without resorting to a Web browser. I spend most of mytime on the command line, so that's where I'd most like to interface withcloud services. ...
Configure Linux to use NTLM authentication proxy (ISA Server) using CNTLMCntlm is an NTLM / NTLM Session Response / NTLMv2 authenticating HTTP proxy intended to help you break free from the chains of Microsoft proprietary world. You can use a free OS and honor our noble idea, but you can't hide. Once you're behind those cold steel bars of a corporate proxy server requiring NTLM authentication,...
We had a great April at Opensource.com bringing in 373,457 page views and 206,314 unique visits. During the month, we announced the recipients of the Opensource.com Community Awards, receiving heartfelt praise from one of the winners. Here is a roundup of articles....
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing series looks like it will be heading to Linux. The news comes thanks to a lucky post on their Steam forum about the second game....
This week we look at the unsettling of prospect of a founding company putting itself up for sale, explore the basic components of an OpenStack project and hear from OpenStack foundation chair Alan Clark on what goes on at the OpenStack board meeting....
Sometimes using Windows is a necessary evil. A lot of office environments still use Windows, and sometimes you’ll need Windows- specific applications and software if you want to work from home. There’s also the problem of developing cross-platform apps – constantly switching between operating systems is time- consuming and can, frankly, get tiring. The solution to a lot of these issues is to never...
Selecting and operating on a subset of items from a list or group is a very common idiom in programming. Python provides several built-in ways to do this task efficiently. Python Filtering 1. Python Filter Function The built-in filter() function operates on any iterable type (list, tuple, string, etc). It takes a function and an […] Read More: 9 Python Filter Function and List Comprehension Examples...
X Distro is a new Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution which focuses on being attractive and easy to use. The project is controlled by its community, organizations and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking...
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 14.04LTS (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on anUbuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support....
Mint 17 is a good, solid desktop that Linux and Windows XP users alike will feel at home in....
The administration in the Austrian capital, Vienna, is expanding its use of open source solutions, including on its workstations, because of new requirements, open data, budget constraints and the major shift towards smartphones and tablets."Open source helps to solve IT vendor lock-in situations", Norbert Weidinger, ICT-Strategist for the city, said in a presentation on the city's use of free...
Having an excellent base from which to build, LXLE releases can head straight into beta testing thanks to the superb work already performed by Canonical and their LXDE desktop team a.k.a. Lubuntu. The LXLE 14.04 release attempts to continue some successful ideas portrayed in the 12.04 series, addresses known issues and bugs, and attempts to fulfill known shortcomings of the OS. This first beta of LXLE...
For many years we've written about the serious problems with CAFC, the court of appeals for the federal circuit, which is better known as the appeals court where all patent cases go. CAFC was created in the early 1980s under the belief that a more "specialized" court could better handle the more complicated technical issues related to patents. But what really happened is that it basically built a club...