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There's no official announcement on the Linux Mint website, yet the ISO images for Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) are aready available on the official Linux Mint mirrors.We've talked to Clement Lefebvre and he told us that these are the final ISO builds of Linux Mint 12. "Yes, but it's not official yet :) Regards, Clement Lefebvre". Linux Mint 12 (Lisa) is based on the recently released Ubuntu

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1) Linux will behave like Windows. The misconception that one OS acts just like another makes me crazy. It's like me going from a Toyota Prius to a sixteen wheeler "big rig" and expecting it to handle exactly the same. The fact of the matter is that the Linux desktop has no singular way of presenting itself. That's the power behind Linux on the desktop. It can be customized for different needs

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Last week, I wrote a little item titled "Nine traits of the veteran Unix admin." Had I known that a few hundred thousand people would read it in just a few days, I might have put on a clean shirt or something. Regardless, I'm sorry I stopped at nine. I had at least fifteen, but it was already a long post. The most interesting aspect of the feedback I received was that the vast majority of

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The Romanian software developer Bogdan Vatra has announced a first alpha version of his Qt implementation for the Android mobile operating system. The release might be timed just right for many developers, since Nokia has, in the context of its cooperation with Microsoft, announced that it does not intend to develop a Windows Phone variant of the GUI framework. On the other hand, more than a few

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The new implementation of the Open NFC (Near Field Communications) API will be available for download in a few weeks, with Inside Secure claiming that its abstraction layer makes the stack more hardware independent than its competition. And it's also compatible with Android version 2.4. That claim is more surprising when you consider that Android 2.4 has yet to be announced, however. Given

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After more than two long years of constant developement, changes, last-minute modifications and many improvements, Debian Squeeze version 6.0 has finally been released today. This new kernel release comes with many updates and new features, and it includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the Debian GNOME, Xfce and the LXDE desktop environment. Debian's new release of its operating

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When Ubuntu first appeared, the free and open source software (FOSS) community was delighted. Suddenly, here was a distribution with the definite goal of usability, headed by a former space tourist who not only understood computer programming but had the money to throw at problems. The only objections were that Ubuntu was ripping off Debian, the source of most of its packages. For everyone else,

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A German Internet security researcher was successful in tapping into Amazon's Cloud Computing Services to crack open WiFi passwords in a fraction of the time and for a tiny percentage of the cost of using his own equipment. Thomas Roth used custom software running on Amazon's Elastic Compute (EC) Cloud service to break into a WPA-PSK protected network in under 21 minutes. With improvements to

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Intel says it will gain access to Nvidia's patents while paying the graphics chip supplier $1.5 billion in licensing fees as part of a new six-year agreement. Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang reiterated today that ARM processors are the future. For the future use of Nvidia's technology, Intel will pay Nvidia an aggregate of $1.5 billion in licensing fees payable in five annual installments, beginning

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The Linux and open source community is asking a German competition law regulator to fully investigate the acquisition of patents owned by Novell by a consortium led by Microsoft that includes Apple, Oracle and EMC. U.S.-based open source advocacy body the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has said it was informed that the German Federal Cartel Office was "open to receive comments from the

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OSI is primarily known for being the keeper of the flame for the Open Source Definition (OSD) & approving licenses that meet the definition. But members of the self-appointed OSI board, in particular Simon Phipps, have stated they need to nudge OSI into becoming a more active organization with an actual representative membership structure. So far, little has happened, but this is at least a

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Parted Magic 5.8 is out and comes with a bunch of updates and some new packages. The latest version is mostly a bug-fixing release and doesn't  add any new features. It comes with a brand-new Linux kernel and the latest version of the Gnome Partition Editor. Parted magic 5.8 also allows the whole ISO picture to be loaded in to RAM. "After several months of work, a brand new version is

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Often when we are preparing for cross-distribution comparisons or benchmarks of different operating systems (like our recent Mac OS X 10.6 vs. Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 benchmarks) we are often asked to include Arch Linux in the mix. This is usually on the basis of including a rolling-release distribution to provide a performance look at a constantly evolving distribution with many of the

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So I got my new laptop ready for a hardcore multi-boot install, and one of the distributions I’ve always wanted to test is Archbang. I’ve tried Arch before and installed it a couple of times just for fun, both in a virtual environment and on disk, but haven’t been serious about it. It was just to practice the installation and play around. A couple of months back Archbang caught my

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As Ubuntu 10.10, or "Maverick Meerkat," hits the streets this Sunday, it's a pretty safe bet that legions of existing Ubuntu users will be updating to the new release. After all, it looks to be Canonical's most user-friendly Ubuntu Linux yet, and many of the new features promise to be must-haves.For those in the business world who haven't yet tried Ubuntu, however, the reasons to download and

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The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is here with a ton of improvements. I think, it's time to stop talking about the great strides Ubuntu 10.10 has made on the usability fronts and lets just concentrate on the things you need to do and you could do with the new Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat". Update Repositories Every time you install a brand new Ubuntu, the

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Newest is not always best. Take the Ubuntu 10.10 release that came out on October 10th. Ubuntu users who are happy with their current release may want to hold off before taking the plunge. The Ubuntu 10.04 release was very solid, with a lot of major improvements that made it a no-brainer for an upgrade. That, plus the fact that it’s a Long Term Support (LTS) release, which is the right time to

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You may have read and enjoyed my recent article "C++ Snippets: Converting Hexidecimal Values to Decimal Values." In that article, I briefly discussed a secret project that I have undertaken that will eventually result in my first GUI application for GNU/Linux, Windows, and perhaps even MacOS. At that time, I said that I could not reveal the exact nature of the program. I still cannot reveal the

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There have been a slew of new articles detailing the progress of work on GNOME 3, and the refrain in all of them has been that "GNOME 3 will revolutionize the desktop". The focus on GNOME 3, ever since the release of the first mock-ups, has been on the new GNOME Shell and GNOME Activities (which are really just two sides of the same coin). The thing is, GNOME Activities has essentially the same

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During OpenOffice.org's tenth anniversary, Oracle announced it will participate in ODF Plugfest, one of the conferences aimed at furthering the Open Document Format interoperability, held October 14 - 15 in Brussels . Oracle also stated they would continue developing, improving, and releasing OpenOffice.org as open source software. As ODF celebrates its fifth anniversary,

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