New story! Your smartphone will be smarter with Gecko

Imagine being able to call for help without actually having your phone in your hand -- or how about controlling your phone from the palm of your hand, even if your Android or iOS device is stowed away in your pocket or purse?

New story! Why two-step verification will never work

I spent yesterday testing two-step verification with the best of intentions, but what I learned was that as currently designed it's just too hard. It worked fine on my PC, but every time I tried to use it on my mobile device, it went haywire and I shut it down. Too bad too because the password is clearly not enough.

New story! X.Org Server 1.15 RC Brings Multiple New Features

Keith Packard put out the first release candidate to X.Org Server 1.15 this morning. The merge window is now over and a number of new features ended up getting merged for this delayed released...

New story! Your Take On Microsoft’s Direction

On October 2nd, we ran a poll and asked our readers, mostly free software devotees, to pick from a list of seven statements the one that best described where Microsoft would be five years from now.

New story! AMD Driver To Enabling RadeonSI Tiling By Default

With a proposed change to the xf86-video-ati X.Org DDX driver, tiling support will be enabled by default for Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" hardware by default in order to boost performance...

New story! Fedora 20 delayed by bugs

Today in Open Source: Fedora 20 delayed by bugs. Plus: Kwheezy 1.3 screenshot tour, and how to install Ubuntu 13.10

New story! November 2013 Issue of Linux Journal: System Administration

Here at Linux Journal, we love system administrators. Partially, that's because many of us are system administrators, but more than that, we all realize just how important sysadmins are to any organization—and how overlooked they usually are.

New story! AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D Is Improving, But Catalyst Is Much Better

After last week delivering a Linux hardware review of the AMD Radeon R9 270X graphics card with the binary Catalyst driver on Ubuntu, and then yesterday looking at the Radeon Gallium3D driver posing a threat to Catalyst when using the mature "R600g" driver on HD 5000/600 series hardware, up today are new open vs. closed-source benchmarks. In this article we're looking at the performance of the Radeon R9 270X GPU when using the Ubuntu 13.10 open-source graphics stack, then when upgrading to Mesa 10.0 with Linux 3.12 DPM, and then comparing those numbers to the proprietary Catalyst Linux graphics driver.

New story! MakuluLinux 4.0 Screenshot Tour

This is a solo Xfce build, focusing on bringing Xfce visually on par with modern desktop environments while at the same time keeping stability and speed a top priority. This is our 4th release and a major stepping stone as we have moved away from Ubuntu and moved completely to Debian as a base for this and future versions. This version is built from scratch and has undergone extensive testing while using it on a daily basis. Major changes since 3.0: rolling release; upgraded kernel to 3.10.3; extremely stable and fast; single desktop environment (Xfce upgraded to 4.10); easy to use traditional style environment; complete new look (themes, icons, decorations, wallpaper, lots of customisations); featuring complete out-of-the-box pre-installed software, codecs, Flash player and games.

New story! The Halloween Documents: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Strategy 15 Years Later

It's been 15 years since leaked memos revealed Microsoft's anti-Linux and open source strategy. Here's how it failed.

New story! Open source under the hood of the U.S. electrical grid

The United States energy grid is composed of many moving and non-moving cyber security assets that all have to, to some degree, speak the same language. The language of machine-to-machine communications has become big business lately, however devices that control how the power gets from the plant to your light switch have been talking their talk for many years.

New story! OLPC and Datawind to collaborate on £50 solar-powered tablet

One Laptop per Child, the education not-for-profit that provides cheap low-cost laptops to children in developing countries, is building a new device in partnership with Datawind, makers of the $50 (£29) Aakash tablets.

New story! Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? Get weird, go ALTERNATIVE

It's hard to believe, looking at the modern computing world, but there is still more to life than Windows or Unix… and today, most of the alternatives run on vanilla x86 hardware and are free. Most of them need considerably lower resources than the market-leaders, too, so an old PC is ideal for trying them out. VMs are fine, but you can't get a real feel for an operating system until you've installed it on bare metal.

New story! Sabayon Forums Hacked, All Usernames, Passwords, and Emails Compromised

  • Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie (Posted by thesilviu on Nov 1, 2013 6:04 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Sabayon wiki, forum, and bugzilla installations have been hacked by an unknown party and all the usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords have been compromised.

New story! Puppet Server's Resources Cheat Sheet with Examples

Puppet is an open source configuration management tool from Puppet Labs.Puppet Resources are the building blocks that puppet uses to model system configurations.

New story! Arch Linux 2013.11.01 Is Now Available for Download

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Nov 1, 2013 4:09 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Arch
Yet another ISO image of the powerful Arch Linux operating system has been released today, November 1, 2013, by the Arch Linux developers.

New story! Should you buy a preloaded Linux system?

Today in Open Source: Preloaded Linux systems? Plus: Android Kit Kat missing features, and Microsoft's commitment to open source

New story! Service-backed Cortex-A9 SBC starts at $99

Via Technologies announced a line of ARM-based Via Springboard SBCs supported with Android and Linux BSPs, and support services from prototyping to pre-production testing and diagnostics. The first Springboard is the $99, Pico-ITX-based VAB-600, built around a Via WM8950 SoC with a single 800MHz Cortex-A9 core, and featuring an I/O extender card and an optional […]

New story! Installing Ubuntu 13.10

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Nov 1, 2013 1:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
The following tutorial will teach you how to install the Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) operating system on your personal computer, netbook, or laptop.

New story! 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros 11-1-13

  • Ness Software Engineering Services Blog; By Ron Miller (Posted by rsmiller on Nov 1, 2013 12:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial, Roundups
This week, we discuss cloud migration myths, if BlackBerry and Secusmart thwarted US surveillance of Chancellor Merkel and focusing completely on UX.

New story! Fedora 20 Has Been Delayed Yet Again

The release of Fedora 20 has been delayed by another week -- both the due-out beta and the final release -- over unresolved bugs...

New story! Fed up with Windows? Linux too easy? Get weird, go ALTERNATIVE

It's hard to believe, looking at the modern computing world, but there is still more to life than Windows or Unix… and today, most of the alternatives run on vanilla x86 hardware and are free.

New story! Rolf Sommerhalder: Developing my own Linux Distribution

Rolf Sommerhalder has already written on my blog about his life in Linux and his favourite Desktop Environments. This time round, he decided to let us know about his own distribution he uses. This is guest post on Linux Notes from DarkDuck.

New story! The five things you need to know about Android 4.4: KitKat

  • ZDNet | Linux And Open Source Blog RSS; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by Ridcully on Nov 1, 2013 8:18 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Android, Linux
The latest version of Google's Android Linux-based operating system is out. Here's what you need to know about it today.

New story! BirdFont: An Open Source, Free Graphical Font Creater And Editor

BirdFont is a free, Open Source font editor written by Johan Mattsson using Vala programming language. It lets you create vector graphics and export TTF, EOT & SVG fonts. It is available for Windows, Linux, Mac and OpenBSD platforms.

New story! Setup Web-based Help Desk System Using SiT! On Debian 7 Wheezy

SiT!, Support Incident Tracker, is a Free, Open Source web based ‘Help Desk’ or ‘Support Ticket System’ application which uses PHP and MySQL for tracking technical support calls/emails. SiT! can be used to manage contacts, sites, technical support contracts and support incidents in one place. Also we can send emails directly from SiT!, attach files and record every communication in the incident log.

New story! Linux 3.12, Ubuntu Spooked Users This Month

This month on Phoronix there was a heck of a lot of Linux and open-source content: there were over 32 featured-length articles (more than one per day) and 262 news stories (more than eight stories per day) written by your's truly. The Linux 3.12 kernel and Ubuntu / Mir activity were the most popular happenings of October.

New story! Howto- Configure Ubuntu 13.10 behind Proxy with Authentification Required

Configure your Ubuntu 13.10 to work behind a proxy

New story! How to Control Your Linux PC with an Android Device

The following tutorial will teach all Linux users how to install SSH on their systems, in order to access their computers remotely from an Android tablet of smartphone.

New story! Adding watermarks to documents

  • Field notes of an audacious amateur (Posted by wayover13 on Nov 1, 2013 2:35 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
I'll describe my recent success with adding watermarks to a document. As often happens when I want to do a quick document or need to work on a .doc file, I turned to LibreOffice for this task. The major part of this post, then, will be occupied with how to add watermarks to documents created in or edited with LibreOffice/OpenOffice.

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