Review: Kubuntu 13.04
May 21, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
It is time to test the third sibling in the Ubuntu family, the one named Kubuntu. So far, we've had Ubuntu, which was somewhat bland. Then we also had Xubuntu, which worked like a charm, except for a kernel oops thingie affecting the entire range, a silly thing to coincide with the official release. The KDE version is next. … [Read More...]
Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write
May 22, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the instant messaging service, those URLs receive an unannounced visit from Microsoft HQ in Redmond. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Skype 4.2 For Linux Released With Minor Improvements And Bug Fixes
May 22, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Skype 4.2 for Linux has been released today and it includes various bug fixes, increased stability when using a Microsoft Account, optimized Voice messaging as well as some minor new features.Changes in the latest Skype 4.2 for Linux:add subscription status and link to the account brief view in the main window;increased the stability when logging in from a Microsoft Account;add a button to enable … [Read More...]
Raspberry Pi Gets New Wayland Weston Renderer
May 22, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
After working on the Raspberry Pi support for Wayland/Weston, Pekka Paalanen has announced a new "rpi-renderer" for the low-cost ARM development board... Phoronix … [Read More...]
Video Review: openSUSE 12.3
April 23, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
What do you think openSUSE's target audience is?== A review of openSUSE 12.3 featuring the KDE desktop. Overall, a polished release with some powerful conf... Video Rating: 4 / 5 … [Read More...]
Today’s Linux News
Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write
May 22, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this … [Read More...]
VMware Cloud and Zimbra Open Source Email: Countering Microsoft Office 365?
May 21, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
What if VMware (NYSE:VMW) and its Zimbra email business countered Microsoft (NYSE:MSFT) and Office 365 -- plus Google Apps? At first that sounds far fetched. Zimbra is widely available from multiple cloud … [Read More...]
Linux Top 3: Mageia 3, Linux Mint 15 and New Linux Kernels for All
May 21, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Some forks do better than others. In the case of the Madriva fork known as Mageia, it's doing quite well, this week releasing its third major update in less than three years. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Mageia 3 out, no more delays
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Mageia 3 has finally been released after a two week delay, fixing the installation bugs of the release candidate, and bringing with it updates and refinements over Mageia 2 LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Door Kickers from KillHouse Games heading to Linux soon!
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Door Kickers is an innovative Real-Time Tactics game that puts you in charge of a SWAT team. With your help we can make this The Ultimate Swat Team Command Simulator. LXer Linux News … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Reviews
Review: Ubuntu 13.04
April 25, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
The Canonical developers seem to present more work onUbuntu touch to be employed than with traditional Linux distribution: The technical innovations that … [Read More...]
Review: openSUSE 12.3
April 15, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
I will show you if and how openSUSE 12.3 can redeem itself. Naturally, we will go with the KDE desktop, because Gnome is not an option anymore. My test box will … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Hardware
TI OMAP5432 dev kit boasts Linux and Android support
May 22, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Texas Instruments (TI) introduced a development kit for designs based on the TI OMAP5432 SOC (system-on-chip), which integrates dual 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A15 … [Read More...]
Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.0 “Utsira” Released
May 22, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Phoronix Test Suite 4.6.0 (codenamed "Utsira") has been officially released today with compiler improvements, support for the HHVM virtual machine, BSD support … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Howtos
Gnome Encfs Manager: Cryptkeeper Alternative With Ubuntu AppIndicator Support
May 21, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Gnome Encfs Manager (GencfsM) is a tool to manage EncFS filesystems. The tool is a great alternative to Cryptkeeper (but with some extra features), which can't … [Read More...]
Get Better Linux Desktop Performance And More With pf-kernel
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
pf-kernel is a custom Linux Kernel that comes with some popular patches not merged into the mainline Kernel, such as:-ck patchset with BFS CPU scheduler: Con … [Read More...]
Featured Android
Google’s subscription music streaming service coming to iPhone and iPad – unofficially
May 21, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Google took the wraps off of its subscription music streaming service last week at its I/O Developers Conference. To the dismay of many, Google Play Music All … [Read More...]
Google+ for Android updated with new photo enhancements, improved location sharing
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Official Google+ app hits version 4.0 with Snapseed photo tools and more Following on from the 41 new Google+ features announced at Google I/O last week, Google … [Read More...]