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...]
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 services providers (CSPs) and third-party hosting companies. But what if Zimbra was available in VMware's new public cloud -- called the vCloud Hybrid Service? Now that could be a game … [Read More...]
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 be used in Ubuntu 13.04 unless you install a patched Unity to support the old systray whitelist.EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space and the files are encrypted using a volume key stored encrypted in the source directory. … [Read More...]
Handbrake 0.9.9 Supports OpenCL Offloading
May 21, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
The Handbrake open-source video transcoder program now supports using OpenCL for accelerating certain operations along with introducing other new features to its brand new 0.9.9 release... 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
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...]
Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Building upon our F2FS file-system benchmarks from earlier in this week is a large comparison of four of the leading Linux file-systems at the moment: Btrfs, EXT4, XFS, and F2FS. With the four Linux kernel … [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
BeagleBone Camera Cape gains Android 4.1.2 support
May 21, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
QuickLogic has released Android 4.1.2 support for its custom Parallel Camera Interface (CAM I/F) chip for TI’s Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 SOC … [Read More...]
QEMU 1.5 Supports VGA Passthrough, Better USB 3.0
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Just three months after the exciting QEMU 1.4 release, QEMU 1.5 is now available with many exciting and new features for those using this open-source software … [Read More...]
Featured Linux Howtos
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...]
Desktop Search Tool `Recoll` Updated With Significant Improvements
May 19, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Recoll is a full text search tool for Linux that comes with a Qt GUI, an Ubuntu Unity Lens and it can also be used via command line. The application can find … [Read More...]
Featured Android
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...]
Sony brings AOSP open-source Android to Xperia Tablet Z
May 20, 2013 By Michael Perks Leave a Comment
Vanilla, open-source Android available for 10-inch tablet on Sony GitHub Like the Xperia Z before it, Sony has announced that it's bringing the Xperia … [Read More...]