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• — Remembering Claire Lotion

     (Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:31)

  Claire LotionThis week we heard about the death of KDE contributor Claire Lotion. People within the KDE Community were shocked and upset by this tragedy.

• — How To Install VMware Player in Sabayon 8

     (Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:34)

  Installing the latest VMware Player in Sabayon 8 with the 3.2 Linux kernel was an absolute pain. There are positively NO recent resources on how to get VMware Player working in Sabayon. So in this article I'm going to share with you how I got VMware Player 4.0.3 working in Sabayon 8.

• — Mandriva Becomes A Community Distribution

     (Sunday, 20 May 2012 21:37)

  The troubled GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva, which continue to survice despite all odds has announced that the development of the once most popular distribution is going back to the community. Mandriva is controlled and developed by Mandriva SA, a French company, just the way Ubuntu is funded and developed by Canonical.

• — Ubuntu more “commercial”, but always free …

     (Sunday, 20 May 2012 20:13)

  Anyone who knows the world Linux will surely heard of Ubuntu. A distribution that has done so much for Linux and the Open Source world itself! In fact, thanks to the hard work of Canonical, Ubuntu is one of the first user-friendly distributions that have brought many people in the Linux world. Especially those most skeptical!But if Ubuntu is a distribution that has done so much in the past, now we must curb our enthusiasm. In fact, for some time now, this same distribution is becoming a lot more criticized by veterans of the Linux world.According to these, in fact, the distribution of Canonical is becoming more and more into a sort of Windows operating system. Of course, always free, but very similar for both choices regarding the publicity of the Operating system that the choices for the operating system itself. If these choices, however, are much discussed at the same time they are having a big success ! And for this reason that doubts arise and that the same Canonical is criticized by the loyal fans of the penguin!

• — Lightspark For Open Flash Inches Forward

     (Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:16)

  While Adobe has abandoned Linux Flash Player support, the open-source Lightspark Flash Player alternative continues to inch forward...