Tablets to Carve Out Nearly Half of PC Market Next Year

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November 26, 2013

Apple and Samsung will lead the charge but may face challenges from smaller rivals, says research firm Canalys. [Read more]

Distribution Release: NetSecL OS 5.0

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DistroWatch

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November 26, 2013

Yuriy Stanchev has announced the release of NetSecL 5.0, an openSUSE-based, security-oriented distribution with Xfce as the default desktop environment: “It has been a while, but we like to present NetSecL 5.0 which comes with Xfce and is based on openSUSE 12.3. We bring a new installation media…

Ford Races to Create Standard for Connected Cars

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November 26, 2013

Cars are getting smarter, but they’re also getting fragmented, with each manufacturer offering a separate setup for smartphone connectivity. Here’s an update on how Ford is trying to bring the industry together. [Read more]

What Laptops Would You Like To See Tested On Linux?

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November 26, 2013

If you have been curious how a particular laptop is performing on Linux, now is your chance to voice your request as I will be buying two laptops this week for Phoronix testing and benchmarking under Linux…

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Coreboot Lands Hardware Support Improvements

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Phoronix

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November 26, 2013

Google is keeping to their open-source promise and preparing for an onslaught of Chrome OS devices with many changes the past few days being pushed into the Coreboot open-source firmware project widely used by Chromebooks. Besides the Google “Slippy” Chromebook being added this weekend was “Falco”, “Peppy”, and other new hardware support…

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Fedora 20 GNOME Bug Could Reveal Your Password

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November 26, 2013

There’s a peculiar new bug affecting the soon-to-be-released Fedora 20 that could reveal a user’s password when switching between users with the GNOME desktop…

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Microsoft Still Open Sources More Technologies Than Many Think

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ZDNet

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November 26, 2013

Don’t look now, but Microsoft is continuing to open source many of its own technologies, even though it is still competing with Linux and Android vendors.

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Systemd’s Networkd Now Supports Bridging

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November 26, 2013

The latest feature of systemd is its networkd component now supporting network bridging…

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Linux CPU Statistics Explored

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November 26, 2013

Running top can give you a good high level overview of the overall health of your server at the time you are looking at it. One of the most useful statistics presented is the %Cpu line, which is split into eight sections, each representing a possible state of a task using CPU resources. In my previous article on using top, I briefly mentioned three of the eight sections I glance at when troubleshooting a server. Today, I’d like to take a closer look.

Fedora Codecs: installation

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Filippo

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November 26, 2013

Hi. This little guide will explain how to install the most used codecs on fedora using the command line and the rpmfusion repository.

1.  We need the rpmfusion repository installated. If we haven't them, we'll install the free and non-free repository typing:                                               su -c 'yum localinstall â€“nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

2. Now we can install the codecs.                                                      For Gtk: su -c "yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-crystalhd gstreamer1-plugins-bad-freeworld gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free gstreamer1-plugins-good gstreamer1-libav gstreamer1-plugins-ugly"           For Qt:  su -c "yum install xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld k3b-extras-freeworldâ€