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Distribution Releases: OS4 OpenLinux 13.7, OS4 4.1.4

Roberto Dohnert has announced the release of OS4 OpenLinux 13.7 and also OS4 4.1.4 “Enterprise” edition: “Today we are pleased to announce the release of OS4 OpenLinux 13.7 and OS4 Enterprise Linux 4.1.4. OS4 OpenLinux 13.7 is our updated KDE release that we provide for users. With OS4….

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Apple’s iOS Still More Secure Than Android Despite Spoof of App Store

A team at Georgia Tech reports that it was able to upload a fake malware app to the Apple App Store. However, this event doesn’t mean that Android is now the better choice when it comes to security.

Samsung Eyes Four New Phones, Reveals Shipping Document

The phones will range in screen size from 4 inches to 5.2 inches. [Read more]

 



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Who’s Afraid of Linux Malware?

There once was a time when Windows users could feel relatively safe and secure as they made their online excursions around the World Wide Web. Those days ended relatively quickly, of course, followed soon afterwards by a similar waning of confidence on the Mac side. For those of us who prefer Linux, however, the Age of Innocence — as one might call it — has lasted much longer. Indeed, the recent discovery of the “Hand of Thief” Trojan has brought that fact to the forefront of many users’ minds.

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Development Release: Manjaro Linux 0.8.7 RC3

The third release candidate of Manjaro Linux 0.8.7, a set of Arch-based desktop Linux distributions, has been unleashed: “The Manjaro developers team is happy to announce our third release candidate of Manjaro Linux 0.8.7, which we will release by the end of this Month. To make the installation….

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Hacking on Tizen Produces Several Apps

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Fresh out of five days at OSCON and all the fun events around Portland that week, a group of devoted hackers came to our Tizen Devlab and Hack to check out Tizen‘s open source, HTML5-based mobile OS, which is being brought to the world by the Linux Foundation with support from Samsung and Intel.

 

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Using the Linux grep Command: Grepping a File Without Using cat

The grep command is a command that most Linux users learn early on, and many times they learn to use it via pipes (stdin). Because of this some Linux users just assume that grep can only be used with stdin; it’s ok, I was one of those too!

Before I continue with some grep tricks I want to clarify the basic grep usage.

Stop Doing This:

$ cat file.log | grep "something"
 something

Do This More:

$ grep "something" file.log
 something

 

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Snapdragon DRM/KMS Driver Still Forthcoming

The Qualcomm Snapdragon DRM/KMS graphics driver for the Linux kernel is still being revised and looks like it’s being taken serious enough that it will be mainlined in due time…

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Chromecast: Bringing Ubuntu’s Convergence Closer to Reality?

This $35 device, Chromecast, is turning out to be much more than what Google showed or told us. Not only does it turn your HDTV into external monitor for your Chrome tabs, it can also play local content such as videos, images and music via Chrome.

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Half-Life 2 Mod Estranged Is Coming To Linux

Estranged is a critically acclaimed Half-Life 2 mod that tells the story of a lone fisherman whose ship is stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. This mod is currently being ported to Linux.

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