Music? Record Labels Change Minds About Sharing MP3s -- Kind of. This is not so much about the broad view they have, but rather about the fact that they did not carry out a seek and destroy on this company as talks paid off between them. Ready more about it, here (Read More)

With its hacker-friendly aesthetic and open source mentality, you'd think a Linux desktop would be the best place to assert your digital rights—you know, make backup copies of your DVDs, convert them for iPods, that kind of thing.

And you'd be half right. There are plenty of programs that let you take control of your video discs, but they're only useful if you can make it through a maze of configuration menus, command line options, choices about bit rates and codecs, and the occasional (Read More)

Update is splitted in two part to accomodate free space limitation related to the numerous new packages added since the recent releases. A way to recover some free spaces has been created, allowing to select one of the two kernel type installed ( monoprocessor or smp kernel). After 1.4.17 installation, refresh the update page. If you see a red section on disk usage, you need to select a kernel type. That will free space on/dev/root and /boot partitions. You will need too on next reboot to sele (Read More)

Microsoft may not have beaten French Linux vendor Mandriva in a large deal to supply Nigerian elementary schools with laptop computers and software after all.
Mandriva had closed a deal in mid-August to provide a customized Linux operating system and support for 17,000 (Read More)

Fedora 8 has been released: "Announcing the release of Fedora 8 (Werewolf). This release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies. Features: GNOME 2.20; Online Desktop; KDE 3.5.8; Xfce 4.4.1; NetworkManager 0.7 provides improved wireless network management support; PulseAudio is now installed and enabled by default; CodecBuddy is now included; Compi (Read More)

Its been some time, and Torch already released the software, but we are back on the air!

We actually have been for about a month or so now but I wanted to take this time to say hello to all, and its nice to be back. (Read More)

Linux our everloved OS of choice here at linuxjunkies has been for the most part been seen as a server Operating System. While this might be true to an extent, some of the largest companies out there use it, ie. Amazon and Google use it.

But it does have other uses, which I will discuss in this article to show it full potential and flexability.

Desktop OS, of course (Read More)

Michael Loeffler has announced the release of openSUSE 10.3 "Live" edition, now with a hard disk installation option: "From today the live edition of openSUSE 10.3 is available as a GNOME or KDE live CD. Both contain the same software as the 1-CD installation editions from the launch time. The live system can be used as a production system or as a rescue system. Or you can just check out how openSUSE 10.3 runs on your computer without touching your hard drive. The live CDs are (Read More)

Since AMD introduced their new Linux display driver last month, we have published a number of different articles looking at the Radeon performance across their different GPU product generations. This ATI/AMD Linux driver testing and exploration continued this month with the release of the 8.42 driver, which finally introduced AIGLX support for the fglrx driver. One area though we haven't yet analyzed is how their official Linux driver now compares to their much-optimized Windows Catalyst driver. (Read More)

Robert Shingledecker has announced the final release of Damn Small Linux 4.0: "After several months and 5 release candidates of upgrades and retooling DSL to additionally provide drag-n-drop document-centric computing, I present v4.0. Change log: upgraded kernel from 2.4.26 to 2.4.31; created new support modules: cloop, unionfs, ndiswrapper, fuse, and madwifi in support of kernel change; changed icon/file manager to DFM for drag and drop capability; updated murgaLua to v0 (Read More)

Desktop Linux needs drivers. Right? Of course. So why is Novell's Greg Kroah-Hartman, a Linux kernel developer and head of the Linux Driver Project, having to ask people to tell him about devices that need drivers?

It's a good question, and Kroah-Hartman doesn't have the complete answer. What he does know, as he explained in his blog, is that while the (Read More)

Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" has been released: "Ubuntu makes no distinction between community and enterprise editions, Ubuntu 7.10 is our best work and is available freely to all. Ubuntu has consistently ranked #1 in reviews of security update responsiveness and effectiveness. The Ubuntu platform is fully certified and supported, making it a secure choice for users looking to explore, deploy and enjoy Linux. Ubuntu 7.10 brings together the best open source and free software a (Read More)

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KDE 3.5.8 features translations in 65 languages, improvements to KDE PIM suite and other applications.

October 16, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.8, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others by communities (Read More)

While rumors of a mobile phone under development by Google have persisted for months, a recent article in The New York Times is turning that speculation on its ear. The article cites various insiders who say Google's efforts are geared at creating a Linux-based mobile phone operating system. (Read More)