http://www.talkandroid.com – Canonical has shown us Ubuntu demos in the past, and now a new video has surfaced showing just how it transforms your phone into a full Ubuntu desktop. The video is in Portuguese since it took place at the International Free Software Forum in Brazil, but you can still get a lot out of what is shown. Ubuntu runs in parallel to Android and kicks in when the phone gets docked to a monitor or TV. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://unix.stackexchange.com – Following ARG_MAX, maximum length of arguments for a new process it seems like ARG_MAX is wrongly (or at least ambiguously) defined on my Mac Mini 3,1 running Ubuntu 12.04: $ getconf ARG_MAX # arguments 2097152 $ locate limits.h | xargs grep -ho 'ARG_MAX[ \t]\+[0-9]\+' | uniq | cut -d ' ' -f 8 131072 The actual limit seems to be somewhere between these: $ cd "$(mktemp -d)" $ touch $(seq 1 13 (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://www.ubuntugeek.com – Canonical is adding a new feature to its Ubuntu operating system that will allow desktop users to access popular Internet services without opening a browser window. Instead, a Web page can be accessed as a desktop application. (...)Read the rest of How to install ubuntu webapps in ubuntu 12.04(Precise) (49 words) © ruchi for Ubuntu Geek, 2012. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://serverfault.com – I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. All went as normal but then ended up with the following error at the end. Can anyone help me resolve this issue. I know a little bit about Ubuntu server but I am relatively new to this. (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://www.oneopensource.it – In questo clima olimpico, gli atleti non sono i soli a concorrere per le loro medaglie: sono stati infatti annunciati i vincitori dell’Ubuntu App Showdown, contest indetto da Canonical per incentivare lo sviluppo di applicazioni sulla distribuzione Linux più utilizzata al mondo. (Software)
Email this pagehttp://serverfault.com – I am in the process of moving an entire site from ID based pages to user friendly / descriptive urls, and I would like to move the blogs as well. My problem is then, that I am uncertain if 301 redirects will be enough to be completely covered, as I am not sure if all readers support these, and I do not want to loose any subscribers if I can help it. For regular HTML pages there is the canonical (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://www.thevarguy.com – MATE, the open-source desktop environment whose name no one is sure how to pronounce, is now nearly a year old. Many of us never thought it would make it this far, but the interface has held own against competitors like Unity and GNOME Shell. But does MATE have a long-term future in the fast-evolving world of desktop Linux? (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://serverfault.com – I have a job that's perfectly normal: > start c4-ha-policy ; stop c4-ha-policy c4-ha-policy (start) waiting c4-ha-policy (start) starting c4-ha-policy (start) pre-start, process 1731 c4-ha-policy (start) spawned, process 1828 c4-ha-policy (start) post-start, process 1829 main process 1828 c4-ha-policy (start) running, process 1828 c4-ha-policy (stop) running, process 1828 c4-ha-policy (sto (HowTos)
Email this pagehttp://www.thevarguy.com – Fujitsu will team with Fujitsu Semiconductor, NTT Docomo and NEC on a new venture to develop and sell chips for smartphones, an effort that could provide stiff competition to mobile stalwart Qualcomm, the dominant chip supplier for smartphones and tablets. The joint venture, called Access Network Technology Ltd. (IT news)
Email this pagehttp://unix.stackexchange.com – I'd like to make a temporary change to my fstab file so that my /home is on another drive. However, I don't want the whole partition to be mounted, but just a folder ("home") on that partition. I'm OK with the rest of the data being unavailable. What's the canonical way of expressing this in fstab? (HowTos)
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