Strawberries go great with shortcake. Blueberries? They make one heck of a pie. But, when we learned about the latest release of the Sugar Learning Platform, we had to go look up just what a Mirabelle is. Turns out it's a small, orange plum that really has nothing to do with Sugar's Fedora underpinnings, but certainly sounds healthier than Google's versioning schemes. Mirabelle has just been given the Sugar on a Stick treatment, and as with previous releases this one can be loaded to DVD or thumb drive and booted to give a taste of XO without requiring any repartitioning. Sugar on a Stick is now an official Fedora spin, distributed on the Fedora site in both 32- and 64-bit flavors at the other end of that source link below.Continue reading Sugar on a Stick hits 3.0, teaches us about a new kind of fruitSugar on a Stick hits 3.0, teaches us about a new kind of fruit originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  Sugar Labs  | Email this | Comments

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Well, it had to happen at some point. After eons of watching Mac OS and Windows users swiping away nonchalantly on their touchpads, Linux laptop buyers can now also join the multitouch fray. Synaptics has announced official Gesture Suite support for a wide range of Linux-based OS flavors -- Chrome OS, Fedora, Ubuntu, RedFlag, SuSE, and Xandros get name-dropped in the press release -- which will all benefit from its set of multi-fingered touch and swipe responses. The infamous pinch-to-zoom is quite naturally included in the Suite, which will come bundled with new installations of those operating systems. We're not seeing any mention of a downloadable update as yet, but we imagine that'll be corrected in due course, whether by the company itself or the resourceful Linux community. Full PR after the break.Continue reading Synaptics extends multitouch Gesture Suite to Linux, Chrome OS includedSynaptics extends multitouch Gesture Suite to Linux, Chrome OS included originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink PC World  |  Synaptics  | Email this | Comments

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Bad news, Linux fans. The older PlayStation 3 consoles are losing one of the features they could tout over their Slim successor. Firmware 3.21 is coming out this Thursday, April 1st, and its major raison d'être is to kill the "install other OS" option. (This is "not an April fools joke," as the PlayStation Europe blog clarifies.) "Security concerns" is the cited reason, although we're sure that doesn't make you feel much better -- no one likes the loss of a feature, even if it wasn't being used. Those who wish to keep Yellow Dog or Fedora running can opt to not upgrade, but skipping out means losing the ability to access PlayStation Network and play games online, among other things. DARPA enthusiasts notwithstanding, we can't say we know many people still running Linux on their console, but if you count yourself among the few and proud, our condolences. Them's the breaks, but hey, at least some of you still have PS2 compatibility.Older PS3s losing 'install other OS' option in Thursday's firmware 3.21 update originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  PS Blog (US), (EU)  | Email this | Comments

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I was curious one day when performing a fresh install of Fedora on my Laptop. I saw New York Listed as the available time-zone (as it typically is) to indicate Eastern Standard Time(EST). What about Orlando, where I live.

I performed a quick google search and found this helpful article on how to add a specific city to a time-zone. Hopefully, you’ll find this useful as well.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/add-your-city-linuxs-list-time-zones

Enjoy, and try not to break your system too bad when following these steps.

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So I was having quite a bit of trouble trying to get amarok 2 compiled. I found that within the fc9 and livna repos, libmtp was 0.2.6 and amarok requires libmtp 0.3. I downloaded the correct libmtp version extracted it and compiled it, then I went to re-make amarok and got this error:
Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/libamarok_collection-mtpcollection.so
CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mtpcollection.dir/handler/MtpHandler.o: In function `Mtp::MtpHandler::iterateRawDevices(int, LIBMTP_raw_device_struct*, QString const&)’:
/home/shaun/Download/amarok/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.cpp:147: undefined reference to `LIBMTP_Open_Raw_Device’
CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-mtpcollection.dir/handler/MtpHandler.o: In function `Mtp::MtpHandler::init(QString const&)’:
/home/shaun/Download/amarok/src/collection/mtpcollection/handler/MtpHandler.cpp:85: undefined reference to `LIBMTP_Detect_Raw_Devices’
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make Error 1
make Error 2
make: *** Error 2

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