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Dconf, a low-level configuration system who's main purpose is to provide a backend to GSettings on platforms that do not already have configuration storage systems, reached stable version 0.16.1 and development version 0.17.0.

It took a few good weeks of testing, but since yesterday (July 25), the Arch Linux operating system uses the stable Linux 3.10 kernel packages.

Immediately after the release of Linux kernel 3.9.10, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on July 13 that the first maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.10 kernel series is now available for download.

The GNOME Foundation, through Fabiana Simões, announced at the beginning of this month that the upcoming 14th GUADEC Conference for GNOME developers will take place in Brno, Czech Republic between 1-8 August. GUADEC is a great opportunity for free and open source software experts from all over the world to gather together and share their knowledge.

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, announced a few minutes ago, July 12, that the final and stable release of the Linux Mint 15 Xfce operating system is available for download. Being based on Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), Linux Mint 15 Xfce (Olivia) is built on top of the Xfce 4.10 desktop environment, it is powered by Linux kernel 3.8, and uses the MDM (Mint Display Manager) 1.2 login screen.

The fourth development release towards Cheese 3.10 is now out for download and testing, published today, July 9, on the official GNOME FTP server.

The third maintenance release of the stable PyGObject 3.8 library for the GNOME desktop environment was announced earlier today, July 5, fixing various bugs found in the previous release.

Looks like the GNOME developers are actively maintaining the old stable branch of the GTK+ toolkit, as version 2.24.20 just appeared yesterday, July 4, on the official GNOME FTP servers.

If you've watched the news lately, you know that last week a Linux developer has released the first ever native Linux kernel module for Microsoft's exFAT filesystem.

David Tavares, the developer of the Pear OS Linux operating system, has recently announced the features and roadmap for the upcoming Pear OS 8 distribution.

Clement Lefebvre, the founding father of the extremely popular Linux Mint operating system, announced a few days ago the specs and price of a new MintBox mini PC, which will be powered by Linux Mint 15 (Olivia).

A few minutes ago, July 3, Greg Kroah-Hartman happily announced that the ninth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.9 kernel series is now available for download.

Today, July 3, The Document Foundation (TDF) announced in a press release that the famous AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) company joined its Advisory Board, in order to accelerate the development of the LibreOffice open source office suite.

The developers behind the File Roller (file-roller) application, the default archive manager for the GNOME desktop environment, announced yesterday, July 2, the immediate availability for download and update of File Roller 3.8.3.

Yet another development release towards Gedit 3.10 has been released yesterday, July 1, bringing several improvements to various functions and fixing various bugs found in previous testing releases.

Today, July 1, 2013, we are happy to announce that Arch Linux 2013.07.01 is available for download on mirrors worldwide (see download link at the end of the article).

Last evening, June 8, 2013, Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download and testing of the fifth Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux kernel 3.10.

The following tutorial will teach Arch Linux users how to transfer files from their operating system to an Android powered device (phone or tablet) or vice versa, using a graphical application called gMTP.

A few minutes ago, Greg Kroah-Hartman happily announced that the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.9 kernel series is now available for download.

The developers behind the Unvanquished first-person shooter game announced a few days ago that the sixteenth Alpha release is available for download and testing. Unvanquished Alpha 16 adds a long-requested feature, minimaps, which is now displayed for all new maps and for most of the commonly played Tremulous maps. This release also brings renderer improvements, allowing mappers to use multiple regions with separate color grades and blend them where appropriate. Also, color grading effects have been added to the game, making the screen desaturated when the player dies, and fade it into red (for humans) or grayscale (for aliens) when the player takes damage.