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CraftStudio is an upcoming collaborative gaming making tool for Linux, featuring Minecraft style blocky graphics. The tool aims to bridge gap between developers and gamers by simplifying content creation. Gamers with no particular experience on game development will be able to easily create, paint and animate 3D models (characters, objects) out of blocks, craft infinite maps, paint own blocks and give life to their worlds using a visual scripting system. Everything is done in real-time, you can collaborate with friends or strangers over the Internet. You can also set up your own server or join an existing project.

Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Core 4.4. The major theme for Core 4.4 is kernel and modules update and improved extension searching via tags. Changelog: minor kernel update to 3.0.21; updated tc-config with syslog/rsyslog patch; updated Xprogs.tcz: scmbrowser and smc-fetch.sh tweaks; updated search.sh added -t option for tag search; updated provides.sh for CLI use; updated appbrowser for new tag search; updated ab keyword is now a tag search; updated tce-size with date check on sizefile update; updated tce-setup fixed when base boot code is used with missing /tmp/tce/optional directory; updated tce-setdrive with a required readlink; updated filetool.sh with a required readlink when used after tce-setdrive....

AMD has announced yesterday, March 20th, that it has released the open source driver code that supports the Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" series graphics cards.

Linux is defined by one core element that all Linux distributions must have -- a Linux kernel. This past week saw the release of two Linux kernels, one from Linus Torvalds, the other from Oracle.

It has a graphical installation program, but it is of no use when it comes to installing applications or updating the few that are installed. The main interface of Online Updates, as it is called, is shown below. Even though it says there are patches (updates) available, none is listed. So, how do you install or update applications on this distribution?

Riches for some, mostly not VCs Open ... and Shut As breathless projections go, IDC's big data market forecast may be in for a serious asthma attack. The venerable analyst firm pegs the brave new world of big data at $16.9bn by 2015. Yet it's unclear just how new this market is and whether anyone but big data start-ups are really cashing in on the gold rush.…

Development of openSUSE 12.2 is still on target, as the Milestone 2 release hits as planned, now with GRUB 2. The openSUSE project wants the community to help with this test release...

Spending a couple of days intensely running Linux Mint 12 on a very nice desktop PC sent to me for review by ZaReason (much more about that later), I probably shouldn't have been surprised by the annoying bugs in Mint that made me a lot less productive than I am in the Debian Squeeze system I've been running on my laptop since late 2010.

Opens up Chorus tool, borgs agile coders Pivotal Labs To broaden its reach in the big-data arena, disk-array maker EMC's Greenplum division, which peddles data warehousing and Hadoop appliances and software, announced that it will open source its Chorus management and collaboration tools. EMC also has acquired Pivotal Labs, experts in agile programming, to help it build better big-data software and, equally importantly, help others do so.…

You may have heard a few days ago that Dear Esther, a game built upon Valve's Source Engine, would be ported to Linux and released in the coming months. Well, here's more details about that Source-based game is getting to Linux...

Linux kernel maintainer and Linux Foundation Fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman will be moderating the highly-anticipated Linux kernel panel at the Collaboration Summit in a couple short weeks. He was generous enough to take a few moments recently to answer some questions about what we might hear from the Linux kernel panel, as well as some details on his recent work and projects. Oh, and we couldn't resist asking him about the new Raspberry Pi.

The Open Source Initiative has announced three new board members: Mike Millinkovich, Luis Villa and Deb Bryant. From 1 April, they will be taking over seats on the open source advocating organisation's board which were freed by the departure of Mike Godwin, Andrew Oliver and Michael Tiemann. As announced at FOSDEM 2012, for the first time, the OSI board invited nominations for two of the seats from non-directors, specifically the new OSI affiliates; they retained one seat for a board-only appointment.

Video editing has evolved from a niche market in the computer world to something that computers are simply expected to do. It's a tall order to be everything to everyone. But if any video editing software comes close to that mark, it's Kdenlive—a KDE Applications star. With a strong commitment and a plan for making major improvements, the Kdenlive team is raising money. Please help out if you can.

C and C++ are apparently NOT languages for Beginners to first learn programming. Although executable binaries created from C or C++ generally run faster than interpreted source code, executable binaries (i.e., the actual applications) require the EXTRA steps of compilation and linking from original C/C++ source code, not to mention any necessary required debugging and optimization steps. Both C and C++ programming languages are especially useful for creating applications. C is more of a Procedural than an OOP language such as C++, and many describe C as being the MOST suitable for the system and in-depth OS tasks that Linux distros rely upon using the GNU Compiler Collection’s ‘gcc’.

In all likelihood, you already use VLC Media Player, available for Windows, the Mac and Linux, and one of the best open source applications of any kind. The application is famous for handling nearly any kind of video file format; you can use it to broadcast your own video content; you can use it as a video transcoder for converting video file formats; and you can listen to and manage podcasts with it.

Darktable is an free open source software development by Johannes Hanika and Henrik Andersso.this software designed for users interested in maneuvering photographies including RAW, meaning unprocessed camera captures with zero modifications in a database with numerous options to edit and enhance.

The 3.3 version of the Linux kernel includes a small amount of Android code. The addition of the Android drivers "makes it easier for Android platform vendors to take the kernel.org release and create a system without having to hunt around for external patches stored on various other servers," The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman said.

Ubuntu and Mint don't want it; Linus called it an “unholy mess.” While most other distros are passing up or postponing GNOME Shell, Fedora is full steam ahead. Does Red Hat know something the rest of us don't? Or is GNOME 3 really as bad as everyone says?

For those among you who dwell on the internet, like your’s truly, the Humble Bundle team is possibly “no stranger in your lands”. For the rest of our readers: The Humble Bundle, Inc. is a group dedicated to bring you bundles of multi-platform indie games in the pay-what-you-want format, in which the money is split between charity (Child’s Play, EFF, etc.), the game developers and HB itself. Whichever amount you donate is divided between those three in whichever way you choose.

The quarterly survey by Appcelerator and IDC has once again asked mobile app developers about their preferences. For the second time in succession, the number of programmers answering positively to the question of whether they were "very interested" in Android development has fallen. The survey encompassed just under 2,200 developers.