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Codeweavers, the company behind CrossOver and Wine, has released CrossOver 12.2 for Linux and Mac. CrossOver is an emulation software which easily allows to install and run a countless number of Windows applications on Linux.

Today is the seventh annual International Day Against DRM (Digital Rights Management). We've talked a lot here about DRM particularly in movies and books (read my two-part timeline, The DRM graveyard: A brief history of digital rights management in music and part 2 about video and TV). But what's most important for this year's Day Against DRM isn't any of that. Rather, it's the very future of the way we use the web, due to efforts to get DRM into HTML5. Read this post from the Free Culture Foundation to better understand why that's a problem.

Valve’s portal-hopping puzzler comes to Linux gamers

Moderating a website is necessary in today's world. One Linux Advocate, MontanaLinux.org's Scott Dowdle, took issue with my doing so. I set him straight. Read how.

We're so busy seeking release from Windows that we overlooked all the ways Linux had already freed us

At Open Source Junction 4 we invited attendees to present their hardware projects. Some were open source hardware, while some used consumer hardware components in conjunction with open source software to provide an innovative solution to a problem.

We pit six Raspberry Pi operating systems against one another to find out which one is the king of the tiny computer distros

openSUSE is one of the few very few 'original' GNU/Linux distributions which are driving some of the core developments in the free software world, whether it be the kernel or office suite like LibreOffice. openSUSE also offers one of the most polished GNU/Linux experience. So when a team of developers decided to create an openSUSE derivative, tentatively called FuSE Linux, curiosity rose what value will they add to the already awesome distribution? I reached out to the team with a set of questions. Here is the interview with Mark “Kigurame Gallifrey” van Tinteren and the FuSE team.

For those who don’t know what DRM is, it’s a copy protection or access control to digital content that’s applied to ebooks. Many publishers and retailers use it and it’s a complex and controversial issue for copyright holders and consumers with passionate arguments for and against.

The XFS file-system with the forthcoming Linux 3.10 kernel will have an experimental feature for CRC protection of meta-data...

Well folks today I break the news to you that Earth 2140 is officially coming to Linux via Runesoft!

Via Technologies announced a tiny, low-power Pico-ITX SBC with optional 3G connectivity and battery power support, aimed at in-vehicle and mobile applications. The VAB-600 is based on an 800MHz ARM Cortex-A9 system-on-chip (SOC) with on-chip graphics acceleration, offers Ethernet, WiFi, and 3G connectivity, operates from 0 to 60? C, and runs either embedded Linux or [...]

Adobe Systems, the world's leading supplier of graphical software, is gradually shifting its business to a subscription model, baiting customers with features and tools available only to Creative Cloud subscribers.

Old dogs can learn new tricks, if they're allowed to There's a prevailing ethos among IT hirers that younger is better when it comes to programmers, but a study by academics in North Carolina suggests that employers might be missing a trick by not hiring the grizzled veterans of the coding world.…

Copyright, copyleft, or copy none? The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is concerned that some open source software developers are not choosing a license for their work, so they want to educate software developers and anyone else working on open source projects that simply not choosing a license is not enough.

In addition to improved 64-bit ARM support with the Linux 3.10 kernel, ARM architecture support in general will improve a lot with this in-development kernel release...

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz believes Windows 8 Legacy (x86) presents an 'unacceptable level of risk' to businesses and consumers at large. Read why.

Where's my Penguin bat? Need to go tap on a few windows, get'em opened up and let the fresh air in

Abalta Technologies announced an in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) solution that inexpensively mirrors browser content from smartphones or tablets to Linux-enabled “head” units. The company’s Weblink IVI demo consists of a client app running on a Raspberry Pi-based simulated head unit acting as a remote touchscreen for WiFi- or USB-connected smartphones running a companion server app. Abalta [...]The post Low-cost, future proof IVI demo runs on Raspberry Pi appeared first on LinuxGizmos.com.

Employees have to deal with too many passwords and it's gotten so bad that in the name of making your systems secure, you may be less secure -- because employees could be writing them down to remember them. Hard to be less secure than that.