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Mozilla Firefox 11 web browser the latest development release brings several new features improves the web browsing experience for regular users and better developing environment for web developers. A couple of new developer features added lately to the Beta version of Mozilla Firefox 11 are a style editor for CSS editing web page elements and 3D web page visualizer tool allows you to easily check the web page structure in 3D.

Welcome to the 185th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Summary: For too long, GNU/Linux has been locked out of the tablet market. That is about to change with the May 2012 arrival of the Open Spark. The Open Spark is a new tablet that will run a variant of GNU/Linux called Mer. A group of 42 Free Software developers have released a wonderful book called Open Advice. It chronicles their lessons learned from working on hundreds of Free Software projects. The Linux Foundation received an esteemed new fellow from SUSE, Mr. Greg Kroah-Hartman. Finally, the Free Software Petition on WhiteHouse.gov received a key endorsement.

Open source hardware is increasingly making the news, as Ford partners with Bug Labs to “advance in-car connectivity innovation”, thousands of US Radio Shack stores start stocking Arduino, and Facebook releases the plans for energy-efficient data centre technology via Open Compute. But could it change the world? Andrew Back takes a look at five projects which just might.

The upcoming Mozilla Firefox 11.0 web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 11.0 email client just landed in the daily builds of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 2 (Precise Pangolin) operating system.

While the Ivy Bridge launch is still a number of weeks out, Intel will soon be publishing their initial hardware enablement code for next year's Haswell micro-architecture...

Webuzo Wordpress Stack is a free-quick-install package that allows bundling of all software (dependency) necessary to run Wordpress for development or production purposes. It includes the latest updated version of Wordpress and is pre-configured and ready-to-run.

During a recent 5 day sprint, four KDE contributors planned and produced a handbook for beginning KDE developers. We had assistance from several generous organizations, worked hard, and learned a lot. read more

Last week I delivered benchmarks showing how Ubuntu 12.04 is ARM-ing up for better performance with ARM-based hardware and detailed some of the plans Canonical has for this architecture going forward. While those benchmarks last week illustrated some significant performance improvements with the Ubuntu 12.04 stack -- in large part due to the switch to hard floating-point support -- the gains are not over. In fact, there are already some striking improvements if using the Texas Instruments OMAP4460 SoC as found on the PandaBoard ES.

With the Mesa 8.0 release right around the corner, in recent weeks there have been a number of benchmarks on Phoronix looking at this latest open-source OpenGL library and its drivers, including Gallium3D. In this article though are new benchmarks from one of the areas not explored yet: the Intel Gallium3D driver performance.

Zelda Classic (ZC) is a tribute to one of the greatest video games of all time: Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda. It has been developed into an exact replica of the NES version. Beyond that, Zelda Classic allows the development of new quests that can use either the traditional graphics or enhanced graphics, as well as new enemies, items, and challenges. Zelda Classic works very well in Linux and lots of custom quests can be played.

Shutter is the best screenshot tool in Linux. I'll show you how to

In this article I talk about manning turrets, fighting capital ships, and explosions

PCLinuxOS is a Mandriva based distribution that is geared towards novice users. It has a big community in which is there to help new users to Linux get off on the right foot.

While not exclusively a Gnu-Linux product (runs on LAMP and WAMP stacks), the selection of OpenEMR by the Peace Corps for its worldwide EMR needs, lends a powerful measure of legitimacy and value to the use of open source EMRs in general and OpenEMR specifically. . http://www.govhealthit.com/news/peace-corps-plans-ehr-system... . OpenEMR continues to grow its active developer community incorporating state of the art capacity including 5010 standards, Android apps, etc. . http://www.open-emr.org/ . Jack Cahn MD OEMR.org Board

Project Zomboid has added a new video and some screenshots of new locations that will be available in the upcoming update!

LXer Feature: 05-Feb-2012

Is it February already? This week we have a new Linux powered Spark tablet and btrfs goes production ready. Take the road less traveled in installing Ubuntu, the death of file sharing, Venn diagrams and a whole lot more. Enjoy!

Bill Reynolds announced of the second version of PCLinuxOS 2012.2 on 3rd Feb,2012. It uses Linux Kernel 2.6.38.8 and desktop environment is KDE 4.6.5. The Synaptic package manager is there for package management which contain over 13,500 packages. PCLinuxOS is mainly forked from Mandriva and very user friendly operating system.

A few days ago I wrote that the Wayland Display Server is preparing for a stable 1.0 release and now this weekend from FOSDEM new information has been learned...

FreeBSD still lacks mainline support for kernel mode-setting (KMS) on modern hardware, but at least it's still being worked on...