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Social media needs more metadata to be truly useful. Some of the most exciting innovations in this space will take place with free and open source software -- at the edge.

Dualbooting means having installed two operating systems on one hard disk and being able to boot from any of them. This tutorial will explain how to install Linux Mint 12 alongside Windows 7 - the procedure however should be the same for all Ubuntu based distributions and only slightly different for every other.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 26, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that it had become a member of the Linux Foundation (http://www.linuxfoundation.org/).

GameGadget is a new Linux based gaming handheld developed by Blaze Europe. It will support both open source and proprietary games and games/apps will be distributed though its own app store. GameGadget will provide all the tools to help developers create their own games. Open source and cross compiling libraries like SDL can be used. Developers will also be able to port their existing games with its SDK.

After the official upgrade to Firefox 9 in Ubuntu 11.10 at the beginning of the month, Canonical announced on January 24th that the Mozilla Thunderbird 9.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system.

The S3 Chrome 600 series / VIA VT3456 (VX11) still hasn't been officially announced, but here are some benchmarks of the forthcoming chipset from a VIA Nano quad-core system...

KDE e.V. and the developers behind the KDE project has proudly announced a few minutes ago, January 25th, the final and stable release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation 4.8 environment.

Texas Instruments announced a Linux-based evaluation module featuring the digital light processing technology from its DLP Pico Projectors. The DLP LightCrafter combines an ARM9-based, 300MHz DaVinci TMS320DM365 processor, a 20-lumen RGB LED light engine and projector, as well as TI's 0.3-inch, WVGA DLP chipset, enabling up to 4000 binary patterns per second, says TI....

Dr Dobb's talks with Martin Odersky, designer of the Scala Language, about the latest developments and directions in this increasingly popular language.

Bruce Perens wore a suit and tie for his linux.conf.au 2012 keynote for a reason, he said: it reflects our community's need to think more about how it appears to the rest of the world. Despite our many successes, he said, we have failed to achieve the goals that our community set for itself many years ago. We have failed to engage and educate our users, and are finding ourselves pulled into an increasingly constrained world. To get out of this mess, we will have to make some changes - and expand our scope beyond software and culture.

"On January 17th, Linus Torvalds committed a patch to the mainline Linux kernel for a memory handling flaw. As it turns out the flaw was exploited quickly once Torvalds put out the patch with a proof of concept emerging rapidly.

So what's the problem with this picture?

A NVIDIA Linux engineer is trying to work on code that could lead to official Optimus support under Linux, but there's a catch... And it falls outside of NVIDIA Corp as the fate of this multi-GPU notebook feature could now fall with the Linux kernel developers...

The KDE project has announced the release of KDE 4.8 which provides major updates to KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform.

The board is built around the Broadcom BCM2835 chipset, which is designed to handle intensive multimedia. In a recent interview, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton claimed that the Broadcom graphics hardware in the Raspberry Pi offers twice the performance of the iPhone 4S GPU and soundly beats NVIDIA's Tegra 2. Upton worked for Broadcom on the team that developed the hardware.

HP has published the code of Enyo, the underlying JavaScript framework of the webOS platform. It is available from a public repository on GitHub. Enyo 2 is lightweight (at the time of this writing, roughly 13k gzipped), easy to digest, and powerful.

Google today announced a new privacy policy and new terms of service that will take effect on March 1 and eliminate some 60-odd disparate policies across its myriad services.

Xi3 Corporation announced a 4-inch, & eco-friendly& server it claims will be readily upgradeable, thanks to the use of one board containing the processor and memory and two separate boards containing I/O ports. The & microServ3r& apparently offers a choice of AMD processors, SSD (solid state disk) storage, two gigabit Ethernet ports, two eSATA ports, and a Fibre Channel port.

The latest set of KDE releases has been announced. It includes major updates to Plasma Workspaces, Applications, and the Development Platform. Version 4.8 provides many new features, as well as improved stability and performance. Check out the highlights below and read the full announcement. Dolphin gets a new display engine (click for larger) read more

Another one of the interesting talks that was recorded from Linux.Conf.Au in Barratt, Australia last week was the presentation by Matthew Garrett. He went over the good and bad of UEFI support under Linux.

Canonical announced last evening, January 24th, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available, fixing three security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.