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It’s that time again! The Fuduntu Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Fuduntu 2012.4. This is the fourth quarterly release for 2012. Like all previous Fuduntu releases, this release follows our tradition of making small incremental distribution improvements that don’t sacrifice the stability of our Linux distribution. Existing Fuduntu users have already rolled up to 2012.4, as all of the updates available are released to our stable repository.

Some important changes: A refreshed desktop, refreshed defaults, and we've dropped Mono!

With the recent release of GNOME 3.6, developers and distributions are making updated versions of their packages available and applications such as Firefox are getting improved integration into the GNOME desktop

A new feature in the latest nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10 allows the alternative open source ROM for Android devices to update itself with over-the-air updates

The new release of Python, version 3.3.0, brings a new "yield from" syntax and the return of old style unicode literals, along with simpler debugging, virtual environments and a new Windows installer

1toGo Mobile uses CommuniGate Systems' opensource cPanel kit to deploy new unified communications services in the Cloud

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on OpenSUSE 12.2 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

At the MySQL Connect conference, Oracle has presented a preview of MySQL Cluster 7.3. It is the first to support foreign keys and offers an experimental interface for the Node.js JavaScript server

Gradually our computing trends are changing in favor of cloud. Today we tend to do most of our works in the cloud via our web-browsers, from storing files to accessing them, sharing files or collaboratively editing them; every other task is rendered in our web browser, making web browsers all the more important desktop program.

gThumb may look like yet another image viewer, but behind its unassuming appearance hides a rather capable application that can help you to manage photos efficiently.

OpenMW is an open source project that reimplements game engine of popular role playing game 'The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind'.

Last week I took something of a trip back through time. The transition began somewhere over the dark Atlantic on my way to Brussels, when the person sitting next to me struck up a conversation. Improbably, I found myself discussing ODF – the OpenDocument Format – with a former Sun engineer who had followed the ODF–OOXML contest with great interest back in 2005 - 2007.

"Got an email from Microsoft, wanting to help 'certify' minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the PC as an open platform," he wrote.

"I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way," he added in the second message.

The new kernel offers a hybrid standby feature, can cut off the power to PCIe chips and includes a new framework for userspace drivers. Linux 3.6 also offers improved support for current MacBook models; other new features include security improvements for the temp directory as well as quota and backup features for Btrfs

The Slackware developers have released version 14 of the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution, with kernel version 3.2.29 and numerous updated components such as the Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5 desktop interfaces

While there are many good IDEs for android development like eclipse, NetBeans, intelliJ; sometimes one may want to use lightweight editor to create android apps and still don't want to get into command line every time.

A major new feature for desktops and laptops is hybrid sleep, long supported by Mac OS X and Windows. There have also been updates to Btrfs support

This is a simple tutorial on how to enable USB support in VirtualBox.

After a recent Ubuntu update Youtube has tinted the sky orange and people blue. This article will help resolve this issue.

I get offered products for review here and there. Usually those products are hard for me to get excited about. But a computer built for Linux, assembled in Berkeley, California, by the well-respected ZaReason? That was exciting. (Sorry it took so long for this review to see the light of day.)

Five of the best games to show off what your new Nexus 7 is really capable of.