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If you already installed Bodhi 1.2.0 (or an earlier release) and your system is working fine (odds are it is, this issue was only affecting some users) there is no reason to install this new release. It is simply a bug fix release so the ISO image has the updated kernel by default.

The KDE team has announced this Sunday the release of Plasma Active One, a touch-screen-focused tablet user experience...

Music notation is a system which represents music in a written form by using musical symbols. For a musician to be able to read, understand, and play music, the composition must be in written form. A system of notation is essential for musicians to be able to play music as intended by the composer.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Group By Time feature available in Digikam Calligra gets Web Report Element and incremental backup in Krita Introduction of the KSecret tool Optimizations in KDE-Base Bugfixes in in password saving and HTTP authentication caching in KDE-Libs, KDE-PIM, Network Management, Kile and others. Read the rest of the Digest here. read more

This tutorial describes the installation of an ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated web, email, database and two DNS servers all managed trough a single ISPConfig 3 control panel. The setup described below uses five servers and can be extended easily to to a higher number of servers by just adding more servers. E.g. if you want to have two mailservers, do the setup steps from chapter 2 on both of these servers. If you want to set up more web servers, then install ISPConfig on all other web servers in expert mode except of the first one.

Following bellow is attempt to reproduce Hans de Goede blog entry at http://planet.spice-space.org/ on Ubuntu 11.10 with intent to build Qemu-kvm 0.15.0 with usb redirection network support per http://planet.spice-space.org/ via git repository git://people.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/qemu. Spice-Gtk-0.7.4X has been built up on current snapshot of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk to obtain Spice-Gtk with usb redirection support, working stable with Spice 0.9.1. Build done on Ubuntu Oneiric

The Free Software Foundation has removed GNU PDF from their list of high-priority projects, since libpoppler and other open-source PDF viewing solutions have matured and support the PDF ISO standard.

Today marks a major milestone for KDE Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Active One has been released, primarily for tablet computers. It is the latest expression of the Plasma concept, following Plasma Desktop and Plasma Netbook. In the KDE tradition, Plasma Active One is designed for the best User Experience—for people on the move and engaged in many activities. read more

The results of the Desktop Summit 2011 survey have been published at the Summit website. The overall feedback was positive, and there were suggestions for improving future Desktop Summits. Desktop Summit 2011 Berlin promoted collaboration between open desktop projects with attendance dominated by the GNOME and KDE communities. There were several requests to make a stronger appeal for people from other desktop projects to attend.

CodeWeavers has released a maintenance update for CrossOver and CrossOver Games.

For me, computers are a means to an end. A tool that enables communication and development of tools that enrich peoples’ lives and help them connect with like-minded individuals around the world. My ideal Linux setup is one that gets out of my way and lets me get my work done.

Why? Because the level of skill required to crack a Unix-like OS is much higher than that needed for a Microsoft OS. Further, properly configured Unix-like systems are much more robust than Microsoft systems. Were Military forces using properly configured and properly secured Unix or Linux systems we would not see items like these below being reported.

Will a future Apple adopt a more generous stance towards openness in computing, coinciding with a wave of sympathy towards the legend?

While Oracle Solaris has Intel KMS/DRI2 support, the Solaris port of this Intel Linux driver code isn't yet part of the open-source Solaris distributions...

Remember those AMD Bulldozer benchmarks we showed back in March from an early engineering sample that was published to OpenBenchmarking.org by one of AMD's partners months prior to the product launch? Well, since the consumer-grade Bulldozer chips are going to be out soon, AMD's partners are already supplying information on the AMD Trinity APUs that won't be launched until next year. The Linux performance appears quite competitive and there's also some new codenames and details to share.

Someone commented on the article about Google Chrome’s FTP client that they almost thought it was a joke because there was no RSS feed handler in Google Chrome.

Well if that article was a joke this one must be, too.

In this article I’m going to tell you how you can gain root access to your Froyo Android smart phone. This comes in handy if your phone comes with firmware applications you want to uninstall.

The KDE edition seems to have regressed in terms of stability, as I thought I'd never see a Plasma crash ever again but I did, while the GNOME edition is just plain annoying.

We're happy to report that libpoppler, the most common PDF library on GNU/Linux, has matured its support for these and other PDF features -- a move that means every free software user can have PDF software with capabilities that were until recently exclusive to proprietary software.

Not only for Windows, but also for Linux the hour of truth comes near. October-November are months with new releases and upgrades. Let's forget about Windows 8 for now; it's still an early Beta. However Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux Mint 12 will come out soon. So are updated desktops: Gnome and KDE to name but two. It's no secret that I am still not convinced that the Gnome based Gnome 3 shell and Ubuntu's Unity desktops are matured enough to compete with either Windows 8 Beta or Apple's OSX.