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IndieCity, a software client similar to Valve's Steam and Desura, will soon be making its way to Linux boxes...

I'm pleased to say that a usable version of shim is now available for download. As I discussed here, this is intended for distributions that want to support secure boot but don't want to deal with Microsoft. To use it, rename shim.efi to bootx64.efi and put it in /EFI/BOOT on your UEFI install media. Drop MokManager.efi in there as well. Finally, make sure your bootloader binary is called grubx64.efi and put it in the same directory.

Most Linux users know how to set scheduled automatic shutdowns using cron. Did you know you can also set automatic wakeups? Most motherboards built after 2000 support real-time clock (RTC) wakeups, so you can have your computer turn itself on and off on a schedule.

In the week ending 1 December - Fedora 18 got a beta with added desktops, Piwik analytics got its installation file backdoored, cheeky phishers asked Germans to photograph their TAN lists, and Linux 3.7 is nearly here

While born originally at Google as projects for LLVM, AddressSanitizer and ThreadSanitizer have been ported to GCC and will be part of the forthcoming GCC 4.8 compiler release. Back at Google, they're onto developing MemorySanitizer for LLVM...

Matthew Garrett has shared that he's finally published his shim boot-loader for dealing with UEFI SecureBoot that makes it easier for the smaller Linux distributions to deal with this "secure" technology. Using this shim boot-loader is already signed with a Microsoft key so the smaller Linux distributions and other independent parties don't have to worry about obtaining a key from Microsoft...

With a number of commits made to the mainline Mesa repository recently that concern the LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver for pushing OpenGL onto the CPU, here are benchmarks of the very latest Mesa Gallium3D development code from and AMD FX-8350 Vishera Eight-Core CPU when using both LLVM 3.1 and LLVM 3.2 SVN.

Kristian Høgsberg has announced the 1.0.2 releases of Wayland along with the Weston reference compositor...

With November coming to a close, here's some statistics on the most popular content on Phoronix this month...

Free prototype units for ten lucky developers The makers of the hotly anticipated Ouya Android-based gaming console say they're on track to ship their first development consoles by the end of the year, and a few lucky developers will be able to get their hands on them for free.…

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Patrick Verner announced a couple of hours ago, November 30, the immediate availability for download of the Parted Magic 2012_11_30 Linux operating system for partitioning tasks.

But that should not keep you from trying to keep your email communications private and anonymous, because if you take the proper steps, you can create and maintain anonymous email accounts that will be almost impossible to trace back to you.

The open-source Alien Arena game is going to see a major update soon that will enhance its renderer and bring other improvements. Alien Arena 7.65 is this exciting game update that's forthcoming...

Canonical announced a few hours ago, November 30, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating systems is now available, fixing two important security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

The developers of Linux Mint have released version 14.1 of their distribution and have remastered the corresponding ISO images to fix three bugs affecting performance with Intel GPUs and booting on EFI systems

IndieCity seems very much like Steam and Desura, it is an online distribution service with a client for games. Unlike Desura though it seems they have different things developers can hook into like Achievements.

Debian is boring. Releases happen every two years, give or take. Developers spend months and months chasing bugs while other Linux distributions crank out release after release. But Debian gets better as it inches toward release.

I'm not sure what Microsoft was thinking when they priced the Surface Pro starting at $899, but if they want to compete in the tablet market, and especially with iPad, they are going to have to do better than that.

Mozilla engineering manager Josh Aas has announced on his blog that the organisation is joining the Internet Society (ISOC) as a Silver member. Aas points out that Mozilla has already been involved in several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups and that supporting ISOC is a logical next step.