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It’s official. In California, Governor Jerry Brown has signed two bills (SB 1052 and SB 1053) that will provide for the creation of free, openly licensed digital textbooks for the 50 most popular lower-division college courses offered by California colleges. The legislation was introduced by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and passed by the California Senate and Assembly in late August.

If you need to create printed documentation, LyX might just be the answer to your prayers

Microsoft has released a new JavaScript development environment, dubbed TypeScript, and says it is designed to help developers write more complex apps with the popular scripting language. Long-time Reg readers may recall that Microsoft has form giving the world new technologies, but not always for altruistic reasons. During its epic antitrust battle with the US Department of Justice, Microsoft's in-house use of the terms “embrace and extend” or “embrace and smother” came to light to describe the practice of releasing non-standard products, among them software development tools, then using Microsoft's market share to none-too-gently steer the industry towards buying those products to the detriment of competitors.

Brasillinux SL is released. Brasillinux is a Brazilian desktop distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. It features an up-to-date Linux kernel and other applications, the Mint menu, extra WiFi firmware, and an installation program completely localised into Brazilian Portuguese.

There's a new release of OpenShot, one of the popular open-source non-linear video editing applications...

In this part of tutorial we will see how to create Android virtual devices, create a project and deploy it.

PS. Relisting as previous entry had no clickable link.

The latest version of the Python programming language is now version 3.3...

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.

PS. Relisting as previous entry had no clickable link.

Xen virtualization support for the ARM architecture is now set to be pulled for the Linux 3.7 kernel...

In this part of tutorial we will see how to create Android virtual devices, create a project and deploy it.

The Linux 3.7 kernel will feature support for the ARM 64-bit architecture (ARM64), which is officially known as AArch64...

The Eclipse Foundation has released SR1 for Eclipse 4.2 on schedule with little in the way of announcements. The performance problems in 4.2 are also being addressed in this and the next service release due next year

Today I am doing a quick video review of Hanthana Linux 17 “LXDE”. Hanthana is a Linux based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. Hanthana comes to you in the form of a LiveDVD for regular PC (i686 & x86_64 architectures) systems. You can run Hanthana Operating System directly from the LiveDVD and check out each and every feature before installing it on your hard disk.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Here what's new in Joomla! 3.0:

Complete story: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/joomla-3-0-whats-new/

Well it's been another tempestuous week here in the Linux blogosphere, rounding out a month that never ran short on controversy, to put it mildly. The topic du jour this time? None other than Canonical's decision to integrate Amazon results into searches done through the Dash on Ubuntu's Unity desktop.

Rhythmbox 2.98 has been released yesterday, bringing a new dialog for importing music into the library along with some other small, but interesting changes and many bug fixes.

It may occur that the user needs to run a Windows application or game in Ubuntu and it finds that it cannot install windows programs. Wine is a piece of software that tricks programs to believe they are running in a Windows environment. In addition, this article will explain how to install Winetricks libraries needed to run windows, and PlayOnLinux applications to run games.

Jos Poortvliet from openSUSE has announced earlier today, October 1st, that the first Release Candidate of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 ARM operating system is now available for download and testing.

This week's Linux Top 3 strikes right at the core of Linux with a kernel update, a new release of the world's first Linux distro and a milestone update of Red Hat MRG.

LibreOffice may have the community and momentum, but that doesn't mean it is the better choice for every document.