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While most haven't yet heard of the Unvanquished game, it's a promising but yet-to-be-released open-source multi-player game...

These days, it often feels like an operating system is only as cool as its “apps” — which are separate from applications, mind you. And so it’s not surprising to see Canonical pushing hard to deliver more apps to Ubuntu users, an effort highlighted most recently by the upcoming AppsSprint. Yet is Canonical, promoter of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, catering to real demand among users, or simply following hype? Here are some thoughts.

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, June 30th, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel is now available for download and testing.

Indie Royale has a few Linux games in their offer this time. Unfortunately it's only three out of the nine games in the bundle. Harvest: Massive Encounter looks the most interesting.

A simple command to convert a video to slow motion

This is a task / todo list written in PHP. It requires no SQL database whatsover, all the data is saved in a JSON text file. The visual side is made with the excellent HTML5 Kickstart framework. Features include adding, editing and deleting of tasks, and marking them as finished. MIT/X11 license, download and demo available.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 26 of 2012. It features fedora ranting and small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes Libreoffice, Bryan Lunduke, Microsoft blocking the Free Software Foundation, GNOME, Cyanogenmod, Codeweavers Crossover, Wine, TomaHawk, the kernel and more...

PhpSysInfo is a fabulous PHP script that easily to displays system and other monitoring information for Linux-based computer system.

With my new laptop, I've installed Debian Testing on it, and so I finally had a chance to experience GNOME 3.4 personally. Wow, it really is as unusable as everyone has said; painfully so. So, next stop: xfce, as I had planned. Which means I ran into more problems.

Following up the interest that was generated about the Skeltrack library, we arranged a quick interview with the currently only developer of the project Joaquim Rocha, in an attempt to learn more about this amazing and very promising project.

While most of the native Linux games that can be easily automated are built atop the id Tech engine or some spin-off there of the open-source id Tech 2/3/4 engines, here's something new to play with this weekend. There's also some early results to explore...

Sometime is useful to have information on a system when you login into it via ssh or via a local terminal, or perhaps just to have a warmer welcome with some ASCII art and information on your system, on Linux there are many software that do this work, we can call them Shell information tools.

These tools are designed to run in a terminal to show information on your distribution/system.

Community KeynoteAgustín Benito Bethencourt Yesterday, nearly 300 hackers grabbed their badges at the Estonian IT College in Tallinn and launched Akademy 2012. Mathias Klang's keynote, Freedom of Expression, got things going quickly with his urgent call to action for those who stand for freedom, which often disappears gradually and in a slow creep. Some people kicked off the conference on Friday night at the pre-registration party sponsored by Intel or even arrived earlier in the week to explore Tallinn and sample Estonia's beers. During the first day of Akademy, there were sessions on release management, Plasma Active, and the future of KDE and Qt technologies. read more

The Ultra KSM (UKSM) patch-set for the Linux kernel continues to be maintained for providing transparent full-system memory de-duplication for Linux...

Next week the annual Debian developers conference, DebConf, will begin in Managua, Nicaragua...

Gdev, the GPGPU run-time and resource management engines that provides an open-source NVIDIA CUDA run-time, is still being worked on at the University of California Santa Cruz in conjunction with PathScale...

With the latest version of WordPress just arriving, version 3.4, I’m sure people who are using the self-hosted version of WordPress are interested to know what is included with this update. Along with the usual bug fixes, included are many improvements and additions that will benefit both designers, developers and end users. Let’s take a look and see why.

What is the difference between Wary and Slacko? No this isn't a joke waiting for a punchline but the introduction to the second part of my Puppy Linux review series. This time I am reviewing Slacko Puppy. Is Slacko more intuitive than Wary? Are there any features that would make me choose Slacko over Wary or does it perform like a dog?

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.1 on a headless Ubuntu 12.04 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

Welcome to the 206th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!