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There are many reasons to support KDE with a regular financial contribution. It is important to KDE e.V. by helping to create a predictable income. This money is used to support events that accelerate development of KDE software, enhance promotion efforts and help grow the Community. KDE contributors and users are scattered throughout the world and have many different backgrounds, so their reasons for contributing are diverse. Claudia Rauch and Jayson Rowe from the Join the Game Team asked supporting member Gaurav Chaturvedi why he joined the game.

A small tip on how to avoid getting redirected to country specific google versions

Openmamba project started in 2007 with roots in QiLinux, a now defunct operating system. The system slogan of openmamba is "Ready to use GNU/Linux". What does it mean? That was a hook for me.

The Linux 3.5 kernel for Texas Instruments OMAP4 devices has finally been uploaded into the Quantal repository for Ubuntu 12.10. With the upgraded kernel release, here are some new benchmarks of the popular PandaBoard ES compared to earlier Ubuntu 12.10 development snapshots, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 from the dual-core Cortex-A9 ARMv7 development hardware.

Genius Mathematics is a very useful tool that intends to help with many things from simple calculations to complex research and education. The application uses a its own language extension called GEL, and many of the standard genius functions are written in GEL itself.

Johansson or Gnome, Gnome or Johansson? I am very sorry but I have to say it. Both are ***** beautiful! I tried Gnome 3.5.90 for about 7 hours, and I don’t really know what to write about it. Gnome 3.6 it’s impressive better than its predecessor. Fast, clean, simple, pretty. This time Gnome isn’t about the Shell. While Shell received significant changes, the rest modules of Gnome pull the attraction. Amazing things from the Gnome Team in this release. Congratulations boys ‘n’ girls of Gnome Team!

The Coolpix s800c, which, with the help of Android 2.3 and built-in Wi-Fi capability, enables you to do a few things you already do with your smartphone, like mess around on Google Play.

The PCLinuxOS 2012.08 Linux distribution has been released earlier today, August 22nd, in two editions based on the KDE desktop environment.

phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox in headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox with nginx on an Ubuntu 12.04 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

The GNOME developers announced earlier today, August 22nd, the Beta release of the upcoming Totem 3.6.0 movie player app, that will be part of the upcoming GNOME 3.6 desktop environment.

Regrettably, this is the first time I have reviewed the Cinnamon desktop which is the new shining star of the Linux Mint Project. This release is one that should not be missed for Linux Mint lovers. Linux Mint 13 Maya Cinnamon edition is loaded with new features and goodies that should not be overlooked.

Developers behind the open-source multi-platform Alien Arena game have managed some performance improvements as well as visual enhancements through some improvements to the engine's renderer...

“Classic Shell” can banish Interface Formerly Known As Metro Windows 8 user need not do without a Start button, thanks to an open source application titled Classic Shell that can banish the Interface Formerly Known As Metro (TIFKAM).…

Six days after releasing the Linux 3.6-rc2 kernel, Linus has released the third test release of the forthcoming Linux 3.6...

Version 4.1.20 of Oracle's desktop virtualisation application has been released with fixes for crashing bugs and better support for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The developers have also disabled the clipboard by default for new VMs

With the Unity 4.0 game engine gaining native Linux support, Canonical is sponsoring a session at this week's Unite game development conference to promote their Ubuntu Software Center to game developers of this Mono-powered proprietary game engine...

Last week a new Humble Indie Bundle launched with a focus on Android games but with support for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows too. Being announced today are a few more titles that have been added to the DRM-free cross-platform game bundle...

Puddletag is an awesome Mp3tag-like audio tag editor for Linux which uses a spreadsheet layout so the tags are always visible, making it easy to edit them.

With Firefox 17, Mozilla is introducing enhanced separation of add-on content from scripts running in web sites. The current beta version of Firefox 15 will already warn developers if their code does run afoul of the new restrictions

Nikon on Wednesday announced an Android-powered digital point-and-shoot camera, the Coolpix S800c. The device has built-in WiFi and runs Android Gingerbread. It will let users connect to, browse and upload photographs and videos to their social networks. Users will also be able to surf the Web and download apps and games onto the S800c.