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Per Øyvind Karlsen announced a few days ago the immediate availability for download and testing of the Tech Preview (TP) release of the upcoming Mandriva 2012 Linux operating system.

Emerillon is a simple yet powerful and easy to use map viewer that uses OpenStreetMap based maps to allow users to browse the world, search the map for places and placemark these places for later quick access!

The open source community has produced a rich variety of open source graphics tools. There is such a vast array of utilities available to download that it can be very time consuming to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Few apps available for the iPad sell for $300—and even fewer are considered a bargain at the price. But "Speak for Yourself" turned consumer-grade tablets into sophisticated Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices for those struggling to speak due to issues like autism; standalone hardware offering the same capabilities goes for up to $15,000.

Zarafa SummerCamp will be held June 21 & 22

We all know the incredible versatility of our beloved Linux. To our great pleasure we can find it in the PC of the school of our son, or on the netbook of our secretary, in the terminals of the Internet Café of Madrid but also, for the amazement of many, in the most common security devices or in the more sophisticated satellite receivers. But I am quiet sure that you have never heard of Linux distributions for the space. That’s right! What reaction would you have in discovering that many of the satellites scattered in outer space have entrusted our beloved Linux? Shocked? Then, you have not heard anything! The future of Linux and its philosophy is finally conquering the space my dears.

As consumerization trends sweep over the enterprise, sometimes the easiest way to deal with a problem is to provide some front-end tweaks to make it easier to use the existing back-end systems. Beats ripping and replacing.

This is similar how Gnome-Documents handles Google Docs after we setup online accounts. While in Gnome 3.4 we could set up a MS Live account, we couldn’t access MS Docs.. well in 3.6 we gain that ability.

Canonical proudly announced on June 14th that they prepared a new and exciting contest for developers who want to create an app, from scratch, for the Ubuntu platform.

I'm proud to announce GNU Health 1.6 series! This series brings a lot of exciting features, both from the technical and functional point of views. On the technical side, the most important one is the compatibility with Tryton 2.4, and the demo database, so you can test it with data.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 24 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes Opera, Skype, Emacs, LibreOffice, MorphOS, Emesene, Wine, Sabayon and many more.

From time-to-time unique/crazy/odd discussions get born on the Fedora development mailing list -- such as talking nasty about Ubuntu's Unity, trying to make Fedora a rolling-release distribution, etc. The latest discussion that's been very active has been about whether ARM hardware is a dead-end.

The inspiration of this post is the fact that as much as it is easy to create a custom widget class in gtkmm, it is just as complicated to add it to Glade, the interface designer tool of GNOME. As gtkmm is C++ we only have to derive from the desired parent class and customize its behaviour to implement a brand new widget. It would be nice to add the instances of this new class just like stock GTK+ widgets in Glade.

If you are looking for an Awesome window manager for your desktop, you found it! This window manager remains simple but offers flexible configuration as well.

This week we look at issues Africa faces as it embraces the cloud and mobile, the growing popularity of Hadoop and agile testing issues.

When LIMBO became a part of the Linux gaming world through the latest Humble Indie Bundle, I knew I should take the journey right away. This game has won over 90 awards, and many gamers of all platforms consider it to be the best indie game ever. Time to have a more extensive look on this unique platform game…

Here’s a surprise! After years of neglect, Microsoft ships a new major version of Skype, the popular VoIP program, for Linux. You could have knocked me over with a feather. The last thing I expected was to see a new version of Skype, the popular Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) program, arrive for Linux. But, just in time for Skype’s new in-your-face advertising program, Skype 4.0 for Linux has arrived.

Reports of the demise of the fax machine may be premature if research in Chico Harlan's article in The Washington Post last week is to be believed. Fax machines are still in 59 percent of Japanese homes, Harlan found. They are still popular because of a cultural interest in the use of paper and handwriting.

For my money Calibre is one of the most indispensible pieces of software in GNU/Linux. It can handle all your e-books in all the major formats, including PDF, EPUB and Mobi. It supports up to thirty e-reader devices but this article will tell you how to use Calibre to convert RSS feeds to EPUBs (which can then be read in Calibre's own E-reader or synced and transferred to your external reader of choice).

read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

Yesterday, June 14th, we were prepared to announced the release of openSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 1, including a detailed screenshot tour. Unfortunately, Stephan Kulow informed openSUSE users that there will be no release until they catch up with the slip of the Milestones and Beta versions.