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After six release candidates and over 20 months of hard work, the Wine development team proudly announced a few hours ago, March 7th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable Wine 1.4 app.

We've got versions 8, 9 and 10 to prove it QCon 2012 With Java 8 still on its way in mid-2013, Oracle is already prepping for Java 9 and 10, and protesting that reports of a Cobolesque slide into irrelevance are much exaggerated.…

The popular Knoppix Live DVD Linux distribution was presented last evening, March 6th, at the CeBIT 2012 event by its German developer, Klaus Knopper.

Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.1 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.8 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.8.0 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone. KDE’s software is already translated into more than 55 languages, with more to come. The December updates contain many performance improvements and bugfixes for applications using the Nepomuk semantic framework. read more

Here's a video by James Simmons, the community developer that's near single-handedly been working on providing VIA kernel mode-setting (KMS) support and in-kernel memory management (via a GEM-ified TTM implementation), talking about the Linux KMS and GEM/TTM infrastructures for those wishing to learn more about Linux graphics driver programming...

Online submission for ‘amazing innovations’ now open at element14

Matthew Dillon, the lead developer behind the DragonFly BSD fork of the open source FreeBSD Unix variant, had some issues with crashes on Opteron-based systems running his operating system for more than a year - and now Advanced Micro Devices says it's a bug in earlier generations of Opteron processors.

The stable release Wine 1.4 is now available.

Within the halls of Microsoft, a cordial but strategic debate is emerging. Some leaders within the company want Microsoft to describe itself as the world’s biggest cloud software provider. Here's why.

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.4 is now available. This release represents 20 months of development effort and over 16,000 individual changes.

This entry is somewhat mis-titled. What I did with xmodmap wasn't exactly fun. Maybe mildly rewarding, finally. But also a bit perturbing.

antiX is very fast and light-weight Linux distribution for older PC like 64 MB or 128 MB of RAM. It is based on MEPIS and debian comes with IceWM desktop environment. It can also be used as a rescue disk by its LiveCD.

It's not gravity that makes the Linux Planet go around, it's the continuous process of never-ending code development. This past week saw three major milestone development releases for three of the biggest Linux efforts

Wine software allows you to run Microsoft Windows applications on Linux/Unix operating systems. Recently many release candidate of wine 1.4 released in the past few weeks, and here comes the final stable release of Wine 1.4 after 20 Months of development. The latest stable release Wine 1.4 brings several improvements to graphics rendering, added a new DIB graphics engine, improved Direct3D, support for many new applications and over than 16,000 individual changes. Check What’s new in Wine 1.4 and installation instructions down below.

Hello, I am going to guide you through the install version 1.1 of the Porteus Linux distribution. A light weight (under 300megs), fast and modular distribution based on Slackware.

Linux Deepin is a desktop distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, but using a modifed GNOME 3 shell, not Ubuntu’s Unity desktop. It was founded by Liu Wenhuan, who is also a co-founder of Wuhan Linux User Group (LUG), a LUG in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, China.

Like most desktop distributions today, Linux Deepin is made available for download as a Live ISO installation image. Deepin’s, both the 32- and 64-bit images, weigh in at about 650 MB. Thus they are Live CD images.

While I remain somewhat skeptical about the ability to produce a truly cheap smart phone running the Boot to Gecko system, it's hard not to root for a standards-based approach running an extremely light-weight Linux kernel. Developers tired of developing apps for multiple platforms should also like it.

Zuck's lads poke around superpower's backdoor Facebook has drilled into China’s burgeoning software development industry to expand its range of apps despite the social network being banned in the country.…

If you are a open source software developer or a content writer you can use Zanata to translate your software strings, User interface text/String, software documentation and localized into any languages.

On March 6, 2012, Codeweavers team has released an update for Crossover!