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GNUstep, the leading free software implementation of Apple's Cocoa Objective-C libraries and related Mac OS X components, has reached a new version. GNUstep runtime 1.6 is this new version with many new features after being in development for more than one year...

Welcome to the 175th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

A full review of openSUSE 12.1, including a gallery of images.

An American company, which registered the name Koha as a trademark for software in New Zealand, has offered to hand ownership of the name to a non-profit representing the Koha community.

For those interested in the GTK3 tool-kit on Windows, improvements are forthcoming...

Richard Hillesley talked with Dave Neary about his experience working with open source communities and companies, and discovered that the important thing is not so much what the rules are, but that everyone knows what they are.

Finally Linux Mint 12 has been released with a code name “Lisa” and it’s available to download. Few weeks ago we have seen the earlier Release Candidate of Linux Mint 12 with Gnome 3 desktop, Mint Gnome Shell Extensions “MGSE” and new panels Mint-Z theme, backgrounds artwork.

There's an active discussion on the Fedora mailing list concerning a "software center" for Fedora Linux...

You may have noticed several Phoronix articles in recent weeks using a ZaReason notebook built around Intel's "Sandy Bridge" processor. This is one of the new notebooks from ZaReason that had been in our labs for testing. Here is a last look at the Strata 6880 notebook from this Linux-focused PC vendor.

Minitube is the powerful software for watching youtube video and for downloading youtube video. It is not clone of youtube interface but tries to privides you a TV-like experience.

The Bash shell has a builtin test command that can be used to check for multiple aspects in a script. This exercise helps you build a script that checks to see if a file exists and if it does, checks to see if it is writable.

"So I thought I found your porn folder, in calendar/backup/PORN..."

The April release of Ubuntu is all about quality

Don't let touts cloud your judgement Open ... and Shut The software risk silly season is upon us again. Every so often a big trend washes over the industry, and soon afterwards well-intentioned people start telling us why we should be afraid to dip our toes into the water. Or perhaps they are not so well-intentioned...…

Most of Italian people that use the world wide web are daily in the Cloud, without knowing it. Only 15% of internet users know that that “putting online something” means sharing it in the Cloud, while 38% know that they have used at least one of the Cloud services. Rather, when talking more technically, one discovers that 88% of web users meet more than once the Cloud in its life in a completely unaware way.

German boffins have pulled off a successful attack on HDCP copy protection – using cheap hardware and a lot of clever coding. Intel's HDCP (high-bandwidth digital content protection) allows the encrypted transfer of high definition video signals via DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort and other connectors and between TVs and Blue-ray discs or set-top boxes. The HDCP master key was leaked last year but there was no easy way to exploit this.

Earlier this month I showed the Intel graphics performance hasn't improved much in the Linux 3.2 kernel (but there might be a boost when RC6 is flipped on), but how is this new kernel shaping up for NVIDIA hardware owners wishing to use the open-source and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver? In this article are some benchmarks of the Nouveau DRM driver from recent Linux releases.

Much has been written over the last few days about Linux Mint's meteoric rise in Distrowatch's rankings, seemingly at the expense of Ubuntu's fall. While he thinks Linux Mint's rise is deserved, Larry the Free Software Guy is not convinced these stats are a sound yardstick, and he does his best Jerry Maguire in shouting, "Show me the downloads!"

From the 'Not so relaxing news' files: An interesting mailing list posting caught my eye the other day titled, EOL for couchdb. At first I did a double-take, couchDB is hitting end-of-life? How could that be? As it turns out it is the CouchDB support that Ubuntu has that is going EOL and that's very bad news for CouchDB in my opinion. Long story short is that Ubuntu - with UbuntuOne and other efforts - is the reason that I first ever even heard of the CouchDB and now Ubuntu is giving up on it.

In an Ubuntu-Desktop mailing list message, Jason Warner (Ubuntu Desktop Manager) has confirmed that Rhythmbox will be the default music player in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, replacing Banshee. But there's something even more interesting regarding the default application selection in Ubuntu 12.04: Jupiter Applet might also be included by default as a way to solve power issues.