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REAPER, short for Rapid Environment for Audio Production, Engineering, and Recording, is one of the professional audio software solutions available on Windows and Mac OS X. While REAPER can work to some extent under WINE, the development studio behind this software, Cockos, is working towards a native Linux port.

Podcasts are usually the first media I consume when I wake up in the morning and the last media I consume before falling asleep. Sadly, some of my favorites have gone AWOL over the past few years, but I haven’t stopped discovering new ones to listen to. I’m now going to tell you about the top Linux – and open-source-related podcasts making the rounds in my media player.

Given that now even some small open source projects are forming their own foundations, Glynn Moody thinks that perhaps open source foundations have come of age. He suggests that the time may now be right for the formation of an umbrella foundation to help share best practices, legal advice and other information and support.

Following rapidly in the footsteps of Linux Mint 14's Xfce release, the Mint developers have now released the KDE edition of the latest version of their distribution. Based on the same Ubuntu foundation as the other Linux Mint 14 releases (with Cinnamon and MATE desktops), the KDE edition uses the KDE Software Collection 4.9, specifically 4.9.2, to provide its desktop. All four versions are available from the project's download page as 32-bit and 64-bit variants.

2012 was another busy year for Linux kernel developers as the continuous pace of evolution accelerated further. In total, seven major Linux kernels were released during the year adding a long list of new features along the way.

Highlighting the top ten projects, both followed and contributed to, the GitHub service's look back on 2012 reveals some revealing front runners and a huge increase in activity on the site

With the release of GNU sed 4.2.2, Paolo Bonzini has given up position of maintainer of the software, and the same position on GNU grep, citing differences with GNU Project leader Richard Stallman and the FSF

With the first pre-release, it is now confirmed that Linux 3.8 will include the F2FS filesystem, a graphics driver for NVIDIA Tegra, and foundations for balanced process placement in NUMA systems, and that support for Intel 386 chips has been dropped

A lot of you fine readers are already contributors to your favorite worthy Linux projects. I'll wager there are also some who would love to contribute in some way, but aren't quite sure how. So here are a few ideas to get you inspired and, hopefully, involved.

When writing a few days ago about the GemRB project as an open-source re-implementation of the Infinity Engine for Baldur's Gate and then OpenMW as an open-source re-implementation of the engine used by Morrowind, a Phoronix reader pointed out Xoreos.

Steam users, rejoice! The native Steam client for Linux (Ubuntu) is finally here. Previously, you will have to install via Wine to get it working in Linux, but with the release of the native client and is open to the public, you can now easily install it and have quick access to your Steam games. Ubuntu users, here is how you can install Steam in Ubuntu.

Red Hat has reported that its third quarter revenue is up 18% year-on-year, at $343.6 million, with subscription income rising 19% (to $294.2million). With estimates placing Red Hat at 29 cents a share, the reported earnings beat those estimates, coming in at 30 cents a share. According to Bloomberg, that was enough to see Red Hat shares rising in late trading.

The Linux Mint development team has taken exactly a month to put together the XFCE desktop version of the Ubuntu-based distribution. Other than the desktop, Linux Mint 14 XFCE sees few changes compared to the Cinnamon and Mate desktop versions released a month ago, with just a few bug fixes and a handful of updates merged shortly after the release of Linux Mint 14 in late November.

Earlier this week I shared some AMD Catalyst OpenCL benchmarks showing the performance gains made by AMD's proprietary Radeon graphics driver this year in bettering the GPGPU results. In this article is similar testing on the NVIDIA side with their binary driver.

“Commerce Kickstart 2.0 takes all of the core strengths of our flexible eCommerce framework, Drupal Commerce, and makes it easier to use and quicker to deploy for e-retailers,” said Mike O'Connor, president for North America of Commerce Guys. “Leveraging an open-source technology with an engaged community like Drupal was a huge asset when shaping the beta product into what Commerce Kickstart is today.”

After already sharing the free response survey results, here are the results from the structured part of this year's annual GNOME User Survey. As shared already, there were 4,494 survey submissions for this year's 2012 GNOME User Survey that was independently developed of the GNOME Foundation and Phoronix and then simply hosted on this web-site.

Being "fed up with the existing open source CRM applications", the team at Zurmo have released their own open source customer relationship management (CRM) software – Zurmo 1.0. The CRM software, which has been in development for two years, includes deal tracking features, contact and activity management, and has scores and badges that can be managed through a built-in gamification system.

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsToday KDE released the first release candidate for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Thanks to the feedback from the betas, KDE already improved the quality noticably. Further polishing new and old functionality will lead to a rock-stable, fast and beautiful release in January, 2013. One particular change in this RC is an updated look to Plasma workspaces.

If you’ve seen an unbelievable interactive projection or a mind-blowing piece of generative video art, odds are you’ve come across openFrameworks, an accessible programming platform that has helped create projects like Arturo Castro and Kyle McDonald’s Faces, a real-time face-substitution project, the EyeWriter graffiti headset from F.A.T. Labs, and Chris O’Shea’s playful, Monty Python-inspired Hand from Above, among many other works of technology-based art. What makes openFrameworks and similar coding tools like Processing so powerful in an artistic context is that they are open source, free for any artist to use and hack to their own ends, and are made by artists, for artists.

Perl, the open source programming language used by developers and sysadmins to automate any number of text-wrangling and data-management tasks, celebrates its 25th birthday on Tuesday. It was on December 18, 1987 that Larry Wall released Perl 1.0, posting the source code to the Usenet newsgroup comp.sources.misc.