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Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.12-rc6 kernel a day early due to flying out tonight for the Linux Kernel Summit happening next week in Edinburgh. Overall, things are quieting down for the Linux 3.12 kernel with the end being near.

The Medibuntu repository was discontinued and is no longer available. As a consequence, you might see error messages in the Update Manager, Package Manager and Software Manager.

google-drive-ocamlfuse is a FUSE-based file system backed by Google Drive. Using this user-space file system, you can mount your Google Drive account on Linux, and have full read/write access to files/folders in Google Drive as if they were local files/folders. This tutorial describes how to use google-drive-ocamlfuse.

Mon Oct 14 22:09:17 UTC 2013 And with this batch of updates and fixes (clearing the rest of the important stuff from the TODO list), we have arrived at Slackware 14.1 release candidate 1! Please test and report any remaining issues.

Following http://www.gluster.org/category/openstack/, this is a snapshot to show the difference between the Havanna and Grizzly releases with GlusterFS.

This week, we look at a developer's guide to the future of the car, does the cloud exist and iOS beating Android when it comes to enterprise custom apps by a wide margin.

GdNewHat 19 Mini is available. GdNewHat GNU/Linux-libre is a "Fedora Remix" with an aim to be a fully free operating system without proprietary software and binary blobs.

This tutorial focuses on showing the use of one of the new features introduced in Ubuntu 13.10, namely Smart Scopes. With Mir being postponed, Saucy Salamander didn’t have a lot of new features, focusing on stability rather than trying to break new grounds. Smart Scopes is one of the main additions to Dash in Saucy.

Free Windows utility Kingo Android Root makes it a snap to jailbreak just about any Android smartphone. Here's how to use it.

Freescale Semiconductor announced a new line of Linux-ready, embedded-focused QorIQ system-on-chips based on a new ARM-compatible, core-agnostic Layerscape architecture. The first three QorIQ LS1 SoCs offer dual ARM Cortex-A7 cores clocked at up to 1GHz, and include networking-, display-, and cost-optimized models featuring 2-3 Watts power consumption.

It’s been three years since the last version of AssaultCube was released, but the wait was well-worth, since 1.2 brings several major new features and a ton of improvements. First, I must say AssaultCube is one of my favorite shooters because of its simplicity yet pretty addictive gameplay and a nice community.

It’s becoming more and more difficult to remember that only a few short years ago, GNOME won nearly every popularity poll and it seemed as if KDE was in danger of becoming the best desktop without users. Now, hardly a days goes by when we don’t hear of yet another project abandoning the GNOME desktop environment.

Does it pay to be an Android app developer? How do revenues on Android compare to those on Apple's mobile platform, iOS?

Dolphin Browser is still our pick for the best web browser for Android, but it's been a while since we reviewed its features and explained why it's our favorite, especially considering Chrome's massive popularity (and our love for it) and the many other alternatives for Android.

We've written a few times about the patent troll "Personal Audio" which claims to hold a patent (US Patent 8,112,504) that it says covers podcasting. With this patent it's been busy shaking down the creators of a bunch of popular podcasts. The company's owner and his lawyer recently asserted (somehow, without laughing) that their patent was "the roadmap" for podcasting, even though no one involved in the early days of podcasting was even remotely aware of the patent.

After studying more than 200 billion Facebook ads, it has been discovered that the ads are more effective on iOS than on Android. The study conducted by Nanigans shows that Facebook ads on iOS are 1,790% more profitable than on Android-powered devices.

Microsoft has quietly released a remote desktop client for Android that is available now at the Google Play store.

Themer is a great tool for completely customizing your home screen with a few taps, but which themes are the best? Which ones will really make your phone look sharp? We did some digging and picked a some great Themer customizations you might want to try.

Nero first came into the limelight as a CD burning tool, but has since expanded into various other software avenues. The BackItUp tool, launched on Windows a few years ago, has now made its way to Android for an easy 3-step backup, sync and restore solution — complete with 5GB of online storage.

The Ubuntu 13.0 Linux server release is now available, providing administrators with new cloud management and deployment capabilities.