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In the past week I have found myself using video editing software for the first time. This article looks at some of the tools I have encountered for screencasting and video editing, using Ubuntu, as well as mentioning some of the pitfalls I encountered.

Recently I’ve discovered this project that has great ambitions:

arkOS is an open-source platform for securely self-hosting your online life.

Everything started from the founder Jacob Cook and the CitizenWeb Project he founded. It’s designed to run on a Raspberry Pi – a super-low-cost single board computer – and ultimately will let users, even of the non-technical variety, run from within their homes email, social networking, storage and other services that are increasingly getting shunted out into the cloud, and so under the control of big companies.

So in short arkOS is a lightweight Linux-based operating system that runs on a Raspberry Pi.

Dell has shipped a second update to its Ubuntu-powered Project Sputnik developer laptop, and its engineers have begun testing other Dell portables with an eye to offering an even more powerful Linux workstation.

rbash stands for restricted bash shell. In UNIX like operating when a user is created a default shell (/bin/bash) is assigned. So a user can move to any body's directories , so to avoid this situation we can assign the restricted shell to a user , restricted shell is just like a jail like environment or chroot environment.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is still a long way out, but it seems that Canonical hasn't abandoned its plans to also release a reliable Ubuntu for TVs version of its distribution.

The /dev/random changes went in for the Linux 3.13 kernel and this pull request was even interesting for the very promising next kernel release. While not in Linux 3.13, it's mentioned the Linux kernel might also end up taking a security feature from the FreeBSD playbook.

While the Perl scripting language normally isn't relied upon by Linux graphics driver developers, Perl bindings to Wayland have been published...

Last week the GlassFish was the latest former Sun open source product, Oracle kicked back to the community and ended its support for. It got me thinking whether MySQL users should be worried as it's not the first time Oracle has axed support for a Sun open source product.

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 16 “Petra” MATE RC.

Libdrm, the DRM library that interfaces between the user-space graphics components (namely Mesa and the X.Org drivers) with the Linux kernel DRM drivers, is now up to version 2.4.48. Big with libdrm 2.4.48 is Intel "Broadwell" and AMD Radeon "Hawaii" GPU support.

Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. The beta 1 ISO images are now available for testing and we need your feedbacks to improve Mageia 4.

When GCC 4.9 is released in 2014 it will be coming in hot on new features with a large assortment of improvements and new functionality for the open-source compiler.

One of the aspects I enjoy most about developing software in the mobile space is getting to work extensively with animations. Animations help engage the user, unify the overall experience, and are just plain fun. Over the past few iterations, the animation framework inside the Android SDK has really grown; this includes the number of interpolators.

Android is approaching Windows-like domination of the smartphone industry, according to IDC’s third quarter smartphone report. Google’s Linux-based mobile OS has reached a new high of 81 percent of units shipped, while all other platforms have dropped since Q2 2013.

In order to fully appreciate what the CyanogenMod team has accomplished with their new installer, here's a rough overview of what installing an Android ROM has typically been like in the past. It's mostly a series of archaic command line entry and user input that is so convoluted, it often sounds like a video game cheat code. The full, old instructions for many devices are still on the CyanogenMod Wiki.

Nvidia has announced the latest version of its GPU programming language, CUDA 6, which adds a "Unified Memory" capability that, as its name implies, relieves programmers from the trials and tribulations of having to manually copy data back and forth between separate CPU and GPU memory spaces.

Dell has started selling a thin and light touchscreen laptop called the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux OS and Intel’s fourth-generation Core processors, code-named Haswell.

As some more positive news for the GCC compiler after writing how NVIDIA and Mentor Graphics could harm the open-source compiler, Intel engineers are continuing to work on improving the Cilk Plus implementation.

Alexandre Julliard has just announced that the first maintenance release of the stable Wine 1.6 application is now available for download.

SUSE last extended its support term length in 2011 for its SLES 10 release, offering a total of 10 years including the LTSS. Rival Linux vendor Red Hat has been providing its customers with 10 years of standard support since the beginning of 2012.

Brauckmann noted during his SUSECon address that SUSE now has more than 19,000 active customers with paid subscriptions to SUSE services, up from 15,000 a year ago. He added that in its last fiscal year, SUSE generated $230 million in revenue and is now a profitable company.