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A brand-new maintenance release of the Long Term Supported (LTS) Linux 3.4 kernel has been announced by the famous Greg Kroah-Hartman, and it is now available for download. Linux kernel 3.4.62 LTS is a minor release, bringing x86 and M32R fixes, some updated drivers (networking related), as well as lots of networking improvements, especially for IPv6 and IPv4.

A tutorial on how to set up an open Packstack installation with external connectivity.

The Unvanquished open-source game is one of the most fascinating open-source game projects as they've strived for fundamental improvements in the ioquake3 engine and also to deliver high quality art assets and in-game content. Unvanquished is powered by the Daemon Engine, which is derived from the ioquake3 engine at its core -- the open-source version of id's Quake III engine.

I spent some time over the weekend installing Ubuntu alongside Windows 8 and the following is a guide showing the steps I performed to achieve this task.

After the release of the Linux 3.11.1, 3.10.12 LTS and 3.4.62 LTS kernels, Greg Kroah-Hartman also announced the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.0.96 LTS.

Mentor Graphics is integrating Jungo Connectivity’s multimedia player middleware into its Linux-based in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) software platform. Mentor’s Automotive Technology Platform IVI stack meets Yocto Project 1.3 and GENIVI 3.0 IVI requirements.

After the release of Kubuntu 13.10 Beta 1 and Lubuntu 13.10 Beta, the Xubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Beta 1 operating system was unleashed for testing, bringing new applications and system enhancements. This first Beta release of Xubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander) is distributed as Live DVD ISO images, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

DuckDuckGo gets its results from over one hundred sources, including DuckDuckBot (their own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, which are stored in their own index), Yahoo! (through BOSS), Yandex, WolframAlpha, and Bing. For any given search, there is usually a vertical search engine out there that does a better job at answering it than a general search engine.

The Wine development release 1.7.2 is now available.

Gaming, game capturing and video editing, does that sound like Linux to you? Few years ago most of us most likely would have said "no", but I am here to show you the current situation and prove that old fact wrong! Step into my lair of Linux gaming videos!

Bohdi Linux is a lightweight, Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment 17 window manager. This release features the E17.4 desktop, version 0.5.5 of the Midori webrowser and the 3.8 Linux kernel. If you are already a Bodhi user and have been running your system updates then you already have all these additions running on your system!

Fields of War is a massive multiplayer third-person-shooter focused on large scale battles, territory control, skill and most importantly team play.

A few minutes ago, September 14, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the first maintenance release for the 3.11 LTS branch of the Linux kernel is now available for download.

Have you ever wanted to be president? or prime-minister? Convinced you could do a better job of running the country? Let's face it, you could hardly do a worse job than our current political leaders.

Greg Kroah-Hartman also announced today, September 14, that the twelfth maintenance release for the 3.10 LTS branch of the Linux kernel is now available for download.

SFTP service provides secure file access and transfer mechanisms over SSH tunnels. This tutorial describes how to set up a secure SFTP server in Linux, by properly protecting the SFTP server from SFTP users, and isolating individual SFTP users from one another.

Like a fine wine, programming languages get better with age. Programming languages take years to become established and dominant. The deciding factor for many programmers when selecting a language for a particular project has been popularity and language acceptance, so this is a hard cycle to break for newcomers.

Digia developers working on the Qt tool-kit have decided they will switch from using the WebKit browser engine to instead using Google's "Blink" engine fork for Chromium. The new Qt web rendering engine will be called Qt WebEngine.

Normally, at the end of the year, I tend to run my best annual distro roundups, choosing the finest among five operating systems or flavors thereof that showed the greatest promise in terms of stability, usability, elegance, support, and other curious items in the outgoing twelve-month period. But I have never dedicated much thought to selecting the best implementation of any one particular desktop environment, regardless of the system underneath.

The next version of the Linux kernel, version 3.12, has a name: “Suicidal squirrel”. Linus Torvalds let the new name be known in a Git commit in which he killed off the “Linux for Workgroups” name used for version 3.11. The Linux Lord has not, however, entirely ruled out returning to Microsoft-themed names for future versions of the kernel, offering the following commentary on future names: “This reverts the Linux for Workgroups thing. And no, before somebody asks, we're not doing Linux95. Not for a few years, at least.