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In the past few days several videos have surfaced for "Nemoshell", a reported window manager for Wayland but details on the software project are scarce.

When it comes to Web development, Adobe's Dreamweaver (originally from Macromedia) is a well-known and widely deployed tool. Like most of Adobe's commercial tools, it doesn't run on Linux. While historically Adobe's tools haven't been widely available for Linux users, a new era seems to be starting.

While SDL 2.0 was finally released this week after being in development for years, future SDL 2.x features and changes are already being plotted and even some early thoughts concerning SDL 3.x for game developers and other cross-platform developers relying upon this important Simple DirectMedia Layer library.

For those not actively following the Mesa Git repository, there continues to be new performance-optimizing patches flowing in from Intel's developers for their open-source Linux graphics driver.

In 1988, Amiga produced the Fast File System (FFS) for use on the AmigaOS version 1.3 in 1988. The FFS file system was an update to what was later termed "Old File System" (OFS), released in 1985. FFS was backward compatible with OFS. The file systems were both released for the Amiga systems which had hard disks or floppy disks. Originally, the AmigaOS was termed AmigaDOS or Workbench and FFS had a version number of v34. The Fast File System was first supported by Linux kernel 2.1.x.

Don't want to dual-boot your Mac or Linux PC to run one or two Windows apps? Don't want to install a full virtual operating system for them? CodeWeaver's latest version of CrossOver 12.5 may be just what you want.

Clemens Toennies has announced the first prototype of Netrunner SE 13.06, where SE stands for the stealth edition of the Kubuntu-based desktop distribution. In this edition, certain software components have been replaced with their more secure counterparts. This version of Netrunner is shipped with privacy and security in mind. This means that you are able to use the Internet more securely and possibly circumvent censorship. You are able to encrypt E-Mail messages with GPG and chat securely with your friends via text, audio or video. You can encrypt files and folders or use an encrypted home partition. Netrunner SE 13.06 is built upon Netrunner 13.06 and comes with the following features and changes: Firefox with pre-configured Tor, FoxyProxy, HTTPs Everywhere and NoScript (surf anonymously, surf onion links, circumvent censorship); Thunderbird with Enigmail; Vidalia as Tor configuration tool; Pidgin with OTR support for encrypted text chats.

PiCE is a new case for Raspberry Pi. The project is currently raising fund on KickStarter. What makes PiCE special is its solid design which can protect the tiny computer from many things, even the rain.

OpenVAS is an open-source framework consisting of a suite of tools for vulnerability scanning and management. OpenVAS is freely available on multiple platforms, and licensed under the GPL. This article talks about how to conduct security vulnerability assessment of a remote server with OpenVAS.

How do you create a successful free or open source software project? Stephen Walli explores the patterns and practices successful FOSS projects use to grow and evolve the community, and thereby ultimately the software itself.

In this part we’ll get it to connect to the network and make it so you can ping Linux.org. Then, the next part will be a cover of setting up OpenVPN so you can use your new container for a VPN tunnel (I spent a good week trying to get this to work, but it feels great now that it does!).

Within the Ubuntu community, users know Canonical delivers its Linux distribution upgrades each April and October. So anticipation should be building -- right now -- for Ubuntu 13.10's launch in October 2013. There's only one problem: Most eyes are focused on the Ubuntu Edge smartphone initiative at the moment. Is that good for Canonical's partners and customers?

In April of 2012, in the product forum for Google, Julio G. Alvarez pretty much told the Linux community to chill. A native Linux client for Google drive was forthcoming. You can read the specifics here along with a new petition to get them off their backsides.

16 months later, we are still without a native Drive client for Linux. They aren't even bothering to send someone from out behind the curtain to talk to us. Their position seems to be "let them eat Insync cake". Which pretty much sucks from any seat in the house since The Dynamic Duo of Advertising had their road to riches paved by Linux.

By the way boys....it was us that bought you those Gulfstream G5's. You don't seem to be able to remember that.

Puppy Linux, the lightweight and speed-oriented Linux distribution based upon Slackware, has updated their "Slacko" release to version 5.6 and with Puppy Linux 5.6 comes full F2FS file-system support...

You may remember a rather wonderful court case from 2012 that pitted copyright lawyers against patent lawyers over the issue of whether submitting journal articles as part of the patenting process was fair use. Well, we now have the judge's decision

HMTL5 is such a low-cost and portable alternative to native app development that it makes sense to explore solutions that address its limitations.

The developers behind the GUPnP project, an object-oriented and elegant open source framework for creating UPnP devices and control points, released version 0.20.4 with various improvements and fixes.

And after the company successfully locked out Linux distributions from ARM tablets running Windows RT, any bad news streaming from Steve Ballmer’s office is sweet music to my ears.

Adapteva announced a Parallella University Program (PUP) to provide free Parallella single board computers to universities engaged in parallel programming research. Last month Adapteva began limited shipments of its $99 open source Parallella SBC, which combines a Xilinx Zynq-7020 ARM/FPGA SoC, running Ubuntu, with a homegrown 16-core Epiphany coprocessor. Last October, Adapteva launched a Kickstarter [...]

One of my favorite workshops to give is the one that introduces librarians and their staff to open source software. After defining open source to them and debunking all the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) out there, I focus my talk on a list of open source tools that can be useful to libraries.