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KDE Software Compilation 4.11 has been released as its six-month update to the KDE desktop environment stack. With KDE 4.11 comes many exciting changes ahead of the KDE Frameworks 5 transition.

Flashrom is the leading way for flashing BIOS/firmware images on hundreds of flash chips, hundreds of motherboards, and dozens of PCI devices. Released today was Flashrom 0.9.7 as the first major update in one year's time and with it comes almost 150 changes to the open-source BIOS/firmware flashing project...

Gmail users have no "reasonable expectation" that their emails are confidential, Google has said in a court filing. Consumer Watchdog, the advocacy group that uncovered the filing, called the revelation a "stunning admission." It comes as Google and its peers are under pressure to explain their role in the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass surveillance of US citizens and foreign nationals.

The KDE Community is proud to announce the latest major updates to the Plasma Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform delivering new features and fixes while readying the platform for further evolution. The Plasma Workspaces 4.11 will receive long term support as the team focuses on the technical transition to Frameworks 5.

The First-Person-Shooter is a sequel to the title Metro 2033. It's based on the 4A Engine and is distinguished by it's excellent graphics.

Timesys announced embedded Linux support for a pair of computer-on-modules that combine CPU, DSP, and FPGA functions on tiny, SODIMM-style cards. Critical Link’s MityDSP-L138 series COMs are based on a Texas Instruments OMAP-L138 ARM9+DSP system-on-chip processor, along with an optional Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA.

An open-source developer has spotted thousands of potential memory problems with Mesa when using Valgrind.

As 10gen's VP of business development and strategy, Matt Asay oversees the NoSQL and Big Data company's partner initiatives. Translation: Asay, a veteran of Alfresco, Canonical, Novell and others -- essentially is 10gen's channel chief. So what are the partner opportunities for those that want to work with the MongoDB database provider? Here are 10 key questions for Asay.

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?