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The merge window for the Linux 3.12 kernel is coming to an end and 3.12-rc1 should be released soon. Here's an overview of the interesting merges that happened over the past two weeks as new features for Linux 3.12.

The Beat Making Lab is back, with Pierce Freelon and the Apple Juice Kid. In this video, the music-making duo walks us through why the world needs open source beat making software.

The Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1 operating system is the last *buntu edition from the Saucy Salamander Beta 1 releases published by Canonical last week. Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1 (Saucy Salamander) is distributed as DVD ISO image, supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. Enjoy our screenshot tour of Ubuntu Studio 13.10 Beta 1.

Belgium said on Monday it was investigating suspected foreign state espionage against its main telecoms company, which is the top carrier of voice traffic in Africa and the Middle East, and a newspaper pointed the finger at the United States.

If you want the newest of the new open-source software, you use Fedora Linux, but if you use Red Hat Enterprise Linux in your business, you had to wait for major releases… until now

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.