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We're happy to announce that LinuxQuestions.org recently crossed the one million post and five million thread thresholds. With over 500,000 members, LQ remains one of the most active Linux communities on the web. We'd like to thank each and every LQ member, without whom the site wouldn't exist.

Aside from the Intel Bay Trail unveiling today, exciting news out of the Intel Developer Forum today is a set of new Chromebooks thanks to Google and their partners. Being at IDF, these are Intel-based devices and using the latest-generation Haswell CPUs.

Radxa is accepting preorders for a compact, open, Android- and Linux-ready single board computer based on a 1.6GHz quad-core Rockchip RK3188 SoC. The $89 and $69 Radxa Rock and Rock Lite SBCs offer up to 2GB RAM and 8GB flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet connectivity, real-world ports for HDMI, Ethernet, USB, and S/PDIF, and numerous other interfaces on a pair of expansion headers.

It's our pleasure to announce the immediate release of the fifth stable release of Semplice Linux. Semplice Linux is a simple, fast and lightweight distribution based on Debian's unstable branch. It includes a small collection of up-to-date applications running on top of the Openbox window manager.

A review of the games in The Humble Indie Bundle 9.

The Pirate Bay has long been a thorn in the side of copyright holders, but when Britain's record industry trade association asked Google to remove the notorious file-sharing site from its homepage, the search engine refused to comply.

A buffer overflow in Snack could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

KO GmbH today presents Krita Gemini for Windows 8. Krita Gemini is a fusion between Krita Sketch and Krita Desktop: Krita Gemini switches seamlessly between the full-featured desktop/laptop user interface and the sketch interface, which is optimized for tablets.

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes four security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.

OpenTeacher is an opensource application that helps you learn a foreign language vocabulary. Just enter some answers and questions in your native and foreign language or download them from internet, and OpenTeacher tests you.

It was discovered that exactimage, a fast image processing library, does not correctly handle error conditions of the embedded copy of dcraw. This could result in a crash or other behaviour in an application using the library due to an uninitialized variable being passed to longjmp.

ImageMagick could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

To install software on Linux systems, users will be using one of many installation-file formats. However, each Linux distribution only supports one or more types of installation files. For instance, RedHat-based systems use RPM files for installing new applications. A Debian-based system cannot read an RPM file. So, what if a RedHat user finds an application that they want to install, but the installation-file is a DEB file? Thankfully, there is a program called Alien that can convert installation-files.

The NILFS file system was created by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) at the Research and Development department of CyberSpace Laboratories. NTT was established in 1952 as a Japanese telecommunications company owned by the government. NILFS was released under the General Public License (GPL).

There are so-called startup services in Linux which are set to launch automatically when a Linux system boots up. These startup services, including basic system configurations as well as various add-on services, are needed for a particular Linux system to operate as expected. This tutorial describes how to check what startup services are enabled on boot in Linux.

Need storage that can handle your business's leap from terabytes to petabytes? Red Hat want you to try its latest Red Hat Storage.

Audacity, everyone’s favorite open-source audio manipulator, matures into version 2.0.4. And with it come a bevy of changes that you are sure to exploit upon installation. Here is a list of the changes and improvements from the release notes.

While Oracle is readying VirtualBox 4.3, VMware has released VMware Fusion 6 and VMware Workstation 10 as their latest desktop virtualization offerings. There's a great number of new features present...

It has been confirmed that Nuclear Dawn, the RTS/FPS hybrid game from Interwave studios, is being courted for the Linux platform.

Help us out here amateur psychologists: Linus Torvalds has just unleashed his second shouty rant in as many days. Do we need to worry, or is the moon in a particular phase that makes this kind of thing more likely? Has Portland's water supply taken a turn for the worse? Or are we simply seeing a frustrated middle aged man letting his psyche hang out?