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The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the May 2013 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

It’s that time again for a new Ubuntu – should you be raring to go with it, or is it a case of more of the same?

Stealth Bastard Deluxe, Curve Studios’ fast-paced stealth-puzzle-platformer, arrives on Linux and Mac today.

The Linux 3.9 kernel was officially released late Sunday night marking the second major Linux kernel release of 2013 so far. The new release includes the usual long list of driver updates, but this time also includes a number of really interesting performance boosts as well. SSDs can now be leveraged to help speed up the operations of (soon to be legacy) spinning disks.

The Hadoop ecosystem relies on composability — the ability to use output from one tool as input to the next — to efficiently process data at scale, from simple projects, to processing streams of real-time data, to building data warehouses.

After years of waiting, there is finally a publicly available beta of the Lightworks high-end non-linear video editing software...

Twenty cities around the globe, ranging from Bangalore in India to New York in the USA, will be hosting parties this weekend. More are expected to announce they are joining in as the week progresses.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 13.04 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

A shift is happening in the way innovation is occurring. Businesses are moving from closed systems to open, collaborative innovation. Red Hat CEO, Jim Whitehurst, focused on the three major components influencing this shift in his keynote, Open or die?, at the Open Business Conference held in San Francisco this week (April 29-30, 2013).

Now that Ubuntu 13.04 has been released, Caonical has started work on Ubuntu 13.10 (code-named Saucy Salamander), CEO Mark Shuttleworth announced in his personal blog. The blog gives the Ubuntu community a preview of what version 13.10 will look like.

Yet another cookie cutter Distro is born? Lee Ward announces immediate closure of Fuduntu's door and a fork of openSuSE called FuSE. Dietrich Schmitz shares his views.

With the official release of Steam for Linux, this year is already a very special for the entire Linux community. The wave of new games for Linux just does not stop!

The AMD Radeon Linux testing consisted of a mixture of AMD Radeon HD 5000 and Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards. As mentioned in the earlier article and numerous other Phoronix pieces, the open-source Linux graphics driver support for the very latest Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" graphics cards is still a work-in-progress and maturing within the new "RadeonSI" driver. Radeon HD 7000 testing will come separately due to the less than complete OpenGL support at this time. For Radeon HD 7000 series users the best bet right now is just using the proprietary AMD Catalyst graphics card. With the Radeon HD 4000 series GPUs and older not being supported by the mainline Catalyst driver and the legacy Catalyst driver not working well on the latest Ubuntu Linux release, this limited the AMD testing to the HD 5000/6000 families.

Game Dev Tycoon by Greenheart Games has been released for GNU/Linux, Mac and Windows.

MapR, the Hadoop and Big Data company, has big European ambitions despite a mixed economic outlook in the region. MapR recently opened a new Paris office that will focus on operations in France, Benelux and southern Europe. The move follows the company's establishment of a European headquarters late last year in London.

When developing systems or devices based on embedded Linux or Android, does it make sense to use commercial development tools? In this guest column, Brad Dixon, Director of Open Source Solutions at Mentor Graphics, suggests several reasons why commercial development tools and support can potentially save time, resources, money, and opportunity costs.

Previously, I erroneously titled my column as ""SIGALRM Timers and Stdin Analysis". It turned out that by the time I'd finished writing it, I had spent a lot of time talking about SIGALRM and how to set up timers to avoid scripts that hang forever, but I never actually got to the topic of stdin analysis.

A new stable version of the GVFS application for the GNOME desktop environment has been announced a few days ago, bringing various fixes and the usual translation updates.

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