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Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsKDE has released May updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These are the third monthly stabilization updates to the 4.10 series. The 4.10.3 updates bring bugfixes and translation updates on top of the 4.10 release and are recommended updates for everyone running the 4.10 series. It will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone.

Cinnamon, the popular GNOME Shell fork developed by the Linux Mint crew, has released a major update to their software stack...

Intel announced its long-awaited Silvermont overhaul of the Intel Atom core, based on 22nm-fabricated, Tri-Gate 3D transistors. Aimed primarily at smartphones and tablets, the Silvermont supports up to eight cores per SOC (system-on-chip) and promises to offer about 3x the peak performance of the current Atoms or up to 5x the power efficiency at the [...]

Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR) and EMC (NYSE:EMC) updated their respective Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Software Defined Storage (SDS) strategies today. One common thread: OpenStack cloud support.

Defense Distributed has unleashed the first open source, fully 3D printed, gun. Is the world ready for it?

When the Space Shuttle program shut down, I have to admit, it deflated my excitement about space exploration just a bit. Although it's not fair to pin the future of manned missions to space on a fleet of aging crafts built in the 1980s, the Space Shuttle represented the latest step in a process that would get us to other planets.

Red Hat OpenStack, the open source company's next big product, will grab a massive spotlight during Red Hat Summit (June 11-14, Boston). For channel partners and cloud services providers (CSPs), the summit could provide new clues about when Red Hat OpenStack will actually launch, and which CSPs and enterprises will be among the first customers to embrace the new platform.

Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz shares a breathtaking National Geographic 'Photo of the Day' of a Penguin on South Georgia Island in the Antarctic. Use it as your Desktop Wallpaper.

Roboteq launched a Kickstarter project to build an I/O add-in card for robotics navigation that stacks atop a Linux-based Raspberry Pi board. The RIO (Raspberry IO) is based on a 32-bit STM32 microcontroller, and includes a 3A DC/DC converter, several serial interfaces, a CAN interface, 21 GPIO, and an optional module with an accelerometer, gyroscope, [...]

A full review of Debian 7 Wheezy.

It's long been possible to run Windows instances on a Linux-based cloud and Linux instances on a Windows-based cloud. What's not so common is for Linux companies and Microsoft to work together to make this happen. But that's exactly what Microsoft and SUSE have been doing. And dogs and cats can live together! No, really, they can.

The International Space Station's laptops are moving from Windows to Linux and R2,the first Linux-powered humanoid robot in space, is now under-going in-flight testing.

Mozilla released its first fully-baked simulation engine for Firefox OS, while the first Geeksphone “Keon” development phones for the open source Linux-based mobile operating system remain sold out. Firefox OS Simulator 3.0 adds rotation and geolocation API simulations, faster boot-times, and a push-to-device feature that lets users transfer apps to a developer phone. Firefox OS [...]

Descent|OS is going through a new phase in development, where it will run under an 8-month release cycle, with one service release halfway through the cycle. This will allow for a more stable system, and bug fixes to be deployed quicker while development for Descent|OS 5 goes on.

We've seen a lot of hysteria around Google Glass and the belief that people can secretly record you. I spoke to the project's technical lead, someone who has been working on wearable computers since the 90s, and I'm here to tell you that hysteria is completely misplaced. If someone wants to secretly record you, there are a lot more sneaky ways than Google Glass (which is sitting on your face in plain sight).

Michel Dänzer of AMD has provided a set of patches that should provide for the necessary patterns and intrinsics for AMD to round out GLSL 1.30 support within their RadeonSI open-source Gallium3D driver for Radeon HD 7000/8000 series graphics cards...

Tar is a archiving utility in Linux. With tar command we can archive multiple files and directories into a single file, extension of that file is “.tar”.

"Firefox 20.0 has a nifty little feature of its 'Inspector' tool that allows you to view HTML elements as 3D objects, I wanted to use it for something it wasn't intended for: 3D Modeling"

Linux Advocate Ken Starks presses the question: Who makes the decisions on School Software? The procurement process needs to be examined. Ken tells why

Massive disruption is occurring as marketing goes digital. Business is moving steadily towards providing a fully personalized and truly integrated digital experience—building upon recent advances in user experience, analytics, cloud computing and storage, and an omni-channel experience across mobile platforms and social media.