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With almost 30 years of active development under its belt, BRL-CAD is believed to be the second oldest open source codebases in the world that’s still under active development (VistA, the EHR of the Veterans Administration being the oldest). It has also been the primary tri-service solid modeling CAD system used by the U.S. military to model weapons systems for vulnerability and lethality analyses.

This is the Qt port of PCManFM with desktop management feature turned on. The desktop icons and the wallpaper were painted by PCManFM-Qt, just like the gtk+ version of the original PCManFM. The new Qt port is in a pretty good shape now. Although it’s not yet ready for production use, it’s almost there. About 85% of the planned features are finished.

Valve's original Day of Defeat game and the Day of Defeat: Source titles are now in beta on Linux via the Steam client...

This tutorial will walk you through setting up a couple of outbound Squid proxy sibling servers running on CentOS 6.3 and have them connected to your gateway using WCCP. This will not cover the tuning of Squid in terms of cache performance.

There are some major changes happening at Ubuntu which pans from changing base technologies to community involvement. Ubuntu has quite some flavour and derivatives and there was some concern among the users how these changes will impact these distributions, so we reached out to two major distributions which are based on Ubuntu - Linux Mint and Kubuntu. In this interview Jonathan Riddell the team lead of Kubuntu talks about these changes and Kubuntu's relationship with Canonical.

A sneak peek at the release candidate of the latest version of Linux Mint Debian.

After much heated discussion, Mark Shuttleworth has a new proposal on how Ubuntu Linux should handle rolling releases.

With this second release of 'Benz' (a code name that will follow the KDE SC 4.10 series), the Chakra project team is very happy to announce a new feature that has been on the wishlist for quite some time. Tribe (the installer) has a 'netinstall' feature implemented, giving the user the option for a regular offline install, or install fully updated packages, starting with a minimal functional KDE desktop, and adding groups of packages to that minimal install as desired. KDE SC is updated to 4.10.1. The over 100 recorded bug fixes since 4.10.0 include improvements to the Kontact personal information management suite, and the KWin window manager.

openSUSE, the community GNU/Linux distribution set up by SUSE Linux, has released version 12.3 today and, in the process, become the first distro to make the switch from MySQL to MariaDB as default database management system.

The latest version of openSUSE, the enterprise desktop distro, is now available. OpenSUSE 12.3 offers polish and stability over 12.2

The biggest headlines Canonical has made recently have involved its endeavor to “converge” Ubuntu across devices by adding support for phones, tablets and TVs. But in a sign that it remains invested in the server realm as well–and that it is continuing to build a closer relationship with Dell –Canonical has also announced a new agreement to support Ubuntu on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Aurélien Gateau and Shaun Reich started to implement a QML version of a SAL-like containment, which is also useable as a Launch-Button.

The project is called "KDE Homerun"

See it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK8Z1LHX80k

Debian packages are here: https://launchpad.net/homerun https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+archive/homerun

Report bugs and ideas here: https://github.com/blue-shell/homerun/issues

The code can be found here: https://projects.kde.org/projects/playg ... se/homerun

Homerun is already quite useable while still being in development, so all ideas are welcome.

Video of a very nice utility that is applicable to Desktop/tablets/Netbooks/Phones and must see.

Intel has introduced a comprehensive suite of tools for developers of software targeting embedded and mobile devices based on Intel processors and running Linux. Intel System Studio includes system and application debuggers, a memory and thread error checker, and optimization tools for maximizing performance and power efficiency. The company says its integration of multiple development [...]

Ubuntu developer Michael Hall has posted screenshots of early versions of what Canonical is calling the "Core Apps" for Ubuntu Touch, the new flavor of the popular Linux distribution that's being rewritten to run on mobile devices as well as PCs.

AndersDX is shipping a miniature computer-on-module (COM) based on a dual-core 1.65GHz AMD G-Series APU. The CM-iGT provides rich graphics and multimedia capabilities and is supported with embedded Linux. The CM-iGT’s AMD G-Series APU integrates a dual-core, 64-bit x86 CPU clocked at up to 1.65GHz (depending on board model). The module also supports up to [...]

The GhostBSD team is pleased to announce that version 3.0 is now available. This release includes many new features and enhancements, such as improved system installer, Openbox window manager and much more. Form GhostBSD: improvements of the auto-configuration wireless networking script; auto-configuration of X.Org; NVIDIA drivers ready; 3D acceleration is supported on some Intel graphics cards; numerous bug fixes to GhostBSD-related utilities. From FreeBSD 9.1: new Intel GPU driver with GEM/KMS support; netmap(4) fast userspace packet I/O framework ZFS improvements from the Illumos project...

10,000,000 is an award winning hybrid RPG/Action/Puzzle game. Matching tiles controls your character enabling you to explore, fight and loot. I told you about this before after speaking to the developer who just emailed me again today!

Developers from the member companies involved with Linaro are planning continued improvements to the LLVM compiler infrastructure that will benefit ARM developers and customers. With this ARM LLVM work there should also be Gallium3D LLVMpipe enhancements.

SpringSource has released version 3.2.0 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS). The new versions include updates to Eclipse Juno SR2, support for high resolution displays on Mac OS X, support for Spring Integration 2.2 and compilers for Grails 2.2.1 and Groovy 2.0.7.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from March 18th -March 20th, 2013.