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Aside from all the Phoronix video recordings of the X.Org and Wine development rooms during the FOSDEM 2013 meeting last weekend in Brussels, Vincent Untz went over the direction of GNOME and whether the GNOME community has gone crazy...

At long last, the Linux Foundation fix to Windows 8 Secure Boot lock-in is out, but it's not ready for ordinary users yet and not all Linux desktop fans are happy about it.

Steam for Linux, the digital distribution platform developed by Valve, has just received an important update and gets a little closer to a stable release.

In the week ending 9 February - Munich disagrees with HP, GNOME chooses JavaScript as its official application language, Oracle fixes 50 vulnerabilities in Java, and LibreOffice 4.0 and KDE 4.10 are released

The Linux kernel RNG implementation for providing random numbers has worked quite well for its years in use. However, a new jitter entropy generator implementation has been proposed that is capable of providing 100 kB/s throughput of randomness...

A list with 5 of the best photo editing apps for your Android smartphone and tablet.

A little more than two years after it forked from OpenOffice.org, the free office suite LibreOffice has come out with a sleek and faster version 4.0.

RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives.

The Amarok 2.7 release delivers nearly 500 bug fixes, and an impressive list of new features. Here I will be reviewing some of the latest features after experimenting with 2.7 for a few days. Installation instructions for Ubuntu 12.10 are provided for anyone who would like to try this version.

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro tablet (128GB edition) running Windows 8 Pro apparently is sold out at Microsoft Store, Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) and Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) locations across the United States. But what were inventory levels before sales started?

Done deal? Hardly. Dell’s $24.4 billion deal to go private apparently faces pushback from at least four major shareholders, Reuters reported. And don’t forget: A special Dell committee is managing a 45-day “go-shop” period, during which the committee is actively soliciting alternative bids. So who will wind up owning Dell, and how will the current variables impact partners and the PC maker?

Linus Torvalds announced a few hours ago, February 8, that the seventh Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.8 kernel is available for download and testing.

Eucalyptus, provider of open source software for private clouds, has confirmed two executive departures. CEO Marten Mickos downplayed the changes to GigaOm, but Talkin' Cloud has heard about other employee departures in recent months.

Looks like Linux has finally challenged the dominance of decades of proprietary office document software. As the market share of Android devices continues to make an impact Microsoft has already announced its Android port for Office Suite, their proprietary office documents management software.

The Linux Foundation proudly announced a few hours ago, February 8, that they have officially unleashed the highly anticipated UEFI secure boot system for all Linux distributions, courtesy of the Microsoft Corporation.

The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, is widely regarded as the most trusted, definitive reference, and de facto standard book for C++. The book is worthy of the highest praise as it provides the most authoritative coverage of the C++ language. Whilst none of the books featured in this article could never replace that masterpiece, there is a good selection of books that teach C++ that are available to download without charge.

There's been a lot of information scattered around the internet about these topic recently, so here's my attempt to put them all in one place to (hopefully) settle things down and give my inbox a break. Last week I spent a number of days at the GNOME Developer Hackfest in Brussels, with the goal to help make the ability to distribute applications written for GNOME (and even more generally, Linux) in a better manner. A great summary of what happened there can be found in this H-Online article. Also please read Alexander Larsson's great summary of what we discussed and worked on for another view of this. Both of these articles allude to the fact that I'm working on putting the D-Bus protocol into the kernel, in order to help achieve these larger goals of proper IPC for applications. And I'd like to confirm that yes, this is true, but it's not going to be D-Bus like you know it today.

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A solution, currently in use on thousands sites world-wide in 40 languages. It is built on the standard PHP/MySQL platform, and runs safe and fast. A Q&A engine helps you to create an online community to share knowledge. People with questions quickly get the answers they need. The community dynamic is enriched by commenting, voting, notifications, user points and rankings. In this guide we will show you how to install this popular software on Ubuntu LAMP.

David Herrmann has provided an update on his ambitious initiative to kill of the Linux kernel console. Herrmann has long been working on making the Linux kernel CONFIG_VT option unnecessary for providing a Linux console by punting it off to user-space. The Linux kernel VT console hasn't been changed much in the past two decades and Herrmann is hoping to see it replaced with a user-space solution he's been developing that would allow for multi-seat support, a hardware-accelerated console, full internalization, and other features.

Did anybody else notice Novell BrainShare 2013 occurred last week in Salt Lake City? It was a prime opportunity to promote Novell’s progress under Attachmate’s ownership. Plus, SUSE Linux (Novell’s sister business) could have published some updated business milestones of its own. Did Novell and SUSE deliver? Here’s the scorecard.