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Canonical announced last evening, April 2, in a security notice that a new upgrade for the Linux kernel packages in its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available, fixing three vulnerabilities found by various developers in the Linux 3.0 kernel packages.

As expected, a few hours ago (April 2), Mozilla uploaded the final packages of the Mozilla Firefox 20.0 web browser for all supported platforms, including Linux, Microsoft Windows and Apple's Mac OS X.

In any field, a major challenge can be finding the right talent. For open source projects looking for contractors, it's hard to organize possible candidates from all over the web. Flossmarket hopes to fill that void. A platform for connecting contractors and businesses/individuals, Flossmarket allows each party to search for and find like-minded partners faster for their projects. Contractors build a profile and are able to advertise their services on their page. And, anyone who needs contract open source work done can review candidates based on criteria they set in their search. We spoke with ?ukasz Jachymczyk, co-founder and head developer of Flossmarket about how people can get started and how they hope to evolve the platform as more contractors sign up.

On April 2, the KDE Project has announced the immediate availability for download and update of the second maintenance release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.10 environment for Linux systems.

Introduced last month was the ability to overclock Intel graphics under Linux while presented hours ago is a new Intel Linux kernel driver patch to provide better GPU overclocking support...

Open source is used just about everywhere, but when it comes to "safety-critical" systems, like software that flies planes or controls medical equipment, most of us assume that open source just doesn't fit the bill. The regulations and requirements are rigorous, and ill-suited to the usual "fail faster" approach of open source.

Welcome to the April 1 issue of the Apache CloudStack Weekly News. Don't worry, no foolishness in this issue – just a quick recap of the week's most important events. As you recall, we officially announced that the CloudStack project was graduating from the incubator last week. Though there were no events quite of that magnitude this week, there was plenty of discussion of new features, a new Website design proposal, and Chiradeep Vittal has unveiled a new tool for testing and development called QuickCloud that will come in handy for many CloudStack contributors and users.

Per-window private browsing, a new download experience, improved developer tool layouts and three critical bug fixes are the essential components of the latest update to Firefox

A linguistic look at some tenets of Linux.

If someone told you to come up with an RFP processing system in less than a week for less than $10,000, you might rightly asked if they were high. Here's how a consultant created just such a system in the Cloud for the State of Washington to be its 'pot czar.' Hint: He used WordPress as the base for all the ingredients.

Bloodhound in many respects is a fork of the open source Trac project. Like all other modern projects, it started out as an incubated project in December of 2011 and now is graduating to become a Top-Level-Project.

Today, the Humble team, which is famous for publishing of the game series Humble Indie Bundle, has released a game bundle with only AAA titles as part of the Humble Weekly Sale. This time the Humble team has even surprised us with 2 Games Collections.

Mobiveil has released an AMC form-factor board based on Freescale’s quad-core QorIQ P3041 communications processor. The AMCP3041 can support mixed control plane and data plane requirements in wireless and wireline networking equipment, and is supported with embedded Linux, U-Boot, Snort, and FreeNAS software.

More and more games are published for Linux and so it’s becoming more important to have a good performance with our beloved system, but some of the Desktop Environemnts can really slow down your gaming experience.

Many users who try Linux for the first time opt for Ubuntu. openSUSE is one of the bigger distributions. How well does it stack up against Ubuntu with regards to useability, functionality and performance?

Valve has done another push and put up 5 new games to Linux! All in Beta though so be warned there will be bugs! The titles are Ricochet, Deathmatch Classic, Team Fortress Classic, Half Life: Blue Shift and Half Life: Opposing Force!

When Oracle purchased Sun in April 2009, MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius saw a bleak future ahead for the database, which Sun had snapped up in 2008. The day the purchase was announced, he forked MySQL, launching MariaDB.

Within the next few hours AMD will be publishing open-source driver code that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD graphics cards. This will finally allow open-source graphics drivers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding. Read more details in this Phoronix exclusive.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Azure cloud veteran Radhesh Balakrishnan has joined Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) to drive the open source company's OpenStack and virtualization strategies. Balakrishnan's career move comes at a critical time for Red Hat, which is striving to push beyond Linux to compete with Microsoft and VMware (NYSE:VMW) across private and public clouds.

There's nothing like digging into your first Linux distribution, whether you're a tech-savvy user looking to branch out or whether you're installing it on a friend's computer. But which distribution is actually better for beginners? Here, we'll delve into the differences between Ubuntu and Mint, the two most popular beginner distros, and perform a little experiment to see what new users prefer.