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OpenShot, a leading open-source video editor for Linux, has turned to crowd-funding site Kickstarter to bring its popular application to Windows and Mac, along with many new professional-level features.

For those that didn't hear already, Canonical is collaborating with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (the Chinese government) to develop Kylin, a new Chinese operating system based upon Ubuntu.

Gumstix shocked the embed-o-sphere today by unveiling a new board-level computer that’s neither the shape nor size of a gum stick. The “Pepper” board is based on a 720MHz TI Sitara ARM processor and is supplied in a bundle that includes a Yocto-built Linux filesystem on microSD, a 4.5-inch LCD, and a DC power supply.

In the second major news item this week involving corporate growth at an open source Big Data vendor, Pentaho has announced three new executive hires. Their addition, the company says, will help it to expand development of its Big Data analytics products as well as drive increased revenue growth.

Today I bought my 2nd Laptop windows free. The first one was a few years ago, the Asus eee 701. This one is a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and it is made in Portugal, at Inforlândia (Insys). Its a 15.6" low end desktop, With Intel B830 at 1,8Ghz a 320Gb SATA HD, wireless, a chiclet keyboard, and a integrated graphic.

Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" is now under 100 release-critical bugs. The release of Debian Wheezy is now not too far out...

What Mark Shuttleworth needs to realise is that a distribution cannot be both a community and enterprise system. It has to focus on one or the other.

Canonical to help government add "Chinese specific" features to OS Ubuntu is going to become the reference architecture for a Linux distribution, backed and developed by the Chinese government.…

Dot Categories: Community and EventsDigia, the largest Qt contributor, is the 2013 Platinum Sponsor for the co-hosted Akademy and Qt Contributor Summit. Digia is responsible for all Qt activities including product development and commercial licensing and, together with the Qt Project, open source licensing under the open governance model.

The DistroRank Weekly Popularity Rankings have now been posted for the week of 3/21/2103. Ladies and Gentlemen, we have several slug-fests going on here: Arch holds onto the number 4 spot, but Debian is within 13% of overtaking it.

The Plasma Media Center, built on KDE, offers a “rich experience” in its first release as a competitor to many other open source HTPC offerings

In a blog post describing the use of UEFI variables for debugging purposes, Matthew Garrett mentions that the memory for UEFI variables being filled up by more than fifty per cent is thought to be the reason why Samsung notebooks will no longer boot and may require repair in certain conditions – for example after starting some Linux distributions with UEFI, or after executing a Windows test program that stores information in the UEFI firmware. The Linux kernel developer and UEFI specialist investigated why even booting some Linux distributions can sometimes cause device failure and has written a Windows program that will brick certain Samsung notebooks.

tmux is a terminal multiplexer: it enables a number of terminals to be created, accessed, and controlled from a single screen. tmux may be detached from a screen and continue running in the background, then later reattached. When tmux is started it creates a new session with a single window and displays it on screen. A status line at the bottom of the screen shows information on the current session and is used to enter interactive commands.

AsteriskNOW is an all-in-one Asterisk Linux distribution including the core operating system as well as a front end GUI.

Eclipse's Xtend language and IDE have been updated; now coders can control how Xtend code becomes Java with Active Annotations and Android developers will be able to debug Xtend compiled code on the Dalvik VM

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on March 23rd - 24th, 2013 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas.

Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt actually did not say that Chrome OS and Android would remain forever apart.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the search giant’s Android and Chrome operating systems will not be combined into one platform but did allow that some overlap between the two might occur, according to reports. Here are the details.

Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution with a collection of security and forensics tools. It features timely security updates, support for the ARM architecture, a choice of four popular desktop environments, and seamless upgrades to newer versions.

There's no denying that those of us here in the Linux community see our fair share of ups and downs in any given week or month, as events unfold that either advance or set back our favorite operating system. Sometimes, though, it's difficult not to be amazed by the way things often balance out "Even Steven" -- much the way they did for Jerry Seinfeld way back when.