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According to plan, today openSUSE 12.3 Beta sees the light. The beta comes with mostly smallish changes as we’re in serious testing waters now – we hope you’re out there to help us clear the way to the final release!

Free licensing lowers the barrier of entry to creating cultural works, which unlocks a dynamic where people can much realize their ideas much easier - and where culture can actually live, creating memes, adjusting them to new situations and using new approaches with old topics.

A very common pattern in an Android activity is showing a list of items for the user to select from. The Android API provides the ListView and ListActivity classes to help out with this. Carrying on with the Countdown app from previous tutorials, we'll list a few sample countdown times for the user to select from to set the timer.

Observing the open source public policy landscape over the past several months, one couldn’t be blamed for feeling optimistic. Government after government, it seemed, was stepping up and laying the ground work for public-sector adoption and private-sector growth of open standards and open source software (see articles on France, the UK, Portugal, and the US). Even the Vice President of the European Commission, Neelie Kroes, gave a full-throated endorsement of open source in late December.

Linus Torvalds released the fourth release candidate of the Linux 3.8 kernel on Thursday evening...

Catalyst 13.1 for Linux was released on Thursday as the first AMD Linux binary blob of 2013. This driver is notable since it officially supports X.Org Server 1.13...

Linux users Manjaro provides a clean and highly responsive system. It is unobtrusive and you spend more time doing the things you want to do and less time having to configure the system and work out hot keys, hot spots and gestures.

There's been many Phoronix articles already covering features and changes coming to GCC 4.8, the next major compiler update to come out of the Free Software Foundation in March or April. One of the areas that's seen improvements in GCC 4.8 and not talked about much yet is the improvements to its runtime library, libstdc++, with new features being present...

LinuxCertified Inc introduced the LC530Sb 17.3" High Resolution, Full HD Display - Portable Workstation pre-installed with Linux. The LC2530Sb is one of the fastest and powerful Linux laptop computer designed for high performance computing needs. http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lc2530sb.html

"We are pleased to add the LC2530Sb Linux laptop to our highly successful LC series product line," said Rajesh Goyal, vice president of LinuxCertified, Inc. "The laptop offers world's fastest notebook GPUs - the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX or GTX 680M , to accelerate the performance for even the most demanding system tasks."

A developer explains how he transformed travel magazine content into a dynamic iOS app that takes advantage of advanced device functions.

If you have not hear about split command than you are missing a lot. As command's name suggests split command helps you to split file into smaller files. split works on any file whether it is binary or text file. This is quite useful if you cannot fit entire file on storage device such as tape or you want to split large file to be able to send it via email which has file size restrictions. You can also split large text files such as log files to smaller chunks based on the number of bytes. This article will describe syntax and usage of split command.

Decided to take a quick look at the latest offering from Fedora Linux. Fedora 18 looks like a well polished Linux OS with the default desktop showing great functionality. I may even switch too it from Ubuntu 12.04!

It's been one year since AMD introduced their Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" graphics cards, but the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for providing an open-source OpenGL driver for this latest-generation of AMD GPUs is still far from being in a readied state for AMD Linux customers...

As Windows 8 and RT devices stumble out of the starting gate, Google's Linux-based, Chrome OS-powered Chromebooks are gaining in popularity.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 17, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) at SCALE 11x (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/index.html) at the Hilton Los Angeles International Airport Hotel, Los Angeles, California on February 24, 2013. This is the fourth year LPI has participated as a certification sponsor of SCALE.

Microsoft may have rebuffed Linux's early advance in the domain of the emerging netbook, but Glyn Moody thinks that the rise of the tablet has neutralised the "must-have" nature of Windows

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS 5.9 for i386 and x86_64 architectures. New features: the UOP added native MySQL support to Postfix, you might consider moving from the postfix-mysql package from the centosplus repo to this package if you are using the centosplus package only for MySQL support; java-1.7.0-openjdk (Java 7) support has been added in CentOS-5.9, java-1.6.0-openjdk (Java 6) is also still available and most things java in the distribution still use Java 6; ant17 (Ant 1.7.0) has been added to CentOS-5.9, the older ant (Ant 1.6.5) is also still available;

With this release the Gnome team has decided to focus on aesthetics and accessibility for the maximum number of users. The user interface has been upgraded with several small but significant changes.

In this edition of The H's Hardware Hacks, GitHub's make-me 3D printing server, the Radio-4-Matic, how to build a mini arcade with a Raspberry Pi, and the PirateBox

Replacing previous plugin sites with a new site that is easier to contribute to, the jQuery Foundation hopes to reduce fragmentation and other obstacles to effective use of jQuery plugins