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Fresh off his trip to North Korea -- and right behind Apple CEO Tim Cook's trip to China -- Google chairman Eric Schmidt joined a panel discussion at the "Geek Park" conference in Beijing. Schmidt reportedly reminded the developers in attendance that despite Apple's popularity in China -- the iPhone 5 sold more than 2 million units in one weekend -- Android is still the top dog in the Middle Kingdom.

It took its own sweet time, but the latest version of Red Hat's community Linux distribution, Fedora 18, is finally here and ready for you to use.

The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything combines a step-by-step approach to learning how to use this epic graphic image-manipulation program with a handy reference manual supplemented with very useful appendices. Whether you are a GIMP beginner or a veteran user, this book will save you hours of trial and error when editing graphics files.

Fedora 18 has been let out of the barn, and the Spherical Cow comes with new desktops, updated languages, and offline system updates.

Software Wars is about the idea that with more cooperation among scientists, we can build a better and fun world

For seasoned Linux users downloading applications is second nature but for people coming to Linux for the first time and especially users whose first experience of Linux is the Raspberry PI it isn't necessarily obvious how to install new applications. I hope this guide goes someway to helping you with your Raspberry PI experience.

Red Hat is approaching $1 billion in deferred revenue, a strong sign that financial services, government, technology and telecommunications customers see the open source company as a long-term software partner. But can Red Hat use all of that good will to attract a new generation of cloud, storage and virtualization customers?

I recently got a Raspberry Pi from RS online store. I wanted one so bad and it took so long before I got to play with it that by the time I got it, I was pretty much drooling over it. I started off by installing Raspbian which worked out of the box (what fun it is! :( ). I then moved on to try Arch and the fun began. Arch Linux install guide at elinux is pretty good but it only helps you to get bare bones Arch up and running. After that you are on your own. So here I am going to discuss how I managed to get Arch up and running with XFCE, a login manager and a web browser.

The Consumer Electronics Show may have faded from its former glory, but it still offers a remarkable snapshot in time of embedded CE technology. The big smartphone vendors largely took a pass on CES, but plenty of second-tier vendors and Kickstarter projects were on hand with compelling offerings. Although many products floated here will never even reach market -- often, what happens in Vegas does indeed stay in Vegas -- a few may change your life.

US law on computer crime should be reformed says the EFF, as the death of Aaron Swartz shows the law to be overly punitive and broad. Open access advocates are memorialising Swartz by releasing and collating academic papers using the #pdftribute hashtag

mylvmbackup is a Perl script for quickly creating MySQL backups. It uses LVM's snapshot feature to do so. To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, creates a snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again. This article shows how to use it on an Ubuntu 12.10 server.

Well, CES has come and gone for another year, and not a moment too soon! One more new phone announcement, and Linux Girl's head would have surely exploded. There's no doubt it was a mad, mad week -- so wild, in fact, that a curious event occurring outside CES could have escaped the notice of more than a few observers.

Hackers from Anonymous on Sunday claimed credit for posting messages to Massachusetts Institute of Technology Web sites commemorating the life of RSS co-founder Aaron Swartz and calling for an overhaul of computer crime laws. Swartz, 26, was an outspoken advocate of open information and had been embroiled in a legal battle over digital copyright for scraping articles off of the JSTOR academic article database. He hanged himself Friday at his apartment in Brooklyn.

Flex, the project for building Flash-based applications, completes its journey from external open source to Apache top-level project after a year in the incubator. The developers celebrate with the release of Apache Flex 4.9

John Carmack, the veteran game programmer that co-founded id Software and was the lead developer on the id Tech engine and their most popular game titles, has shared some new opinions on C/C++ programming as it pertains to the id Tech game engine...

The X.Org state tracker target, which allows for providing basic 2D/EXA acceleration with the X.Org Server over GPU shaders using a generic Gallium3D state tracker, is no longer supported by the R300 Gallium3D driver. Support has been eliminated and the X.Org state tracker targets for other Gallium3D drivers might also be dropped...

Three updates to CouchDB include fixes to stop cross-site scripting, code execution in client browsers through JSONP, and the ability to retrieve arbitrary files from Windows systems

Despite Oracle’s assurances that it’s safe for surfers to go back in the water, security experts remain uncertain about the safety of Java. On Information Week, writer Mathew J. Schwartz quotes at least one security expert who gives the security patch a thumbs up... However, Reuters reports that the same security expert still has reservations about Java security due to other unresolved issues:

Version 9 of the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg library is reported to compress lossless images more efficiently than PNG, giving a smaller file for the same image

Ubuntu Developer Center monthly publishes the list of the most popular commercial and free applications in the Ubuntu Software Center. In December, the most popular games were a racing game RC Mini Racers and a real time strategy Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances.