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The latest release of the open source audio framework includes ALSA Use Case Manager (UCM) support, support for Bluetooth sources out of the box, configuarble device latency offset and several other optimisations

The CyanogenMod developers have released nightly builds of the Android 4.2 based CyanogenMod 10.1 for several devices. For some devices, the developers have also started over-the-air updates to this version

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.2 on a headless Ubuntu 12.10 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

HTML 5.1, Canvas 2D specs also announced The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) has moved ahead with plans to develop the next two versions of the HTML web markup language, having released new draft specifications of HTML5, HTML 5.1, and related standards.…

Both Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) are building their public clouds on OpenStack, the emerging open source platform for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). But that doesn't mean the public clouds will be identical. Here's why.

The Btrfs file-system updates for the Linux 3.8 kernel will feature performance improvements among other work. Btrfs RAID 5/6 support is also to be published this week...

The point of this article is to highlight improvements that have been made and to make people aware of Slacko Puppy who perhaps did not read the first article.

The Linux Foundation has released a video of what it sees as the 2012 highlights for Linux - but the presence of decent video-creation and editing software running on Linux does not seem to be one of them.

LinuxQuestions.org is proud to announce that voting for the 2012 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards is now open. The Members Choice Awards allow the Linux community to select their favorite products in a variety of categories.

DBLabLite 12.04 has been released. DBLab is an desktop Linux distribution incorporating features from Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Pear Linux and Lubuntu and available in GNOME 3, Cinnamon and Openbox flavours.

You can write shell scripts in mere seconds, hack the kernel in your sleep and perform other feats of Linux wizardry—but can you teach? I love teaching Linux. Whether teaching introductory-level courses to people new to Linux or teaching advanced best-practices courses to experienced administrators, I hear common feedback. Most Linux instructors are good, but we can be better. There are common problems with Linux training that most of us have experienced or will experience at some point. I'm convinced that there also are common solutions. After hundreds of hours spent in the classroom, there are a few key concepts I'm convinced will make committed Linux instructors as awesome as the operating system we teach.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has officially announced that the HTML5 and Canvas2D specifications are now complete and are now candidate recommendations. This does not mean that they are now a standard, but the W3C has moved on to the phase where members, businesses and developers can use the specifications for "implementation and planning".

Gauchito returns after 35 years! LinuxBBQ “Argentina78? is featuring the brand-new MATE 1.4.2 desktop environment and kernel 3.7. “Yo’ Mama is so fat she even has her own distro” If you have no Xmas present yet for your mum, grab this copy and customize it, with a “Me as toddler” wallpaper and her favourite radio stations in the tray. Add some ebooks, her wedding photos from 1783 and you are good to go.

An interview with Debian Developer Paul Tagliamonte, which includes an interesting discussion of why it's important for software to be free (as in freedom) but also accessible to different technical expertise levels.

The popularity of Arch Linux, combined with the project's philosophy that appeals to more advanced Linux users, has resulted in an explosion of Arch-based distributions with a variety of desktop environments and user-friendly features. One of them is Cinnarch, a live distro that marries Arch Linux with Cinnamon (Linux Mint's ambitious fork of GNOME Shell). The result is an interesting rolling-release distribution which is still undergoing rapid development, but which has a potential to deliver a traditional desktop user interface built from cutting-edge software.

2013 is just around the corner and it’s time to wrap up the Linux world’s happening for 2012. So let’s start with a most obvious thought “Which Linux distributions made to the top?!”

If you still think MySQL is too entrenched to be moved from its spot as the number one, open-source DBMS, you might to look at what Wikipedia is doing.

We’ve been amazed by the variety of software that people have written for, or ported to, the Raspberry Pi. Today, together with our friends at IndieCity and Velocix, we’re launching the Pi Store to make it easier for developers of all ages to share their games, applications, tools and tutorials with the rest of the community.

Support for touch-enabled devices traditionally hasn’t been high on the list of Linux kernel developers, who tend to focus their energies on more traditional computing platforms. But if all goes according to plan, future versions of the open source operating system may come with significant touch support built in, according to developers. And if that happens, it could have major implications throughout the channel.

On a former article I’ve presented 3 command line commands that you can use to get information on your Linux box: lsusb, lspci and lshw, they are really good and I use the first 2 in a lot of situation where I want to check if all my devices works correctly. Today I’ll propose to you another software that has become popular in this genre: hardinfo, a software designed to be a System Profiler and Benchmark tool, easily usable by everyone and shipped by default by some of the mainstream Linux distributions.