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Todays question time is with Corey from the Hero-U Kickstarter a sort of Adventure/RPG 2D hybrid!

... Jerry is on a fixed income and cannot afford to replace the PC with a new one running “Microsoft Latest OS!” at this time. I talked with Jerry about his options, and he decided to give Linux a shot on this old Dell.

Dot Categories: QtQt Developer Days 2012 are the premier Qt events of the year. The 2012 Conference started today in Berlin; there will be news and more information from the Conference over the next few days. Meanwhile, preparations are well underway for Qt Developer Days – North America in Silicon Valley, which will take place December 5 – 7. It is presented by ICS, KDAB and Digia and is being organized by ICS.

The 80's are so now, as hot on the heels of the RISC OS' Raspberry Pi debut comes the equally retro-tastic news that the BASIC version used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum can also run on the Pi.

High-energy physics experiments tend to generate huge amounts of data. While this data is passed through analysis software, very often the first thing you may want to do is to graph it and see what it actually looks like. To this end, a powerful graphing and plotting program is an absolute must.

As stressful as elections can be, they always bring a welcome surge of patriotism. United States citizens have a lot of opinions about their government, and election time is a good reminder that actually vollunteering time and resources is the best way to facilitate real change. Luckily we live in the 21st century, and collaborating to make change has never been easier. Apps like Shareabouts make it simple to get involved and do your part to make our cities great.

Forget Drupal, WordPress and Rails: nanoc compiles your documents into a static website

Oracle's RedPatch is a public Git repository that provides the source code to the individual patches Red Hat has included in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution

Nadia, Linux Mint 14, is getting close to a full release as the RC is released today with plenty of updates

2 years ago, Lightworks made a promise to the open source community. A promise that has made them darlings of the open source spotlight.

India's president Shri Pranab Mukherjee has introduced Aakash 2.0, the more powerful successor to last year's tablet that failed to establish itself

The latest version of Ubuntu Tweak is available with added support for the new Unity web apps feature. Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.2 brings improved support for Ubuntu 12.10.

This is an interesting feature in Webmin that provides a way to monitor daemons on the server and notify administrators of down services. Webmin attempts to implement many of the standard functions of the more full featured Nagios. You can create custom notifications and get notified via email, SMS or a pager.

The Linux Mint project has published a release candidate for version 14 of its Linux distribution, code-named "Nadia". It includes updates to the Cinnamon and MATE desktops, as well as improvements to the MDM display manager

A server distribution based on Slackware, Superb Mini Server is unusual in having a live CD, enabling you to set up an ad hoc server quickly

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 14 Nadia RC. For the first time since Linux Mint 11, the development team was able to capitalize on upstream technology which works and fits its goals. After six months of incremental development, Linux Mint 14 features an impressive list of improvements, increased stability and a refined desktop experience. We're very proud of MATE, Cinnamon, MDM and all the components used in this release, and we're very excited to show you how they all fit together in Linux Mint 14. New features: MATE 1.4 comes with numerous bug fixes, Bluetooth and mate-keyring are now functional and caja features support for Dropbox.

At its recent Mozilla Festival in London, Mozilla launched version 1.0 of Popcorn Maker, its free online application for creating interactive videos

One of the triumphs of Ubuntu — and Linux in general — is the multitude of straight-forward, easy to use and useful applications written on a lazy Sunday afternoon. TypeCatcher by Andrew Starr-Bochicchio is no different. TypeCatcher allows users to easily browse and preview all of Google Webfonts quickly and easily.

Tripwire Interactive has officially confirmed availability of their popular games Killing Floor and Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 on steam Linux beta.

Here in the Linux blogosphere, there are several hypothetical scenarios that most agree would surely make the Earth stand still. Flying pigs, of course, is one of them; numerous others, however, involve Microsoft doing something that promotes Linux. It was perhaps no great surprise, then, to witness the stunned hush that fell over the blogosphere when a recent tidbit of news hit the airwaves.