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Linux 3.7 has more robust Intel and NVIDIA graphics drivers, support for ARM64, can handle NAT for IPv6 and has better Btrfs performance. These are just some of the enhancements in the latest version of the Linux kernel.

A second update to the Radeon DRM driver has been released that will be pulled into the Linux 3.8 kernel. This second Direct Render Manager update for the Radeon kernel driver provides new code from AMD that was kept internally for months but is now permitted for open-sourcing...

Last week we took a look at the df command, which is for getting information on filesystems. A related command is the du command, which tells you how much disk space your files and directories use. I like the du -- disk usage -- command because it is faster and more powerful than clanking around with clumsy graphical file managers. It's familiar to Linux oldtimers, but perhaps not so familiar to newer Linux users. It tells you the size of a single file:

Ubuntu 12.10 includes features that are supposed to make it easier for users to find the stuff they want. One example is the Amazon integration which helps users by showing them stuff they might want if they are searching. According to Free Software Foundation (FSF) Founder Richard Stallman (RMS), Ubuntu is actually 'spying' on users.

Many heroes will remain unsung because there is no-one to tell their story. I first came across this story over eight years ago, and three years ago it became connected with my own. The hero in our story is an unlikely candidate for heroism: a public sector body in Germany, the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

A computer scientist has uncovered weaknesses in the application verification service Google recently rolled out to help users detect malicious apps on their Android smartphones and tablets. "By introducing this new app verification service in Android 4.2, Google has shown its commitment to continuously improve security on Android," Xuxian Jiang, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University, wrote in a brief report published Monday. "However, based on our evaluation results, we feel this service is still nascent and there exists room for improvement."

When someone wants to switch to Linux, one of his concerns is that he has to give up his favorite applications in the old platform. To solve this problem, Wine was developed to help the former Windows users be able to use Windows apps on Linux. Unfortunately there isnt any such tool for former Mac users.

SparkleShare is an open-source file synchronization and collaboration tool that's powered by Git. After being in development for a long time, SparkleShare 1.0 was released on Sunday...

Ubuntu phones and tablets may not be a reality yet, but Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth says Ubuntu is "close" to running on everything from smartphones to supercomputers.

This article highlights 4 lessons I have learned since obtaining a Raspberry PI including the things I take for granted.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the December 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

SUSE is now comfortable officially supporting the Btrfs file-system and considering it a "production ready" Linux file-system...

AMD's Ben Sander shares details about the heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) and how it will change the way people program in the future.

An evaluation of Android 4.2's new app verification system finds it somewhat lacking in detection capabilities when compared with existing AV engines in the cloud

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, December 10, the immediate availability for download of the tenth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.

Revenge of the Titans which is quite frankly an awesome game and my complete favourite from the Humble Bundles 2&3 has received an update which you can find either on your Humble Accounts if you purchased those bundles or via their own website of course.

GraphBuilder is an application that makes it easy to discover (hidden) structures in Big Data. It is an Intel-sponsored project released under the Apache 2 license.

For those that are new to open source, understanding the intricacies of how open source communities share, communicate, and govern themselves may take a while to understand. Each community is different, but there are a few commonalities between them that lay the foundation for a successful project. If you’re just getting into open source, be sure to read more about the different tools that organize communities of practice in The Open Source Way book.

With tmux, you can create a monitoring system allowing you to check on your server remotely and get the perfect overview of what’s happening. Joey Bernard explains how…