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I often discuss the Linux port of Scrivener with my writer friend Ken McConnell. We both like Scrivener's interface, and we both prefer to use Linux as our writing platform. Unfortunately, the Linux port of Scrivener just doesn't compare to the OS X version. The other day, Ken told me about Plume Creator.

While it looked hopeful at first with today's announcement of a fully open-source graphics stack for the Broadcom VideoCore found in the popular Raspberry Pi development board, upon closer examination it's actually not that good.

Linux kernel developer Theodore "Ted" Ts'o has released a series of patches for what he has called "a Lance Armstrong bug" in the kernel, meaning behaviour that does not trip up tests but also makes the kernel work differently than intended. A user had reported a problem that caused them to lose data; the kernel developers quickly narrowed this down to a fault in the ext4 implementation that was introduced with the release of Linux 3.6.2, just over a week ago. Apparently, the data corruption bug was hard to track down as it only manifests itself if a system is rebooted twice in a relatively short period of time.

The GNOME Project announced yesterday, October 23rd, the immediate availability for download and testing of GNOME Shell 3.7.1.

Today we have some really big news, which is going to mean a lot to many programmers in our community who have been asking about it ever since launch. This is one of those announcements that has been in the pipeline for quite some time, but we haven’t been able to talk about it until now.

All in all, Pear Linux 6 is a quite nice distro. In my opinion, it is very suitable for those who are new to Linux and just want a simple, good-looking distro. I just installed it for my little sister and she really loves it.

If you love RPG (role-playing games) and you think there's no future for these games on Linux, this post is for you. I’ll show you five new RPG games developed from scratch that run on Penguin: Questverse, Hale, Dawn, Flare and Arakion. Just a warning: these are projects in the making, so none of them are ready to be fully played. But if you like this genre, read on, you won't be disappointed.

The source for Raspberry Pi’s VideoCore drivers has been released, leading the way to a finished Android port and other hacks

The latest version of the Cairo-Dock application switcher for Linux desktops features integration improvements for Ubuntu's Unity desktop and updates the configuration window

Version 4.4 of the open source C++ integrated development environment adds a new welcome screen which the developers hope will help newcomers and provide a faster workflow for existing users

Code-named "Precise", the new edition of Puppy Linux is based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS binary packages and brings a variety of updates to the project's Ubuntu-based distribution

This howto will show you the way to set up OpenVPN to authenticate users against the LinOTP authentication backend. Thus you can bring up your VPN using two factor authentication with different kind of OTP tokens. The interesting part is, that we will also use client certificates, so that the VPN only gets established if the machine has the right client certificate and the user has the right OTP token.

Many Phoronix readers have been writing in over the past day getting excited that it looks like Team Fortress 2 is coming to Linux...

Greg Kroah-Hartman has updated his USBView program, a user-space utility he started more than one decade ago for displaying USB device information under Linux...

Load your system up with classic games from your youth, and do it with style too!

As a warning for those who are normally quick to upgrade to the latest stable vanilla kernel releases, a serious EXT4 data corruption bug worked its way into the stable Linux 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 kernel series...

Gnome Shell 3.7.1 release signifies the beginning of Gnome 3.8, scheduled for March, 27. Gnome 3.8 will be as much exciting as 3.6, with new Apps, better Notification Mechanics, better Cloud Support, a more solid GTK (sync/framing with Mutter) and all the typical improvements to the whole of Gnome software stack.

Gnome University is an effort from Christian Hergert to help people to learn C, involve with Gnome Programming and push the project further. I had referred how nice this project is, some time ago at its initial starting. So I will skip this. There are some cool updates I think is worth to mention, plus for those guys that missed the older post it would be a shame if they want to be part of it but they’re ignoring its existence.

OpenNebula's Twin Jet release further improves the open source cloud computing toolkit's handling of virtual machines under VMware and KVM hypervisors. Support for Amazon EC2 has also been extended

Is Apple losing its mojo ? The iPad mini is clearly a reaction to already attacked market segment (ASUS/Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Kindle). What does it mean for Apple customers ? Shareholders ?

Is this a clear sign that open ecosystems (Android/Linux) increase the innovation of any technology and, as a consequence, will dominate the market ?