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PureDarwin Is Back To Improving Apple's OS X Darwin

The PureDarwin operating system project is out with a new release. PureDarwin attempts to make Apple's Darwin open-source base operating system for Mac OS X more usable to users...

2012 GNOME User Survey Results

After already sharing the free response survey results, here are the results from the structured part of this year's annual GNOME User Survey. As shared already, there were 4,494 survey submissions for this year's 2012 GNOME User Survey that was independently developed of the GNOME Foundation and Phoronix and then simply hosted on this web-site.

Top 4 Free Linux Partitioning Tools

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Dec 21, 2012 3:33 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
Disk partitioning is the means of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions. A partition is a contiguous set of blocks on a drive that are treated as an independent disk.

BIT.TRIP Runner 2 will be on Linux!

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 21, 2012 2:36 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
BIT.TRIP Runner 2 has been confirmed via twitter that it will be on Linux! So another game that's on Steam that will be on Linux!

CRUX 3.0-rc1 available

The CRUX team is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the upcoming CRUX 3.0. More than 11 years after the release of CRUX 0.5 for i686, CRUX 3.0 will be the first release for the x86_64 architecture as per the 'CRUX next II' email.

Understanding and using htop to monitor system resources

  • deonsworld.co.za; By Deon Spengler (Posted by deons on Dec 21, 2012 12:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Arch, Ubuntu
Every so often there will be something that slows a system down. There are a few tools that can help to identify which process is the cause of this slow down. One such tool is htop. Htop is an interactive and real time process monitoring application for Linux which will show you your usage per cpu/core, as well as a meaningful text graph of your memory and swap usage.

Amateur Radio Testing Session at Fudcon Lawrence

  • Fedora; By Ben Williams (Posted by bob on Dec 20, 2012 11:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Announcements; Groups: Fedora
Have you ever wanted to get your Amateur Radio License or Upgrade here is your chance at Fudcon Lawrence.

Learn Linux The Hard Way (? version)

  • *nix spellbook; By Zed A. Shaw (Posted by vainrveenr on Dec 20, 2012 11:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
This is a simple guide written in “Learn X the hard way” style, author of which is Zed A. Shaw. The purpose of it is to give you some experience in working with Unix-like system. There are many good UNIX-Like systems out there, for example FreeBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris and even MAC OS X, just to name a few. When deciding which system to use in this guide I chose Linux mainly because it is most popular UNIX-like server operating system, which means what you have much bigger chance encountering it in the wild in comparsion to other UNIX derivatives. And Linux-related skills are relatively easy transferable to other UNIX-likes.

Steam Linux Beta now open to all! Plus other bits of Steam.

  • GamingOnLinux.com; By Liam Dawe (Posted by liamdawe on Dec 20, 2012 10:30 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
That's it folks, the closed beta is all over now for Steam anyone on Linux can install and play with it now which is awesome news.

The Perfect SpamSnake - Ubuntu Jeos 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

  • HowtoForge (Posted by falko on Dec 20, 2012 9:33 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Ubuntu
This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Jeos based server as a spamfilter in gateway mode. In the end, you will have a SpamSnake Gateway which will relay clean emails to your MTA. You will also be able to view your incoming queue, train your SpamSnake and carry out a few more advanced operations via Baruwa.

Krita Sketch released

  • LinuxBSDos.com; By finid (Posted by finid on Dec 20, 2012 8:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Krita Sketch, a version of Krita for touch interfaces, has been released. Krita is a cross-platform sketching and painting application for the K Desktop Environment (KDE)

ROSA Desktop.Fresh 2012 Operating System: the Experiment Has Succeeded!

ROSA company is pleased to announce a new operating system for desktops - ROSA Desktop.Fresh 2012. The product is targeted at enthusiasts who are likely to appreciate the wide choice of fresh software components. ROSA Fresh edition is a non-commercial product distributed free of charge.

VirtualBox 4.2.6 Carries Many Virtualization Fixes

It's been two months since the last update to Oracle's cross-platform VirtualBox software but yesterday evening a new point release was made available that has a plethora of fixes and other minor improvements...

AMD 2012 Catalyst Driver Year-In-Review

For the past seven years I have been writing annual year-in-review articles for the AMD and NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers. Much progress has been made in recent years for bettering the OpenGL Linux support from these leading closed-source graphics drivers and this year is no exception. Up today is a recap of this year's AMD Catalyst graphics driver releases plus benchmarks of this year's driver releases going back to Catalyst 11.12.

The Best New Features of Ubuntu 12.10

  • Linux notes from DarkDuck; By on behalf of ElasticHosts (Posted by darkduck on Dec 20, 2012 4:54 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux, Ubuntu
The world of computing is changing rapidly. We're moving to a cloud based, multi-device computing world, and Ubuntu has evolved accordingly. The latest 12.10 version of Ubuntu includes several improvements over the last stable release, 12.04, and also includes a bunch of new features bound to please both desktop and server users.

Android Programming for Beginners: part 1

Great intro by guru Juliet Kemp-- With Android phones and tablets making their way into more and more pockets and bags, dipping a toe into Android coding is becoming more popular too. And it's a great platform to code for -- the API is largely well-documented and easy to use, and it's just fun to write something that you can run on your own phone. You don't even need a phone at first, because you can write and test code in an emulator on your Linux PC.

The founder gap: Why we need more women in open source

Look at the founders of any Internet startup, and you're almost certain to find an open source expert among them. Take Google, the biggest Internet success story of them all. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin built and ran their brand-new web indexing tool on servers running the open source operating system Linux—and still do, 13 years and several billion dollars in profits later. Pick an Internet startup—Facebook, Zynga, Groupon—and chances are you'll find open source software running on its servers (and an open source-savvy founder in the boardroom).

The First Unreal Engine 3 Game Ships For Linux

While Epic Games hasn't allowed for Unreal Tournament 3 to be released for Linux, the first native Linux game using Unreal Engine 3 was released today. Yes, Unreal Engine 3 for Linux...

Zurmo sets out to enchant the open source CRM space

Being "fed up with the existing open source CRM applications", the team at Zurmo have released their own open source customer relationship management (CRM) software – Zurmo 1.0. The CRM software, which has been in development for two years, includes deal tracking features, contact and activity management, and has scores and badges that can be managed through a built-in gamification system.

Humble Indie Bundle 7 has been just released

We are close to Christmas and it’s that time again Humble Indie Bundle (HIB) number seven is been released this is the list of games that you’ll find this time: The Binding of Isaac (and its DLC, Wrath of the Lamb), Closure, Shank 2, Snapshot, and Indie Game: The Movie! And if you pay over the average, you’ll also get Dungeon Defenders (and its DLC) and Legend of Grimrock !

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