Showing all newswire headlines

Mark Shuttleworth announced Ubuntu Phone OS, a version of Ubuntu for mobile phones. Planned release day is the end of 2013.

A full review of Linux Mint 14 MATE.

The new version of SuperTuxKart is available, and you can download it now. It’s a fun racing game that brings back memories of Mario Kart on Nintendo 64 (my favorite version of Mario Kart).

As you all know, Canonical unveiled today, January 2, their gesture-based phone operating system based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution.

In this post we will see how to install Oracle 11g R2 Database server on Centos 6.x

The Linux kernel's development branch has recently acquired all the basic components needed to use 3D acceleration with any graphics core in NVIDIA's GeForce series

Dot Categories: KDE Official NewsToday KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. These updates are the last in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.9 series. 4.9.5 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates on top of the latest edition in the 4.9 series and are recommended updates for everyone running 4.9.4 or earlier versions. As the release only contains bugfixes and translation updates, it will be a safe and pleasant update for everyone.

MediaGoblin 0.3.2, a comeback for tux3, the state of Secure Boot support in Linux distributions, Parsix 4.0r1, and Calculate Linux 13

Well someone asked me to contact Ryan C. Gordon aka Icculus about the possibility of more Unreal Engine 3 games coming to Linux now that Dungeon Defenders is out and he has now sent me a reply and allowed me to publish his thoughts on the matter.

First things first: The SCALE Team wishes everyone a happy and prosperous 2013 as we head toward the first major Linux/FOSS event of the year in North America, SCALE 11X. Without further delay, the first of many SCALE 11X announcements for 2013..

Every year for our Readers' Choice survey, the venerable tool rsync gets votes for favorite backup tool. That never surprises us, because every time I need to copy a group of files and folders, rsync is the tool I use by default.

Instead of going after both the tablet and smartphone market, Canonical is bravely starting 2013 by trying to become a major player in the smartphone market with an upcoming version of Ubuntu Linux.

With today's release of KDE 4.9.5 as the latest monthly point release, it's been decided to delay the KDE 4.10 release. Due to last minute changes, an additional 4.10 release candidate has been deemed necessary and as a result the final version is being pushed back into February...

Linux-based OS targeting high-end handsets Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system, has announced a new version of Ubuntu designed specifically for smartphones.…

In the first part of this two-part series on getting started with Android coding, you set up your development environment, built a basic countdown app, and got acquainted with the Android API. In this second article we'll have a closer look at the structure of an Android app, create a menu, and write a second activity to input a countdown time. We'll also look at running your app on a physical phone.

I have prepared and shared new ARMHF images for the Raspberry PI and Samsung Chromebook.

The F# Software Foundation, an organisation of independent developers and companies, was recently created to promote Microsoft's F# functional programming language. The foundation is independent of Microsoft Research, whose researchers are the main developers of the Apache-licensed language.

Subtitle Editor offers an impressive package of features. Perhaps two of the most useful for working with subtitles are the built-in video player and the ability to send the title displays to external players from the Preview menu. The built-in video player is based on GStreamer and is integrated into the main window.

A top secret Ubuntu project will be unveiled by Canonical this evening – but what could it be?

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth is focused on JuJu, a solution for deploying cloud services. JuJu is already mature and useful, but Ubuntu developers envision expanding on it in major ways in 2013, as evidence from mailing archives and Canonical announcements.