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Canonical announced today, September 27th, that the second and last Beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system is now available for download.

Android may not be as fully open as many FOSS fans would like it to be, but the fact remains that it's essentially the poster child for Linux's success in the mobile world. So it was with some dismay we looked on at the impromptu battle that sprang up recently between Google and Acer over Alibaba's Aliyun OS.

OnSeptember 24th, the 4.0 Beta version of Qomo Linux, the communitydistribution of Linux-ren, was distributed. it is a grand new distribution thathas been developed from the scratch by the Qomo team, for several months.

Steam announced late yesterday via its blog that Steam and L4D2 will enter internal beta stage next week. This means that the software will be tested internally for a matter of 2 to 4 weeks. After that initial phase of testing Valve reports that there will be an official external beta program.

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal beta 2 has been made avaialble for download today. There are quite a few changes in Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2, including a new Unity version which brings some more polish and tweaks along with 3 new Unity lenses, Amazon and Ubuntu One Music store webapps installed by default, a new default wallpaper, but also some LightDM and Messaging Menu changes. Read on to find out more!

AMD and Bluestacks have announced a partnership to bring Android apps to Windows 7 and 8 PCs and tablets.

Presently, Cinnamon is the most buzz-generating and headline-grabbing desktop environment in the Free Software community. But generating buzz and grabbing headlines does not a production-ready graphical interface make.

Sometimes I find a long and interesting video on youtube or vimeo about Linux events or presentations, documentaries or movies that I’d like to see in a second moment, maybe when I’m offline or from my TV that has an usb port but no wireless. There are dozen of extensions for Firefox and Chrome to do this kind of task, but today I’ve found an interesting program that can download a video from a long list of website and convert that video into another format: xVideoServiceThief. xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is an open source tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites (currently supports 93 websites ) and it also provide you the ability to convert each video in themost popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats.

A recent survey found a surprising level of disaffection with HTML5 among mobile developers -- but the question is whether it's really an indicator of broad dissatisfaction or just the way this particular survey chose to look at the numbers.

Hey! Great news! 4 games have been added to the Humble Indie Bundle 6! As always, if you already bought the bundle, you can download those new games immediately!

Valve's Steam Linux beta is finally arriving...

This morning you may be seeing a number of performance previews on AMD's Trinity APUs for the desktop, while the full embargo covering these latest Fusion products has yet to expire. Phoronix tests of Trinity under Linux are forthcoming...

This guide shows how you can install and run a Small Business Server with ClearOS 6.3.0 (Community Edition). With ClearOS, you can run various services (such as a file- and print server, a web proxy and content filter, a mail server, etc.) in your local network and manage them through an easy web interface. ClearOS provides apps for each of these tasks from its marketplace - many of them are free, some of them have to be paid for. ClearOS Community is open-source and free. There's also a professional version available for which you have to pay, but which in return provides better support, better tested apps and updates, etc.

The conduct of patent-holding jury foreman is being questioned. Apple and Samsung are nowhere near done fighting over the patent trial that led to a $1 billion victory for Apple last month. Last week, Samsung demanded a judgment as a matter of law in its favor or a new trial, apparently due to concern that the patent-holding jury foreman improperly relied on information not presented during trial. Apple made its own court filing (PDF) on Tuesday night, accusing Samsung of attacking the jury process with baseless and frivolous claims.

This alpha release is intended for the attention of developers, so it is not something you can download and install like other Linux distributions. But this is an open source project, so if you thing you can contribute, jump right in.

Have you been waiting for the Steam beta… Well the signup is nearly here!

The GNOME Project has released GNOME 3.6 today, the new version bringing many enhancements and new features, including a redesigned Message Tray, smarter notifications, improved Activity Overview layout, new design for Files (Nautilus) and a new lock screen. Let's take a look at what's new!

What a great interview we have for you this week! John W. Eaton, THE developer of GNU Octave, and Jordi Gutiérrez, one of their main developers and organizer of the OctConf 2012 at Montréal Canada (slides and report), took time from their busy schedules to share with our readers the story behind the venerable GNU Octave and details of this still very active project. Have a great read!

The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 3 E17. Today is a very important day for Snowlinux. It is getting a new project with the latest E17 build desktop environment. Snowlinux 3 E17 is based upon Debian 7.0 'Wheezy' and is powered by the Linux 3.5 kernel. We're using DuckDuckGo as the default search engine. It has Firefox 14.0.1, Thunderbird 14, AbiWord, Shotwell, Audacious and GNOME MPlayer installed by default. New features: desktop profiles (SnowOSX, Snowlinux Classic, Snowlinux GNOME 2); live installer; Snowlinux LightDM theme; Plymouth; Neptune E17 theme and Faenza icons..

The latest version of GNOME Shell is now here, with the divisive desktop environment getting a new lock screen and a minor visual overhaul