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Valve is expected to have the initial Steam Linux client available in the near future along with the Left 4 Dead 2 game in some form of beta, but a full-blown Linux push by Valve Software might not happen until around February...

A name server is a server that hosts a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It maps a human-recognizable identifier to a system-internal, identification or addressing component, the program BIND is the most famous name server available on Linux, it can be used to do everything you need from a name server, but sometimes you need less.

Maybe you have a VPS and you want just to manage your DNS name, for this use you could check NSD a great alternative to BIND, it does not do DNS forwarding, it only serves its own domains. but this could be enough for your project.

In the week ending 1 September - warnings about the new Java 0day vulnerability, Firefox and Thunderbird 15 arrived, and a Linux 4.0 timeline. Also, examining the new Java 0day, updates for NVIDIA graphics drivers and a look at free integration frameworks on the Java platform

While we're now up to the Qt 5.0 beta stage, Qt developers are still settling for what MinGW implementation to use for the Windows build of Qt 5.0...

It looks like GStreamer 1.0 will be officially released in September prior to the release of GNOME 3.6...

Version 1.3 of the Red Eclipse first person shooter powered by the Cube 2 Engine has been released, which is dubbed the Galactic Edition...

A third release candidate of VirtualBox 4.2 was released this week...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 35 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a video with Stephen Fry on OggCamp, Lazarus, FreePascal, Wine, OpenEMR, Firefox, Thunderbird, Java, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and more...

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible. I will go over the features of TIny Tiny RSS, compare it to Google Reader and write some things I like about it, and things I miss about it.

Welcome to the 215th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Wine is a free and opensource software allows you to run Microsoft windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. The weekly development release of Wine brings some new features and several bug fixes. For further information and download …

With most Linux developers now returning from San Diego where LinuxCon, the Linux Kernel Summit, and the Linux Plumbers Conference took place, Linus has released Linux 3.6-rc4...

In my previous post i described how to setup an IPSEC VPN for use with Iphone, Ipad and Mac OSX IPSEC VPN clients.

This post describes how to enable split tunneling which is supported by the Mac OSX IPSEC client. Although split tunneling is considered insecure there are cases where it is ideal to run split tunnels.

The scenario for this post is that you are connected to a LAN (10.128.0.0/24) with internet access via a gateway on the LAN, you want to connect to a different network 192.168.1.0/24 which is only accessible via VPN, but you want to retain access to resources on the LAN while accessing the remote 192.168.1.0/24 network.

It’s time to talk about GNOME 3.6. I’m more excited about this release than any since 3.0. The list of major updates is impressive: new message tray, updated Activities Overview, lock screen, integrated input sources, accessibility on by default, new Nautilus. Then there are all the small changes: new style modal dialogs, bags of improvements to System Settings, a new Empathy buddy list, SkyDrive support, natural scrolling, new backgrounds, an overhauled Baobab… the list goes on and on.

Workflow and efficiency are everything. I want my Linux graphical environment to be the way I like it, and not an obese system hog. I have a lot of favorite Linux desktop environments (Fluxbox, KDE4, Ratpoison, E17, Razor-qt) and Xfce is always near the top.

The Wine development release 1.5.12 is now available.

A configuration management database (CMDB) is a repository of information related to the various components of an information system detailing an organisation's IT services and the relationships between those components. The purpose of a CMDB is to catalog and track all of the information that an IT department needs to keep.

A package called "android-tools", which comes with "adb" and "fastboot" command line utilities, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories recently. I've got a request to upload this package in a PPA for older Ubuntu releases, so I've backported it to Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04.