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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.

Samsung and NTT Docomo, the largest mobile telephony provider in Japan, are reportedly cooperating to develop a smartphone that uses Tizen, the Linux-based mobile operating system

Jon Masters examines performance tweaks for the Linux kernel and summarises the latest goings-on in the kernel community

Harness the power of Emacs to organise your work, as well as some options to track your to-do list when you’re on the go

A variety of methods exist for auditing user activity in UNIX and Linux environments. Some of them come preinstalled within common distributions, some can be downloaded as freeware, and some are commercially available products. Here are some of the most popular methods for auditing. Each method is described, along with tips for how to make the best use of each method. In addition, guidance is provided to show what type of auditing each method is best suited for.

Global research and advisory firm, Forrester, said, "The explosion in open source projects in the HTML, mobile, cloud and big data spaces such as Android, jQuery, PhoneGap, Sencha, Hadoop and Cordova are driving a new model and a golden age of 'app' development." Clearly, Linux had a great year—as did their many dedicated developers, communities, fans, and users. 

If not the year, it was still an impressive year for open source in libraries. It was 2004 when I first learned about the Koha open source integrated library system and started researching what it would mean to our library to make the switch to open source. Back then, when I asked people if they knew what open source was or if they had heard of Koha, I heard "no" a lot more than I do now. Now, people call me up and ask me to come to their libraries to speak about open source and help them find the right products for their library. Now, I hardly ever hear, "We can’t pick open source because it’s too immature." Instead people contact me to ask what they have to do to get their hands on the latest and greatest release of Koha. It’s because of these changes that I’m seeing in the library professionals I meet that I proclaim 2012 the year of open source in libraries!