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Linux 3.6 has been officially released, and from most angles it appears to be a lack-luster one, bringing only what Linus calls “solid progress”. Of course like any major kernel release, Kernel 3.6 comes with a bevy of new drivers, optimizations and more. But one features stands out above all the rest, and it’s really a big deal.

Galsoft 1.1 is now available. Galsoft Linux is a Lubuntu-based desktop distribution localised into the Galician language.

Jon Masters summarises the latest goings-on in the Linux kernel community, including the 2012 Kernel Summit and the closing of the 3.6 merge window

First off, I had never planned to do a review of any DJ software. I’ve never been a DJ, nor have I ever had the desire to be a DJ. But you know what they say; Never say never. So, how did I come to learn about Mixx, and how did I end up with a real use for it? I’ll tell you.

Today, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) opened up registration for the FANG Challenges, a set of three next-generation military vehicle design competitions that will kick off in January, and will put tools based on approaches borrowed from software development and chip design in the hands of teams of engineers and designers. In an effort to reinvent how such complex systems are designed and built, DARPA is preparing for the first real test of its efforts to use open-source software and Web collaboration—with millions of dollars in prize money at stake.

What could IT pros possibly learn from the newspaper industry collapse? More than you might imagine because all disruption follows a similar pattern and IT is in the throes of some major changes of its own.

The smartphone world has suddenly gone too Samsung-ish. A fresh new design from other manufactures should bring a nice change in the segment. Why don’t Google roll the ball back to HTC, who had designed their very first Nexus device? Their designs have been fairly different from other manufactures and HTC One X was a pure winner. Unibody design anyone? While Sony and LG have more or less produced not-so-innovative and at times, ugly devices, Motorola has shown some good design skills, with its RAZR devices as well.

Linux Hero Terry Hancock discusses his KDE setup, which allows him to produce a web series. Terry discusses the benefits and challenges of Debian and talks about his love of virtual desktops.

An Ubuntu based distro, wattOS uses Openbox and is optimised to be lightweight, low-power, and able to run on older machines

Preorders have opened for the HexBright, an open source high performance LED flashlight with onboard Arduino-compatible microcontroller.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an OpenSUSE 12.2 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.

The perf performance counters sub-system and utility are seeing some mighty improvements with the Linux 3.7 kernel...

Oracle's proprietary posture may have soiled the welcome mat and vilified its good standing in the FOSS community as CEO Larry Ellison pushes the balance point between servicing his customers and nickel-and-diming them to turn a higher profit. Clearly, since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems -- and with it OpenOffice and Java -- the company has not acted very neighborly with open source developers.

It’s official. In California, Governor Jerry Brown has signed two bills (SB 1052 and SB 1053) that will provide for the creation of free, openly licensed digital textbooks for the 50 most popular lower-division college courses offered by California colleges. The legislation was introduced by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and passed by the California Senate and Assembly in late August.

If you need to create printed documentation, LyX might just be the answer to your prayers

Microsoft has released a new JavaScript development environment, dubbed TypeScript, and says it is designed to help developers write more complex apps with the popular scripting language. Long-time Reg readers may recall that Microsoft has form giving the world new technologies, but not always for altruistic reasons. During its epic antitrust battle with the US Department of Justice, Microsoft's in-house use of the terms “embrace and extend” or “embrace and smother” came to light to describe the practice of releasing non-standard products, among them software development tools, then using Microsoft's market share to none-too-gently steer the industry towards buying those products to the detriment of competitors.

Brasillinux SL is released. Brasillinux is a Brazilian desktop distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux. It features an up-to-date Linux kernel and other applications, the Mint menu, extra WiFi firmware, and an installation program completely localised into Brazilian Portuguese.

There's a new release of OpenShot, one of the popular open-source non-linear video editing applications...

In this part of tutorial we will see how to create Android virtual devices, create a project and deploy it.

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The latest version of the Python programming language is now version 3.3...