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The first maintenance update to "Precise Pangolin", Ubuntu 12.04.1, has been released with fixes and minor enhancements. It also sees added support for Calxeda ARM SOCs and the debut of the Ubuntu Cloud Archive

Following the release of Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Precise Pangolin), we are proud to announce the immediate availability for download of Kubuntu 12.04.1 LTS.

Ubuntu 12.04’s LTS updates have started, with its first point update being released, with updates to cloud support and Calxeda ARM chips

The distinctions being drawn seem bizarre and arbitrary to many customers who argue that data is data—I paid for it and should control what I use it on, not AT&T. It's even stranger because AT&T isn't targeting "video chat" apps with its restriction -- it is only targeting FaceTime. What is going on here?

The problem? An underfunded school needed computers for the classroom. Budget? $0. Staff involved? Just one: Robert Litt, a sixth-grade teacher.

In January, several tech companies aided by a groundswell of support from communities across the Web fought to derail a pair of online piracy bills — and won. Since the fight against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP (Intellectual Property) Act ended, there’s been a lot of discussion about where, exactly to direct all that energy. Reddit and the site’s co-founder Alexis Ohanian have an idea: they’re launching a bus tour that will introduce the Internet itself as a player in the 2012 election. “The bus will be half-red and half-blue, with ‘Internet 2012’ on the side of it, where the candidate’s name would be,” Ohanian said in an interview with The Washington Post.

Dear Ubuntu 12.04 LTS users, Canonical proudly announced a few hours ago, August 23rd, the first maintenance release for the long term supported Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.

Broken Sword, the three-parts-so-far adventure that started more than 15 years ago with an American tourist named George Stobbart chasing a clown trough a sewer, is returning for another instalment. Charles Cecil, creator of the original has turned to Kickstarter to seek $400,000 funding. The series has always been popular, as is evident by the fact that one day in it’s already 25% funded. They plan to finish development by April 2013, and will initially be releasing for Windows, Mac, Linux.

The latest update to the long-term support version of Ubuntu 12.04 brings a few improvements to the popular Linux operating system.

Support for OpenVMS is set to be removed from Mesa due to lack of maintainership in four years and trimming out the OpenVMS can shave just over two thousand lines of code...

When life gives you lemons, everyone knows you should make lemonade. But what if life gives you Linux on a Retina MacBook Pro? That, too, has been shockingly referred to as a "lemon" in recent days, but the solution there isn't so clear. "If you are planning to buy one of the new Apple MacBook Pro notebooks with a Retina Display for use under Linux, hold off on your purchase," warned Phoronix's Michael Larabel.

As expected, with Marek Olšák requesting a delay in branching Mesa 9.0 so that he can land more features, support for multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) for more ATI/AMD Radeon hardware has landed plus there's improved anti-aliasing support for currently-supported GPUs...

Think "installing software in distros like Debian and Ubuntu", and you think automatically of Synaptic, apt-get on the command line or the new kid on the block, Unbuntu Software Centre. Sometimes, you just overlook the obvious. Did you know that you can also install and remove software using the KDE System Settings Menu? Thought not. Me neither, until I accidentally stumbled upon it--and I wasn't even in the KDE desktop at the time. I was using the LXDE desktop when I spotted it in the Preferences section of the Start menu. Curious? Me too. Let's take a look.

IT is under pressure to reel in data center growth, but how best to go about it? This infographic explores IT attitudes about the best ways to keep data centers from getting out of control.

A group of European students are working on creating a free and open source network to allows anyone to get connected to the Internet without any interference from the ISPs. It's one of the major open source project.

The Fedora developers have decided to postpone the release of the first Fedora 18 alpha for a week. A large number of blocker bugs are still unresolved and the code base has not been tested enough

I have just open sourced the source code to Baruwa 2.0 on Github. Baruwa 2.0 is a ground up rewrite of Baruwa which adds lots of new features.

This howto describes setting up an IPSEC VPN for use with the Iphone, Ipad and Mac OSX VPN clients on Centos/RHEL 6. I am using the 5.x branch of Strongswan which is now the mainline actively maintained branch.

Linus Torvalds announced last evening, August 22nd, that the third Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.6 kernel is now available for download and testing.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: August 23, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), will offer all of its popular LPIC certification exams at SUSECon, September 18-21, 2012, at the Caribe Royale Hotel in Orlando, Florida (http://www.suse.com/events/susecon/). SUSECon is the first annual global conference for SUSE customers, partners and community enthusiasts. LPI will also participate in the openSUSE Summit (http://summit.opensuse.org/) directly following SUSECon.