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For a long time, the co-founder of the GNOME desktop project, Miguel de Icaza, has not been heard of in the media. A few days back he surfaced, claiming to know why the Linux desktop has made little or no gain among computer users.

The legendary Mark Twain is said to have once observed, "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes," and much the same sentiment could just as well be applied to life here in the Linux world. To wit: Not so very long ago, gaming was held up as one of the big obstacles keeping PC users off of Linux and on Windows instead.

It looks like the rumored GNOME Edition of Ubuntu, named GNOMEbuntu will become a reality on October 18th, 2012.

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of: Lazarus 1.0 The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.0" directory.

With the first beta of version 3.1, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is, for the first time, capable of migrating the virtual machine (VM) disk images between storage arrays while they are running

If you don't love the Sinclair Spectrum then this is not for you. This article shows how to set up the FUSE emulator with an XBOX 360 controller. The ultimate way to play Manic Miner.

Oracle engineers were briefed on critical vulnerabilities in the Java software framework more than four months before the flaws were exploited in malware attacks that take complete control of end-user computers, according to a published report.

For the first time, Google reveals some details about its desktop of choice: Ubuntu.

While Android includes SQLite, a built-in database, applications handling mission critical data require capabilities not available in SQLite.

The developer of Mayan EDMS, Roberto Rosario, has recently made some waves by cutting off access to his development sources amid claims of third party GPL violations.

Good News Everyone! Thanks to Ubuntu Gnome Community and Jeremy Bicha, it seems that the popular distribution will ship a flavor with a relatively pure GNOME experience, on the next release cycle, in October 18. At this point the effort is community based, but hopefully GNOMEbuntu will make it as Canonical’s official spin, similar to Kubunt, Xubuntu etc in 13.04 release.

The Distrowatch page says that it "uses APT for RPM and Synaptic as its package management tools." I felt this was right up my alley, as PCLinuxOS, my chosen distro, also uses APT for RPM and Synaptic.

It reminds me a lot of Bridge Linux in most ways, and it does have a few additional niceties.

CodeWeavers, the company behind CrossOver and Wine, has released CrossOver 11.2.1. CrossOver Linux not only allows to run games such as Diablo III and Left 4 Dead, but it also supports running of other Windows applications like Microsoft Office 2010. CrossOver is currently the easiest way to install Steam and the games from the Steam catalog on Linux.

There were a lot of reasons not to like the ruling last week in the Apple-Samsung trial, but to me the most compelling one was that it altered the balance of power in the technology industry, making Apple far too strong.

A few hours ago, on August 28th, The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, proudly announced that Inktank, Servergy and Twitter joined the organization.

The North American LinuxCon has only just kicked off today, but there’s already been some news out of the show

In every new release, Ubuntu loses something from upstream Gnome. This time in Quantal is the drop of Nautilus 3.6 and Gnome Control Center 3.6 (not quite sure about it yet). But things aren’t so bad. Thanks to Rico Tzschichholz and Ubuntu Gnome Community people, Gnome 3.6 looks almost perfect in Quantal! And things will get even better in 13.04 ;)

Steve Langasek, Ubuntu release manager, has proposed on the Ubuntu-devel mailing list to drop the alternate CDs for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal.

Better management of memory and updates highlight the latest release of the Mozilla Foundation's Web browser, Firefox 15. Firefox's development team has steadily improved the browser's memory management over recent months, but with this release of the program, it's targeting a major contributor to the software's piggish memory ways: add-on applications.