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Adobe has announced the release of Source Sans Pro, an open source font aimed at software UI use. The font comes in a variety of weights, includes all sources used in its production, and is available from Google Web Fonts

Sadly, just the name. Someone else says they own it Microsoft has dropped "Metro", the name given to the squaretastic user interface for Windows 8 and Windows Phone, claiming it was just a code name all along.…

The second release candidate includes numerous bug fixes and updates as the distribution heads towards its delayed mid-September release

The X.Org Developers' Conference 2012 is happening next month. Unfortunately, continuing to reflect the hastily-managed organization, the board has now come up with a call for presentations...

Canonical announced a couple of days ago, August 1st, that the sponsorship for the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit 2012 event is now open for submissions.

Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1 today, which includes some major improvements, like improved Windows 8 support, an expert mode for wizards, experimental support for drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests and more.

This week, we look at 15 free or low-cost iPad code editors, endangered IT jobs and how HTML5 video works.

Even though the processor in the Pi is fairly weak, it can decode HD video using it's GPU chip if you use the proper media player. This means that your old favorites like VLC and mPlayer will not work, so we must turn to a tool designed just for the Pi: OMXPlayer.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 31 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes MATE, KDE SC 4.9, Debian 8 Jessie, Bodhi Linux for the Raspberry Pi, Stella 6.3, ProxBash, Minecraft, ScummVM and more...

This is more an issue of incrementing the numbers since people running Stella have already received the updates from CentOS 6.3. So, what's new in your favourite EL-based remix? Updated multimedia stack - new FFmpeg (0.10.4), MPlayer (1.0svn) and VLC (2.0.3); updated in nux-dextop repository - Clipgrab, Minitube, Audacity 2.0; new inclusions in nux-dextop repository -Megamario (SuperMario clone), Geeqie, Mumble suite, Phantomjs, Tarsnap and SCrypt. Also, as a bit of a news, pkgs.org is now indexing my repositories; as such, searching for EL6 RPMs might give you results from li.nux.ro.

Gameplay is an open-source, cross-platform C++ game framework from BlackBerry developers.

While disk management improvements might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to a desktop environment update, the disk utility (Disks) and udev within GNOME 3.6 will offer some new features...

Stresslinux is a lean, mean torture machine with 750MB of hardware-pummeling goodness for probing and load-testing your computer's hardware. Why, you ask, would anyone want to torture their nice hardware? Perhaps "torture" isn't the best word; think load-testing to expose defects, "burning in" a new machine, or to figure out some limits for overclocking

Gabe Newell, co-founder and CEO of Valve, was recently interviewed by the former head of Microsoft Game Studio at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle. In this interview Gabe Newell told about the current priorities and future plans of the company.

Mozilla has announced that it plans to open an office at the new Factory tech campus in Berlin. It also plans to expand the number of employees at its San Francisco office

"To provide our customers with the best range of tools for success, we signed a license agreement with Microsoft that will allow Honeywell to offer the Android-based Dolphin 7800 to our network of partners around the world."

The Creative Commons online licence chooser tool has been completely rebuilt for "greater clarity and ease of use". The non-profit organisation has also published a second draft of version 4.0 of its suite of licences

In a statement focusing on transparency and open processes, the three organisations make their opposition to the ITU's opacity and closed nature clear

This tutorial shows how you can install Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 17. Since it has now been included in the repositories this can now be done quite quickly. Fedora's default desktop at the moment is GNOME 3.

The first release candidate of the Linux 3.6 kernel is now available and she's packing many changes...