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Earlier this week at DebConf there was a discussion about Debian derivatives so that Debian's offspring could share their experiences and also for the Debian developers to share various derivative-related initiatives. Some friction between Debian and distributions based upon it (namely Ubuntu) were exposed.

The Document Foundation has announced a few minutes ago, July 13th, that the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.6 office suite is available for download and testing.

How to use "pushd" and "popd" for quick switching between directories

On Wednesday, the Italian region of Puglia passed a law requiring the public sector to utilise more open source software and to make more data freely available to the public. The law consists of 21 articles setting out a series of rules aimed at fundamentally changing the relationship between the citizens and the regional government. The law gives the region's citizens the right to access all information and services provided by the public sector in digital form. Digital diversity is also to be encouraged through the use and dissemination of open source software.

If you want to mount VirtualBox drive image (vdi) in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 use vdfuse.This Fuse module uses the VirtualBox access library to open a VirtualBox supported VD image file and mount it as a Fuse file system. The mount point contains a flat directory containing the files EntireDisk, Partition1 .. PartitionN. These can then be loop mounted to access the underlying file systems.

Is a Kindle-like phone in the works? Another Microsoft Windows Phone executive has jumped ship for Amazon.…

Mozilla's Rust language continues its development as an alpha with new experimental language features, added coder conveniences and enhanced libraries being incorporated in the "safe, concurrent, practical language"

Following a four week delay, the openSUSE developers have now published the first release candidate for version 12.2 of their Linux distribution. Along with a number of bug fixes, the RC includes the final 2.0 release of the GRUB bootloader

Ryan Finnie announced earlier today, July 13th, the immediate availability for download the Finnix 105 Linux operating system.

The kernel now better isolates containers and suspicious code. Event logging has been optimised and two important Android functions were merged

For those interested in reverse-engineering USB keyboards (or other input devices), there's a short yet effective guide by Julien Danjour for reverse-engineering a Logitech keyboard in order to provide Linux support...

Legends of Aethereus is a 3D Action RPG being made using Unity3D game engine. The game is almost ready for release and the developers have showcased several gameplay videos. They were looking to support Linux and finally an announcement was made after evaluating Unity 4.0.

This is the largest set of group tests available identifying the best software that is available to download. The collection includes more than 170 different group tests, with comprehensive sections on internet, graphics, games, programming, science, office, utilities, and more. Almost all of the software is released under a freely distributable license.

"openSUSE team has announced the release of openSUSE 12.2 RC1 for testing. The most notable update of this release is fixing the Torvalds bug. openSUSE team has responded to Linus Torvalds' criticism of unnecessary security policy of openSUSE. And finally, following a security audit, polkit privileges for colord were relaxed, allowing members of the Torvalds family to use colour management without causing further outrage."

The xf86-video-intel driver, the open-source X.Org driver for Intel's graphics processors on Linux, is now being built with Sandy Bridge New Acceleration (SNA acceleration) by default. This means of acceleration is generally much faster than the long-standing UXA mode for both old and new hardware...

In three short months, Windows 8 will be upon us. And with it will come the phenomenon known as "secure boot", one that is going to have an extraordinary effect on the lives of most computer users

Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and bitmap artwork. It eliminates the need to create animation frame-by frame, allowing you to produce 2D animation of a higher quality with fewer people and resources.

With luck, entrepreneurs can be as successful as the Bing boyz After weeks of dropping hints, Microsoft has finally taken the wraps off the Bing Fund, its new incubator for startup companies – and its website is already accepting applications, should you be in need of cash.…

I just realized that I’ve never wrote anything about one of my favorite commands on the Linux shell: locate. This command take as input the name (or part of it) and instantly it gives you all the locations where that file is located, an alternative to this could be to use the command find, but there is an huge difference in the time that takes find to search large file systems in comparison to a locate, this difference is given from the fact that locate uses his own database where it stores all the file names, while find scan the directory and looks for the file name you have given as input.

Canonical announced yesterday, July 11th, on the Ubuntu One blog that they will completely remove support for Facebook from the Ubuntu One cloud storage.