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The date for the release of the next milestone in KDE's 4.x series is quickly approaching. Developers, testers and bug chasers have been busy putting the final touches on the latest version of our software, so it is once again time to get together and celebrate our community's accomplishment. read more

A German developer is seeking comments on patches he's written to create a DRM SoC framework for the Linux kernel...

A frequent Phoronix Forums contributor has created RadeonTop, a new utility for users of the open-source ATI/AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

This news is a few days tardy, but the videos from the 2012 Red Hat Summit are now available...

Here's a look at some of the planned features that are being worked on for the FreeBSD 10 release...

The "cat" command is mostly used for viewing files but not many people know that the original purpose of this command is for merging files together ("cat" is the abbreviation of "catenate", which means " to connect things together").

How to enable or disable autologin in Linux Mint 13

Despite developing a feature-laden Web browser, the Firefox team recognised at an early stage that individuals have different priorities and requirements. Extensions offer the means for software to be tailored accordingly to these needs. One of the reasons why Firefox has been so successful is because of extensions.

Sintel The Game is a video game adaptation of popular open movie Sintel by Blender Foundation. The game showcased its pre-demo in Blender Game Contest 2010 and stood at second place.

When you rent a dedicated server nowadays, almost all providers give you FTP backup space for your server on one of the provider's backup systems. This tutorial shows how you can use duplicity and duply to create encrypted backups on the provider's remote backup server over http://FTP. duply is a duplicity wrapper script that allows us to use duplicity without interaction (i.e., you do not have to type in any passwords).

This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites.

rincewind asks:

I need to reconcile these 2 facts:

1. I don't feel comfortable working on Linux;

2. I need to develop software for Linux.

Some background: I have 10+ years of programming experience on Windows (almost exclusively C/C++, but some .NET as well), I was a user of FreeBSD at home for about 3 years or so (then had to go back to Windows), and I've never had much luck with Linux. And now I have to develop software for Linux. I need a plan.

Welcome to the 207th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

The latest noteworthy patch-set coming out of the Intel Open-Source Technology Center is Mesa support for CMS MSAA for Ivy Bridge hardware...

The world's largest software company, whose stock remains mired around $30, had prepared a multi-pronged assault to try and break into the crucial mobile computing space this year and take Apple Inc and Google Inc down a peg.

But on Monday, it announced a $6.2 billion writedown of a 2007 Internet-advertising acquisition - a reminder that Microsoft has a patchy track record when it ventures outside of its Windows and Office comfort zone.

Zorin 6 is an Ubuntu based distribution that has the look and feel of Windows. It is geared towards new Linux users with which ease of use was kept in mind.

"We see far more infections on Windows than we do Macs, Unix and Linux," says Wade Baker, author of the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report, a study based on cybercrime investigations conducted by Verizon's team, which is comprised of data-breach reports from Verizon and various law-enforcement groups around the globe, including the U.S. Secret Service and the Australian Federal Police.

DebConf 2012, this year's Debian event, will begin on Sunday and run through next week...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 27 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes A Dilbert cartoon, the gpl, the fsf, secure boot, grub, linux mint, yafida, debian, transmission, mozilla thunderbird, android, CERN and the Higgs Boson, pidgin, crunchbang, bluefish and more...

Archbang 2012.07.02 is quietly released. ArchBang is lightweight distribution and live CD that combines Arch Linux with the Openbox window manager. The latest version also includes a graphical system installer.

Eichenwald uses details learned from dozens of interviews with current and former Microsoft executives as well as confidential corporate records to piece together the long string of decisions that has lost Microsoft its leadership position in several key markets. As Vanity Fair points out, “a single Apple product—the iPhone—generates more revenue than all of Microsoft’s wares combined.”