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Every time you boot a CD or DVD, thank Peter Anvin for making it possible. And, as a key Linux contributor that's not all Peter has done in his long Linux career.

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In the last seven days: a new Secure Boot-enabled PC landed, a first release of the E17 desktop is on approach, and new malware locked onto all major OS platforms. Also, the Kernel Log series took a look at architecture, driver and infrastructure changes in the upcoming 3.5 Linux kernel release, and Glyn Moody looked at problems caused by low-cost Android tablets

Patrick Verner announced last evening, July 5th, that yet another maintenance release of his Parted Magic Linux operating system for partitioning tasks is available for download.

There's a very exciting open-source announcement coming soon that will please an increasing number of ARM Linux users and fans of open-source graphics drivers...

Denies that app hackers are fleeing the platform Alec Saunders, RIM's VP of developer relations, wishes the press and analyst community would get its "bleeding" story straight about the BlackBerry developer community.…

The latest out of DebConf 12 are future plans from the Debian game team...

Developers could be seriously out of pocket Vid A Russian hacker claims to have found a way to crack the in-app purchasing mechanism used in iOS so that users can get free content in a variety of applications.…

Jerome Glisse has published a new patch to enable HyperZ support for the AMD Radeon (R600g) Gallium3D driver. While this patch could be pushed to Mesa, it's not being enabled by default as it's still causing some GPU lock-ups and developers can't seem to figure out the cause. Jerome is now moving onto other work...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 28 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a lot of items: an XKCD comic, etherpad, centos, flare, diablo, lunduke's Illumination Software Creator, Blender, the new Sintel game, intel, Github gets money, Android jelly bean code, GNUcash, RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi, TeX, Archbang, Freebsd, Firefox PCmanFM, Fedora 18, E17, Libreoffice and a lot more...

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.

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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