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Sean Catlin is at Google I/O for The Powerbase, and he is taking requests! Want to get a first glimpse at the Nexus 7? Let us know in the comments. We can hardly contain our excitement!

Jon "maddog" Hall wrote a beautiful essay in honor of Alan Turing that highlights the terrible, corrosive consequences of attacking people for who they are.

In MATE, the screen lock feature is disabled by default. After being idle for a while, the screen will be dimmed and you can re-activate it by moving the mouse or hit a key. For security reasons, you may want to enable the screen lock feature.

Microsoft’s Kinect technology was the next amazing step in gaming. Microsoft is constantly testing and improving this technology in an attempt to make it more useful for all its customers in any platform (gaming, desktop, research). What about us the Linux users? Is there a similar technology for us to enjoy? Apparently there is, and it is called Skeltrack!

Google proudly announced last evening, June 26th, that they have unleashed the stable and final version of the Google Chrome 20 web browser for Linux, Macintosh, Windows and Chrome Frame platforms.

EPhysics, a fresh new library is reaching Enlightenment project’s SVN repository today. It’s a wrapper between Bullet Physics and EFL to add physics effects in a simple way.

Open webOS logo Despite having shelved its webOS hardware months ago, HP continues to work towards finalising the open source version of its Open webOS mobile operating system by September. As part of this effort, HP has now cooperated with WebOS Internals developers to release further webOS 3.0.5 sources for the TouchPad as a "Community Edition" under the Apache 2.0 Licence. The final component required to compile an open source version of webOS was the Luna system manager (luna-sysmgr), which is now available to download as a 9MB source code archive.

The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) that power the Enlightenment window manager now has a physics component. Bruno Dilly of ProFUSION Embedded Systems announced EPhysics today to the Enlightenment developers list. EPhysics allows for physics effects to be added to EFL.

Red Hat is reaching out to Linux application developers and cloud developers, while strengthening a relationship with SAP. Indeed, the open source company has updated its Developer Suite for both Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift, the platform as a service (PaaS) offering. The moves are part of a bigger Red Hat partner and ISV (independent software vendor) push that’s unfolding this week in Boston, Mass.

It's fast, stable, has what I want, and does what I want. It's the best yet.

It has been a while since I had a look at Puppy Linux (www.puppylinux.org). so I thought I'd have another go to see how much it has improved over the past few years.

DarkRacer-PTOS Beta is released. DarkRacer is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a collection of utilities designed for ethical hacking, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment and cyber forensics.

Based on Wine 1.4.1, CrossOver XI can be used to run software like Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 in Linux effortlessly.

ROSA Media Player 1.5, the latest update, has added another feature – support for MIDI files. MIDI, acronym for Musical Instrument Digital interface, is a protocol which “enables a single player to sound as though they are playing two or more instruments simultaneously.”

This is the third profile in our 30-week series that features a different Linux kernel developer each week. Last week we featured Thomas Gleixner, after beginning the series with Linus Torvalds. The profiles we publish throughout the rest of 2012 will help illustrate how these developers do their work, providing important insight on how to work with them and what makes them tick.

Empathy 3.5.3 instant messaging client for the GNOME desktop environment has been announced earlier today, June 26th, bringing a completely redesigned contact list.

A very simple start to multi-threading in Java, with lots of references to related intermediate-level topics in concurrency

Working with Linux doesn't mean your work is restricted to command-line tools. True, most experienced Linux administrators use command-line tools for convenience and more efficient administration. However, the GNOME project provides some excellent tools for managing a Linux server using a graphical user interface (GUI). Using your Microsoft Windows background experience, you might find that these tools make the transition less dramatic.

The new version of Firefox for Android gets a facelift and many performance enhancements

Red Hat is making large splashes on the Linux Planet. This week, the company kicks off its Red Hat Summit event on the heels of a busy week of releases and earnings. Not to be outdone, Ubuntu Linux has weighed in on the UEFI Secure Boot issue with a solution of its own.