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Canonical announced on June 1st, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system is now available.

Google Inc. GOOG -1.82% said it filed an antitrust complaint Thursday in Europe arguing that Microsoft Corp. MSFT -2.13% and Nokia Corp. are using proxy companies to brandish patents and hurt the prospects of Google's Android mobile-phone software to the advantage of Microsoft's technology. Google also plans to share its complaint about patent "trolls" with U.S. competition regulators. The Internet-search giant alleges that Microsoft and Nokia have entered into agreements that enable entities such as Canada-based Mosaid Technologies Inc. to legally enforce their patent rights and share the resulting revenue.

To run on UEFI-secured machines, the next version of Fedora will use a digital key from Microsoft.

XFCE 4.10 has been released and announced by XFCE development team, it comes with many improvements which include new application finder, a vertical display mode option for the XFCE panel, a new MIME type editor, behavioral changes, and the window manager can be configured to tile windows when dragging them to screen edges. There’s also Alt-Tab improvements and other functionality improvements. For more info about the XFCE 4.10 desktop release see @XFCE_Announcement and @XFCE_tour

The openSUSE Project unleashed earlier today, June 1st, the first Beta release of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 operating system.

This is a terrible news for my spare time, a new, and IMO really good, Humble Indie Bundle (HIB) is out and there are some really good games in this offer.

Linux Mint 13 aka Maya is the newest edition of the ever popular Linux Mint distribution. It is featured on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and features an enhanced version of the Gnome 3 desktop named Cinnamon.

As the latest Intel Ivy Bridge numbers to push out, here is a look at the Linux virtualization performance with the Core i7 3770K processor when comparing its raw/bare-metal performance to Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization and Oracle VM VirtualBox under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

It's possible to optimize the Fedora 17 boot process to boot the system in less than three seconds. One developer went from a boot time of 15 seconds down to just 2.5 seconds...

I continue to believe that there is room for more mobile operating systems then we have now. Blackberry is a trusted brand and, if open, I think developers would be more willing to expand and extend its capabilities in ways and to places that RIM was just incapable of taking it.

It's not really an option to force all our users to play with hard to find firmware settings before they can run Fedora. We've been working on a plan for dealing with this. It's not ideal, but of all the approaches we've examined we feel that this one offers the best balance between letting users install Fedora while still permitting user freedom.

Judge William Alsup today ruled that the Java API packages Oracle claims were stolen by Google for use in Android were "free for all to use under the Copyright Act."

Recently Electronic Arts published a press release about its new program with benefits for the development studios funding games with the help of crowdfunding platforms such as KickStarter.

Judge Alsup has only just ruled that API's are not subject to copyright protection. This story is only just breaking and other details have not yet been reported.

The coalition of authors suing to stop Google Book Search scored a key victory on Thursday as the judge overseeing the case ruled that three individual authors and the Author's Guild could represent the class of all authors whose works had been scanned by Google.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from June 25th - June 27th, 2012.

Canonical bringing new functionality to the Ubuntu Software Store by offering games from the Humble Indie Bundle

A file manager is software that provides a user interface to undertake file management activities with file systems. The file manager is one of those essential applications for many users which is almost impossible to function without. Linux is blessed with a good range of file managers that help to make file management a breeze.

Remember Psychonauts? Once regaled in glowing reviews and positive reception from press outlets, the now classic Psychonauts has made its way, unexpectedly, to Linux. The game, designed by influential point-and-click pioneer Tim Schaffer...

One of the cardinal rules of open source is reciprocity: you can use my open-source code under the same terms that it was given to me. But as open source shifts to open APIs, "open" is increasingly a one-way street. As one major case in point, LinkedIn likes to tout its open API to developers, but apparently only developers of a certain kind: the kind who don't compete with LinkedIn.