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It’s not uncommon for open source projects — especially those without strict commercial oversight — to treat deadlines loosely. It’s rarer for them to admit publicly when they face structural problems and need to consider new directions. Yet that’s what openSUSE developers did a few days ago when they announced delays in the 12.2 release. I recently spoke to Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE community manager, about this fork in the road. Here’s what he had to say.

Richard Stallman is giving three talks in the UK in June and for those who want to catch the founder of the Free Software Foundation.

Some IT departments have decided that the best defense against hackers could be a good offense, and while deceiving hackers is one thing, outright attacking them is another altogether.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, June 17th, the immediate availability for download of the third maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series.

Apple cash hose dislodged from Choc Factory maw Opinion So what about this Apple Maps thing then? Isn't it just so wonderful that Cupertino wants to improve the fanboi experience and thus has decided to replicate a perfectly serviceable alternative from a competitor? Sorry, become a competitor to its previous supplier...…

Robert Shingledecker announced last evening, June 17th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.5 Linux operating system.

The first stable point update to the 1.4.x branch of Wine fixes nearly 70 bugs affecting applications such as .NET Framework 3.0, LibreOffice, and Adobe Acrobat, as well as games like Borderlands

According to the latest list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, Linux is dominating the space with 462 of the planet's 500 fastest computers running the open source operating system

This tutorial is based on Ubuntu Lucid, but will work on later releases as well with small changes. I will show how I stream my desktop with audio from pulse and webcam from video4linux2. I will also show how to configure crtmpserver and flowplayer so you can watch the live stream from a web browser. In this scenario I use separate host for the tools. Flowplayer is installed on a server running Apache, crtmp server is on a separate server and ffmpeg is installed on the streaming desktop.

Blend in with the Windows-using crowd with Tails 0.12, which offers a Windows camouflage mode that allows its users to be more incognito at the internet cafe

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 9, a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers: "We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 9 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 8, this is just another step towards world domination. There you have it, shining at full bright, for your home computer, your laptop and your home server. Linux kernel 3.4, GNOME 3.2.3, KDE 4.8.3, Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.5.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Gentoo Hardened features, Rigo -- a new way of browsing applications, ZFS tech-preview, and PAE kernel for x86 editions."

In a question and answer session at the Finnish Aalto University, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has voiced strong criticism of NVIDIA for its refusal to support the Optimus technology in Linux

After sharing the results last week of an optimized open-source Radeon driver trying to compete with AMD's Catalyst driver, it is time to turn the tables. In this article is a look at the latest open-source Nouveau driver code compared to NVIDIA's official closed-source Linux driver across a few generations of GPUs.

Magic 8 Ball is a toy you can use to seek advices when you are bored or need to make some tough decisions but you cannot ask anybody else, even your parents, siblings, friends or your cat. There are a lot of Magic 8 Ball tools out there, both online and offline, but you can create your own Magic 8 Ball script with your unique answers very easily.

The term Bitcoin (BTC) has become a buzzword. A buzzword most recently associated with the euro, pyramid schemes and a purposed solution to the current banking crisis and economic turmoil. But what exactly is “Bitcoin” and is it something one should be investing in?

Libvirt is an important tool for managing virtualized environments on Linux hosts. An audit trail of events that occur on the host during libvirt's execution is often necessary for monitoring, compliance, forensics, and other purposes. This article describes how to use the Linux audit subsystem on the host to track operations performed by libvirt and how to correlate the events with other host events to provide a consistent and comprehensive view of changes performed through libvirt.

Let consumers type in their credit card infos and send the $85 to Microsoft if they want to have the option to boot into Windows RT and get the Microsoft Office, Metro and whatever else comes with that.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Android native look&feel plugin added to android-qt New assistant for new classes from templates in KDevelop Fancy bookmarking in rekonq Experimental rgbaf32 colorspace in the lcms color engine, all missing chart marker types implemented in Calligra read more

The Wine maintenance release 1.4.1 is now available.

As the Justice Department continues to pretend there's nothing strange at all about its highly questionable tactics in shutting down Megaupload and having its executives arrested, the courts are still struggling with the details. A few weeks back, we noted that a judge in New Zealand rejected the US's demand that New Zealand merely rubberstamp an extradition order to the US, despite there being numerous questions over the case itself and whether or not extradition is appropriate. As part of that, the judge also ordered the US Attorneys to hand over the evidence they're using to make the case against Dotcom and his colleagues, such that they can properly respond to the evidence. The US, as you might expect has gone absolutely ballistic about this, insisting that such an effort is impossible -- and that "it would take at least two months" to get the evidence together.

Of course, to some of us, that suggests that the DOJ hasn't yet looked at the evidence -- and thus it shut down the company and arrested its staff first, without even knowing if a crime had been committed.