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The first milestone release of Ubuntu 12.10 has been made available for testing and sees several applications, such as the installer, ported to Python 3 as the developers plan to only include Python 3 with the desktop images of Ubuntu

It's time for another development snapshot of Wine, but this bi-weekly release does carry several features worth noting...

The developers have improved translations for the more than 55 languages of the desktop environment. Several bugs in KDE's browser and window manager have also been fixed

Plus: the defunct 'Kinetic' server strategy for Itanium-Xeon hybrids The Oracle and Hewlett-Packard lawsuit over the fate of Oracle's software support for Itanium processors, and therefore HP's HP-UX Unix variant, is under way in the Santa Clara County courts. New HP CEO Meg Whitman is making the rounds in the press and making her case to HP customers and partners at the Discover 2012 shindig in Las Vegas this week – and so there was lots of talk about the past plans and current plans for HP's Integrity and Superdome lines of servers.…

Ubuntu developers are looking at enabling support for Intel SNA acceleration within the open-source graphics driver for the Ubuntu 12.10 release...

For any Phoronix readers that would like to discuss Linux, open-source, benchmarking, and other matters -- whether it be the topics themselves, constructive criticism, or anything else -- a meet-up is being planned for next week on 15 June in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Keith Packard has set out his plans for releasing X.Org Server 1.13 this September. There's also some interesting plans expressed by David Airlie for what this update could potentially provide for Linux desktop users...

Open Recall is for those things that are too small to be news but are worth the linkage. Open Recall collates the interesting stories that didn't quite make the cut

The latest open-source Radeon Linux driver code for supporting the Radeon X1000 (R500) series hardware has basically reached a point of competitiveness with the legacy Catalyst Linux driver that once supported this hardware. In some cases the open-source Gallium3D driver is now faster than what Catalyst once ran at while in other select OpenGL workloads there is still a proprietary imbalance.

by activate squid3 as Transparent Proxy you no longer need to configure all the machines on your network to connect to Squid proxy server manually. All traffic will be routed to the Squid listening port automatically and your Ubuntu Server will act as routers

Visual voicemail functionality is the visual element in a voicemail application that allows text to be transcribed and displayed on the phone -- or more simply, message headers, or envelopes, are displayed textually in a list. Options often include push to email and SMS. It's been around in various forms since Apple's iPhone kick-started smartphone user interfaces into the 21st century.

The Wine development release 1.5.6 is now available.

This week from the E3 Expo there's been new details to emerge about Unreal Engine 4 as the latest game engine that's in development by Epic Games. But will there be any native UE4 Linux games to come or will it face a similar fate to Unreal Engine 3 on Linux?..

If not being able to tell the time while running the reference Weston compositor held you back from experimenting with Wayland, fear not. Logging functionality for Weston was also merged...

The GLX extension for specifying at context-creation time what OpenGL version and context properties will be used may finally enter the X.Org Server, which is important in supporting newer versions of OpenGL under Linux...

As I am frequently asked about my unique monitor setup, brand preference on different computer peripherals and other questions about my personal hardware choices as it pertains to Linux, here's a tour of my Phoronix office for this weekend article. There's also some additional thoughts beyond what you will find in previously-published Phoronix reviews.

I’m a Xubuntu user, and so i was a bit disappointed that for some days my Xubuntu 12.04 missed the 4.10 release of XFCE.

Luckily there is an easy way to install this version of XFCE on Ubuntu, there is an PPA that can bring the new feature of XFCE in your Ubuntu in few minutes.

Prior to taking a week-long holiday where he will be mostly "MIA", Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.5-rc2 kernel...

Here's a look at some of the upcoming articles on Phoronix this month, including another large Radeon Linux graphics comparison...

In the last seven days: the first RC for Linux 3.5 arrived, LinkedIn user passwords were compromised and Firefox 13 was released. Also, Glyn Moody took a look at open source in computer education and The H spoke to FlightGear project coordinator Curtis Olson