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Linus Torvalds works weekends. We all knew that right? Just to reinforce that point, Torvalds released the third major kernel release of 2012 on Sunday. The Linux 3.4 release was a relatively rapid one, coming after two months and seven release candidates.

Canonical announced a few hours ago, May 21st, in a security notice, that a new Linux kernel update for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now available, fixing two security vulnerabilities discovered in the Linux kernel packages by various developers.

For the last few weeks I’ve been working on an experimental new print spooler called printerd. It was designed in collaboration with Richard Hughes and it aims to be a modern print spooler for Linux.

I have been excited about the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for a while now, and it looks like Unity is growing well. The latest round of design improvements bridge many of the gaps left in earlier Unity desktop versions. This release comes highly anticipated by many Ubuntu lovers, and Ubuntu 12.04 might be the release to stick with for a while.

As usual I post very few, because the time is very short, but has today I made an achievement I was looking to a long time, it deserves a HOW-TO...

Here it goes....

The arms race of supercomputers is fascinating to watch as their evolving architectures squeeze out more and more performance. One interesting fact about supercomputers is that they all run a version of Linux. To yield the greatest amount of power from an architecture, the SLURM open source job scheduler (used by the Chinese Tianhe-IA supercomputer, and the upcoming IBM Sequoia supercomputer) optimizes resource allocation and monitoring. Learn about SLURM and its approach to parallelizing workloads in clusters.

Arch Linux is Simple. Arch Linux is "easy".

Read this review to know more about Arch Linux. Once you meet Arch Linux, you'll never look back.

OpenVAS is a framework that includes services and tools for scanning and the complete managment of vulnerability. A vulnerability scanner is a tool that allows you to scan a target system (IP/HOSTNAME) based on a range of ports and a set of policies. The tool is supported by a database that is used from the vulnerability scanner to analyze possible problems whenever you find a listening service. The tool that scans receives daily updates from the database Network Vulnerability Tests “NVTs”.

The next version of Linux Mint will be with us soon, find out why 13 is going to be the lucky number for the worlds most popular Linux distribution...

Never liked Windows 7 anyway ... Microsoft must really love Windows 8, or hate its legacy install base.…

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 14.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites

Cairo Dock 3.0.1 has been released, it brings some bug fixes since the last major release 3.0.0 we have seen earlier. It’s recommended to update to this release since it fixes some for application core and plugins. Check the changelog and installation instruction down below.

Even though Nasdaq was fully aware that its trading systems would be bombarded by the Facebook IPO on Friday, it turned out the systems had trouble handling the volume, leaving Nasdaq embarrassed and Facebook with a disastrous first day, and proving once again the need for worst-case pre-launch testing.

Gamers are not exactly the first group that comes to mind when one thinks of Linux users. Yet eRacks, a PC vendor specialized in open source systems, recently launched a new line of high end desktops, called AresPro, aimed at gamers and other customers with specific needs for powerful computers. Here’s the scoop, and its meaning for the open source channel.

In this article, I'm diving into chemistry again. Many packages, both commercial and open source, are available to make chemistry calculations at the quantum level. The one I cover here is gromacs (http://www.gromacs.org). It should be available for your distribution via its package manager. more>>

Apache Hadoop, the open source data management platform, is starting to connect in the managed services provider market. An example: MetaScale is building a Hadoop managed services business practice to help customers address Big Data issues. Is this the start of a bigger trend?

Continuing with their Open Source tradition, Psychsoftpc, a Quincy, MA computer manufacturer, is now offering their Linux Psychlone Clusters with Apache Hadoop. Hadoop is a Java-based programming framework that supports the processing of large data sets in a distributed computing environment.

Since Microsoft wants to force a radical change on you, why not really make a change and move to Linux or a Mac? The Linux desktop is great for both power users and for users who just need a computer for the basics. Specifically, I think XP users will find Linux Mint with the Cinnamon interface to be inviting. And, Ubuntu 12.04’s Unity interface is much easier to use than Metro.

ARM has published a new open-source X.Org DDX Linux graphics driver while working to enable support for their next-generation ARM Mali T6xx graphics core...

Wayland with the reference Weston compositor now have patches available for providing a zoomed-in area to follow the text cursor around the screen. There's also support for animated zoom transitions...