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The developers of the Debian-based Siduction Linux distribution have released version 2012.1.1, which offers minor corrections and includes KDE SC 4.8.4. In addition to the KDE desktop, the update also offers XFCE and LXD

When you build or update a website, it's a good idea to check that all the links on your webpages are OK. An excellent tool for doing this under Linux is the aptly named linkchecker, a GPL-licensed, command-line program.

However, 'OK' has more than one meaning. While linkchecker can check the URL you specify to see if it's properly formed and not broken, it can't tell you if the link points to the wrong URL.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

I'm extremely proud to announce that exactly 12 years ago today I made my very first post at LinuxQuestions.org, which served to introduce it to the web.

The next version of Krita, KDE's artwork program for sketching and painting, is going to be released soon. The team has released first beta of Krita 2.5 which brings many new features and improvements.

Pure OS 5 has just been released, coming with the latest Debian Testing packages, Linux Kernel 3.3.6, and more.

A recent distribution that I have seen in the news in recent weeks is one based on Ubuntu. It’s called Zorin OS. And just this week Zorin OS 6 was released. In my Linux experience, I’ve perhaps come across the name Zorin OS once or twice, but I’ve never given it a second thought. It’s a distribution based on Ubuntu. And the fresh new release Zorin OS 6 is based on Ubuntu 12.04.

The beta for version 2.5 of the Calligra Suite, a set of open source office and productivity applications formerly known as KOffice, brings improvements to the Sheets spreadsheet application, the Kexi database creator and the Krita image editor

Why do corporations give away code under free and open source licences? And how do they make a real community grow around these projects? Richard Hillesley looks at the difficulties and rewards to giving away code.

Two day ago, on June 23rd, Ferdinand Thommes has announced the immediate availability for download of the siduction 12.1.1 Linux operating system.

Marc Poirette proudly announced last evening, June 24th, that the PureOS 5.0 Linux operating system is available for download.

The Free Software Foundation's executive director John Sullivan has publicly complained that Microsoft's reputation database is listing the Foundation's donate.fsf.org as a gambling site. The Foundation was alerted by a Reddit posting where a user was unable to access the site from his place of work.

Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, June 24th, that the fourth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel is now available for download and testing.

Sharing is caring, and there is probably no better way to share your photographic masterpieces with the world than adding them to the Wikimedia Commons pool.

SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming versions of Firefox) that both support SPDY. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This tutorial explains how to use mod_spdy with Apache2 on Fedora 17.

To hear folks in Hollywood talk about it, the US's indictment and prosecution of Megaupload are a done deal. Without any actual trial, people have decided that the company is clearly 100% evil and guilty. Yet, as we keep noting, the details of the indictment and prosecution keep turning up significant errors on the part of the US, as well as questions about the legality of what the US did. And plenty of people who really understand this stuff deeply are speaking out in agreement. The latest is a former federal judge, Abraham David Sofaer, who found the whole situation so troubling that he's helping the EFF -- for free -- with its efforts to get Megaupload users' data back.

With Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" set to be frozen soon, I took the opportunity to run some new benchmarks of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the Debian OS variant using the FreeBSD kernel rather than Linux, to compare it to Debian GNU/Linux as well as Ubuntu Linux and PC-BSD/FreeBSD 9.0.

Editing videos is a job that is usually done by tech savvy people with patience and special knowledge. I am not one of them really. I never succeeded in editing videos using well known available on Linux tools, mainly because I didn’t have the patience to read help files and see what is going on and how things are done. With LiVES is maybe the first time I find myself doing pro-stuff in a pretty clear, simple and easy to use way.

To be honest, I was slightly scared by the previous not-so-good experience of a Mageia upgrade described by Gene on his ERACC blog. The second option for me would be to make a fresh install, which I could always revert to. I had so little to loose that the decision was easily made.

GCC 4.7 was released a few months back, but have changes in the trunk code-base -- for what will eventually become GCC 4.8 -- resulted in any major performance changes yet?..

When it comes to open-source reverse-engineered ARM graphics drivers, most of what's talked about these days is the Lima driver for ARM's Mali graphics cores and then Freedreno for Qualcomm's Snapdragon, but even older than those driver initiatives has been OpenFIMG...