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So today I have a Mega news for all that people, whose lifes are related with video editing. Today, literaly in few hours, an Open Source professional non-linear video editor LightWorks will be released.

The Wine development team announced a few days ago, May 25th, that a new development version of the famous framework used to run Windows applications on Linux, has been announced by Alexandre Julliard, the leader of the Wine project.

Your beloved son, while heading back from a wonderful holiday, has magically overcome all the intricate steps of the camera and was able to remove hundreds of photos of the entire trip? Have you carelessly formatted an hard disk? Have you corrupted the file system of a SD card or USB stick? Wow! They are all very unpleasant situations … Situations that have made ??put you in trouble ! Today, thanks to two simple tools, we will see how to retrieve all the lost data, or at least those recoverable …

Last week I wrote that the open-source graphics card is dead. The developer behind Project VGA has now written a lengthy email to me to explain why the open-source graphics card is no more.

Canonical, through Victor Tuson Palau, announced a few days ago that they've published an AMI image in Amazon Web Services, providing an ARMhf (hard-float) Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system running on an emulated hardware system.

I would like to announce the release of RapidDisk 2.3. You can clone/pull it from the rxdsk-2.x git repo. It includes a minor bug fix to address a warning when building for Linux kernels 3.2 and up and some other cosmetic updates.

A native Linux build has been released for Wolfire Games' massively popular 3D action adventure and fighting game Overgrowth.

François Dupoux proudly announced a couple of days ago, May 26th, the first point release of his popular SystemRescueCd 2.7 Linux-based operating system for rescue and recovery tasks.

An academic shares his GIS-heavy Linux setup and recommends a lot of great software, including Freeplane as a composition tool.

LXer Feature: 28-May-2012

Whenever there has been new transition, people have resisted to adapt to changes. Same has happened for gnome 3 based desktops. Specially from people who used to use gnome 2 as their primary desktop environment. Change for just the shake of change is not the best solution in most cases. However changes with desktops is something that can make or break the deal.

Browsers, in many ways are becoming the heart of Mobile devices today. Browsers run every kind of applications, used for gaming, watching videos and much more. Today we are lucky to have an option of selecting a browser from the Android market besides the default browser.However, obviously not all browsers are equally good. They have their strong and weak points. The post evaluates selected browser with respect to performance, interface and usability and finally compares one with the other.

The native Linux support for the Wolfire Overgrowth game has finally arrived...

Lars Torben Kremer proudly announced this weekend, on May 26th, the immediate availability for download of the final version of the Snowlinux 2 MATE operating system.

Searching for FreeRADIUS and CRLs will provide you many if not false at least imperfect ways to integrate CRLs into FreeRADIUS. This blog post shows the way it should be done.

As the latest Intel Ivy Bridge Linux graphics benchmarks to publish, here is a comparison of some of the different desktop environment options of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS when using the Intel Linux graphics driver on the Core i7 3770K with its HD 4000 graphics. The desktop environments being compared include Unity, Unity 2D, KDE, and Xfce. The default Ubuntu Unity desktop with Compiz continues to have problems for the open-source friendly company's drivers.

For those curious what OpenGL gaming frame-rates are like if trying to run LLVMpipe on the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors, here are some numbers...

Intel continues to work on Linux kernel patches for ZPODD support...

After going into beta in March, the second and final beta release of NetBSD 6.0 is now available...

I love buying gadgets, and I'm not one to deprive myself. My house has just about every piece of equipment I've ever lusted after, from a Mac Mini hooked up to an Apple Cinema Display to a Sony Bravia 3D TV connected to my PS3. I have a MacBook Air, PS Vita, iPad, Nintendo 3DS, Kindle touch—the list goes on.

I wouldn't want to do without any of them. But out of all my gadgets and computers, there's one I respect above all others, and it's an old piece of junk.

In KDE, there are quite a few apps out there to manage your personal photo library with. The prominent ones that come to mind are DigiKam and Qwenview. While both of these applications are fantastic and highly regarded, they miss one huge mark...