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Chris Smart proudly announced earlier today, July 16th, the immediate availability for download of the final and stable release of the Kororaa 17 Linux operating system.

A seventh release candidate for Linux 3.5 was published over the weekend, following a large number of small pull requests submitted by kernel developers. This led Linus Torvalds to tell the developers, "Not cool guys. Not cool."

Continuing our BSD summer interviews, we introduce today a very interesting interview with Kris Moore, the founder and current leader of development of the desktop user-friendly PC-BSD project. Enjoy!

Below is a cheat sheet of Unix commands that are useful for Linux server administration.

The GIMP, a free image processing editor published under GNU GPL licence, has many advanced features for creating and editing images in various formats, and it's capable to create animated GIF images without any aditional plugin.

David Tavares, the developer of Pear Linux, has announced today, July 16th, that the fifth iteration of the Pear Linux operating system is now available for download.

It is with great pleasure and gratitude that the Directors of Reglue and The HeliOS Project name Carolyn Smith as our 2012 volunteer of the year. Wish I could buy you a new truck kiddo, but we can't so I will get you a cheesy certificate and I'll hug you for your efforts. You are indeed one of a kind.

Apple is stooping to a whole new level. The company is evidently scared of competition in the mobile and is using every legal means to 'kill' Android.

The same company which stole UI from Xerox, whose founded shamelessly admitted that they have been shameless about stealing ideas from other companies is putting the Galaxy Nexus phone it the category of 'stolen, pirated, counterfeit, or infringing products.'

Linus Torvalds announced on July 14th that the seventh and probably the last Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel is now available for download and testing.

After the success of Raspberry Pi, it seems mini PCs that run Linux has become a technology trend. Recently, 2 new mini Linux-enabled PCs have joined the party.

LXer Feature: 16-Jul-2012

The latest installment of the LXWR of the weeks big stories for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

For years, Ubuntu’s default email client was Evolution. Then, last year, Canonical switched to Mozilla Thunderbird. But now recent doubts over the future of Thunderbird — most of them pretty speculative — have spawned worries that Thunderbird might, in its turn, disappear from Ubuntu. Will it? And more importantly, would it really matter to many people? Here are some thoughts.

Chris Wilson released the xf86-video-intel 2.20 driver on Sunday, which brings SNA acceleration to the masses...

I recently became a KDE user, that was the time when Gnome Shell was going through transition and extensions were missing and I was looking for something which I could use without much frustration. One of the things that I love the most about KDE is the polishes interface and total control over your desktop. You can customize almost every aspect of KDE. In addition, the familiar UI (simple and aimed at the traditional desktop) makes it easy to continue to work without having to learn new tricks.

Miro is a free and open source music player, video player, media converter, internet tv application, podcast organizer, downloader and generally a feature-rich multimedia playing, organizing and synchronizing application.

The DebConf 12 developer summit ended on Saturday in Managua. Here is a recap of the prominent Debian Linux and open-source discussions that took place in Nicaragua's capitol for the past week.

Welcome to the 208th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

This tutorial shows how to prepare a CentOS 6.3 x86_64 server for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, Mailman, and many more. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache; this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses Apache, not nginx.

LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer Linux system administration bootcamp on July 26 - 27, 2012 near San Francisco (South Bay). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas. All attendees get a free Linux laptop.

The 30 years old pop star and single mom has been.. Oops! wrong blog for that! What I wanted to talk about was a forgotten Gnome App known as “Oops!”. Oops is a bug report tool designed for Gnome3 by Jakub Steiner (Jimmac) about a year ago, but unfortunately didn’t -so far- make it in Gnome3.