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Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.2 beta 1 today, which includes some major improvements, like improved Windows 8 support, an expert mode for wizards, experimental support for drag'n'drop from the host to Linux guests and more.

This week, we look at 15 free or low-cost iPad code editors, endangered IT jobs and how HTML5 video works.

Even though the processor in the Pi is fairly weak, it can decode HD video using it's GPU chip if you use the proper media player. This means that your old favorites like VLC and mPlayer will not work, so we must turn to a tool designed just for the Pi: OMXPlayer.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 31 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes MATE, KDE SC 4.9, Debian 8 Jessie, Bodhi Linux for the Raspberry Pi, Stella 6.3, ProxBash, Minecraft, ScummVM and more...

This is more an issue of incrementing the numbers since people running Stella have already received the updates from CentOS 6.3. So, what's new in your favourite EL-based remix? Updated multimedia stack - new FFmpeg (0.10.4), MPlayer (1.0svn) and VLC (2.0.3); updated in nux-dextop repository - Clipgrab, Minitube, Audacity 2.0; new inclusions in nux-dextop repository -Megamario (SuperMario clone), Geeqie, Mumble suite, Phantomjs, Tarsnap and SCrypt. Also, as a bit of a news, pkgs.org is now indexing my repositories; as such, searching for EL6 RPMs might give you results from li.nux.ro.

Gameplay is an open-source, cross-platform C++ game framework from BlackBerry developers.

While disk management improvements might not be the first thing you think of when it comes to a desktop environment update, the disk utility (Disks) and udev within GNOME 3.6 will offer some new features...

Stresslinux is a lean, mean torture machine with 750MB of hardware-pummeling goodness for probing and load-testing your computer's hardware. Why, you ask, would anyone want to torture their nice hardware? Perhaps "torture" isn't the best word; think load-testing to expose defects, "burning in" a new machine, or to figure out some limits for overclocking

Gabe Newell, co-founder and CEO of Valve, was recently interviewed by the former head of Microsoft Game Studio at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle. In this interview Gabe Newell told about the current priorities and future plans of the company.

Mozilla has announced that it plans to open an office at the new Factory tech campus in Berlin. It also plans to expand the number of employees at its San Francisco office

"To provide our customers with the best range of tools for success, we signed a license agreement with Microsoft that will allow Honeywell to offer the Android-based Dolphin 7800 to our network of partners around the world."

The Creative Commons online licence chooser tool has been completely rebuilt for "greater clarity and ease of use". The non-profit organisation has also published a second draft of version 4.0 of its suite of licences

In a statement focusing on transparency and open processes, the three organisations make their opposition to the ITU's opacity and closed nature clear

This tutorial shows how you can install Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop on Fedora 17. Since it has now been included in the repositories this can now be done quite quickly. Fedora's default desktop at the moment is GNOME 3.

The first release candidate of the Linux 3.6 kernel is now available and she's packing many changes...

OpenSUSE 12.2 Release Candidate 2 is now available as the latest development version of this delayed Linux distribution that's seeking a new direction...

A new bipartisan bill submitted to the US House of Representatives proposes that the losing party in an IT patent lawsuit should bear all the legal costs

Not only has Valve Software successfully ported the first-person shooter game Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux, but it actually runs faster on the open source OS than on Windows. Using high-end hardware, a version of the game running on Ubuntu 12.04 renders at 315fps, Valve's Linux team reports. That's a 16 per cent improvement over the Windows version, which only clocks at 270.6fps on the same configuration.

Netflix has released the source for Chaos Monkey under the Apache 2.0 license on the popular social programming site GitHub. GitHub is a service designed to make it easier for developers to cooperatively work on projects which are managed by the Git revision control system. This allows others to create forks of existing projects and suggest fixes and updates to the upstream developers to further develop the project.

Open source project 'La Vida', a game much like The Sims has made a bid to further development of the game by starting a new campaign on indiegogo.com