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Yesterday I reported on it appearing the 295.40 NVIDIA Linux driver effectively fell off a cliff with a range of performance regressions, stability issues, and other problems. This issue has been confirmed by NVIDIA and they're working to address the situation...

Computer languages and software interfaces may fall under copyright protection if Oracle succeeds in its Java lawsuit against Google. Amazingly, "copyfighters" appear to have paid little or no notice to this rare extension of copyright into new realms. But the consequences and costs for the software industry could be enormous.

Kubuntu gets new sponsorship, ChromeOS gets a new look and Debian stick with the tried and true

OpenTTD is a free and open source reimplementation of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" with lots of new features and enhancements. The game is quite popular among Linux gamers and can be played with free graphics files from the openttd-opengfx package and optional sound files from the openttd-opensfx package (which is non-free). These files can be downloaded from game itself.

Linus Torvalds announced this weekend, April 15th, that the third Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.4 kernel is available for download and testing.

On March 30th,2012, at Beijing, China, a grand meeting called KDE China User was held. This meeting has provided KDE users, community members and technophiles concerned about KDE’s development with a nice “face-to-face” opportunity, to discuss about KDE’s latest and cutting edge technology trends.

As of next month, Canonical’s Ubuntu One file-syncing service will be 3 years old. Since its introduction it has evolved considerably and taken some unexpected turns. At this juncture, then, it seems appropriate to ask: What is Ubuntu One, exactly? What makes it different and where is it headed in the future? Read on for some thoughts.

Easystroke is a Mouse gesture-recognition application and mouse gesture manager for Ubuntu and Other Linux distribution. it allows user to control ubuntu application with hand drawn mouse gestures or Draw on the Screen. Easystroke work on Tablet PCs, it can be used equally well with a mouse, pen, or even your fingers if you have a touch-sensitive screen.

Patches were published today that introduce pinging support for Wayland clients, in an attempt to determine if a client is dead or alive. Should a client not respond to the ping request, the Wayland client's surface is faded-out...

Open source software company Inverse released the version 3.3 of PacketFence - a fully-featured network access control (NAC) solution running on Linux.

While the NVIDIA 295.40 Linux graphics driver closes a high-risk security vulnerability, there's many reports coming in that the proprietary driver's performance has effectively fallen off a cliff and also caused stability issues...

A review of Aura, the new desktop concept for Chrome OS. Chrome is an intriguing but very limited OS that needs to figure out who its audience is — especially given the price of Chromebooks.

It is selling faster than they can make it, with global demand proving insatiable, but can the Raspberry Pi live up to the hype? Gareth Halfacree reveals all…

How do you get an IPV6 tunnel working over OpenVPN? This post shows you how.

Fantasy and Open Source Author Thomas A. Knight runs us through his recent experience with Linux Mint 12 and the new window manager, Unity.

Netflix is planning to open source their Simian Army, a series of cloud tools developed by the company that help maintain their busy infrastructure...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 15 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a new sponsor for Kubuntu, Aura window manager for Chome, a new version of Syllable OS and more...

Network-attached storage might not be the most glamorous of topics to cover on these pages, but there is no doubt that a highly specialized operating for sharing files on a local network can be a perfect solution in many scenarios. Today we launch what should become a series of articles on these useful operating systems, starting with a first-look review of FreeBSD-based FreeNAS. In the news section, Stefano Zacchiroli becomes the first Debian Project Leader to assume office for the third consecutive year, Kubuntu finds a new sponsor in a mysterious Germany company called Blue Systems, and Mandriva seeks feedback from users hinting at a new community-oriented beginning. Also in this issue, an overview of DoudouLinux, a Debian-based distribution with a simplified user interface designed for very young children, and a tips and tricks section dealing with timeless classics - cron and crontab. Happy reading!

One of the big patent cases in tech will finally come to trial this week, as Oracle takes on Google in court over its use of Java software in its Android operating system. Oracle laid hands on the Java platform when it bought Sun Microsystems in January 2010 and it had filed suit against Google under the new Sun moniker of "Oracle America" by August that year.

You were once a newbie, standing wide-eyed at the base of a long, steep learning curve and wondering whether it would really be worth the enormous effort it would take to climb it. On the way, it wasn't always clear you'd ever get to where you wanted, but you kept at it and succeeded. Good for you! Now it's time to give others a hand up.