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Back in 2009 there was the announcement that there was going to be a new project out of the NetBSD camp aiming for am x86 NetBSD desktop system that would be fairly easy to use. It's been over three years and there hasn't been much work on the NetBSD desktop front, but now there comes word of a new NetBSD "light desktop" effort inspired by the LXDE Ubuntu derivative...

Humble Indie Bundle 5 was launched recently with five popular and award winning indie games. All these games are supported natively on Linux except one, LIMBO. LIMBO doesn't run natively on Linux and instead uses a Wine/CodeWeavers wrapper. It has been a hot topic for debate in last couple of days and Humble Bundle organizers have commented on this.

Linus Torvalds announced last evening, June 3rd, the first Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.5 kernel.

On Thursday a new <a href=https://www.humblebundle.com/ >Humble Indie Bundle presenting 5 new great games for Linux</a> was released. Now, not even 2 days after the start of the sales, a new record of over 2.4 million dollars was set up.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 22 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes Tiny Core, Wine, MagicProg, SnowLinux, the Dutch Parliament and ACTA, Bodhi, Fedora, Mint and more

We are now approaching the 4 day mark since I announced my plans to Open Source (GPL) my software (Linux Tycoon, Illumination Software Creator and the rest). This is the current tally.

Red Hat employee and member of the GNOME foundation Cosimo Cecchi, explained yesterday through his blog, the various improvements that the GTK 3.4 release brought for the GNOME users, and the work that is being done on the next 3.6 release.

Facebook has released Folly, a collection of what it describes as “reusable C++ library artifacts developed and used at Facebook.” The trove awaits on GitHub and comprises around 50 items.

This article shows you how to install the Adobe Digital Editions which is used to DRM protect e-books (e.g. needed for renting e-books in a public library) on Ubuntu 12.04 and the trick that is required to make the e-book readers visible to the software so you can read the books also on your reader.

The Raspberry Pi received an extraordinary amount of pre-launch coverage. It truly went viral with major news corporations such as the BBC giving extensive coverage. Not without reason, it is groundbreaking to have a small capable computer retailing at less than the price of a new console game. There have been a number of ventures that have tried to produce a cheap computer such as a laptop and a tablet but which never materialised at these price points. Nothing comes close to the Raspberry Pi in terms of affordability, which is even more important in the current economic climate. Producing a PC capable of running Linux, Quake III-quality games, and 1080p video is worthy of praise.

Microsoft has shortly released the consumer preview of its flag ship operating system, Windows 8, that is evidently re-skinned to better suit touch-screen devices. Unfortunately, in attempting to revamp the OS, Microsoft has done some serious damages to it’s self and more importantly to the end-users. The post compares the version of Linux Mint 13.

Facebook this week released Folly, an open-source C++ library...

This document describes how to install and set up ownCloud on CentOS 6.2 on an nginx web server and php-fpm with postgreSQL database as backend. For other distributions there might be minor changes as to the software prerequisites installation procedures. This guide will not only help install the product, but also understand why certain points are done the way they are done.

This guide describes how to add VLC to the Ubuntu Sound Menu and integrate it with Unity.

Dropbox is the best free cloud service and extremely easy-to-use tool for sharing files and syncing them between computers, and you can also use Dropbox to back up files and access them from other computers and devices (including from your Android Smartphone, android tablets and iPad or iPhone, with dedicated Client apps for each of those devices). How to make dropbox features and services available on ubuntu server?

Welcome to the 202nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: On startup, KPhotoAlbum can search for videos without thumbnails Dolphin allows remembering view properties for the search mode Screen edge bindings for scripts and scripted effects implemented in KDE Workspace New assert methods and Get Hot New Stuff support are available for KWin scripts read more

Supreet Pal Singh has provided an in-depth overview of his X.Org EVoC project for providing a Fermi scripting engine for the Nouveau driver that will allow for safe and dynamic GPU core / video memory re-clocking on modern NVIDIA GPUs...

Mozilla uploaded earlier today, June 2nd, the final packages containing the Mozilla Firefox 13.0 web browser for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.