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Welcome to the 198th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

MagPI is a new dedicated magazine for Raspberry PI will be released monthly for free. This magazine aimed to provide a variety of tutorials, articles, how to setup your Raspberry PI and much more. It has been written by many volunteers with many levels in mind. Check more information about the first issue of MagPI down below.

KDE is a free and open-source advanced desktop environment. It provides a Plasma workspaces and variety of applications for different cross-platforms. Now the latest KDE plasma and applications version 4.8.3 is available to update for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin and for Ubuntu Precise derivatives as well.

In a recent gaming interview, Blizzard's director of the forthcoming Diablo III game was asked about a Linux client...

As a word of caution for anyone that was hoping Thunderbolt (a.k.a. Light Peak) was in good shape for Linux, the Intel technology doesn't appear to be quite ready yet...

LibVNCServer, an important VNC library used by many free software projects and might even be used in Wayland, had a major release on Friday...

The jury in Oracle v. Google is reentering the courtroom, according to the tweeting journalists at the courtroom, asking what to do.

Xubuntu is the only lightweight based Ubuntu version that is getting long term support from Canonical. It features the XFCE 4.8 desktop and also comes with the Ubuntu Software Centre

It's time again - a new version of <a href=www.Ubuntu.com>Ubuntu</a> with the support for the next 5 years has been released. What offers the new version to the Linux gamers?

OpenMW is a free and open source engine for The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. It aims to be a fully playable and improved implementation of the game's engine and functionality. OpenMW is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, and all source code has been written completely from scratch. It also builds on various other open source tools, most notably OGRE for graphics, and Bullet for collision (and possibly physics).

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 18 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes XFCE, the Vivaldi (spark) tablet, GIMP, fedora, ReactOS and more!

The first ever Blue Drop Awards for excellence in Drupal development were announced yesterday. Organized and led by Ben Finklea of Volacci, the awards were both a community effort to celebrate the great work of Drupal Developers, and also a vehicle for Drupal and open source evangelism. more>>

Gimp users, rejoice! After 3.5 years of development, Gimp 2.8 has finally arrived. This version of Gimp brings a plethora of changes and improvement, making Gimp a even better image editing software than its previous version.

This time we will take a look at the power manager for the Xfce 4 desktop. This tool can be used to reduce the power output of your system, and control a few useful options.

Canonical announced earlier today, May 4th, that the Mozilla Thunderbird 12 email client landed in their supported Ubuntu distributions.

The copyright phase of the Oracle v. Google trial is winding down. While the world waits for a jury verdict on the facts, the judge overseeing the case is wrestling with the complexities of the law. Oracle has argued that the "structure, sequence and organization" of the Java API is eligible for copyright protection, while Google disagrees.

All of a sudden the free TuxPaint drawing program has become very popular at the public library where I work. I can't explain why this happened, but it sure is wonderful to see such a strong interest in creating computer graphics.

I discovered Turnkey Linux after it was recommended to me by a colleage from University. After looking at the website, I was immediately impressed, this seemed like a perfect way for someone to easily and quickly set up a Linux server without having to learn all of the commands needed to set it up using the command line.

It's Friday and that means another round of 5 Links for Developers and IT Pros. This week includes two stories from RIM's user conference by Wayne Rash and Pam Baker. Plus should CIOs know how to code? Well, should they?

It’s been awhile since I last provided an update on my adventures in book self-publishing, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t been busy. Quite the contrary – I’ve been as busy as ever. That said, the questions for me are the same as for you: where exactly have I been, and where should I go next?