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Ryan "Icculus" Gordon will be talking about using open-source tools for game development next weekend at the 2012 Flourish conference...

Unity 5.8 has landed into Ubuntu 12.04 with new features and fixes. It seems lots of work has gone under the hood as I have never seen Unity interface so fast. Its just flying and for a moment I really thought that its Unity 2D as after Unity 5.8 update, the dash menu got lots of UI tweaks and it now looks very much like Unity 2D's dash. There is also improved multi-monitor support as an option to display either a single launcher or a launcher on each display has been added.

Being a Linux user for many users I am using command line a lot. A very useful functionality of Linux command line is autocompleting commands by reverse searching history. What I mean by that? Let's say that while I am typing some commands I want to reuse a cat command I had typed 10 commands ago. Instead of pressing the up arrow 10 times to find this comand I will just type cat and pressing up arrow will bring back only those commands I have already typed starting with cat. Here's how to enable it.

This feature focuses in selecting the finest Linux applications that are targeted at guitarists. All of the software featured here is released under freely distributable licenses, to download at no charge, and are easy to install and intuitive to use.

The report of KDE e.V. for the fourth quarter of 2011 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported in the last 3 months of last year. The report has a message from the President of the Board reflecting on the first 15 years of KDE and looking forward to more opportunities. There are stories about exciting product announcements and the various sprints that produced exceptional results. Read the full report (PDF). read more

Sony has reportedly submitted a filing for its first Chromebook to FCC. FCC E-filing is showing a Sony device which fits the bill of a Chromebook. Any doubt over it being a Chromebook is removed on the 'manual' page which specifically points at ChromOS.

Learn how to employ some of Apache’s most useful and effective modules to restrict access to your Apache-powered website.

Developers have got to make a living too- if they’re offering free stuff, they put ads there. That’s ok. But the problem arises when these apps appear everywhere and access personal information to pass on to advertisers.

Introduced by Softpedia last month, the final version of the Comice OS 4 Linux operating system, built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment and customized to look like Mac OS, has arrived today, March 23rd.

The Kickstarter fund drive for Wasteland 2 has now passed the magic $1.5 million marker which means that a Linux (and Mac) port is officially a go. Brian Fargo actually jumped the gun a and in a tweet commited to the ports about a hundred thousand dollars before the the goal was met.

BackTrack 5, a Linux distribution designed for pentesters and security professionals or those who want to mess with all the best security and penetration testing applications the free software community has to offer.

This latest article provides the steps you need to dual-boot it and Ubuntu 12.04 on a computer with a single hard drive.

This example uses CentOS 6 so one of the issues you will need to be aware of is SELinux. The great aspect of a slave server is that you can update your primary DNS server and it automatically update the slave.

Ok, grappling with this xmodmap issue has caused me to revisit the issue of inputting non-latin characters under Linux, something I dealt with a few years ago. Finally, with helpful hints gotten in on-line forums and reading various README files, I had some success. I observe now that I displayed a bit of prescience back then as well.

LibreOffice will be in the cloud next month as an alternative to Google Docs according to The Document Foundation, and LibreOffice Android and iOS ports are on their way...

As Phoronix Forums readers have been quick to discover, early "beta" builds of AMD's Catalyst 12.3 proprietary Linux driver have begun to appear publicly...

'What? No, nobody called from Redmond or Nokia' Rovio has apparently changed its mind, with the company's CEO telling Reuters that a Windows Phone 7 port of Angry Birds in Space is in the offing, though he's not saying when.…

The PCI pull request went in yesterday for the Linux 3.4 kernel. Overall it's a fairly uninteresting pull for the 3.4 cycle, but there's two basic exceptions...

Development Update

We are only five weeks away from the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Next week we expect the Beta 2 release to go out and afterwards only important fixes will go in. 26th April will be the day when we all can celebrate our hard work and enjoy this fine piece of work which will be supported for five years on the desktop and on the server.

For those wanting to setup a Xen VGA pass-through configuration whereby your host graphics card can be controlled by a guest operating system, like Windows within Linux, here's a guide how to setup this interesting feature...

Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it because it's not for scientists; rather it's maintained by science organizations. Let's kick the tires on the latest release and see what makes it special.