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The GNOME Project announced a few minutes ago, March 23rd, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Release Candidate version of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings more fixes to the existing bugs.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 12 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes the release of the 3.3 linux kernel, IM in thunderbird?, Cyanogenmod disables root access and more!

Aaron recently told in an interview that they received 3000 pre-ordered before they closed it. Another exciting news is that they will be releasing a 10-inch version of the Vivaldi tablet. They have already chosen the hardware for the release. Can you guess which tablet will be branded as Vivaldi 10?

Brendan Jones, a member of the Fedora Audio SIG and the Fedora Audio mentor for the Google Summer of Code, recently proposed the revival of Fedora Audio Spin / Music Creation efforts. Since Fedora is now accepted in GSoC we approached Brendan to understand the goal of the project. Here is an exclusive interview with Brendan Jones.

Freedom is more than just a word Open ... and Shut For developers looking to avoid the Dementor's Kiss of Apple's all-consuming iOS ecosystem, Google has long played the knight in shining open-source armour. Indeed, latest data from IDC and Appcelerator suggest developers are still betting big on Google, expecting its broad range of social products to mint them money. But given Google's track record in social, is this faith misplaced?…

Microsoft lacks the gravity to attract a port Rovio has shunned Windows Phone for the latest outing of the super-soaraway Angry Birds franchise, saying that it can't support every platform and has no plans to support that one.…

The Register talked with Italo Vignoli, The Document Foundation's spokesman, about the upcoming cloud version of the popular LibreOffice open source office suite.

Drupal is a hugely popular content management system, but for all of its flexibility and power it’s missing a key component: an easy way to manage image galleries. If you need to create and manage image galleries in Drupal, here’s an easy approach that won’t cost too much of your sanity.

Opera web browser is almost available for every device we have these days such as desktop, tablet, mobile devices and it’s available for the major platforms. Now, Opera software ASA will provide a new web browsing experience called “Opera TV Browser”, which will allow you to have a full browsing experience through Linux and Android based TVs.

What does the Linux Btrfs file-system and Valve's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive game have in common?..

For those owners of Intel's latest-generation Core i3/i5/i7 "Sandy Bridge" processors, here's a quick look at the impact of some GCC tuning options specific to these latest AVX-enabled Intel processors...

This week we look at the viral growth of CodeYear, what mature companies can learn about the cloud from startups and the growing popularity of HTML5.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the OpenBox Special Edition of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota and upload/download bandwidth limits with this setup. Passwords will be stored encrypted as MD5 strings in the database. This tutorial is based on CentOS 6.2.

Bodhi Linux 1.4.0 has been released, in this quarter update, Enlightenment has been built from a fresh SVN pull from March 20th and the default Midori browser has been updated to the latest version, a more current build of Linux Kernel ( 3.2.0-19 ), software in repositories were updated to the latest version (Firefox11, chromium 17, LibreOffice3.5…) ,

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Last year, Linux celebrated its 20th anniversary. The kernel that Linus Torvalds started as a hobby project helped the Internet bloom, challenged proprietary operating system dominance, and powers hundreds of millions of devices. From hacker toys like the dirt-cheap Raspberry Pi to most of the Top 500 Supercomputers, Linux dominates the computing industry. But it wouldn't have been possible without GCC, which turns 25 today. Before Torvalds started hacking away on Linux, Richard Stallman and started the GNU (GNU's Not UNIX) project and part of that was the GNU C Compiler (GCC). Eventually that became the GNU Compiler Collection (also GCC) but we're getting a little ahead of the story.

A few hours ago, March 22nd, Nvidia released version 295.33 of its graphics driver for Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD operating systems.

Following recent advancements in the open-source Radeon Linux driver like 2D color tiling support, I've carried out some new benchmarks of the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver compared to AMD's official Catalyst driver. This time around, the open-source driver is seeing tests against AMD's binary blob when various performance-optimizing tweaks are enabled to see where the performance stands today.

The open source web site of the European Commission is reporting that Iceland's government has started a project to prepare for the migration of all its workstations to open source software. This project is scheduled to be completed within a year and according to its leader, Tryggvi Björgvinsson, the city of Reykjavik, the National Hospital and all of the country's ministries are setting good examples for such migrations.