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It has been another busy week on the Linux Planet with a major distribution release and the beginning of a new kernel release cycle.

Last day I cloned shell repository for trying the very newest of it. Then I thought to check when was the initial commit, and then I was wondering how many commits have been made in total. And then I said to myself -why not put these data on charts, just for fun :)

Tablets are taking over the portable-computing market, but that doesn’t mean the netbooks that they’ve replaced are useless. It’s possible to jam the processing power and battery life of most netbook models into a smaller, touchscreen-equipped package.

When Fedora 17 released GNOME 3.4, I found I could deal with it. I still didn’t like it much, and I prefer both Ubuntu 12.04’s Unity and Linux Mint 13’s Cinnamon interfaces, but if I had to, I could live with the GNOME 3.4 desktop. But for Linus Torvalds, Linux’s primary creator, GNOME 3.4 is ”a total UX (user experience design) failure.”

cPanel Inc. has released a notice stating to upgrade cpanel via a "cPanel News: Targeted Security Release 2012-05-31 Announcement". These notices are extremely rare and should be taken very seriously. They did not give very many details other than to upgrade ASAP and they would release more specifics shortly, after everyone has a chance to upgrade.

Hey guys, get some coffee or something to drink, I think this is going to be a long one.

First up, you guys asked for it, and now the game finally supports mouse controls to fly the ship. Here, watch this video.

To change the properties of the panel, which by default is on the bottom edge of the desktop, you need to access the Panel Tool Box widget located on the extreme right edge of the panel. Depending on the distribution you are using, the panel could be locked or unlocked.

The KDE team has announced the release of KDE 4.9 Beta1. This release brings renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality.

Lars Torben Kremer proudly announced last evening, June 4th, the immediate availability for download of the Cinnamon edition of the Snowlinux 2 operating system.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last evening, June 4th, the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series.

KDE e.V. has responded to the United Kingdom Open Standards Consultation on behalf of KDE, one of the largest and most influential Free Software communities world-wide with thousands of volunteer contributors and countless users. Open Standards align with the goals of the KDE Community, especially with regards to digital freedom and contributions to the common good, while patent mania and malicious licensing terms threaten KDE and other Free Software projects. read more

The recent verdict against Oracle in its patent case against Google over Java use in Android is good news for the Linux community – and in more ways than one, according to Keith Bergelt, CEO of the Open Invention Network (OIN). The OIN was set up in 2005 to build a defensive patent-portfolio pot that could be shared royalty-free by participants, and which could be used to ward off patent trolls and aggressive litigation against Linux. Companies such as Red Hat, Google, and IBM have put money into the venture as a way of safeguarding themselves and promoting open source code.

The KDE Project announced last evening, June 5th, the first Beta release for the upcoming KDE Software Compilation 4.9 environment.

Installing updates while the session is running can cause many unpleasant situations for the users and their system. The risks are many, including the updating of libraries while they are running, updating while some file resources have not been locked, and sometimes in core OS updates we may even see a complete system corruption.

One week ago today, I said that I wanted to Open Source (under the GPL) all of my software. And, that if I hit $4,000 in contributions by midnight on Monday, the 4th (today), it would happen. As of the last tally (earlier today), we had broken $3,000. At the current rate, we’ll likely hit around $3,500 by midnight. So I’m extending the goal line out by a few days. Let’s, say, Friday. At sundown. In Seattle, WA [aka 9:05 PM Pacific Time]. Another, even more, arbitrary deadline. But that gives plenty of time to meet the goal.

Recently I have been emulating Yosemite Sam, but with less creative verbiage. “Why?”, you may ask. Well, it is due to the “new and improved” Evolution 3.4.1 in my shiny Mageia 2 upgrade on my daily use tower PC.

The first beta release of KDE SC 4.9 is now available...

A new AIIM survey found that companies clearly recognize the value of big data analytics, but struggle when it comes to choosing tools -- whether open source or not -- to get at the answers they need. It's an area IT pros can clearly exploit to help their companies in this increasingly important area.

An announcement was made on May 16th, 2012, regarding an agreement between the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs and 3M to create a public use version of the HDD, called HDD Access, which will be available for download from the HDD Access website later this year.

When asked whether the release would be later this year or next year, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth said "possibly," though he could not provide a specific date.