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Fedora is always loaded with new technologies, and the new Fedora 17 release has the most ever. Get a head start on what's going to appear in Red Hat Enterprise Linux by grabbing a copy of the new Beefy Miracle.

Should you be looking towards purchasing a new high-end graphics card from AMD or NVIDIA, here are some updated benchmarks of the AMD Radeon HD 7950 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 when both graphics cards were tested under Ubuntu 12.04 with their proprietary Linux graphics drivers.

After writing last month the open-source graphics card is dead and why the open-source graphics card failed, this weekend I received an email that begins with "Open Graphics! Here we go again! As our master thesis work we have implemented a open source graphics accelerator."..

The Mageia development team announced last evening, June 3rd, that the ISO images of the Mageia 2 operating system have been updated to include a new wallpaper.

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 12.04. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

I'd like to ask the LXer and Linux communities what tablet they think is the best match for someone who uses Linux on the desktop.

There is good news for Debian Sid users. "The final bits of GNOME 3.4 have landed and if all looks as good as it does now, they should migrate to wheezy in about a week," posts Jordi Mallach on his blog.

Canonical will be present, for the first time, at the Computex exhibition in Taipei, Asia’s largest ICT trade show.

Fedora 17, Beefy Miracle, post installation guide. Things to do after installing Fedora 17.

Here's the latest in the steaming excitement concerning Valve's Source Engine and Steam client coming to Linux...

Halo fans probably know this better than anyone, but for those of you who are in the dark, this is for you. The Marathon Trilogy was a suite of first-person shooters developed for the classic Macintosh in the mid-90s by Bungie Software.

The other desktop environments and window managers supported by Mageia 2 are E17, LXDE, WindowMaker and IceWM. Aside from the Live CD installation images for KDE and GNOME 3, users are offered dual-architecture CD installation images, DVD, and network-based CD ISO installation images for 32- and 64-bit architectures.

Come check out what's new with the Pwnplug at The Powerbase. If you don't already have one of these guys, you're missing out.

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.