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Google has updated its Android Developers site and will be giving developers the ability to respond to reviews in the Play store. Meanwhile, it seems that "Jelly Bean" will be the code name for Android 4.1

Two weeks after the Wine 1.5.6 development release where they began work on a Direct3D shader compiler, Wine 1.5.7 now brings several more features for running your Windows binaries on Linux and other platforms...

Availability announced today

Game developer Wooga has released its Magic Land Island project as open source code. The game was intended to demonstrate the capabilities of HTML5, but it ultimately only met some of the developers' expectations

An idea is being kicked around within the forums about sponsoring open-source driver development for one dollar per day...

NVIDIA has lost an order of at least ten million graphics cards because their GeForce/Quadro driver is closed-source...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 25 of 2012. It features fedora ranting and small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes again ranting on Fedora, Beatbox, Linus Torvalds talk at Aalto, Tiny Core, Wikimedia, Ubu tu and Secure Boot, Lightworks, TAILS and Torchat, oh and did I mention fedora ranting?

How to preview plymouth splash screen without rebooting.

I am going to do a short video review of Mageia 2 with some screenshots. This is my first look at Mageia 2 and as you may know it is rapidly moving up the Linux List at DistroWatch.Com

The most immediately important story has to do with a ruling made by a Washington, DC federal appeals court that will definitely slow down the trolls and might put them out of business altogether. Basically the ruling requires patent holders to sue each alleged offender separately and not bunch them together in a single lawsuit. Daniel Fisher at Forbes explains it this way:

Gnome developers work on a Screen Lock that is useful mostly for touch devices. They also work in a new Login Screen. The main purpose of screen lock is obviously to prevent accidentally actions to happen in the system. While Screen Lock shares lot of similarities with Login Screen -currently GDM- , it seems that these two aren’t compatible and will not be merged.

There's been a remarkable shift in attitudes toward the cloud over the years and a new survey shows a surprisingly positive feeling, but that doesn't mean IT still doesn't have to ask cloud vendors the tough questions.

Audacious 3.3 alpha 1 has been released recently with user interface improvements, a more intelligent search tool, improved MPRIS2 plugin and other important changes.

Version 1.8.0 of the popular open source network protocol analyser supports capturing from multiple interfaces at the same time, and now allows users to add, edit and save packet and capture file annotations

Facebook has joined Netflix in offering edge servers to ISPs to help break content delivery bottlenecks around its growing photo collection. And your company could learn from Facebook's highly efficient approach.

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up vsftpd with TLS on a Debian Squeeze server.

This week, we look at 23 questions about Microsoft Surface, Linux super computer domination and walking the Agile walk instead of just talking the talk.

And updated version of CyanogenMod 7, based on 2.3 Gingerbread, has been released and adds support for more phones as well as Ice Cream Sandwich features

It's here! It's improved! It works even better!

I call this the "ssta release", in honour of a pal of mine who made a request which I've now implemented. ( --justdoit option, see below).

I have sweated and toiled, lost sleep, learned a lot, re-learned a lot, tested, tested again, and ended up with something which should work for just about everyone – everyone that is, who's users are local to the system – anyone using Active Directory to login still won't be handled by the RDPsesconfig utility yet...

This is nothing official by Gnome Foundation. We are collected all the modules that Gnome is working on and we built a brainstorming tentative list of features that we want to see and we might see in about a year from now, in the second semester of 2013 or the first of 2014.