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While OpenGL ES 3.0 has been speculated about for months, the specification will be formally released by the Khronos Group this summer...

The much anticipated Dream Studio for 64-bit systems is out today.

If you have an android device that is not recognised when trying to access it via USB, this tutorial should help you.

GNOME 3 is a perfect example, but it is not the only one. I could cite many examples from the K Desktop Environment too. Even Cinnamon, a desktop environment that was created out of dissatisfaction with the stock GNOME 3 interface, has it share of one-too-many-mouse-clickers.

This shouldn't come as a terrible surprise, but the Facebook Phone looks like it will be running atop Linux...

In my past several articles, I've looked at various packages to do all kinds of science. Sometimes, however, there just isn't a tool to solve a particular problem. That's the great thing about science. There is always something new to discover and study. But, this means it's up to you to develop the software tools you need to do your analysis. more>>

The 2012 Libre Software Meeting will be in Geneva, Switzerland July 7 through July 12 of 2012. Dr. Bowen, the executive director of OEMR, will be speaking about using OpenEMR to improve accessibility to health care worldwide. The presentation will be at 10:40 AM on Wednesday, July 11th, 2012. This will be a 20 minute presentation on the internationalization of OpenEMR and how it has been put to use by International Planned Parenthood Federation in a growing number of countries.

Canonical announced on May 25th, in a security notice, that a new kernel upgrade for its Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system is available.

Welcome to the 201st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Mageia is based on the Mandriva distribution and comes with a lot of software installed by default. This is the answer to those who enjoy Mandriva and will feel right at home

There is Linux Mint 13 MATE, which features MATE, a desktop environment forked from GNOME 2, and Linux Mint 13 Cinnamon, which features Cinnamon, a desktop environment built atop GNOME 3. So, Linux Mint joins a growing list of Linux distributions that do not ship an edition running the GNOME 3 desktop in its default state.

The author was asked how to enable Active Directory users to be able to log into xrdp. He found out.

I believe that the current market trends make Canonical’s Ubuntu for Android project the most important development in the recent history of Linux.

owncloud 4 has been release by ownCloud developers team, is a free and open source software alternative to some proprietary web services that you can install on your own computer or server, which includes file management with built-in file sharing ike Dropbox, music streaming, calendar, contacts and more

Linux Mint 13 LTS with code name “Maya” released and announced by Clement Lefebvre (the creator and Lead developer of Linux Mint). it based on the recent release of ubuntu 12.04 LTS precise pangolin and available in Mate 1.2 Desktop environment and Cinnamon 1.4 Desktop environment

With the OpenMoko project being largely irrelevant these days and not vigorously pushing new software or hardware, the OpenMoko company has resorted to giving out USB IDs and MAC addresses...

Hi Folks. Well the big news with this version is that SelekTOR For Windows like the Linux version is now free (as in cost), and that both versions can be used in conjunction with Torbutton add-on for Firefox. For those that don’t know what SelekTOR does see here for more information. I will be updating the instructions on the website to include how to install and configure TorButton to work with SelekTOR very soon but for now here is a quick guide.

Milton Friedman the American Economist said “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” and even though Open Source is free to use, alter, and pass on, there’s still a price to pay. To date, I have used two Open Source Content Management Systems (CMSs) to run five on-line communities and paid the price.

Do you write HTML, PHP, Java or some other code ? You probably don’t want to spend hundreds of dollars for software that you would use maybe only as a hobby? Today, I present an amazing solution, a multi-platform software that can wins ten to zero with the most popular programming editor on the market! Today I talk about Bluefish!

Nowadays, we mostly interact with our computers using a Graphical User Interface. The operating system as a whole uses several elements of the GUI to make the user experience more human-like. Can users get to unleash some of the GUI's power? The answer is yes: welcome to Zenity, a GTK+ application that works in GNU/Linux, BSD and Windows. In this short article I will show you how to create a simple script that interacts with the user using the GUI.

Read the tutorial at Free Software Magazine.