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This week the University of Oxford and the Vatican announced a plan to collaborate in digitizing 1.5 million pages of rare and ancient texts, most dating from the 16th century or earlier. The project is expected to span about 4 years and was made possible by a donation of £2 million (approximately $3.1 million) from the Polonsky Foundation—a charitable organization that supports higher education, medical research, and other general matters in the arts and sciences.

The first batch of Raspberry Pi computers are being issued to users. A group of schoolchildren in Leeds are the first to get their hands on production models of the bare-bones computer. Costing only £16, the tiny computer has been designed to inspire anyone, especially children, to get started with computer programming.

FS Icons by Frank Souza is a beautiful icon set for Ubuntu that will give your desktop a new fresh look. The icon set was updated only recently with more application, devices, action icons etc. and If you want a different icon set than Faenza and Awoken, try it out.

A new bill making its way through Congress could allow the government to snoop on private data.

Over three months passed between the time the Radeon HD 7970 launched and the time that initial Gallium3D support landed (yesterday). So how long is it going to take for a Gallium3D driver for NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" that launched just last month and has to be reverse-engineered by the community Nouveau members? Well, as of this afternoon, the Kepler Gallium3D driver is already available...

This is a tutorial on how to set up SVN with Apache, create users accounts and also disable anonymous viewing of the project from a web browser.

Welcome to the DuckDuckGo Quack and Hack 2012. This event is made as introduction for the world of contributing to DuckDuckGo, with the main target to be set on the teaching of Perl basics, especially modern and high efficient Perl. The event is 2 days longs, from 30. June 2012 to 1. July 2012

A post has emerged from the Mandriva camp today and it even gives a dab of information on the future of Mandriva. They have put out a call to interested parties to speak out and let their thoughts be known. Jean-Manuel Croset, Mandriva COO, said today that they'd like to get "the opinion and ideas of the community, as well as to feel how strong you are." He says that the desktop distribution has been their foundational product and that its community is a necessary element of that.

There is another new open-source Linux graphics driver entering development and it has already showed signs of success with basic 2D acceleration working. This new open-source driver is for Qualcomm's Snapdragon / Adreno and who is leading the development of this driver is also quite interesting.

The Great Jitters: Pudding Panic is a unique action puzzle game developed by the Berlin-based indie game developers team called Kunst-Stoff GmbH. This game has already received many praising critics and awards for a variety of things and platforms. Time to get our hands on the linux version, and see why this game has caused so much positive hum around it.

In the Indie game “The Great Jitters Pudding Panic“, done by the German developers kunst-stoff, you are a Green pudding and your goal is to exit from an haunted house without fainting from fear, while at the same time trying to scare the monsters in the maze. It’s an uncommon subject for sure for an action puzzle game, but the game will take you from the start with his great graphics and smart puzzle, let’s see some details on this funny game.

A collection of four KDE iso images are immediately available to our users, including 32-bit and 64-bit installation images as well as 32-bit and 64-bit live images that can be burned to a DVD or used with a USB drive.

Slackel current KDE 4.8.2 includes a new wallpaper for kde desktop.

Transcoding is the process of the conversion of digital data (typically video and audio files) from one format to another. It involves extracting tracks from a digital media file, decoding the tracks, filtering, encoding, and then multiplexing the new tracks into a new container. Transcoding will reduce the quality of the tracks unless lossless formats are used.

While there hasn't been much movement in the project recently, the OpenIndiana operating system is still under development as the de facto successor to OpenSolaris. The OpenIndiana team is currently readying their next update...

Even if you're not a NVIDIA graphics customer and not interested in the state of the Nouveau driver and its big advancements today, there still is some Mesa Gallium3D news of importance to share. AMD has merged their Radeon HD 7000 "Southern Islands" Gallium3D driver to mainline...

When it comes to ioquake3, the open-source id Tech 3 game engine, it's almost always being used for powering a first-person shooter. However, released on Friday was a major update to an open-source multi-platform game running on ioquake3 but is not yet-another-FPS title. However, it's also arguably the oddest game to be powered by this engine that was originally designed for Quake III...

The Wine development release 1.5.2 is now available.

Hello! This will be a little (but epic!) foray into the hardware realm here at Ainer.org. If it is well received I may update this on a semi-regularly basis in the future (yearly, half-yearly, quarterly). For now, this post will provide some suggestions on what hardware components, what peripherals, what display and audio components, what supplementary networking gear, and even what cables I currently suggest for a single system that can provide solid Home Theater Personal Computer (HTPC) functionality, excellent 1080p resolution gaming (Gaming PC), adequate room and connections for several storage drives (Home Server), as well as general purpose personal computer (PC) usage (Web browsing, document editing, et cetera).

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: In KDevelop, C++11 gets noexcept keyword support; external scripts can be run from Project context menu; performance improved in compiler error-detection regexps Amarok gets a diagnostics dialog for easy bug reporting Konversation supports SSL Client Certificate authentication using PEM files read more

Can Oracle ever leapfrog Red Hat and VMware in the Linux and virtualization markets? Hmmm… before The VAR Guy takes a stab at answering those questions, he needs to track down Wim Coekaerts, senior VP of Oracle’s Linux and virtualization initiatives. Here's why.