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This we look at Linus Torvalds' openSUSE security tirade, the cloud as the great business equalizer and Siri in your Mercedes.

It's that time of the Linux kernel development cycle again... Here are benchmarks of the EXT4 and Btrfs file-systems with the soon-to-be-released Linux 3.3 kernel.

While GCC 4.8 will likely not see the light of day in 2012, GCC 4.7 was branched today with an imminent release candidate and now it's "trunk" code-base is open for GCC 4.8 development efforts...

Arriving just days after the first alpha release of the Beefy Miracle, the beta was published today for the upcoming "Precise Pangolin" operating system, a.k.a. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...

The Xfce edition is definitely the most promising, but the lack of a GUI package manager and installer somewhat hamper it. At least in the live session, the KDE edition was faulty, while the GNOME edition didn't let me use Cinnamon.

Offensive Security, the developers of the ever popular BackTrack Linux, have just announced a few hours ago, March 1st, the immediate availability for download for the BackTrack 5 R2 release.

PHP 5.4.0 was officially released today as a major advancement over the PHP 5.3 code-base...

The first beta version of what will become Ubuntu 12.04, Precise Pangolin, has just been released. The final, stable version will be released by the end of April. This beta release, as with all pre-stable distribution releases, is an invitation for bug hunters to get busy.

From an end-user perspective, there are not that many significant new features in Precise Pangolin. The desktop is still Unity, which means a significant number of users will likely be replacing it with Cinnamon when the final version is released.

Development on the single player campaign is well underway, complete with a little story, a mission map, and a single mission. In addition, we've opened crowd-funding back up, for the people that missed it the first time.

The Kubuntu Council announced a few hours ago, March 1st, that the upcoming Kubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system will be supported for 5 years.

Canonical published earlier today, March 1st, the first Beta release of the upcoming Lubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) operating system.

UniDockyNapse 11.10 is now available. UniDockyNapse is an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution featuring the Unity desktop interface with Docky (a GNOME Do front-end) and Synapse (a semantic application launcher).

Beyond Outlook by providing groupware, chat and web meetings from just one interface

Softpedia is once again the first to announce today, March 1st, that the first Beta release of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system is now available for download. As usual, we've grabbed a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS development.

There's new Fedora-hosted work going on: Project Lumberjack. This initiative is about improving system logging on Linux...

Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin beta 1 has been released today and it includes a huge number of changes since alpha 2, so let's take a look at what's new.

Wakfu a free or subscription based (for premium content) RPG game by Square Enix and ANKAMA has now launched and is available on Windows, Mac and Linux

Sebastian Krahmer (@steaIth, c-skills) made and released a nice SSH/HTTP(S) multiplexer: sshttp. Such a program is needed when you want to share your HTTP (or HTTPS) port with SSH to be able to use SSH when behind a network that only allows outbound connections to HTTP (or HTTPS) and does not bother to do protocol inspection.

He further suggests to the developers who are security conscious, "So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace "my kids" with "sales people on the road" if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place." Linus is now looking for a new Linux distribution. " I need to find a new distro that actually works on the Macbook Air."

And while the Raspberry Pi does target students, which is the most admirable of goals, it also puts a lot of computing power into the hands of anyone looking to create something interesting. $25 for a computing device is just incredible.