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The report of KDE e.V. for the fourth quarter of 2011 has been published. It gives an overview of the activities KDE e.V. supported in the last 3 months of last year. The report has a message from the President of the Board reflecting on the first 15 years of KDE and looking forward to more opportunities. There are stories about exciting product announcements and the various sprints that produced exceptional results. Read the full report (PDF). read more

Sony has reportedly submitted a filing for its first Chromebook to FCC. FCC E-filing is showing a Sony device which fits the bill of a Chromebook. Any doubt over it being a Chromebook is removed on the 'manual' page which specifically points at ChromOS.

Learn how to employ some of Apache’s most useful and effective modules to restrict access to your Apache-powered website.

Developers have got to make a living too- if they’re offering free stuff, they put ads there. That’s ok. But the problem arises when these apps appear everywhere and access personal information to pass on to advertisers.

Introduced by Softpedia last month, the final version of the Comice OS 4 Linux operating system, built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment and customized to look like Mac OS, has arrived today, March 23rd.

The Kickstarter fund drive for Wasteland 2 has now passed the magic $1.5 million marker which means that a Linux (and Mac) port is officially a go. Brian Fargo actually jumped the gun a and in a tweet commited to the ports about a hundred thousand dollars before the the goal was met.

BackTrack 5, a Linux distribution designed for pentesters and security professionals or those who want to mess with all the best security and penetration testing applications the free software community has to offer.

This latest article provides the steps you need to dual-boot it and Ubuntu 12.04 on a computer with a single hard drive.

This example uses CentOS 6 so one of the issues you will need to be aware of is SELinux. The great aspect of a slave server is that you can update your primary DNS server and it automatically update the slave.

Ok, grappling with this xmodmap issue has caused me to revisit the issue of inputting non-latin characters under Linux, something I dealt with a few years ago. Finally, with helpful hints gotten in on-line forums and reading various README files, I had some success. I observe now that I displayed a bit of prescience back then as well.

LibreOffice will be in the cloud next month as an alternative to Google Docs according to The Document Foundation, and LibreOffice Android and iOS ports are on their way...

As Phoronix Forums readers have been quick to discover, early "beta" builds of AMD's Catalyst 12.3 proprietary Linux driver have begun to appear publicly...

'What? No, nobody called from Redmond or Nokia' Rovio has apparently changed its mind, with the company's CEO telling Reuters that a Windows Phone 7 port of Angry Birds in Space is in the offing, though he's not saying when.…

The PCI pull request went in yesterday for the Linux 3.4 kernel. Overall it's a fairly uninteresting pull for the 3.4 cycle, but there's two basic exceptions...

Development Update

We are only five weeks away from the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Next week we expect the Beta 2 release to go out and afterwards only important fixes will go in. 26th April will be the day when we all can celebrate our hard work and enjoy this fine piece of work which will be supported for five years on the desktop and on the server.

For those wanting to setup a Xen VGA pass-through configuration whereby your host graphics card can be controlled by a guest operating system, like Windows within Linux, here's a guide how to setup this interesting feature...

Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it because it's not for scientists; rather it's maintained by science organizations. Let's kick the tires on the latest release and see what makes it special.

The GNOME Project announced a few minutes ago, March 23rd, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Release Candidate version of the upcoming GNOME 3.4 desktop environment, which brings more fixes to the existing bugs.

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 12 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes the release of the 3.3 linux kernel, IM in thunderbird?, Cyanogenmod disables root access and more!

Aaron recently told in an interview that they received 3000 pre-ordered before they closed it. Another exciting news is that they will be releasing a 10-inch version of the Vivaldi tablet. They have already chosen the hardware for the release. Can you guess which tablet will be branded as Vivaldi 10?

Brendan Jones, a member of the Fedora Audio SIG and the Fedora Audio mentor for the Google Summer of Code, recently proposed the revival of Fedora Audio Spin / Music Creation efforts. Since Fedora is now accepted in GSoC we approached Brendan to understand the goal of the project. Here is an exclusive interview with Brendan Jones.