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Darktable is an free open source software development by Johannes Hanika and Henrik Andersso.this software designed for users interested in maneuvering photographies including RAW, meaning unprocessed camera captures with zero modifications in a database with numerous options to edit and enhance.

The 3.3 version of the Linux kernel includes a small amount of Android code. The addition of the Android drivers "makes it easier for Android platform vendors to take the kernel.org release and create a system without having to hunt around for external patches stored on various other servers," The Linux Foundation's Greg Kroah-Hartman said.

Ubuntu and Mint don't want it; Linus called it an “unholy mess.” While most other distros are passing up or postponing GNOME Shell, Fedora is full steam ahead. Does Red Hat know something the rest of us don't? Or is GNOME 3 really as bad as everyone says?

For those among you who dwell on the internet, like your’s truly, the Humble Bundle team is possibly “no stranger in your lands”. For the rest of our readers: The Humble Bundle, Inc. is a group dedicated to bring you bundles of multi-platform indie games in the pay-what-you-want format, in which the money is split between charity (Child’s Play, EFF, etc.), the game developers and HB itself. Whichever amount you donate is divided between those three in whichever way you choose.

The quarterly survey by Appcelerator and IDC has once again asked mobile app developers about their preferences. For the second time in succession, the number of programmers answering positively to the question of whether they were "very interested" in Android development has fallen. The survey encompassed just under 2,200 developers.

JoldzicOS 3.31 is now available. The Joldzic Network is proud to announce the release of it's largest scale project, JoldzicOS 3. JoldzicOS 3.31 "Patricia" Live has been under development for over a year now, and is finally ready to enter the market in beta form. The Operating System was released as a beta, and is a standard home or work desktop/laptop OS. The OS currently only supports x86 processors as PPC is no longer popular. JoldzicOS was built on the same base system as Linux Mint 10 "Katya" (which is based off of Ubuntu), but features major differences in the user interface. The OS is to have support for it's own application format, as well as support for all Linux/Unix applications, all Ubuntu/Debian packages and applications, and most Windows applications right off the bat.

Today I tested for you a racing game, a great racing game, with wonderful landscapes and awesome cars... Ladies and gentlemen, Test Drive Unlimited!

any users are frustrated with the planned obsolescence and expense of Microsoft products. One of Microsoft's popular products has been Microsoft Exchange, while many users are impressed with the features of Microsoft Exchange; others are looking for open source alternatives.

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Squeeze server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems, and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.

It's been a while since we caught up with Stallman. But a couple months ago we took a look around at what's happening with law, politics and technology and realized that he maybe perhaps his extremism and paranoia were warranted all along. So when we were contacted by an Iranian Linux publication and asked if we would like to publish an English translation of a recent interview they had done with Stallman, I thought that it was a particularly rich opportunity.

The Zorin OS development team proudly announced yesterday, March 19th, the immediate availability for download of the Zorin OS 6 Lite and Zorin OS 6 Educational Lite operating systems.

Since the release of Linpus Lite Desktop 1.4, which I reviewed here, Linpus Lite Desktop has been going down hill, both in terms of features and in the number of applications installed out of the box.

Take the installer, for example. A beautiful, graphical program that in Linpus Lite Desktop 1.4 and Linpus Lite Desktop 1.6 had features somewhat on par with YALI, the installation program of Pardus. In this latest release, that installation program has been reduced to a shell of the previous editions. The interface is still beautiful, but beyond that, it has turned into a joke. A very bad one at that.

A new study conducted by IDC and mobile-developer platform and services company Appcelerator has determined that as Google's open source Android operating system becomes more and more fragmented, fewer and fewer developers are putting it on their "must-code-for" list. "We've seen a steady erosion of interest in Android" among developers, Appcelerator's principal mobile strategist Mike King told The Reg in a prebriefing before the study was released on Tuesday morning.

openSUSE 12.2 Milestone 2 is now available for download and testing.

Two years ago in March of 2010, Mark Shuttleworth stepped down as CEO of Canonical Ubuntu Linux. Shuttleworth moved aside to deal with the strategic technical issues of the project and his Chief Operating Office Jane Silber stepped up to become the CEO.

A great interview with Linux legend Jon "maddog" Hall, where he talks about why easy software doesn't mean better software and where he shares some advice on how to pick a distribution.

I picked up a new toy a couple of weeks ago - a secondary monitor for my multitude of computers. The screen I picked up though a slightly different from your every day monitor. Lenovo recently released a USB monitor called the Lenovo ThinkVision that functions with Linux, OSX and Windows.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from April 2nd - April 4th, 2012.

The following FLOSS for science related books were published during the months of January and February 2012.

Phoronix Test Suite 3.8-Bygland has been officially released with many new features to enhance the Linux benchmarking experience...