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Cinnamon 1.4 has been released and announced by Cinnamon Development Team. Cinnamon 1.4 bring a few changes, the major change in this release is a new hot corner behavior which can now use either workspace selection (like Compiz “Expo”) or window selection (like Compiz “Scale”).

An application server is computer software which provides the business logic for an application program. It offers services such as management of large distributed systems, data services, load balancing, transaction support, and network security. Many application servers support the Java platform, but they can be found in other environments.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.2 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

When I was a teenager, I was very interested in computers. I looked forward to and really enjoyed my Information Technology classes. But it wasn’t just the computers that I was interested. The more I got involved with them, the more I wanted to know about what goes on to make them work. Or to be precise, the operating system.

In this special edition of The Linux Week In Review, I will discuss the coming growth of GNU/Linux running on tablet computers. GNU/Linux on tablets was indirectly predicted by various devices on Star Trek years ago.

I recently purchased a Toshiba Thrive Android tablet. It is a wonderful device! The only thing that I can fault it for is not having access to the rich repository of GNU/Linux software. In this article, I will detail my dream tablet: a tablet running Linux.

The Linux Mint team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 12 LXDE. Linux Mint 12 LXDE comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. This is the first release of Linux Mint using hybrid ISO images. Traditionally, tools such as 'Startup Disk Creator' or 'UNetbootin' were needed to install Linux Mint via USB. With hybrid images, you can simply use the 'dd' command or a graphical front-end to make a bootable USB which acts exactly like a live DVD.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KDevelop gets sessions data engine and plasmoid, also memory usage optimization and various fixes In Calligra, fixes for mouse events; Kexi switched to a new optimized SQLite database compacting tool; multiple bugfixes Implemented ResourceWatcher signals for added and removed types in Nepomuk read more

After release of Salix OS 13.37 'Xfce' the 'KDE' version of it has been released on 14th Mar, 2012. This version is also built using SaLT [Salix Live Technology] which is more powerful tool. Basically Salix OS is easy to use and very fast Linux which is based on Slackware Linux. It comes in four desktop environment which are Fluxbox, KDE, LXDE and Xfce.

Earlier this month I wrote about how you can sort of begin using OpenCL acceleration out of the Radeon Gallium3D driver, but in the short time since, the code has continued to advance and now here's a guide for trying out this GPGPU computing technology on the open-source Radeon Linux driver...

Here are the first set of Phoronix.com benchmarks of the quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3. Needless to say, four Cortex-A9s combined with NVIDIA graphics leads to a fairly fast ARMv7 experience when running Ubuntu Linux...

Welcome to the 191st issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

VSFTPD using SSL can be a great way to protect your FTP transfers. This article will demonstrate how to set up the server, create the certificate, use FileZilla and modify the Ubuntu firewall.

Linpus Lite Desktop 1.7 is the latest stable release of Linpus Lite Desktop. The previous version, Linpus Lite Desktop 1.6, was reviewed at Linpus Lite Desktop 1.6 review. While I am still working on publishing a review of the latest version, here are a few screen shots for your viewing pleasure.

It looks like another game is likely to come to Linux: Wasteland 2. Wasteland 2 is the sequel to the wildly successful post-apocalyptic role-playing video game from 1988...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 11 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling the big (and small) open source related news in one page. This week includes the 10-year birthday of Arch Linux, NetBSD, Window Maker, Midori, Zentyal and a few others.

The Wine development release 1.5.0 is now available.

Andreas Gal, Mozilla's director of research, announced on a public mailing list today that he wants to proceed with a plan that would enable H.264 decoding on Mozilla's Boot2Gecko (B2G) mobile operating system. The proposed change would allow the video element in Mozilla's HTML rendering engine to rely on codecs that are supplied by the underlying operating system or dedicated video hardware.

more here : http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/03/13/2027215/mozilla-deba...

The lead Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell has announced the activation of Kubuntu Active project targeted at tablets. The project has started creating daily builds. At the moment the builds are available only for the i386 architecture, but will soon be available for ARMv7.

We are glad to announce that KDE has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code for the 8th time. We look forward to working with great students throughout the summer again. To find out more about the program, visit the GSoC website and pay special attention to the FAQ and timeline - print it and hang it on the wall in your work room.