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For almost three months, versions of three widely distributed open-source applications from Horde.org contained a backdoor that allowed attackers to remotely execute malicious PHP code on systems that ran the programs.

New patches have turned up for the Intel Linux kernel DRM driver to implement hardware context support...

The Linux 3.3-rc4 kernel was released this Saturday evening after a peculiar 32-bit kernel bug had led to the release being delayed by a few days...

Sabayon Linux is a Gentoo based distribution that is geared towards novice users and uses the lighter weighted XFCE 4.8 desktop. It is amongst the few that uses Gentoo as a base for its distribution and only one that is geared towards novice users.

My experiences using Ubuntu Linux to prepare an SD card with the Android OS to be run on Barnes and Noble Nook Color tablet.

After laying out plans earlier this month at FOSDEM for releasing Wayland 1.0 this year, Kristian Høgsberg has now written a more detailed message to the Wayland developers that outlines some of the TODO list and other plans for making Wayland 1.0...

The FOSDEM 2012 conference ended two weeks ago in Brussels while this past week more of the videos from the various technical sessions were uploaded for the public...

The latest Humble Indie Bundle ended earlier this week without much fanfare and less than $1M USD in sales, but there's a new special weekend bundle that's a bit different from the rest... This new bundle lasts for only the weekend (28 hours left) as three teams compete to each make a brand new game in the span of this weekend...

Continuous integration is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance as continuous delivery (and its sidekick, DevOps) begin to find adoption in many enterprises. Simultaneously, the number of viable CI packages is shrinking quickly.

Kim Leyendecker announced the availability of milestone 1 release of OpenSUSE 12.2 version on 17 Feb, 2012. This version is starting of development of OpenSUSE 12.2 which contain minor changes in Mozilla Firefox and some major changes in artwork and in KDE which uses 4.8 version for this.

I just finished creating, testing and uploading a patch for the rxdsk 1.4 module to build on 2.6.18 kernels (for those still using Red Hat and CentOS 5.x). Another update is that I posted some new performance data on the performance page.

The program, "iwicon," is an easy and useful introduction to the Linux wireless driver and the sometimes involved subject of networking with Linux.

New upstream release. Add USB redirection support, see Hans comments in the log and that post for details: http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/11084.html ; introduce SpiceGtkSession to deal with session-wide Gtk events, such as clipboard, instead of doing it per display ; many cursor and keyboard handling improvements ; handle the new “semi-seamless” migration ; support new Spice mini-headers ; better coroutines: fibers on windows and jmp on linux ; add Vala vapi bindings generation ; Add command line options for setting the cache size and the glz window size ; Add a USB device selection widget to libspice-client-gtk ; many bug fixes and code improvements ;

Blender 2.62 was released on Thursday with notable improvements to the Cycles Render Engine, motion tracking, the Blender Game Engine, and much more...

Chakra is a desktop-centric, Linux distribution that was derived from Arch Linux, but is now a fork of that distribution. Unlike Arch Linux, which supports several desktop environments, Chakra is a KDE-only distribution. The latest edition, Chakra 2012.02, code-named Archimedes, was released on February 12. Since there is very little difference, other than changes in software and kernel versions, between this latest release and Edn, the previous release, this article offers a summary review only.

A patch has been sent over to the Btrfs developers that can result in the next-generation Linux file-system being 5~10% faster in writes by introducing an extent buffer cache for each i-node...

The Wine development release 1.4-rc4 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Great news! It seems that 2 other great indie studios have been added to the Mojam project! They are Wolfire Games and Oxeye Game Studio!

Raspberry Pi Foundation has released first SD card image for $25 computers that will go on sale on February 20. Based on Debian Squeeze (6.0), the image includes LXDE interface, Midori web browser, development tools and example source code for multimedia functions.

People seem to cleave fanatically to their form factors and platforms. Unfortunately, it's all a load of dingos' kidneys. Let's take a look.