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Gnome 3.2 has been released. This time around, the developers have focused on a large number of small improvements rather than big, headline features. That said, there are a couple of interesting new additions in the areas of web integration and personal data management.

Running a Live Linux CD or USB is a convenient way to perform a number of tasks when an installed OS is not necessary.

I never go anywhere without a bootable Linux flashdrive. The fact that Linux is so portable is one of my favorite things about it.

Welcome to my first native Linux game comparison! Let's take a look to this free Mario Kart clone game: SuperTuxKart!

Rock Computing have released their new text editor for UNIX like systems, with a next generation interface that alludes to simplicity and power rather than hundreds of features X2 is neither just a text editor or a fully fledged IDE but something in the middle.

While trying to optimize the elementary OS performance, Sergey Davidoff stumbled upon a project called compcache that creates a RAM based block device which acts as a swap disk, but is compressed and stored in memory instead of swap disk (which is slow), allowing very fast I/O and increasing the amount of memory available before the system starts swapping to disk.

Mystery data logger opens backdoor for slurping A data logger pushed out by HTC to Android handsets has opened up a vulnerability allowing any app with internet permissions to access private customer information.…

Recently I published benchmarks of Btrfs from a Serial ATA 3.0 SSD (the excellent OCZ Vertex 3 SSD) and those results were interesting, but most people aren't running 6Gb/s solid-state drives, so how does this next-generation file-system perform on the opposite end of the spectrum? In this article are EXT4 and Btrfs benchmarks from an old Core Duo notebook with a 5400RPM mobile hard drive.

This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.04. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline three solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second and third solution are very similar - both use a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.

LXer Feature: 02-Oct-2011

In the LXWR this week we have memory leaks found on Firefox 6.0, an impatient distro dev sings a song, the KDE vs. GNOME schism and are Linux users playing to their strengths or shooting themselves in the foot? Enjoy!

Every Ubuntu release cycle churns out fresh new collection of wallpapers. These wallpapers are carefully chosen from a huge cache of user contributed images in Ubuntu Artwork Flickr pool. Oneric release cycle is no different. 14 gorgeous new wallpapers have arrived in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric already and they are by far the best I have seen in any new Ubuntu release.

Sometimes it’s useful to work offline, and once the article it’s finished publish it on your Blog. yes you can do it with an html editor, or also with a simple text editor like Vi or Emacs, but there are specialized programs that can ease your work of publishing and management of your online Blog.

So we’ll take a look at Scribefire, BloGTK, Blogilo and Qumana.

If you didn't know anything about it, the Humble Bundle is a series of bundles (....) that contains a variable number of indie games, most of them running natively on linux. The games are always great indie games, but the best thing about it is that you can pay what you want for that bundle, there's no price limit. There have been some great, really great bundles since now, and now here's the new one!

Whether you're an experienced system administrator or a Linux beginner, whether you're managing an enterprise-grade network or just your home network, you must be aware of security issues. One common mistake is to think that if you're a home user with few world-facing machines you're exempt from malicious attacks. The attacker will not get from you what (s)he can get from a large corporate network, but that does not mean you're safe. The earlier you become security-aware, the better. While the subject of network security is huge, today we chose an interesting piece of software named tripwire, a HIDS (Host-based Intrusion Detection System).

AirMech is an upcoming top down shooter, real time strategy hybrid game by Carbon Games Studio. The first gameplay footage was shown at PAX 2011 and since then it has garnered quite good response from viewers. In the game, you fly an aircraft with an ability to completely transform into a mechanical warrior thus serving as a multi-utility vehicle. The game has been completely made with open source tools and the developers are particularly proud of it. Gradually during the development, all closed source tools/libraries were dropped.

Being as impartial and honest as I can be, the basic Linux gamesphere, to include the educational applications, fall short of the Autistic child's needs. Of course, I understand that it was never geared for this, but I believe there needs to be some awareness of the condition and a way we, as an Open Source Community, can help.

Packaged version version of Spice-Gtk-0.7.4X is built up on current snapshot of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk with GTK2.Libusb-1.0-2:1.0.9-3ubuntu9 is built up on git://people.freedesktop.org/~jwrdegoede/libusb (pre 1.0.9). Usbredir-0.3.1-1ubuntu5 is built up on official release usbredir-0.3.1.tar.gz.

Welcome to the 167th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Ensign 1 is a single/multiplayer space combat game featuring dog fights from within the cockpit, as well as first person shooting action after you've docked on large space stations.

A built-in video player has been included in the base Android operating system ever since Android 1.5 (Cupcake) was released back in April 2009. That player offered video playback for MPEG-4 and 3GP formats. However, even with the latest releases of Android for smartphones and tablets (Gingerbread, Honeycomb respectively) many users find the built-in player to be inadequate, due to support for a limited number of video formats, being unable to watch high definition video even on dual core processors, and generally deprived of features.