Operating Systems
GLOBALOperating Systems
Distribution Release: Mageia 3
Trish Fraser has announced the release of Mageia 3, the third official release of the community distribution that was created by former developers and contributors of the once highly popular Mandriva Linux in late 2010: "All grown up and ready to go dancing - Mageia 3 is out..... Read More | View Original Article
Can't update Iceweasel from Experimental on Jessie
I use the Debian Experimental repository to update Iceweasel to the latest Firefox release version provided by the Debian Mozilla team. Read More | View Original Article
FreeBSD Still Working On Next-Gen Package Manager
The FreeBSD camp continues to develop pkgng, a next-generation binary package manager for the operating system... Read More | View Original Article
Linux Advocate Dietrich Schmitz makes his "Top Ten Sleeper Distros" picks. What's a sleeper? Read and find out. Read More | View Original Article
Taking a break from our usual Linux hardware coverage and performance benchmarking this weekend is a look at the Sumo Emperor, a comfortable basis for lounging or working from a laptop. Read More | View Original Article
DNF Still Advancing As Experimental Yum For Fedora
DNF is the experimental fork of the Yum package manager that premiered in Fedora 18. While much hasn't been heard of this experimental Yum replacement since its debut, work on it has still been progressing and is turning out to be in great shape, is slowly approaching feature-parity with Yum, and is faster... Read More | View Original Article
Distribution Release: Tails 0.18
Tails 0.18, a new version of the specialist live CD whose goal is to preserve the user's privacy and anonymity while surfing the world wide web, has been released: "Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 0.18, is out. All users must upgrade as soon as possible. Notable.... Read More | View Original Article
Linux's Ondemand Governor Is No Longer Fit
By default the Linux kernel uses the "ondemand" CPU frequency governor for achieving maximum clock frequency when system load is high and a lower clock frequency when the system is idle. However, it turns out that for at least modern Intel CPUs, this is likely no longer the case. This default kernel choice may lead to poor battery life and performance for modern Linux systems. Read More | View Original Article
DNF Still Advancing As Experimental Yum For Fedora
DNF is the experimental fork of the Yum package manager that premiered in Fedora 18. While much hasn't been heard of this experimental Yum replacement since its debut, work on it has still been progressing and is turning out to be in great shape, is slowly approaching feature-parity with Yum, and is faster... Read More | View Original Article
Logitech Begins Supporting Linux Users
While Linux game developers and publishers have grown more interested in the Linux market-share over the past year following Valve's major Linux play, one of the sectors that is still lagging behind is gaming hardware and peripherals. Fortunately, Logitech is finally beginning to show their Linux cards... Read More | View Original Article
Jeff Rizzo has announced the release of NetBSD 6.1, a new stable version of the highly portable UNIX-like operating system available for a wide range of platforms: "The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents.... Read More | View Original Article
Critical Linux Exploit in the Wild
OSTATIC: If you run servers that provide shell accounts, it’s time to take some preventive measures. Read More | View Original Article
OpenStack Nova Vulnerability Fixed by Canonical
Canonical published in a security notice details about an OpenStack Nova vulnerability for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, Nova could be made to crash the system, if instances used a specially crafted image. Read More | View Original Article
Introducing: The Cheapskate's Corner for Linux gamers!
If in The Funding Crowd we do a weekly review of the Linux games being crowdfunded, here in The Cheapskate's Corner you will find all the current bundles and major sales which include at least a Linux game. Read More | View Original Article
ROSA Desktop Fresh LXDE alpha preview
LinuxBSDos: This alpha release, like the other end-user releases, uses the Fresh code name, and ships with bleeding-edge software and the latest or close-to-the-latest Linux kernel. Read More | View Original Article
Google's Native Code browser tech goes cross-platform
At its annual I/O conference in San Francisco this week, Google unveiled a new version of its Native Client technology that allows developers to deploy binary code for web applications in an architecture-independent way. With the original version of Native Client (NaCl), developers could write modules in C or C++ and compile them into binary packages to be executed inside the browser at near-native speed. The initial release only supported 32-bit and 64-bit Intel x86 architectures, but Google added support for ARM in January. Read More | View Original Article
Swartz’s Last Gift, the Invasion of the Androids & More…
On Monday a U.S. judge in Boston ordered that sealed documents in the criminal hacking case against Aaron Swartz be released. Swartz, who was charged with stealing articles from a database, committed suicide in January. Read More | View Original Article
SlateBook x2: Tegra 4-powered Android hybrid
Linux BSDos: The Tegra 4-powered SlateBook x2 running Android Jelly Bean (4.2.2) is the latest split-personality portable computer from HP. Read More | View Original Article
Linux Mint 15 brings prettier desktop, new software and driver managers
The Linux Mint project yesterday unveiled version 15 of the increasingly popular desktop operating system, with upgrades to the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments as well as new applications for managing software and drivers.Code-named "Olivia," Linux Mint 15 is based on the most recent version of Ubuntu and will be supported until January 2014. Linux Mint 15 is in the Release Candidate stage, with a final release coming later. Read More | View Original Article
Half-Life 2 Beta for Linux Gets It's First Patch
Half-Life 2 is a first-person shooter developed by Valve that was released back in 2004 and it has recently been ported on the Linux platform. The first patches have started to arrive. Porting a complex title such as Half-Life 2 is a very difficult task and the developers have to release a lot of updates until the game exist the Beta stages. Highlights of the latest Half-Life 2 update: Read More | View Original Article
Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. XFS vs. F2FS On Linux 3.10
Building upon our F2FS file-system benchmarks from earlier in this week is a large comparison of four of the leading Linux file-systems at the moment: Btrfs, EXT4, XFS, and F2FS. With the four Linux kernel file-systems, each was benchmarked on the Linux 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10-rc1 kernels. The results from this large file-system comparison when backed by a solid-state drive are now published on Phoronix. Read More | View Original Article
Modern Intel Gallium3D Driver Still Being Toyed With
While it's not the default Linux graphics driver for Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge hardware, the "ilo" independently-developed Gallium3D driver for modern Intel graphics hardware continues to be developed... Read More | View Original Article
Steam for Linux Update Fixes "Time remaining" Calculation
Valve has launched yet another Beta version for its Steam for Linux client, this time with just a few minor fixes and improvements. After a development version garners sufficient changes, Valve promotes it to stable. The work for the next beta starts almost immediately. Highlights of the latest Steam for Linux update: Read More | View Original Article
New Steam Greenlit Games Available for Linux
Another set of games that passed through the Steam Greenlight process and that are going to be released on Steam contains at least 2 games confirmed for the Linux platform. The first game included in the latest Steam Greenlight collection that supports the Linux platform is Game Dev Tycoon. In this game, players will be able to micromanage a gaming studio, and will have to produce quality games that can be sold. Read More | View Original Article
Essential WordPress Security Plugins
FOSS Force: Today we're going to discuss three security plugins that I think are essential. Read More | View Original Article
JULinuXP and JULinOX OS ETPE 2013 Released
It's been a very hard week, putting out two variants of the JULinux distribution. JULinuXP and JULinOX_OS for Mac users. Two different interfaces, for two different types of users, both are very fast, and don't need compiz. Both protect your privacy and keep your private data secure online... Read More | View Original Article
openSUSE to Drop LXDE in Favor of E17
openSUSE developers are considering terminating the aging LXDE desktop environment and replacing it with E17. The main argument for this decision is the LXDE hasn’t been updated in a long time and that E17 is actively maintained. This means that new features would be added regularly to the desktop environment. “I'd like to make E17 available for openSUSE users through installer and on DVD. Unfortunately DVD is already more than full so to get something in ... (read more) Read More | View Original Article
Hotline Miami Action Game to Arrive on Steam for Linux Soon
Hotline Miami, a 2D action game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital, will arrive on Steam for Linux. Hotline Miami is a brutal action game that relies on hard-boiled gunplay. It’s built on 2D engine, but it features over 1,000 different sprites and benefits from a story than spans over more than 20 levels. Read More | View Original Article
OpenStack Keystone Vulnerabilities Fixed by Canonical
Canonical published details about OpenStack Keystone vulnerabilities in a security notice for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 12.10, and Ubuntu 13.04 operating systems. According to Canonical, Keystone would allow unintended access over the network. It was discovered that Keystone would not immediately invalidate tokens when deleting users via the v2 API. A deleted user would be able to continue to use resources until the token lifetime expired. Read More | View Original Article
Microsoft, IT Industry Push Software Security Standard
Microsoft announced its support for an international standard on secure software development, while an industry group offered a free training program for developers.A collection of large software companies has thrown its weight behind two initiatives that attempt to make the process of developing secure software more attainable to smaller software makers. Read More | View Original Article
