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No official word has yet to come out, but the GOG.com computer game sale and distribution service looks increasingly likely like it will come to Linux...

Last week's Flash Player update to version 11.3 has proven to be very crash-prone under Firefox 13. Mozilla and Adobe have offered a range of options for resolving the problem, including downgrading Flash

In the last seven days: MySQL authentication broken, Bitrig forked OpenBSD, LibreOffice 3.6.0 Beta arrived and OS vendors patched an Intel CPU virtualisation hole. Also, The H took a look at alternatives to the Ubuntu Unity desktop without installing a different Linux distribution

The Lithium open source PHP framework has just received a major boost: Engine Yard has signed up to be the project's first official sponsor. As well as financial support, the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider also plans to help the project out in other areas. In a blog post, Elizabeth Naramore, PHP Community Manager at Engine Yard, says that the company intends to promote the framework at conferences, meetups and in webcasts, and will recommend it to customers and partners.

The Rascal board is compatible with many Arduino shields but offers considerably more processing power, a built-in web interface, and runs the Linux OS.

The openSUSE project is facing major problems with its release process. Release manager Stephen Kulow has asked the community how the project should address these issues. A change in the project's release cycle seems a likely outcome.

Earlier this month when talking about the Baseio game that's being worked on by the ioquake3 project, many Phoronix readers were quick to bring up in the forums that the artwork done by the free software community for these open-source games often aren't up to par...

New features to embarrass Mountain View 'dairy product' developer If you're harboring any doubts about bad blood bubbling between Apple and Google, Cupertino's iOS headman Scott Forstall dispelled them on Monday when introducing the next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 6.…

Standard and ribbed minty boxes for sale Linux Mint, flush with its recent popularity in the distro stakes, is looking to take the pain out of installation with its first hardware line, called mintBox, that comes in smooth and ribbed versions.…

The use of special prologues and epilogues around functions can easily detect attacks that rely on stack overflows. Here is how "stack smashing" is actually performed and how its occurrence is detected.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Okular saves annotations locally Delayed search in Calligra allows the users to type the whole word; adding image lists possible; brush rotation is absolute to canvas rotation Amarok is now capable of transcoding music when copying it to USB Mass Storage devices Exponential notation supported in Kst read more

Increasingly the third standard within enterprises for databases, MongoDB, has been claiming a lot of victories lately. In relative terms, it has become the second-hottest skill to have on one's resume, right after HTML5, according to Indeed.com job trend data. And despite plenty of hating on its technology, with one person telling me recently that "it sets database technology back 25 years," MongoDB continues to get deployed for numerous, large mission-critical applications.

A MySQL/MariaDB authentication bypass has been revealed and exploiting it is remarkably simple. The flaw depends on who compiled MySQL; some Linux distributions are more affected than others

The first milestone release of Ubuntu 12.10 has been made available for testing and sees several applications, such as the installer, ported to Python 3 as the developers plan to only include Python 3 with the desktop images of Ubuntu

It's time for another development snapshot of Wine, but this bi-weekly release does carry several features worth noting...

The developers have improved translations for the more than 55 languages of the desktop environment. Several bugs in KDE's browser and window manager have also been fixed

Plus: the defunct 'Kinetic' server strategy for Itanium-Xeon hybrids The Oracle and Hewlett-Packard lawsuit over the fate of Oracle's software support for Itanium processors, and therefore HP's HP-UX Unix variant, is under way in the Santa Clara County courts. New HP CEO Meg Whitman is making the rounds in the press and making her case to HP customers and partners at the Discover 2012 shindig in Las Vegas this week – and so there was lots of talk about the past plans and current plans for HP's Integrity and Superdome lines of servers.…

Ubuntu developers are looking at enabling support for Intel SNA acceleration within the open-source graphics driver for the Ubuntu 12.10 release...

For any Phoronix readers that would like to discuss Linux, open-source, benchmarking, and other matters -- whether it be the topics themselves, constructive criticism, or anything else -- a meet-up is being planned for next week on 15 June in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Keith Packard has set out his plans for releasing X.Org Server 1.13 this September. There's also some interesting plans expressed by David Airlie for what this update could potentially provide for Linux desktop users...