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In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: New features in KMail: renaming attachments, disabling filters Telepathy gets KWallet support for passwords, integration of global presence into kded-modue Rewritten array classes in Okteta read more

By combining three useful command-line tools (less, watch and xdotool) along with two xterm windows, you can create an automatically scrolling reader.



Say you have a good book in text-file form ('book.txt') that you just downloaded from Project Gutenberg. more>>

For those interested in the GPU hardware acceleration support for Opera 12 that was made available with this morning's release of Opera 12 Alpha, here's the stipulations regarding the "out of the box" Linux GPU driver support...

Adobe hedges bets with Nitobi Anyone hoping to pronounce Flash dead as Adobe transitions to the brave new HTML 5 world will have been disappointed, based on the company's MAX Conference last week.…

OilRush, the first game developed in-house by Unigine Corp, the developers of the impressive multi-platform Unigine Engine, is nearing its official release...

The Humble Frozen Synapse Bundle, whereby gamers can pay what they want for a collection of multi-platform and DRM-free games, has ended this evening. This latest bundle has pulled in over one million dollars from more than two hundred thousand purchases...

AMD has finally lifted the lid on their new FX-Series "Bulldozer" desktop CPUs, but how well do they work under Linux?

Kernel.org is restored as Oracle adds Dtrace to Linux and Red Hat previews RHEL 6.2.

In preparation for taking the Linux Professional Institute Certification exam LPI-302 for systems administrators, learn how to set up and store passwords, integrate Samba with LDAP, and use ACLs to protect your Linux installation.

BlueStacks announced that a free alpha version of its software allowing Windows 7 users to run Android apps is now downloadable -- so naturally, we had to give it a try. The initial BlueStacks App Player comes with ten apps and allows an additional 26 to be installed, while a related Cloud Connect service allows pushing apps from a user's phone to his or her desktop PC, the company says....

Beta of Fedora 16 gives faster booting and better GNOME The users of the Linux distribution Fedora have voted on the name for the 17th build of the code base. The top choice? Beefy Miracle.…

So much is new, but it's mostly under the hood Pictures Oslo: Opera has lifted the lid on a range of new technology today – and is making fresh versions of the Mobile and Mini browsers available to world+Android-using dog this afternoon. The first alpha version of version 12 for the desktop follows on Thursday. We had a sneak peek at them all in Oslo this morning.…

After several embarrassing bumbles, Oracle is finally getting Java on track.

New Wine development releases normally come every other Friday, but last week there wasn't any Wine 1.3.30 release. Fear not, however, as the Wine developers have went forward with the Wine 1.3.30 release this Monday. Wine 1.3.30 does offer up a few interesting features...

Last week Mark Shuttleworth announced Ubuntu 12.04 LTS would be codenamed Precise Pangolin while this evening Red Hat's Jared Smith has announced the codename for Fedora 17, which will be released around the same time next spring...

Intel's Open-Source Technology Center (OSTC) team responsible for the open-source Linux graphics driver stack is drafting new plans for how they release their driver code. The release model and release criteria for the Intel Linux driver will be quite different from the status quo of putting out new releases on a timed quarterly basis...

The KDE team has announced this Sunday the release of Plasma Active One, a touch-screen-focused tablet user experience...

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Group By Time feature available in Digikam Calligra gets Web Report Element and incremental backup in Krita Introduction of the KSecret tool Optimizations in KDE-Base Bugfixes in in password saving and HTTP authentication caching in KDE-Libs, KDE-PIM, Network Management, Kile and others. Read the rest of the Digest here. read more

While Oracle Solaris has Intel KMS/DRI2 support, the Solaris port of this Intel Linux driver code isn't yet part of the open-source Solaris distributions...

Remember those AMD Bulldozer benchmarks we showed back in March from an early engineering sample that was published to OpenBenchmarking.org by one of AMD's partners months prior to the product launch? Well, since the consumer-grade Bulldozer chips are going to be out soon, AMD's partners are already supplying information on the AMD Trinity APUs that won't be launched until next year. The Linux performance appears quite competitive and there's also some new codenames and details to share.