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With Valve Software's ambitious plans for Linux, they have just picked up another Linux development all-star. Their latest hire has been working on Linux games for more than a decade, is a former Loki Software developer, and he's the creator of SDL.

For those not aware. Emdebian is a smaller, lighter flavor of Debian Linux intended for use on embedded devices. At DebConf this week they talked a bit about this initiative...

Every time you boot a CD or DVD, thank Peter Anvin for making it possible. And, as a key Linux contributor that's not all Peter has done in his long Linux career.

UPDATED--In the wake of the Flame malware attack, which involved the use of a fraudulent Microsoft digital certificate, the software giant has reviewed its certificates and found nearly 30 that aren't as secure as the company would like and has revoked them. Microsoft also released its new updater for certificates as a critical update for Windows Vista and later versions as part of today's July Patch Tuesday (Secure Boot, anyone?--TC)

Several Phoronix readers have written in that Eugeni Dodonov, a former Mandriva developer who since last year has been working for the Intel Open-Source Technology Center on their Linux graphics driver, lost his life this weekend...

With the help of uprobes, performance monitoring tools can now monitor userspace software. The ongoing overhaul of the ARM code is showing tangible success

The KDE development community has issued a statement concerning future use of the Qt tool-kit within the KDE desktop environment...

It's not exactly any secret that Linux dominates the world of high-performance computing, so perhaps it should go without saying that last week's exciting Higgs Boson announcement would involve Linux in some not-insignificant way. The reality, however, turns out to be far greater than marginal significance.

A frequent Phoronix Forums contributor has created RadeonTop, a new utility for users of the open-source ATI/AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

Here's a look at some of the planned features that are being worked on for the FreeBSD 10 release...

The latest noteworthy patch-set coming out of the Intel Open-Source Technology Center is Mesa support for CMS MSAA for Ivy Bridge hardware...

DebConf 2012, this year's Debian event, will begin on Sunday and run through next week...

As Valve Software's Linux efforts continue to advance, they uncover Linux bugs. Fortunately, at least one Valve-spotted Linux kernel bug has now been corrected by NVIDIA...

In the last seven days: a Linux leap-second bug caused systems to freeze, the John the Ripper password cracker added GPU support, and DNSChanger victims will lose internet on Monday. Also, a roadmap for RHEL 7, a look at Clojure, and the Kernel Log on filesystem and storage changes coming in Linux 3.5

Mozilla are pulling resources for new development work from the Thunderbird email client, putting it into a "stability/security fixes" only mode while inviting any future innovations in messaging to come from the community

GNU/Linux belongs inside an Audi, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Lexus, or Holden but needs to be at the price point of a VW Bug.

The leap second that was inserted on Saturday night can cause permanent high CPU loads on Linux computers. Among other examples, the behaviour is documented in the blog of the Mozilla Foundation, where strange peak loads on one Mozilla server were observed from the time the leap second was added. The developers said that the problem is easily solved by resetting the date or rebooting the system.

Apple has won a preliminary injunction against Samsung that bans U.S. sales of the latter's Galaxy Nexus smartphone. The ruling came just days after the same court handed down a similar decision that banned U.S. sales of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1.

I don't know about you, but during the years of my IT career, I've become more and more concerned with security. I'm sure everyone has to a certain degree, but for me, it has become a daily part of my job (not that I'm complaining; on the contrary, it's quite exciting). As such, there are a multitude of tools I've used to get said job done. Some I like, and some I don't. But, I keep coming back to three in particular: Nmap, Nessus and Metasploit.

In the last seven days: Google announced Android 4.1, problems with Windows Update, Firefox for Android refreshed. Also, Richard Hillesley on why companies give away their code, and the Kernel Log on the networking changes coming in Linux 3.5