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If you're the type of person who installs Ubuntu's server edition, you're also likely the sort of person who knows how to configure network settings. For most distributions, especially those based on Debian, the process is a bit strange, but familiar.

The first release of AppStream-Core is now available, which provides support for creating the AppStream database and accessing it via a GObject-based interface. This basically comes down to the simple creation of "Software Centers" for Linux...

Jolla says it will launch its "Sailfish" smartphone design, which uses the MeeGo operating system abandoned by Nokia, next month, with its own patented user interface

Hopefully you didn't buy multiple Thunderbolt displays in hopes of daisy chaining them and then using an open-source graphics driver...

Red Hat want to separate the JBoss AS project from the JBoss EAP product and are looking for a new name for the former. In other news, the company is now working to bring Hibernate to MongoDB with the help of 10Gen

Dot Categories: Community and EventsKDE has again taken part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as its biggest participating organization. Fifty-nine out of mind-boggling sixty projects have been completed successfully. Lots of new things have been learned, lots of code has been written and there's been plenty of fun. GSoC is over but the code has not gone away and the work is not finished. Over the next months, many of the students will continue to be part of KDE, integrate the code for future releases, improve it, maintain it, become more part of KDE. For now, however, pencils are down and we can congratulate the students. It was a great summer and we enjoyed having you around!

With the Linux 3.7 kernel there is now support for the SPARC-T4 processor that Oracle introduced last year...

We have known about Valve's plans to make Steam more than just about gaming and beginning today you can buy some non-gaming software from the digital distribution client...

The perf performance counters sub-system and utility are seeing some mighty improvements with the Linux 3.7 kernel...

There's a new release of OpenShot, one of the popular open-source non-linear video editing applications...

The latest version of the Python programming language is now version 3.3...

Xen virtualization support for the ARM architecture is now set to be pulled for the Linux 3.7 kernel...

The Linux 3.7 kernel will feature support for the ARM 64-bit architecture (ARM64), which is officially known as AArch64...

The Eclipse Foundation has released SR1 for Eclipse 4.2 on schedule with little in the way of announcements. The performance problems in 4.2 are also being addressed in this and the next service release due next year

Well it's been another tempestuous week here in the Linux blogosphere, rounding out a month that never ran short on controversy, to put it mildly. The topic du jour this time? None other than Canonical's decision to integrate Amazon results into searches done through the Dash on Ubuntu's Unity desktop.

This week's Linux Top 3 strikes right at the core of Linux with a kernel update, a new release of the world's first Linux distro and a milestone update of Red Hat MRG.

Pulse is a build server that can monitor your source repository and trigger a build and test cycle every time somebody does a commit. With Pulse you will always know if the most recent sources in your revision control system compile and if they pass your unit and system tests. Better yet, Pulse allows you to build and test your current working copy of checked-out source, during a so-called Personal Build, so you can see if your code breaks things before you commit your changes to the central repository.

The week-long Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) meets every six months at changing locations to discuss what will be in the next release of Ubuntu. The mostly unpublicized FOSScamp always meets the weekend before. The FOSScamp un-conference has no program, no invited speakers, and costs nothing. Like some sort of geek Woodstock but smaller, the Ubuntu hip just show up.

Properly speaking, Nadav Rotem's Open Text Summarizer (OTS) is not a summarizer at all. True summaries generally involve rewording contents at a higher level of generality while preserving the meaning, not just producing a condensed version of the original the way that OTS does. However, within its limits, OTS is an efficient tool for automatically producing abstracts of non-fiction, that, in the last 15 months, has received favorable mention from at least four academic publications, including one in which it outperformed similar utilities, including commercial ones such as Copernic and Subject Search Summarizer.

The new release of Python, version 3.3.0, brings a new "yield from" syntax and the return of old style unicode literals, along with simpler debugging, virtual environments and a new Windows installer