Watch out, Android: three challengers are gunning for your app cash. Firefox OS, Tizen, and Ubuntu Touch have all made their debuts at mobile industry shindig Mobile World Congress this week. And in my opinion, Samsung and the mobile industry are backing the wrong horses. Amazing work from Ubuntu...

  It took almost a year for openSUSE Linux 12.2 to arrive after the launch of its predecessor, but version 12.3 of the popular Linux distribution is apparently coming along more quickly. “The openSUSE Release Team has released RC2 to the mirrors a while ago,” wrote openSUSE community manager...

  The first Ubuntu-powered mobile phones will be reportedly be available from October this year. Reporting on a meeting Shuttleworth attended in New York earlier this week, Michael Hickins of the Wall Street Journal writes that the Ubuntu founder announced plans for the Phone to ship in ‘two...

  A new distribution popped up on my radar last month when it was added to the Distrowatch.com database. It probably helped that its newest release was codenamed “GameOver” and featured lots and lots of games. Yesterday its team released 2.1 “Eris” Ultra. Complete Story   source:...

  openSUSE 12.3 RC1 is a great release (even if it’s a development version) that features great and up-to-date open source software technologies, such as the newly released KDE 4.10 desktop environment and the powerful Linux kernel 3.7.6. But that???s not all, as the developers are proud...

  Certainly that included the traditional desktop, the cumbersome machine that plugs into a wall and is anchored to a particular location within a home. But we also meant laptops and notebooks, which serve the same function as desktops just somewhat more conveniently. Probably included in the mix...

GIMP 2.8.4 has been released yesterday, bringing some important bug fixes. This is the stable GIMP branch and no new features will be added in the 2.8.x releases, only bug fixes.

  The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 4.0 today, which, according to the official announcement, is the “first release that reflects the objectives set by the community at the time of the announcement, in September 2010: a cleaner and leaner code base, an improved set of features,...

Valve has released the original Half Life 1 and Counter Strike 1.6 games for Linux (and OS X). Both Half Life and Counter Strike are currently in beta and even though Linux is not yet displayed as a supported platform for these two games, you can download, install and play them on Linux, using the native...