The Porteus community is pleased to announce Porteus 2.0 RC2, the latest development release of our Standard and Xfce editions. We've cleaned up several minor bugs that were present in RC1 and have added some new features. Please give this a thorough test so we can continue refining everything for 2.0 final. Here is our changelog from 2.0 RC1: Linux kernel upgraded to 3.7.5; fixed a bug with linuxrc not ejecting CDs in copy2ram mode; added a function to rc.M which disables discrete video card for PCs with dual graphics setup; rc.services - added a function for setting brightness when booting on battery.

MariaDB is due to replace MySQL in Fedora 19 and, in this version, udev will handle network device names. Additionally, the developers are still discussing the integration of Apache OpenOffice 4.0

One of the really neat features of coding for a portable platform like a phone is that you can use its motion sensors to control the UI. How useful this is in a particular app varies from "neat gimmick" to "UI perfection" -- admittedly the example here is more on the "gimmick" end of the spectrum, but it'll get you started with using the Android motion sensors. We'll carry on using the code from the previous three tutorials, but this time, we're going to add a detector which enables you to start the timer by shaking the phone.

I received this e-mail from the AP this morning -- Dear Users: Please be advised AP has been effected by the automated system patch released by Apple this morning, blocking java based applications on mac computers. This may slow down the publishing of some AP photos. AP Engineers are working on a solution.

Open Developer Break catches up with miscellaneous news from the open development world. This week: a new Node.js version, Red Hat's Developer Toolset, a new CyanogenMod bug tracker and a collection of Apache releases

Microsoft and BlackBerry face a a paradox. They can't really attract developers in large numbers away from iOS and Android without a critical mass of phones -- and phone buyers tend to stay away from phones without a vibrant app store. It's a stalemate that's going to be tough to break.

With the release date for the next enterprise Java version approaching and a number of deadlines missed, JSR107, the Java caching standard will now not make it into Java EE 7

The developers of Etherpad have released an update that fixes a security issue with the open source collaborative notepad application that could cause the server to be crashed by a malformed client message

(Sacramento, CA, USA: January 31, 2013) The Linux Professional Institute(LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization(http://www.lpi.org), announced that in 2012 the organization surpassedtwo significant milestones: delivering over 350,000 exams and 120,000certifications worldwide since the organization's inception.

Aeon Command is a space war strategy game that's now been released for Linux...

The first point release of the Enlightenment E17 desktop was released today. In addition, an early development snapshot of E18 was released too...

We at Last.fm love Linux. Not only does it power almost all of the server machines that bring Last.fm to you, it is also the operating system of choice of many of our developers at Last.HQ. For our desktop application Last.fm Scrobbler, Linux is a first class supported operating system.

At the 2013 CES convention, CNET's editorial staff loved the Dish Hopper DVR and nominated it "Best in Show." That journalistic decision was quickly tossed out, however, by the legal department at CBS, CNET's corporate parent. CBS is involved in litigation against Dish over the Hopper.

New tools help web devs find problem spotsAs every web developer knows, one of the biggest headaches of building modern, standards-compliant web pages is getting them to look and work right in Internet Explorer. Well, coders, apparently Microsoft feels your pain, because it has released a new set of free tools to help you do just that.…

Twenty-five women have been accepted for participation in the GNOME-led Outreach Programme for Women which runs from January 2 to April 2, according to a media release from the GNOME Foundation.

I installed it both on my Windows box and on my laptop running Bodhi. The Windows install was typical, using a Windows Installer. The Linux install was about as easy a Linux install as I’ve ever seen. In Linux, the browser is one file. Save it to the hard drive and either open it through a terminal or set up a link to launch it from the menu.

Many of my previous articles have looked at software packagesthat do scientific calculations and generate scientific results. But,columns of numbers are nearly impossible to make sense of—at least, byregular human beings. So what can you do? The answer is visualization.

Ubuntu is an open source Linux distribution based on Debian Linux which has, in turn, been surpassed in popularity by its own fork: Linux MInt (according to DistroWatch). LInux Mint is just one of many Ubuntu-based alternative distributions that the diverse Linux community has put together to offer up new features, customized user interfaces, built-in applications, and/or tweaks to the OS to enable the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

Prolog is generally regarded as a difficult language to get to grips with. The focus of this article is to select some of the finest Prolog books which help programmers master this language, and develop an in-depth understanding of recursion, constraint logic programming, and searching problem trees. All of the books are available to download for free.

On Thursday morning, Linus Torvalds merged two changes into the main Linux development tree which mean that the samsung-laptop kernel driver will no longer be activated when Linux is booted via UEFI (1, 2). This should resolve the problem of some Samsung laptops being irreparably damaged when Linux is booted using UEFI. The does not, however, mean that the danger is past, as there appear to be other ways in which the sensitive firmware can be disrupted.