With the release of the KDE 4.3 beta, the project is returning to incremental releases, and concentrating on customization and ease of use on the desktop, the panel, and system settings. Bruce Byfield takes an in-depth look.

In Part 1 of this three-part series, we began to examine the potential data loss issue on system crash when running the ext4 filesystem. In Part 2, we’ll examine benchmarks and the price of data consistency.
As Theodore Ts’o blog advocates using fsync(2) to get around the rename issue [...]

This release marks the end of more than 3 years of work to port KOffice to Qt 4 and the KDE 4 libraries and, in some cases, totally rewrite the engine of the KOffice applications.

A look at one of the best free screenshot tool available today, Shutter.

SourceForge announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ohloh.

Last December, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision that could push FOSS questions into a more litigious arena. In the matter of Jacobsen v. Katzer, the court ruled that breach of an open source license can support a claim for copyright infringement with associated remedies. The court’s ruling may [...]

In part 1 ace coder Akkana Peck taught us how to use Python and PyGTK to bring up a window and draw lines and circles. Today we’ll expand on that humble beginning and draw some pretty graphics.

Since 2006, developers and supporters of free software graphics applications have met annually for Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), a conference and workshop where they can exchange ideas, catch up on recent advances, and collaborate on new technologies. The 2009 LGM was held May 6-9 in Montreal, Canada, at the École Polytechnique on the campus [...]

When Google’s Chrome web browser debuted with much fanfare last year, it was not Windows-only and cross-platform compatible. The developers soon began working on Linux and Mac OS X ports of the browser’s underlying open source Chromium code base. These ports are beginning to mature and could soon be ready for regular users.

Perhaps it was the unofficial arrival of summer earlier this week; or maybe it’s simply the overwhelming beauty of FOSS. Either way, Linux bloggers far and wide have seemed inspired to accentuate the positive, and to celebrate all that’s wonderful about free and open source software. TuxRadar, for example, recently posted a list of “100 [...]