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Linus Torvalds has been rather notorious when it comes to the use of verbal abuse. The guy has said a lot of mean things to others in public forums. But this, he says, is simply because he is being honest and can't drape in fake politeness. Intel developer, Sarah Sharp, has now instigated a debate about civility on the Linux Kernel Development…

Microsoft and the open-source community have been at odds, more than often. Yet, of late, the software giant has tried to smooth things down, especially because of the growing popularity of open-source operating systems. Reports now claim that Microsoft is working on a version of Microsoft Office that would work fine on Linux machines. This version…

Linux developers have long pined to use 3D acceleration with their apps using Nouveau driver. Thanks to the recent developments on the Nouveau front, coupled with a current version of libdrm, Linux apps are finally able to make use of 3D acceleration with nearly all GeForce GPUs.

Canonical, the company that has been developing the Ubuntu flavor of Linux and releasing its subsequent versions, has claimed in the past that it intends to launch a mobile OS for smartphones and tablets. The company may be on the verge of doing so, hinting a touch-enabled surprise on January 2.

Valve had recently launched Steam for Linux beta, much to the sheer joy of Linux gamers. However, the beta was limited only to a select few. Apparently as a holiday gift, the company has now opened the gates of its Steam for Linux beta to all users!

THQ is a very well-known name in the arena of game developers. The company has been behind some very popular game titles and bundles. However, many Linux users have been complaining about the lack of support THQ's games carry for Linux machines. The company may be planning on changing that now.

In its recent iterations, Ubuntu has been shipped with a special new feature which allows users to search things simply by searching the Dash. Whereas Canonical deems this new feature as highly useful, Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation, has called it highly unethical and deems Ubuntu as a 'spyware' on account of this.

The Mozilla team has been working on a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows for a while. However, apparently the project has been riddled with a lot of issues as a result of which, Mozilla's managing engineer Benjamin Smedberg has announced that he is pulling the plug on it.

Recently, a number of attempts have been made to break into the servers and machines of high-profile companies and entities, including Linux kernel project. And now, FreeBSD Project is also a part of this list, as a fresh intrusion has been detected on two machines which are a part of the FreeBSD.org cluster.

If you are curious on how this operating system from Google looks like and how it works, but you don't have $250 to spend in order to buy Samsung Chromebook which will be only used to test Chrome OS, this tutorial will teach you how to run it on any computer, laptop or operating system using VirtualBox.