Recently, Linus Torvalds made it clear just how displeased he is with Nvidia. If his colorful language wasn’t enough of a confirmation, the familiar one-finger gesture he made certainly did. But while Nvidia can deal with public criticism (even from someone as influential as Torvalds), they’re probably having a harder time swallowing the hundreds of millions of dollars in sales they just lost due to poor Linux driver support.

Read the full thing at http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/nvidia-loses-order-due-to-poor-linux-support-20120628/

Mandriva recently announced that it will transfer the responsibility of the Mandriva Linux distribution to an independent entity. We would very much like to express our very best wishes for this new entity.

In other news, Mandriva announced that they will use the Mageia distribution as a technical platform for their new Business Server product.

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/05/21/mageia-comes-full-circle/

In my last post I talked about wanting to hook Python to the Qt port for the PlayBook. Since then, after considering other approaches, I decided to take a closer look at PySide [2]. My quick review of it concluded that I'd be duplicating key parts of its functionality if I tried doing anything from scratch.

Read more at http://peterhansen.ca/blog/pyside-on-the-playbook.html

Mageia 2 was released 2 weeks ago. The QA and security teams are working hard to fix bugs and provide security updates. It’s time now to think about our next release: no rest for the Brave!

We have now a full plan for Mageia 3, which will be released in spring 2013

Read the full thing at http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/06/11/cauldron-is-boiling-again-never-2-without-3/

Anyone who uses Skype on Linux will be happy to hear that a new version has been made available today, bringing with it a host of essential updates and new features.

Skype 4.0, codenamed “Four Rooms for Improvement,” is long overdue, and Marco Cimmino makes a point of thanking Linux users for their patience on the Skype blog. The wait seems to have been worth it, though.

Read the full thing at http://www.geek.com/articles/news/skype-4-0-for-linux-now-available-20120614/

Adobe has announced the release of an update for Flash Player on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android 3.x and 4.x, and within its own AIR runtime. The update addresses several critical vulnerabilities which involve memory corruption, stack overflows, integer overflows, security being bypassed, null dereferencing and binary planting (DLL hijacking). All, except the security bypass, could lead to code execution.

Read the full thing at http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Adobe-Flash-update-closes-several-critical-holes-1614700.html

That’s right. The premier Linux Distro Building Simulation Game in the universe… is now available for free.

Yesterday, we hit our goal of bringing in enough donations to support full time, Open Source development of all of the software you see on Lunduke.com.

Starting today I am Open Sourcing (under the GPL) of all of my software.

Read the full thing at http://lunduke.com/?p=3431

Mageia began its life not so long ago by being a community fork of the Mandriva Linux distribution. The future of Mandriva, as a company, has been in question for years prompting several developers and users to push for an independent, community-oriented distro. The first release of Mageia, version 1, got off to a fairly good start. It didn't vary much technologically from Mandriva and felt a bit like a test run, as though the developers were making sure all the proper infrastructure was in place.

Read the full thing at http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120604#feature

Humble Indie Bundle 5 was launched recently with five popular and award winning indie games. All these games are supported natively on Linux except one, LIMBO.

LIMBO doesn't run natively on Linux and instead uses a Wine/CodeWeavers wrapper. It has been a hot topic for debate in last couple of days and Humble Bundle organizers have commented on this.

Read the full thing at http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/06/linux-users-sign-petition-requesting.html

Mageia has been pretty popular ever since its original release last year. While all Linux distributions give you more choice than any other operating system, Mageia was one of the few distros that has a lot of these choices upfront. This is partly due to it being an offshoot of Mandriva, however the team at Mageia have taken it noticeably further.

Read the full thing at http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/mageia-2-review-pure-magic/