VLC developer Ludovic Fauvet says that scammers are taking advantage of the availability of the VLC source code to trick users. The scammers are adding malware and adware to VLC and releasing them as the original product.

Linux Mint developers have announced that they will not base Linux Mint 11 KDE on Kubuntu. Instead, it will be based on Debian.

The world of software patents is getting ugly and the competition is extremely high. In such a world, it is extremely important to have a fair understanding of the technologies you are dealing with and the patent infringement it can cause. Debian is here to help.

Ubuntu 11.10 will have a fully revamped version of Gwibber – Gwibber 3.1. While the earlier version of Gwibber was made using Python and Webkit, Gwibber 3.1 is made using Vala and GTK3.

The sixth release candidate of Linux 3.0 was supposed to be the last one. However, Torvalds has decided to have one more release candidate – Linux 3.0 rc7.

CentOS developer Karanbir Singh has announced the availability of CentOS 6.0 for download. CentOS (Community Enterprise Operating System) is a Linux based operating system that is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The Indian Government has announced that open drivers are a requirement for the hardware that will be procured under the e-governance projects.

After the delay. Canonical has released the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10. Meant for development purposes, this release has a number of new features that will finally make it to the final release in October.

According to the original release schedule, Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 2 was supposed to be released on 30th June. The release date was missed and now, it has been revealed that the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 will be released on 7th July.

Thunderbird has replaced Evolution as the default email client in the daily build of Ubuntu 11.10

Facebook has banned a number of KDE applications from uploading photos and deleted the photos uploaded through these applications before.

Almost all the major Linux distributions are using LibreOffice instead of OpenOffice. Today, it has been announced that Debian Squeeze too will get LibreOffice in the backports.

Canonical has decided that it is time for the Software Center to replace Synaptic. So, in the next daily build of Ubuntu 11.10, Synaptic will no longer be installed by default.

Firefox 5 was officially released only yesterday and today the Ubuntu 11.04 main repository has been updated with Firefox 5.

The state of ARM in Linux kernel can still be ignored all right but we have seen how Microsoft is talking of a Windows 8 tablet now. ARM is indeed important for the future of portable and mobile computing.