Would Android be better if it could run Windows applications? Plus: Three alternative browsers for Linux, and Wil Wheaton does not like Ubuntu.

We are pleased to announce our new release, CAELinux 2013. CAELinux 2013 is based on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit distribution and it contains a unique suite of open-source simulation tools for FEA, CFD or multiphysics simulation, but also a large panel of other engineering software for CAD-CAM and 3D printing, electronics, mathematics and programming. CAELinux 2013 represents a complete rebuild of the distribution with up-to-date software for better support of modern hardware and significantly enhanced ease of use, and we hope that you will enjoy it.

Almost 25 years ago a young engineer started an operating system project "just for fun" to run on his own hardware. He opened it up to the world, and through a combination of good design and good luck, Linux was born. The Internet was the fundamental enabling technology of the large scale collaboration that produces Linux. The ability to cheaply and easily share files has created a system and community that has disrupted major industries, where Linux’ impact has been felt from super computing to mobile phones. Higher education is facing a similarly disrupting force powered by the Internet—Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) make information available to anyone, anywhere, as long as they have a connection to the Internet.

It should aid porting Windows games to other platforms, but it won't be revolutionary.

Note: This is the first article in a series intended to cover the basics of Linux and Ubuntu. In the course of several chapters, this series will explain pretty much everything to get started with Ubuntu.

Like other non-profit organizations, The Partnership for Appalachian Girls' Education (PAGE) faces funding challenges as it aims to achieve its mission of delivering innovative out-of-school learning opportunities for adolescent Appalachian girls.

If Canada's government can't muster faith in US cloud computing, why should you?

In August 2011, the federal government announced plans to consolidate more than 100 different email systems used by over 300,000 employees into a single, outsourced email system. While the email transition is currently underway -- Bell won the nearly $400 million contract last year -- the decision quietly sparked a trade fight with the United States that placed the spotlight on the risks associated with hosting computer data outside the country.

Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin explains what the open source consortium hopes to achieve through its new "Introduction to Linux" edX MOOC.

The open-source Xen hypervisor virtualization project is getting a major new feature release this week that expands deployment options for ARM and cloud environments.

Anyone still using MS Office should consider the advantages of moving to LibreOffice. For most single computer users, the move can be made with ease. When multiple computers and users are involved, as would be the case with most businesses, migration must be handled with care. However, any effort in this direction would quickly pay for itself in reduced licensing fees to Microsoft.

Xen 4.4 brings more ARM support and better scalability for cloud computing to the open source virtualization hypervisor.

Well, I've mentioned for a long time that Crytek was joining the Linux gaming scene... Later this month at GDC they have confirmed they will be showing off CryEngine on Linux.

The get_resource function in repos.c in the mod_dav_svn module in Apache Subversion before 1.7.15 and 1.8.x before 1.8.6, when SVNListParentPath is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors related to the server root and request methods other than GET.

Xen, the open-source virtualization project, believes that ARM has a big role to play in the server and datacenter space, so it's adding support to more ARM chipsets.

The Wine emulator's lack of compatibility with Google's ChromeOS, Android and ARM highlights the limits of cross-platform computing in the era of the cloud.

A new era of dynamic Linux kernel patching tools is now starting to emerge. We've all known about Oracle's kSplice for years, but now SUSE and Red Hat are actively seeking to enter the space.

Microsoft just open-sourced a software development kit that will enable Android developers to bring Office 365 data to their Android apps.

Digital music distribution and technology company INgrooves is growing rapidly, signing contract after contract to distribute music for independent labels and artists. The company had originally deployed a traditional storage platform from a large manufacturer, but as their business expanded, they found that the storage expansion they needed was too costly and began looking for a more efficient and cost-effective storage solution.

With GLAMOR generating a lot of interest lately due to AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver depending upon it and Intel driving lots of improvements into it now that it's been merged into the X.Org Server, here's some new benchmarks of Intel Haswell HD Graphics 2D performance of the latest Intel xf86-video-intel 3.0 pre-release on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS comparing the GLAMOR, UXA, and SNA acceleration architectures.

Crytek is adding native Linux support to its powerful computer game engine. The company, best known for PC thumper Crysis and Xbox One launch title Ryse, announced the development on Tuesday. Gamers will be able to see CryENGINE running natively on GNU/Linux-powered systems at the upcoming Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.

conf.kde.in 2014 was held at DA-IICT (Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology) in Ghandinagar, India during the weekend of 22nd to 24th February. It was a big mashup of many different cultures with speakers and delegates from Europe, the USA and different parts of India.

Kontron’s tiny “world’s first x86-based SMARC COM” features up to 8GB RAM and 64GB SSD, hi-res graphics, camera input, high-speed USB, a PCIe bus, and more.

Forge Quest is a dungeon crawling RPG set in a voxel world. Currently in early access on Steam and the developers have confirmed the Linux version will arrive within a day or so.

Heads up smartwatch developers, Google's wearable device SDK is just two weeks away.

Congatec announced a Linux-ready Qseven computer-on-module with a choice of three dual-core AMD G-Series SoCs, an optional 64GB SSD, and up to 8GB ECC RAM. Like last year’s Conga-TCG COM Express computer-on-module, Congatec’s new Conga-QG taps AMD’s Embedded G-Series SoC. But like its more recent Atom E3800 based Conga-QA3, the Conga-QG adheres to the 70 […]

New release from Xen Project includes additional ARM Support and scalability for Cloud and Mobile environments

Geoscience Australia has a freely downloadable gazetteer of Australian placenames with more than 370 000 entries. The download is a .zip file (83 mb) containing a user guide together with placenames data in GML, KML and Microsoft Access (.mdb) formats. What I wanted from all that data was a simple table. Each row would have one placename, its latitude, its longitude, and maybe some other useful items, like the State or Territory in which the place was located. After inspecting the downloaded .zip file, I built the table in a few minutes using GNU/Linux shell commands.

Ever heard of a big open-source company kicking out sponsors from a major conference that it has planned, apparently for no good reason?

By the end of part 1, we had purchased a domain name, set up a basic server, and done a bare-bones installation of Postfix and Dovecot. Here in part 2, we've got three primary tasks: Acquire and install an SSL/TLS certificate for our mail server; Perform some basic Postfix configuration so that it can function as an MTA and work with Dovecot; Perform some basic Dovecot configuration, including setting up three virtual users and their mail directories. Let's get started.

Mozilla quietly announced in a blog post March 7 that it is no longer putting full-time developers to work on the Persona Web-authentication system. In my opinion, that's a real shame and a tragic failure for Mozilla and its efforts to help build a more open and secure Internet.