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At this point, there’s no denying that Linux — despite high hopes early-on — is a late-entry to the world of tablets. But that doesn’t mean open-source enthusiasts have written off this segment of the hardware market. On the contrary, a number of initiatives to make Linux a viable choice for tablet users are in rapid development. Read on for a look.

"The whole thing just shows how hypocritical and frankly more than a little nuts the Linux community is," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet opined. "What is the one argument that gets trotted out any time anybody points out every other major OS on the planet has a driver ABI, like BSD, Solaris, OSX, OS/2, and Windows? Why, it's 'ZOMG people might make binary blobs! We can't have that, better to make a lousy product whose drivers break often, ZOMG!'"

You may wonder what is meant by the title. Code is code, right? It's important to be bug-free and that's that, what else? Development is more than writing code and testing/debugging it. Imagine you have to read someone else's work, and I suppose you already done that, and all the variables are named foo, bar, baz, var, etc. And the code isn't commented nor documented. You will probably feel the sudden urge to invoke unknown gods, then go to the local pub and drown your sorrows.

How many times have you searched for an important file but can not remember where is it ? Have you left the USB stick in your briefcase? Or, HDD backup in the office? Or even left in the USB in your car ? What a mess, right? What do you think of a way to save all your files in a safe place and have it always at your disposal? I have the right solution for you! DropBox! It’a multi-platform online storage service. It runs on Linux, Windows and even on your Android smartphone!

The number of people using Linux (and I mean Linux the kernel) and free software in general has exploded in the last 2 years thanks to Android and Google. Even if you want to discard phones and only count the tablets (which are starting to get very close to laptops in terms of what you can do with them), the number of new users is huge. And yet, we are all hostage of a choice -- a bad choice, in my humble opinion -- that Google made: Java.

More than 26,000 people have downloaded an operating system which members of the Anonymous hacker group claim to have created. The software is based on a version of the open-source operating system Linux and comes outfitted with lots of website sniffing and security tools. The "official" Anonymous group has distanced itself from the software. In a widely circulated tweet, AnonOps claimed the operating system was riddled with viruses.

Back in January there was the announcement of the KDE Spark Tablet. This was a re-branded Chinese tablet that was loaded up with a KDE Plasma Active desktop rather than Google's Android. While the "Spark" has yet to begin shipping, the name's been canned and now it's called the Vivaldi...

Simply put, the regular update release cadence of LibreOffice provides the highest quality open source office suite ever created.

The Council of Economy, Innovation and Science of the Government of Andalucía has announced the release of Guadalinex 8, an Ubuntu-based, easy-to-use, desktop Linux distribution developed to facilitate the access to information technology for all citizens. With a 40% improvement in boot speed and a complete redesign of the default desktop, the distribution incorporates the latest free software technologies, such as GNOME Shell, which provides for a more productive working environment while allowing high levels of customisation thanks to a multitude of extensions downloadable from the Internet. Most applications included in the default install have been upgraded to newer versions.

For a good couple of years now I've wondered if there was a way to write an authentication system in PHP that utilized SSH instead of the widely-breakable database and flatfile methods. After doing some research I found its possible after installing a PHP extension. This guide will detail the methods used to do this, with the intent of hopefully having this a more versatile option.

Only one and a half months till the final release of Mageia 2. A week ago we entered the version freeze and everybody is focused on fixing bugs. All Mageia contributors have been working very hard and we are all anxious now to finalize this second version. We need your tests more than ever. Download it and enjoy!

kalu is an upgrade notifier for Arch Linux, which can check for upgrades, AUR upgrades, watched (AUR) packages and Arch Linux News. It comes with a few options, notification templates, and also includes a GUI system upgrader.

Four days ago someone registered a new project on the SourceForge website, called Anonymous-OS, pretending that they are the famous Anonymous hackers.

Guadalinex is the linux operating system based on Ubuntu made for facilitate the information technology to the citizen by the government of Andalucia.

Dutch mental health center, Riagg Rijnmond, cures IT budget woes with NoMachine and Linux-based virtual desktops

Mint releases new desktop OS into already murky Linux desktop waters.

In ubuntu or other linux distributions iTunes still not available. There are several other audio player for Linux which can be taken as alternative for iTunes.

Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth wrote a blog post today pointing out that the popular Linux distribution has seen an increase in enterprise server adoption over the past year. He published a graph which indicates that Ubuntu deployments have surpassed those of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) among the top one million most popular websites.

A few minutes ago, March 15th, The Document Foundation company proudly announced the first maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.5 open source office suite software for Linux, Macintosh and Windows platforms.

If you currently use another edition of Linux Mint 12, like Linux Mint 12 KDE or Linux Mint 12 GNOME, you will find that there is very little difference, if any, in functionality between this LXDE edition and those other more popular editions, other than for some LXDE-specific applications. However, if you are new to Linux Mint, this brief review will take you through some of the features of this user-friendly desktop distribution.