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Still waiting for February paycheck Android developers across Europe are up in arms as Google hasn't processed their March payments, which should have arrived more than a week ago.…

Unfortunately legal issues, specially patents lawsuits, are much in the news. From Yahoo suing Facebook to the ongoing battles surrounding Apple and other mobile device providers, my RSS and social media feeds seem to have more and more articles about legal issues everyday.

Oracle’s history of not caring too much about Free Software led several contributors to fork OpenOffice.org. And that is a very brief account of how LibreOffice came to be. Not knowing what to do with OpenOffice.org after most of the contributors left to join The Document Foundation, which oversees the development of LibreOffice, Oracle donated OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) on June 1 2011. Since then, the ASF has been working behind the scenes to take over complete control of the project’s development. It has since been renamed to Apache OpenOffice. So what exactly has the ASF being doing? The following graphic, published in a blog post here, provides a clue.

This month Arch Linux is turning 10: "I can only add Thanks Judd for this great piece of software, and to all the contributors out there, thank you too for your time and effort, making Arch Linux one of the most used Linux Distributions."

I love CrunchBang Linux. In my opinion, it’s one of the best distributions of Linux for older computers (heck, any computer) that is actively developed. I pieced together a Gateway M250 laptop a year or so ago (3 bad ones parted out into 1 good one) and loaded it up with max RAM (2GB). It’s now a handy little 14 inch laptop with a 1.73Ghz single core Centrino processor. Not bad…but when playing videos or streaming them, it can really struggle. So keeping the operating system lightweight on it is a definite must. Enter, CrunchBang. It’s small and fast. It’s elegant and slick.

Windows is in no way a challenge, at least not like Linux is. And before someone start saying that Linux is a challenge because it is difficult, I should add, that it could be as easy as Windows, but you can complicate it as much as you want. That is what I like about it: you can use it as day-to-day tool, but also as a hobby to learn new things.

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the availability of the Calculate Linux 11.15 on 14th Mar, 2012. It provides CDS [calculate directory server] using server version and user can use this services by the desktop medium. The main change in this version is migration to GNOME shell.

FrostWire 5.3.3 has been released, this is a stable release that comes with improvements in Search, Magnet support and performance. If you didn`t hear about FrostWire before, it is “FrostWire is a free, open source BitTorrent client first released in September 2004, as a fork of LimeWire.

Thunderbird 11 has been released, this is a new release that comes with a new user interface with Tabs above the main menu bar to facilitate navigation and make it more contextual, fixed a various bugs including security bugs, Thunderbird notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later,

Many Linux distributions specialized for multimedia distributions have come and gone. Some were pretty good, but Dream Studio has outshone them all. Musician and maintainer Dick Macinnis has just released Dream Studio 11.10, based on Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot. Dream Studio 11.04 is a tough act to follow – is it worth upgrading to 11.10?

This guide describes how to automatically search and download movie and tv series subtitles through VLC by using VLSub extension.

The HeliOS Project's Ken Starks, who is currently battling neck and throat cancer, gives an interview to update folks on his condition and how it affects the project, which provides Linux-based computers to underprivileged kids in the Austin, Texas, area.

Poor Nokia. It comes up with a really nice phone running Windows Phone 7, but it still might not be enough to make significant gains on iOS or Android.

It is here! The 2.0 beta release of RapidDisk which introduces the new RapidCache module. The purpose of RapidCache is to map a RapidDisk volume to a separate physical volume as a Write-Through and Read-Through caching node.

Near the end of February marked the release of DragonflyBSD 3.0 with multi-core speed boosts and other improvements, but how does this correlate to performance improvements in our usual open-source benchmarks?

ABLEconf 2012's keynote is "Getting Animated with Open Source" from Curtis Zinzilieta of Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS). Former RedHatter will cover Open Source contributions from WDAS and the business decisions behind those contributions.

ABLEconf is an annual business and technology Free Software conference from the Open Technology Educational Corportation. ABLEconf aims to show the Arizona business, non-profit, education and government communities that Free Software makes economic and business security sense.

Josh Paetzel has announced the availability of the FreeNAS 8.2.0 second beta version on 14th Mar, 2012. FreeNAS is small-scale operating system based of FreeBSD which gives the NAS [network attached storage] facilities like CIFS, FTP and NFS.

SLES 11 SP2 adds a new kernel, support for Btrfs and LXC, and Snapper to manage snapshots and rollbacks. Koen Vervloesem explains all…

Drupal, Joomla and WordPress might be all that and a bag of chips in the US market, but they are just also-rans in Germany where little-known Typo3 controls the market.

This HOWTO will give you the BEST home media and file server out there at a cheap (free) cost. It includes SSH2, Remote Desktop, UPNP/DLNA server, SAMBA Shares (Windows file-sharing), VPN server, and the Transmission bit-torrent server. The final piece of the schema is a new toy: Subsonic. This gives you web-based media streaming to watch your content anywhere via a web-browser.