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Following last month's Btrfs file-system tuning benchmarks, in this article are a similar set of tests when stressing the EXT4 file-system with its various performance-related mount options. Here are a number of EXT4 benchmarks from Ubuntu 12.10 with different mount option configurations.

Great news! 5 games have been added to the Humble Bundle for Android #4!

In a statement on her blog, Mitchell Baker, Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, said that the organisation has its sights firmly set on the mobile space for 2013. The goal is to duplicate the organisation's success with Firefox on the desktop on mobile phones and tablets. "We’re building these products now. We have the financial resources to support these efforts," Baker said. The product in question is Firefox OS, which Mozilla's developers have been working on for the better part of a year. Since Mozilla has had difficulty in bringing full versions of Firefox to iOS, Windows Phone and Windows 8 on tablets, it is now building its own ecosystem based on web technologies including HTML5 and JavaScript.

Netflix video streaming is now available on Linux through the use of Wine. When running a specially patched version of Wine in conjunction with the Microsoft Windows versions of Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight, Netflix can now do Internet video streaming to the Linux desktop...

This tutorial shows how to get DKIM working on a CentOS box running Postfix using OpenDKIM. I'll also cover some simple troubleshooting tips and advice for future upgrades on your OpenDKIM installation.

CAINE is a well-known specialised Linux distribution focusing on penetration testing. With its latest 3.0 release, it updates itself to the Ubuntu 12.04 base and adds a host of new tools

Project Leader Robyn Bergeron has announced the results of the naming of version 19 of the popular Linux distribution. The successor to Fedora 18 "Spherical Cow" will be called "Schrödinger's Cat"

Learning how to wrap GTK+ C modules for use in Python will enable you to use a C-coded GObject in Python whenever you like, whether or not you're especially proficient in C.

It generally worked fine, but the unreliability of both Okular and the shutdown process means that better KDE distributions for long-term work use can be found.

06/11/2012. A historic day. Valve releases his first Steam Linux Client ever.

Although Samsung's thin and lightweight Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets have dominated the 10-inch Android tablet market for the past 18 months, that's about to change with new entrants from both Lenovo and Google. DeviceGuru reviewed Lenovo's IdeaTab S2110, which optionally morphs into a laptop-like hybrid. How did it compare?

Android developers often complain about fragmentation of the platform, and Google apparently agrees – so much so that it's written an anti-fragmentation clause into the license terms of the latest Android SDK (software development kit). Under Section 3.4 of Google's new terms and conditions, "You agree that you will not take any actions that may cause or result in the fragmentation of Android, including but not limited to distributing, participating in the creation of, or promoting in any way a software development kit derived from the SDK."

No, this entry has nothing to do with Linux, its applications or it's inner-workings. It has to do with many of the people that use Linux....and how they came together to save a man's life.

Skype logo Microsoft's Skype division has released version 4.1 of its popular closed source VoIP, video and text chat software for Linux. The latest release of the software, labelled 4.1.0.20, is a major update to the 4.x branch and brings with it enhancements to the application's user interface and several new features, such as support for signing into Microsoft accounts.

Mageia 3, the next version of the popular new distribution, is in its final Alpha stages, with updates to the installer and kernel

Valve's initial roll-out of their Steam client for Linux is all centered around Ubuntu. With Ubuntu having the largest market-share on the Linux desktop, Valve is focusing upon proper Ubuntu support as their first priority. In the days that the Ubuntu/Debian package has been available of the Steam Linux Beta, it's already been reported to work on other Linux distributions. Some Linux distributions have also begun to package the Steam Linux binary for their own platforms, but now there's some concerns about doing this, at least from the Arch Linux camp.

Matthias Clasen proudly announced a few minutes ago, November 15, that the second and last maintenance release of the GNOME 3.6 desktop environment is now available for download.

With the much-ballyhooed launches of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 behind it, Microsoft has now announced its product road map for the less consumer-centric version of its OS platform: Windows Embedded.

Linux 3.7 introduces a range of Btrfs performance improvements. The kernel now supports the SMB data exchange protocol used by recent Windows versions, and it offers discard functionality for software RAIDs, which is important for SSDs

Unity3D the awesome game engine has official released 4.0 including the much requested Linux publishing support which will hopefully pave way for many more Linux titles!