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So you've taken the plunge and opted to install Bodhi Linux. Perhaps you read a recent review or one of the screen shots in our gallery caught your eye. Either way you've got a newly installed system and you might be wondering what exactly to do next. The following are seven things that are a good idea to do on a cleanly installed Bodhi system.

Pay what you want. Support charity. Get awesome games.

Amazon has declared its Linux Amazon Machine Image (AMI) production ready. With the update, Amazon is introducing a security center to track security and privacy issues, providing 50 new packages for the distribution and adding access to Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL).

For those looking for an interesting read today, Martin Gräßlin, the maintainer of KDE's KWin and known for his insightful blog posts, has written about fighting the schism in free software; in particular, the KDE vs. GNOME battle...

Will Windows 8 prevent Linux from being installed? And where is Linux 3.1 anyway?

For this HowTo I used a VirtualBox with CentOS 5.7 x86_64. I attached a separate 20GB Data drive mounted to /data. This will hold the lessfs DB and data. The lessfs mountpoint I put at /lessfs. This is a very basic setup, just to get it running. There is plenty of tuning to be done based on volume size, file types, and compression choices. The latest lessfs required more recent versions of fuse and tokyocabinet than was in the CentOS repository, so I chose to install most of this from source.

Here I'm just talking about what I'm currently working on with my space sim, network programming and how docking on ships will work.

- The Apache Software Foundation announces ApacheCon Keynotes by noted Open Source authority David A. Wheeler, Hortonworks CEO Eric Baldeschweiler, and IBM Emerging Internet Technology group CTO David Boloker.

This week’s interview is with Andy Spencer, developer of Aweather, a free software for visualizing meteorological radar data. AWeather has been on my radar (smart pun?) for a few years since I live in the Caribbean and weather is always a concern from June through November. I think readers will find this project interesting and I hope you will lend a hand to keep it rolling. Enjoy the interview!

There may be times that you may want a bash terminal or other Linux application but you are stuck in Windows. There are some ways around this so you can still access your Linux applications while using Microsoft Windows.

Today in New York, Amazon introduced Silk, an all-new web browser powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available exclusively on the just announced Kindle Fire. You might be asking, “A browser? Do we really need another one?”

This article will tell you how to sync the Evolution email client with just about any cell phone in Fedora 15.

Linux groups announce open source project Tizen to develop a Linux-based device software platform supporting smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment. Initial release of Tizen targeted for Q1 2012.

A quick look at Bodhi Linux 1.2, including a gallery of images.

T-Mobile announced two smartphones that run Android "Gingerbread" on a dual-core, 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, feature eight-and two-megapixel cameras and near field communication (NFC) radios, and support the carrier's 42Mbps HSPA+ 4G network. T-Mobile's version of the Samsung Galaxy S II offers a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, while the HTC Amaze 4G supplies a 4.3-inch display as well as high-end camera features....

If Canonical had its way, OEMs would make sure Ubuntu ran well on their hardware before shipping it. But most OEMs don’t, so Ubuntu developers have resorted to the next best thing: crowd-sourcing hardware validation to users via the Ubuntu Friendly program, which is almost ready for prime time. Here’s the scoop.

If you ask around about Gentoo, chances are you will get mixed reviews : some will say it's a waste of time, others will say it's only for ubergeeks, yet others will tell you it's the only way, but no one can deny the power that Gentoo offers in terms of choices and speed. Gentoo is a rolling release distribution, which means it has no release numbers and it's updated continuously.Gentoo is also a source-based distribution, which means that everything you install you must compile first.

As always, the free software community and the technology world in general are in a constant state of flux. Once you get used to the way that things operate, you can be certain that they are going to change. A lot of surprising events occurred recently: Intel teamed up with Google, Microsoft teamed up with Arm, and a controversy brewed over whether Windows 8 will lock out GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and other free operating systems. The world of free software is NEVER boring.

It was recently announced that Windows 8 would support a shiny new feature that is known as "secure boot". In case you have been living with your head under a technological rock for the last couple of weeks, this feature would allow hardware vendors would have the option of only allowing operating systems signed with their secure key to boot on the hardware.

Today I ran in to the problem of getting my Android phone to sync with Banshee in Fedora 15. No matter what I did, my Android phone wouldn’t show in Banshee’s devices list. I fixed it (yay!) and now here’s some tips on what to do if your Android phone won’t sync with Banshee.