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Richard Stallman took time out of his busy schedule to answer the burning question of whether Android is free software. Brian Proffitt says Stallman's 1,439-word Guardian article is one of the longest ways he has seen lately to deliver what should have been an obvious (and 1,438-word shorter) answer: No. However, Proffitt points out that lately that the Free Software Foundation and free software leadership have taken great pains to level broadsides against open source projects and, by extension, open source software in general.

Is Microsoft finally resigned to the fact that Windows can never again be the dominant operating system on our planet? Or is the behemoth planning to make one final attempt to control what you use?

EML files are a problem for some of my users on Ubuntu. They receive these as Email attachments but can only view them as text (usually in gedit) even if they contain pictures. The senders are probably using Outlook Express or a related mail application to attach them. While some non-Microsoft mail clients can open them properly this is a hassle for my users as they all use web mail.

The Open Virtualization Alliance is continuing to grow with membership now exceeding 200 companies all pushing KVM and associated open-source virtualization solutions. Should VMware worry? Here's the update.

Go penguin, you're often paying Redmond In the latest news from the tech world's ongoing global hunt to find someone to sue over/deal with on patents, Microsoft has signed a licensing agreement with Casio.…

In this tutorial I will show you how to do continuous deployment with Jenkins as a ci tool and Rex as a deployment tool. Together, we will set up Jenkins, the build and test process, a Subversion repository and our example Perl App. This tutorial can be used with Java-, PHP-, Rails-, ... projects as well. But for simplicity I've chosen Perl. This howto focuses on Ubuntu 11.04 but it can also be done with other Linux Distributions.

The advent of radio didn't mean the death of live theater, as conventional wisdom at the time predicted. Televisions in every household didn't exactly ring a death knell for movie theaters, despite pundits' predictions. So Larry the Free Software Guy points out to those risking injury jumping on the Linux-desktop-is-dead bandwagon that you're on the wrong side of history.

Pardus 2011.2, code-named Cervus elaphus, is the latest version of the Linux desktop distribution developed by the Turkish National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), an arm of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK).

The UEFI secure boot protocol is part of recent UEFI specification releases. It permits one or more signing keys to be installed into a system firmware. Once enabled, secure boot prevents executables or drivers from being loaded unless they're signed by one of these keys. Another set of keys (Pkek) permits communication between an OS and the firmware. An OS with a Pkek matching that installed in the firmware may add additional keys to the whitelist. Alternatively, it may add keys to a blacklist. Binaries signed with a blacklisted key will not load.

New free app provides Moodle course management system access for Moodlers on the go.

All file managers provide basic file management operations such as create, open, view, edit, move and delete files. However, many Android file managers also offer additional functionality such as network connectivity, application management, archive and compression handling, searching, and more.

Those of us who enjoy open source software often forget that the vast majority of open source developers do this on their own time and their own dime. For some that’s not a problem … a precious few some. For many these projects are headed up by younger developers, students, and people in less fortunate situations (for whatever reason). So every five dollar donation can go a long way to keeping a project running.

SUSE Linux, now owned by Attachmate, is preparing customer and partner surprises that will likely involve public cloud and private cloud initiatives. Details will surface at Novell BrainShare in October. Here's an early preview of the strategy.

If you are working in a heterogeneous environment, that is Windows and Linux/Unix, chances are sooner or later you will have to deal with Samba. Samba's name comes from Microsoft's SMB (Server Message Block), which is the protocol used for Microsoft's standard network file system. We will show you how to install, configure and use Samba, and what advantages it can bring to your network, be it at home or at work.

Tutorial about lxc (Linux containers) under Debian Squeeze

A number of months ago I wrote about plans for some of the Wayland code to be re-licensed under the LGPLv2. That didn't happen and now Kristian is looking at a new license for the Wayland reference code...

To what extent does Android respect the freedom of its users? For a computer user that values freedom, that is the most important question to ask about any software system.

I use PHPUnit and the DbUnit extension for my unit tests. Because I use InnoDB tables with foreign keys I cannot use an SQLite database or temporary tables to run my unittests on. So, I have set up a separate MySQL server to run all my unittests on. The only downside is that after a while, you get a bunch of unused databases on the server. So, I have written a simple bash cronjob that deletes all databases from the server that have not been used for some time.

The Fuduntu quarterly installation ISO image (14.11) is now available for immediate download. As with all Fuduntu releases, this release continues our tradition of small incremental improvements.

Gökçen Eraslan proudly announced last evening, September 19th, the immediate availability for download and upgrade of the popular Pardus 2011.2 Linux-based Turkish operating system.