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Today's updates for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system added a new default wallpaper to the existing ones.

Google, the maker and manager of the Android platform, has claimed that Android is the world’s best open source software system. How true are these claims? A report based on a recent study by market research firm VisionMobile about several popular open source projects.

In the constant battle for performance and lower power consumption some OS makers are preparing for ARM-based server clusters

This move was so brazenly weird that we decided we’re going to hear even more wild and crazy announcements from HP in the near future, so we put our brains into overtime figuring out what we might expect. Here it is, the top 10 announcements to expect from HP CEO Leo Apotheker..

(Sacramento, CA, USA: August 25, 2011) - The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), will offer all LPIC exams at the Ohio LinuxFest 2011 (Columbus, Ohio: http://www.ohiolinux.org/) on Sunday, September 11, 2011. This is the sixth year that LPI has been certification sponsor for Ohio LinuxFest.

Meet the man who pioneered x86 virtualization, Kevin Lawton, in an in-depth interview about Bochs, virtualization and the future of computing.

Dreamfish Community Tech, a digital cooperative in Nairobi, Kenya, gets a "Grant" -- Grant Bowman, that is -- as the Technologist in Residence this fall. A tireless FOSS advocate and a board member for Partimus in the San Francisco Bay Area, Bowman will be getting things rolling in Kenya for the next three months, and Larry the Free Software Guy makes him promise to put his return ticket in a safe place.

A lot has been written about Bodhi Linux in its short existence. Bodhi appeared out of nowhere not even a year ago it seems and quickly gained followers aplenty. Usually there's a good reason for something like this. So much has been written in such little amount of time, I'm not going to go into all the aspects of this little distro, for example that Bodhi means Enlightenment, a nice word play on the default desktop environment of choice E17, just a quick look.

Urban terror is a great FREE FPS Game with low system requirements, it features realistic game play similar to counter strike and works flawlessly in Linux. Its easy to install, its available in the repository so installation in Fedora is very easy, you just need to type one command. This installation tutorial is intended for Fedora 14 and 15. To install Urban Terror, open up your terminal and type the below command as root.

The changes this month from some of the biggest brands in technology have shaken the very foundation of the technology business and it's hard to know what's going to happen as a result.

Shortly after Fedora 15 was GA’d, I decided to take the plunge and give Gnome 3 a try. Gnome 3 is, in my humble opinion, such a drastic change from the traditional desktop environment that I have had a very difficult time adjusting to how different it is. Call me old fashioned, but I like a few icons on my desktop, a fixed dock for shortcuts to my favorite applications, and a minimize button. My first Gnome 3 experience on my laptop, which I use for testing new releases, was a failure. Therefore, when it came time to upgrade my main desktop at work, I chose to once again attempt a conversion to KDE 4.

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It is one of the most popular games in the world, played by millions across the world, in clubs, by correspondence, in tournaments, and increasingly over the internet.

I am still using XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) aka Jabber for secure chat communication in my company, or for chats with friends. Lots of clients are available for every operation system – Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, iPhone OS and Android. After setting up a new server in our hosting location I installed ejabberd and wrote this small tutorial.

Fresh doubts have been cast over the Romanian government's position with regard to open source. The minister for Communication and Information Society, Valerian Vreme, announced back in May that the government would recommend open source "wherever appropriate"; however, a tender from the government emerged in August that specifically prohibited the use of open source software in any offer made in response. Now, a report from OSOR.EU quotes several authoritative sources doubting the validity of the prohibition and whether "it would stand in court".

In the constant battle for performance and lower power consumption some OS makers are preparing for ARM-based server clusters

The SCALE Call For Papers opens as of today August 25, 2011. Submittals for a wide range of topics around Open Source software will be considered. If you have an idea or subject pertaining to FOSS, submit your proposal to http://cfp.socallinuxexpo.org

If I had a single wish for Linux," said Slashdot blogger hairyfeet, "it would be that a Gates or Jobs would come along and just take it away from the hackers and trolls and give us a true third way where the user was No. 1 and everything was so simple and intuitive both Apple and MSFT were left thinking, 'How did that happen?'"

Google Chrome is not only the fastest loading and rendering browser available, it's also grabbing market share the fastest. And like all good browsers, Chrome offers thousands upon thousands of extensions that can be added to expand the functionality and fun of the browsing experience. Problem is, with so many extensions available, it's hard to know which ones are of the most interest to certain user groups. So, I took the time to dig through the piles to find what I thought to be the best collection of available Chrome extensions for Linux users. So, without further ado, let's get on with the list.

Lessfs offers a flexible solution to utilize data deduplication on affordable commodity hardware. In recent years, the storage industry has been busy providing some of the most advanced features to its customers, including data deduplication. Data deduplication is a unique data compression technique used to eliminate redundant data and decrease the total capacities consumed on an enabled storage volume. A volume can refer to a disk device, a partition or a grouped set of disk devices all represented as single device. During the process of deduplication, redundant data is deleted, leaving a single copy of the data to be stored on the storage volume.

Because Linux is free software and belongs to no-one, it is often assumed that Linux is “surrounded by legal uncertainties,” but Linux is no more or less prone to legal uncertainties than any other software. Richard Hillesley looks at the latest attempt to cast fear, uncertainty and doubt around the GPL and the Linux kernel…