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If you are reading this, you are most likely a Linux user in some way. You are also quite likely familiar with a certain phenomena. You probably love, hate, hate loving, and love hating Linux. Why does this occur?

Sprint will begin offering a WiMAX 4G-ready Android 2.3 phone for just $100 on Aug. 21. The Samsung Conquer 4G features a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 3.5-inch, 480 x 320 screen, plus Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and optional mobile hotspot capabilities, says the carrier....

Do you want to see your name on the front page of a book? It’s easier than you might think. First, write the book. Next, follow these simple steps to prepare an ebook using the free OpenOffice.org desktop publishing application

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 3 has been released and is now available for download. This release features Linux Kernel 3.0 final, Thunderbird 6, Firefox 6 and New Gwibber with improved design. Comipz, Unity and Unity 2D has been updated and Unity 2D is now fully compatible with GTK3. Both Unity and Unity 2D share same settings and Unity 2D have now better accessibility support.

Working for an IT Support company I needed a solution for automatically backing up a bunch of Linux servers, this guide will walk you through setting up rsnapshot on CentOS for automated rsync & ssh binary diff backups.

With the recent launch of Google+, Linux User columnist Simon Brew wonders if the search giant has the power to reinvent social networking…

Linus Torvalds has joined those who are stating that they really do not like the Gnome3 desktop. Linus states he is using Xfce ~ he thinks it's a step down from gnome2, but it’s a huge step up from gnome3; and Linus is not the only major Linux player who thinks Gnome3 is a backward step.

Red Hat is preparing a cloud surprise for partners in October 2011. Indeed, Red Hat’s first-ever North America Partner Summit (Oct. 25-27, Miami) will include a Cloud Symposium designed for VARs, integrators and cloud services providers (CSPs). Here's a preview.

There are almost more virtualization tools out there today than even Wikipedia can count. KVM, however, stands out among them as perhaps the only free, non-commercial and open source hypervisor designed for enterprise-grade performance. And it’s come far in its (comparatively) short life — so far, in fact, that it may be time to consider it as a virtualization solution for the desktop as well as the server. <a gref="http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/08/03/kvm-virtualization-ready-for-the-desktop/ ">Here's the update</a>.

This week we look at Amazon's practice of giving away Apps without compensation, the advantages of throwing out your code and software patent traps.

We take a step by step approach into getting Wi-Fi filesharing on your Blackberry Playbook to work with Linux.

Linux is not exactly the first platform that comes to mind when one thinks of computer gaming. Yet Canonical continues to expand the lineup of games available for purchase by Ubuntu users in the Software Center. Here’s a look at the latest additions, and the partnerships Canonical is building through them.

Fedora, Mint, Arch, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSUSE go head-to-head - we've dropped the six most popular Linux distributions of the day into a cage fight for your affections. Read on to discover which distro comes up top for installation ease, customisation, performance, security and more. Which flavour of Linux gets the gold medal?

For those not closely watching the Mesa Git tree, just hours ago the Mesa GLSL-To-TGSI translator was merged to master, making it a feature for the next Mesa 7.12 (or potentially Mesa 8.0) release...

HTML5 and Flash have been used to great effect in recreating traditional desktop apps that can be run through your web browser. Google is so confident that web apps can replace your desktop apps that it has released the ChromeOS, which is not much more than the Chrome web browser presented as a desktop operating system.

Firefox has long supported running web apps in a kind of desktop mode through projects like Prism, WebRunner and Chromeless. But a lot of these projects are either dead, in their early stages, or require a lot of mucking around to get running.

The good news is that it is quite easy to launch your favourite web apps in a chromeless Firefox 4/5 window with just a few simple steps.

When the Chrome web browser appeared from Google it was notable for two reasons: the rate of development and the speed of the browser. Chrome continues to see regular releases that push forward with new/better functionality as well as continuing to get faster. It is one of, if not the fastest browser available at the moment.

It's not that I have rendering problems with gnome3 (although I do have those too), it's that the user experience of Gnome3 even without rendering problems is unacceptable. Why can't I have shortcuts on my desktop? Why can't I have the expose functionality? Wobbly windows? Why does anybody sane think that it's a good idea to have that "go to the crazy 'activities'" menu mode? I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was "too complicated" for the user to remap some mouse buttons. In gnome3, the developers have apparently decided that it's "too complicated" to actually do real work on your desktop, and have decided to make it really annoying to do.

This is the next part i.e part-2 of my article which got published in the International Magazine “Linux For You” also popularly know as LFY. The article was published under the name of “Let’s Play With Emacs CLI” in the August 2010 edition. All the work done is under the creative common license as specified in the widgets also If you are new to Emacs and want to learn it ,You must visit the Part-1 first.

Perl Weekly is a brand new publication by Gabor Szabo well known Perl developer, consultant and trainer. The intention is to bring you the most important news and articles in the Perl World, on a weekly basis. Straight to your mailbox.

Just a few days after Pandigital began selling a $170 Nova and $180 Planet tablet at BestBuy and Amazon, respectively, it introduced a third seven-inch Android tablet called the Star, for $160. What's more, the company disclosed that all three tablets include ARM Cortex-A9 processors, representing a price breakthrough for products based on the technology....