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Suppose I could offer you a choice of two technologies for watching TV online. Behind Door Number One sits a free-to-watch service that uses off-the-shelf technology and that buffers just enough of each show to put the live stream on the Internet. Behind Door Number Two lies a subscription service that requires custom-designed hardware and makes dozens of copies of each show. Which sounds easier to build—and to use? More importantly, which is more likely to be legal? If you went with Door Number One, then you are a sane person, untainted by the depravity of modern copyright law. But you are also wrong. The company behind Door Number One, iCraveTV, was enjoined out of existence a decade ago. The company behind Door Number Two, Aereo, just survived its first round in court and is still going strong.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on a Fedora 17 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.

In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including the fact every major technology company is using it, the Gartner Hype Cycle is predicting that widespread HTML5 usage is years away. It's quite possible Gartner just got this one wrong.

There is good news for all GNOME users. It's official and GNOME Shell edition of Ubuntu is coming this October.

I had already decided that it would be a lot of work to trim down the excessive packages to what I actually wanted in the installation. I prefer to start with a minimal installation, then add what I want.

With that in mind, I downloaded the LXDE "light" version of the openmamba CD...

Lars Torben Kremer has announced last night, August 29th, the immediate availability for download and testing of the Beta release of the upcoming Snowlinux 3 E17 edition operating system.

According to a blog posting by Sean Michael Kerner, Linus Torvalds has declared his intention to jump the version number of the Linux kernel up to 4.0 when the second version number of the current branch gets close to reaching "the 30s". At the current kernel development speed, Linux 3.29 would be released in the autumn of 2016.

Jean-Philippe Guillemin has announced last evening, August 29th, that the fifth Release Candidate of the upcoming Zenwalk 7.2 Linux distribution is now available for download and testing.

For a long time, the co-founder of the GNOME desktop project, Miguel de Icaza, has not been heard of in the media. A few days back he surfaced, claiming to know why the Linux desktop has made little or no gain among computer users.

The legendary Mark Twain is said to have once observed, "If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes," and much the same sentiment could just as well be applied to life here in the Linux world. To wit: Not so very long ago, gaming was held up as one of the big obstacles keeping PC users off of Linux and on Windows instead.

It looks like the rumored GNOME Edition of Ubuntu, named GNOMEbuntu will become a reality on October 18th, 2012.

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of: Lazarus 1.0 The release is available for download at the SourceForge download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.0" directory.

With the first beta of version 3.1, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) is, for the first time, capable of migrating the virtual machine (VM) disk images between storage arrays while they are running

If you don't love the Sinclair Spectrum then this is not for you. This article shows how to set up the FUSE emulator with an XBOX 360 controller. The ultimate way to play Manic Miner.

Oracle engineers were briefed on critical vulnerabilities in the Java software framework more than four months before the flaws were exploited in malware attacks that take complete control of end-user computers, according to a published report.

For the first time, Google reveals some details about its desktop of choice: Ubuntu.

While Android includes SQLite, a built-in database, applications handling mission critical data require capabilities not available in SQLite.

The developer of Mayan EDMS, Roberto Rosario, has recently made some waves by cutting off access to his development sources amid claims of third party GPL violations.

Good News Everyone! Thanks to Ubuntu Gnome Community and Jeremy Bicha, it seems that the popular distribution will ship a flavor with a relatively pure GNOME experience, on the next release cycle, in October 18. At this point the effort is community based, but hopefully GNOMEbuntu will make it as Canonical’s official spin, similar to Kubunt, Xubuntu etc in 13.04 release.

The Distrowatch page says that it "uses APT for RPM and Synaptic as its package management tools." I felt this was right up my alley, as PCLinuxOS, my chosen distro, also uses APT for RPM and Synaptic.