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The United States Supreme Court has ruled against Microsoft in a $290 million patent infringement case related to Microsoft Word.

In this tutorial I'll explain two different methods of installing the latest version of Flash Player in Ubuntu Natty Narwhal. The first one is the manual way, which means we will have to download the Flash plugin from the Adobe website and copy it manually in the ~/.mozilla directory. The second way is straightforward by using Ubuntu's multiverse repositories. This tutorial applies for the 32-bit version.

Like most Linux fans, Slashdot blogger and Windows fan hairyfeet didn't care about the kernel's numbering -- but for different reasons. "Frankly I don't care if he calls it Shaka Zulu; I'll just be ever so happy when Torvalds retires or is fired," he said. "Here it is 2011 and you still have a mess thanks to Torvalds treating the kernel like his personal play toy."

As you all probably know already, the upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system will have a new default display manager, called LightDM.

Giovanni Campagna, a GNOME Shell developer has reported a bug and already submitted 3 patches for including libappindicator + dbusmenu support in GNOME Shell as a part of the core, not as an extension (because it can't be implemented as an extension).

Fabrice Bellard, creator of the multiple architecture emulator QEMU and FFmpeg, amongst other open source projects, has unleashed his Javascript powered PC emulator. In its current state, it boots a stripped down, text mode Linux implementation and runs within a modern browser. Interesting curio or a potentially useful tool?

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Squeeze system. The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

There are various ways to encrypt some private files in your Dropbox folder: you can use Truecript, EncFS, SecretSync (now available for Linux too) etc. but I find EncFS to be the best/easiest solution. Read on.

Cloud computing is all the rage today, with everyone from the U.S. Federal government to Apple herding us into a brave new world of remotely hosted data and services. As usual, we're rushing down a road before thinking about where it may lead.

If you happen to use the Chrome or Chromium browser and you are looking for an easy way to spice up your photos with vintage effects, the Lomo+ web app is right up your alley.

In this tutorial I will show you several simple ways of creating ISO images with Ubuntu, from doing it with graphical applications included in the repositories or by using just the command-line. Each method below will get the work done, and you can start burning your images to a CD or DVD in no time.

Open...and Shut. In the tech industry today, and particularly in mobile, you can make lots of money as a premium innovator (Apple's iOS) or as a mass-market commoditizer (Google Android). But it turns out that there's little room for more than one company in either category, That's why Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and RIM are struggling to compete with Apple, while Canonical, MeeGo, and others are falling behind Google.

As you might have noticed, we love talking about file systems. In these discussions the term "inode" is often thrown about. But what is an inode and how does it relate to a file system? Glad you asked.

Lists: We all make ‘em and, judging by what appears on LXer.com, we all read ‘em. Not only this, a great majority of them are worthwhile and informative. Larry the Free Software Guy takes 10 of the best from the last few months and makes his own list.

William and Glenn @ Podcast 17 recently interviewed Gabe Newell, Founder/Managing Director of Valve Software on their latest Episode. In this episode, Gabe talks about difficulties in having a Gaming Client for Linux and trade-offs Valve have to make while taking development decisions for different gaming platforms.

This is a simple tutorial to configure ISPConfig to work with ProFTPd instead of PureFTPd on Debian. Please note that this tutorial does not include quota support.

Fans of Linux, Microsoft and Macs used to be able to search for information about those topics on Google using specialized search tools that narrowed the results to a focused set of highly relevant Web sites. Earlier this week, however, it was discovered that Google has pulled the plug on many such specialized search portals--including Google.com/linux, Google.com/microsoft, Google.com/mac and Google.com/bsd--redirecting users to Google.com/webhp instead.

Browser wars were supposed to be over years ago. Arrival of Google Chrome changed all that. And with the passage of time, Google Chrome growth story is gaining some serious momentum. Google Chrome might have already breached the magic 20% market share and there are no signs of a slow down.

Something I have had Enlightenment users ask about a few times now is how to take a screen shot. Enlightenment now has a built in "Shot" module that allows you to quickly take and save/upload screen shots.

Last week, the Xen.org community announced a significant milestone in the world of Linux virtualization with the news that open source Xen code for Dom0 was accepted into the Linux mainline kernel.