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Acclaimed game "Dungeons of Dredmor" is now available into The Humble Introversion Bundle! If you already bought the bundle, and you paid more than the average price of it, you can now download it for free!!!

U.S. Senator Al Franken asked software maker Carrier IQ to respond to claims by an independent security researcher that its products collect and transmit potentially sensitive data about millions of mobile phone users.

What's new in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 1? Well, the big news is that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Alpha 1 includes the Linux kernel 3.2.0-2.5 packages, based on the Linux kernel 3.2 RC3 development release.

The Duqu malware that targeted industrial manufacturers around the world may have been spawned by a well-funded team of competent coders, but their command of Linux led to some highly amateur mistakes.

Now that my HP Pavillion DV7-2180US laptop is working again I ran in to a little snafu getting my Intel Pro 5100 ABGN wireless adapter to work in Linux. I tried every Linux distribution in my arsenal – Sabayon, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mageia, Mepis, and others – trying to find one that would work properly with my Intel Pro 5100 ABGN wireless adapter. All of them had the same problem: they would connect, but the connection would be extremely slow. I finally went to Google to try to figure out what was going wrong. There I found that I was not alone. There were several fixes posted but none of them worked right – they either still left me with a slow connection or made my Intel Pro 5100 ABGN wireless adapter unusable.

If you just throw a mobile app out there thinking it's just another channel to advertise your product, you're missing a golden opportunity to interact with your customers in a meaningful way.

Tor core developer, Wikileaks representative and security research Jacob Appelbaum will deliver a keynote address at linux.conf.au 2012

Marlin is a relatively new file browser for GNOME somewhat similar with Nautilus when it comes to features, but with a different default interface.

Ubuntu started shipping with the release 10.04 with a new init system called Upstart that has babysitting built in, so let’s talk about that. I’ll be doing all of these examples on Ubuntu 10.04, but any upstart-using system should work. For me, the most important two features of Upstart are babysitting and events. Upstart supports the simple runner scripts that daemontools, supervisord, and other similar-class tools support. It also lets you configure jobs to respond to arbitrary events.

Overview of 6 open-source games: Battle for Wesnoth, AssaultCube, Neverball, Xonotic, Hedgewars, Warzone 2100.

Google has been on a killing spree the last few months, whacking projects that are non-essential to the company strategy or that haven't caught on. Even though this has angered some users, Google is still stubbornly clinging to one of its biggest dogs to date: ChromeOS and the Chromebooks.

This tutorial shows how to prepare an OpenSUSE 12.1 64bit (x86_64) server with nginx for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. Since version 3.0.4, ISPConfig comes with full support for the nginx web server in addition to Apache, and this tutorial covers the setup of a server that uses nginx instead of Apache. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: nginx and Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, BIND or MyDNS nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.

This new release, codenamed “Xiphophorus”, comes with several new features and a small bug fix.

This time we bring you an interview with Michael Hanke and Yaroslav O. Halchenko, leaders of the NeuroDebian project. NeuroDebian is a turnkey platform (using Debian as its foundation) that offers a huge bundle of FLOSS software for neuroscientists. Enjoy the interview!

I recently had the opportunity to look into the anti-malware world of Apple OS X. One of our clients moved to a new office in late October 2011. As part of this move they also moved from Microsoft operating systems and software to Apple OS X systems and software, making a clean break from all things Microsoft. While researching their question about anti-malware for OS X I found that the world of anti-malware for OS X is just as fraught with information and disinformation from Apple fans, Apple opponents and anti-malware vendors as the world of Linux seems to be at times with its fans and detractors. I came to the following conclusion which is paraphrased and expanded from the e-mail I sent our client.

The term open core is poison for an open source project today isn't it? More often than not, the term open core refers to some crippled piece of open source software that only really works when paired with some type of proprietary shell that make the software usable. Yet, the open core model – is still what many open source software firms (or at least, those that have raised venture funds) are embracing. There is another way. It's called the Layered Open Source Model

(Sacramento, CA, USA: November 30, 2011) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced a new Master Affiliate for Croatia (LPI-Croatia). LPI-Croatia will be managed and operated by the Croatian Linux Users Group--Hrvatska Udruga Linux Korisnika (HULK: http://www.linux.hr).

Everyone has predictions for the coming year but when the CTO of a major Cloud provider speaks, you should listen. John Engates, Rackspace CTO, gives his 2012 Cloud predictions.

A full review of Linux Mint 12, including a gallery of images. The moment so many have waited for is finally here. Linux Mint 12 has been released! This update to Linux Mint has had many people on edge since it marks the move from the older version of GNOME to GNOME 3.2. GNOME 3.2, as you might already know, has had many detractors. Linux Mint users have wondered how on earth such a popular distribution would make a transition to such a reviled and hated desktop interface.

Carrier IQ’s support software has been monitored closely by Android security watchdogs for the last few weeks. After an embarrassing public relations snafu, the company stated that their software does not record personal information, despite the findings of an independent security analyst. But The Register reports that same analyst has now shown the Carrier IQ software logging keystrokes in real time, and transmitting them over an unsecure wireless connection. Carrier IQ is, in a word, busted.