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MeeGo, the open source operating system shepherded by Intel and Nokia, announced the first annual MeeGo Conference. Slated for November 15-17, the conference takes place in Dublin Ireland with more details set to come. As of now, registration and paper submissions have yet to be announced and sponsors haven't even been nailed down.

Linux is regularly accused of being too fragmented but Microsoft has its own minefield to navigate. One of the regular criticisms levelled against Linux is that with so many versions available the platform is "fragmented". The idea is that because there are so many "distributions" of Linux, users will be confused and unsure of which to pick.

A little over a month ago we released the Linux port of Osmos, promising statistics on our sales and downloads. We wanted to find out - from a financial perspective, for our studio - “is it worth porting games to Linux?” The short, simple answer… is “yes.” Did we get rich off it? No. But the time we invested was repaid, with room for margin of error, and possibly with a little extra at the end. Allow me to break it down..

nVidia released the new 256.35 display drivers as stable, just 2 days after the release candidate.

With many Linux distributions receiving major updates in recent weeks and months we have carried out a five-way Linux distribution comparison of openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, and Arch Linux. We have quite a number of tests comparing the 32-bit performance of these popular Linux distributions on older PC hardware.

Linux has changed almost beyond recognition since version 1.0 in 1994 and Ubuntu is about as polished and professional as it gets. It's approaching the level of polish of Mac OS X, is faster and easier to install than Windows, includes a whole suite of apps and offers tens of thousands more, runs on cheap commodity hardware and costs nothing.

In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we’ll discuss the following: * What is a particle system and where can we find it in Blender? * What are the types of Blender particle system? * Basic and practical uses of the Particle System * Creating Dust * Creating Smoke * Creating Fire * Creating Bubbles * Simulating Rock Slides * Creating Hair/Fur/Grass

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Ubuntu 10.04). 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).

Microsoft and Red Hat, Linux and Windows aren't supposed to get along right? But they do, and apparently Microsoft and Red Hat are now getting along very well too. During a Q&A session during Red Hat's Analyst Day this week, Red Hat revealed that it's relationship with Microsoft isn't as stormy as it once was. "That relationship with Microsoft, believe it or not, is pretty strong,"Paul Cormier executive vice president and president, products and technologies at Red Hat said.

agedu scans a directory tree and produces reports about how much disk space is used in each directory and subdirectory, and also how that usage of disk space corresponds to files with last-access times a long time ago.

The VideoLAN project is shipping version 1.1 of its open source VLC media player, adding hardware acceleration, WebM support, and faster HD decoding, but deleting Shoutcast support. Meanwhile, several industry reports suggest possible reasons for Adobe's temporary suspension of its beta 64-bit Linux version of Flash.

One thing that is always of concern when dealing with Apple is the extent to which Apple might break “unauthorised” access to “your” device with a new OS update. The recent 1.0 release of libimobiledevice allows access to iPhones and iPads on Linux. So does iOS4 break this newcomer to the iPhone scene?

Following bellow is attempt to debianize Xen 4.0.1-rc3,in other words to build debian packages been installed on recent Ubuntu 10.04 (9.10) servers set corresponding version of Hypervisor up. We follow closely recent blog entry of "User Virtual" , attempting to fix errors in patching of current version of /etc/init.d/xend.

Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin announced the full availability of Android 2.2 today at Verizon's Droid X event. This makes the Linux-based mobile OS available for over-the-air updates and allows OEMs to package new products with the operating system pre-installed.

Think of Sun Microsystems, and what comes to your mind? For me? Purple workstations--my first exposure to Sun equipment. For others, it might be Solaris. Or Java. There's a host of things Sun was well-known for before it was acquired by Oracle last year and systematically dismantled to fit within the Oracle ecosystem. But I'll bet middleware was not one of the things you initially recalled. But it's some of Sun-now-Oracle's cast-off middleware that may prove to be a huge business for a burgeoning new community, led by some former Sun employees.

Can’t wait till the latest version of digiKam appears in the official Ubuntu software repositories? You don’t have to: using the personal package archives (PPA) provided by the Launchpad service, you can install the latest release of digiKam with a few simple commands.

EveryDesk is a reinterpretation of the Linux desktop, designed to be used in public administrations or as an enterprise desktop. EveryDesk is a real OS on a USB key, not a live CD; so it can be modified, managed, upgraded or changed at will. Designed to work out of the box with AD, integrates local virtualization & lots more. Derived from Ubuntu, it does not need/modifies your HD, so it can be used as a demonstration tool or as an alternative to traditional thin clients.

In this part of the series we complete our tour of the Grace algorithmic composition environment. The Targets: Grace can format its output for the following targets and file types : * Audio - Realtime and file (WAV, AIFF, etc) * MIDI - Realtime and file (MID) * OSC - Realtime * Csound - Realtime and score file * FOMUS - File (LilyPond and others). We've already considered Grace as a generator for MIDI files and realtime performance. Now let's see how it works with Csound.

Just as late December brings Christmas, late June brings the annual "release train" from the Eclipse Foundation, and this year's train features the simultaneous release of project upgrades and new projects from 39 project groups. Featuring more than 33 million lines of code based on the work of 490 developers, the Helios release on Wednesday is the largest ever from the seven-year-old release train series. Highlights include a Linux IDE package, an Eclipse Marketplace Client for accessing open source plug-in software, and improved support for JavaScript and Java Enterprise Edition 6.

LinOn Monday, we suggested Ubuntu as a good starting point for experimenting with desktop Linux. If you have the option, dedicate a machine to it – by 2010 standards, even a modest-spec PC will run it fine. You'll be very pleasantly surprised by the transformation from a lumbering old XP box burdened with years of cruft to one with a fresh install of an OS that doesn't need multiple layers of security software.