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Canonical announced Asus' decision to load the Eee PC 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX with Ubuntu 10.10 from 1 June as one that will "make it one of the most user-friendly PCs on the market".

A lesser-known Linux distribution, and the Little Desktop That Could.

After relatively slow early sales, Asus, Motorola, and Samsung have reduced their Android tablet manufacturing plans by about 10 percent, according to a JP Morgan analyst. Meanwhile, the rumored Amazon.com Android tablet could sell 2.4 million units in 2012 without significantly cannibalizing the company's Kindle e-reader sales, according to a Piper Jaffray analyst....

It's pretty good, but aesthetic & Compiz issues keep it from being truly "excellent" as before.

Twitter Address Bar Search is a restart less add-on that lets you use Twitter to search for #hashtag and @username from the address bar in Firefox on the desktop and on Android.

Oracle is pleased to announce the general availability of Oracle Linux 6.1 for x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (6-bit) architectures. Oracle Linux 6.1 ships with two sets of kernel packages: Unbreakable Enterprise kernel installed and booted by default, and Red Hat compatible kernel installed by default. Oracle Linux 6.1 includes both a 32-bit and a 64-bit Unbreakable Enterprise kernel. Oracle Linux 6.1 Screenshot Tour

Companies like Microsoft are paying tons of money to lure consumers to their services, but the real value could be marketing data services to IT.

In January 1991 a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, bought an IBM PC with an Intel 80386 chip. A month later he installed a copy of Minix, the UNIX-like operating system developed as a teaching tool by Andrew Tanenbaum, and began to write a standalone terminal emulator to access the UNIX servers at Helsinki university…

uGet is a GTK+ download manager that runs on both Linux and Windows. The latest uGet 1.8.0, released today, brings support for Torrent and Metalink files (by using aria2), Ubuntu AppIndicator as well as GTK3 support.

This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless Debian Squeeze server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

Firefox 5 Beta 3 has been released today. Here is an updated guide about how to install Firefox 5 on any Linux distribution. It also covers symbolic links, updates, uninstallation, ...

In what is beginning to become quite a tradition, the Krita team came together from May 20 to May 22 for the third Krita meeting. The first sprint had four attendees. Last year's, eight. This year, we had twelve people in attendance. If the trend continues, the Blender Institute, which hosted our sprint, will be too small for us next year! read more

While many Linux users are upset that Microsoft's buying out Skype and that the Free Software Foundation's GNU Free Call hasn't matured much in being a reliable replacement to Skype (not all of the FSF projects move along), there is some interesting news this morning: an independent researcher has reverse-engineered the Skype protocol...

For people who use an USB stick or mobile phone to surf the Internet on the go, it’s often reported that the connection is slow or unresponsive. This is a script that help speed up your mobile connexion.

A full review of Xubuntu 11.04, including a gallery of images.

Recently, myself and my colleagues at Pelagicore decided to try to ditch Skype for an open replacement. We have been suffering stability issues with Skype for a long time, but our customers rely on it for contact with us and most people know how it works. However, recent events such as Microsoft buying Skype and cancelling support for Asterisk motivated us to try the alternatives.

We finally did it! Forking is always a big and hard decision especially when you spend years on a project and nothing was really win when we started together. Now Mageia 1 is out and ready to go. Security team is all ready to provide all expected updates for it and Cauldron (development version of Mageia). Cauldron will reopen at the end of this week and work will start again for Mageia 2.

The rolling-release Arch Linux distribution has just enabled floating point textures for Mesa. This was the hotly-debated feature for Mesa that provides OpenGL floating point textures and render targets, but is disabled by default since its protected by patents in the United States and elsewhere. Arch Linux users when building new versions of Mesa will receive this support irrespective of their physical location.

As I reported on May 31st, 2011, Oracle has, with IBM’s encouragement, given the open-source OpenOffice office suite to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

The free, open-source office suite OpenOffice has been dying by inches for quite some time. Now that Oracle has "given" the project -- sans support, it would seem -- to the Apache Foundation, I'd say it's time to close the lid on the box and drop it in the ground. It's not like Oracle didn't kill it first.