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An operating systems most basic function is to act as a layer between the computer hardware and the user space programs. User space meaning the programs you use as a computer user, ie. office, email, internet and games programs. What an operating system provides to those user space programs is a standard interface to the computers hardware, no matter what type of hardware that is.

After two years deep into Linux, the Australian Con Kolivas has emerged with a new scheduler that above all should provide significantly better performance on dual and quad processors.

Red Hat have announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite and Proxy, the companies solution for on site systems management. The announcement was made at the Red Hat Summit currently taking place in Chicago. RHN Satellite 5.3 is the first version of Red Hat's system management platform to be based on the Spacewalk project, an open source (GPLv2) management platform for Linux systems which supports the updating of Red Hat and Red Hat derived distributions such as Fedora, CentOS and Scientific Linux.

Kismet is a 802.11b wireless network sniffer. It is capable of sniffing using almost any supported wireless card using the Airo, HostAP, Wlan-NG, and Orinoco (with a kernel patch) drivers.Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.

Norway-based Opera Software has unveiled the final version of its browser Opera 10, with a new compression technology and a sleek interface. It comes in 43 languages and works on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms.

It has long been predicted that WPA (wireless encryption) would go the way of WEP and become ineffective. Japanese researchers demonstrate that WPA can be broken as quickly as WEP---in less than a minute.

One interesting remark I read in some comments is that Linux distributions are not successful because they don't look enough like Windows. Apparently if someone completely copied the interface of Windows and slapped that on top of Linux, Windows users would migrate in droves and Microsoft would be bankrupt. Well, not really. Let me explain...

Matt Hall at the game developers Larva Labs has complained in a blog entry of low sales in Google's Android application store. In August, the company generated an average revenue of $62.39 per day with two games. Hall says this makes it "Very difficult to buy the summer home at this rate." Hall also refers to the game Trism, which on the iPhone took around a quarter of a million dollars in it's first two months on the iPhone App Store. The same game on the Android store has, over the same length of time, sold five hundred copies; an equivalent income of $1,046 at most.

CodeWeavers, Inc., a leading developer of software products that turn Mac OS X and Linux into Windows-compatible operating systems, today announced the release of CrossOver Games 8.0 for both Mac and Linux, available immediately. CrossOver Games allows Windows games to be played on Mac and Linux PCs without the need for a Windows operating system license.

One of the things I like about Linux is the command line. I have used nautilus, gnome-commander, konqueror, kommander, dolphin and thunar to manage files in Linux and these file managers are great for what they do. But there are times when one simply wants to find a file when working on the command line without having to open a GUI application.

The article describes step by step transferring a table from SQL Server 2008 to MySQL using ODBC connectivity. For successful transfer the data type differences between SQL Server 2008 and the MySQL version must be properly taken into consideration as well as correctly setting the SQL_Mode property of MySQL Server.

Here are 5 Nice opensource games for Linux , I installed the games on ubuntu and they did work fine, I liked more Supertux perhaps because is similar to super mario bros one my favorite games, the rest of the games are nice ones also with nice music and good graphics, in general nice ones to play them in your free time, I advise you to try them and don`t forget to share with us your opinion about thee games.

The 267,000 Windows 7 based netbooks that the NSW Government has started rolling out to high schools will come pre-installed with open source software.

It has been nearly a month since Openbravo (the open source ERP provider) introduced support for Ubuntu Server Edition. But Openbravo for Ubuntu is going to require some time before it attracts paying customers, concedes Openbravo COO Josep Mitja. Here’s why.

The Linux Foundation will be calling its first LinuxCon conference from September 21 through 23 in Portland OR. Linus Torvalds and Mark Shuttleworth will be among the speakers and Linux Magazine Online will do a live stream, free for the keynotes.

Recently I've received some mail asking for a brief explanation on how to build Linux audio applications from source code packages. Ask and ye shall receive, hence the following simple guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the downright mystified. Compiling software is hardly rocket science, and if an old guitar-picker like myself can do it certainly you can too.

In a recent report on TechCrunch, it was noted that modifications were being made to the Chrome browser which hint that the forthcoming ChromeOS will use the browser as the application launcher. Details also reveal that the developers at Google are extending the status bar to include an application launching control, a clock and battery indicator.

Now that eBay has sold most of Skype to private investors, some pundits may wonder what markets Skype should tackle next. Actually, the answer has already emerged — and it involves Skype plugging into Asterisk, the open source IP PBX. Here’s the scoop and the implications for solutions providers.

InfoWorld has announced the 2009 Bossie Awards for the Best of Open-Source Software. Awards were given to 40 winners across 4 categories covering enterprise applications, development tools, platforms and middleware, and networking.

"A very complex technology to make network management simple." That's what the developers of the eBox platform promise small and medium sized organizations, and it's certainly an attractive idea.