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Themer is a great tool for completely customizing your home screen with a few taps, but which themes are the best? Which ones will really make your phone look sharp? We did some digging and picked a some great Themer customizations you might want to try.

Nero first came into the limelight as a CD burning tool, but has since expanded into various other software avenues. The BackItUp tool, launched on Windows a few years ago, has now made its way to Android for an easy 3-step backup, sync and restore solution — complete with 5GB of online storage.

The Ubuntu 13.0 Linux server release is now available, providing administrators with new cloud management and deployment capabilities.

The sanctity of the dev/random random number generator used in the Linux kernel has been a hot-button issue for more than a month. A petition posted to change.org in September to remove RdRand from dev/random, for example, was met with fury from Linus Torvalds who called the developer who posted it “ignorant,” suggesting not so nicely too that the developer learn more about cryptography.

While the Ubuntu 13.10 desktop isn't using Mir/XMir by default, the packages are available within the archive for those wanting to test out the next-generation display server for Ubuntu. To see how the 2D/3D performance is when running under XMir with the Unity System Compositor, I ran some new benchmarks using this week's Ubuntu 13.10 release.

Summary: From hypnotherapy to ponds, there are many Android apps on the market available to help you unwind.

A full review of Kubuntu 13.10. The release of Ubuntu 13.10 has brought with it updates to the various Ubuntu spins. Kubuntu 13.10 is certainly one of the most important so it’s time to take a look at it.

When the USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) puts to sea later this year, it will be different from any other ship in the Navy's fleet in many ways. The $3.5 billon ship is designed for stealth, survivability, and firepower, and it's packed with advanced technology. And at the heart of its operations is a virtual data center powered by off-the-shelf server hardware, various flavors of Linux, and over 6 million lines of software code.

Side-scrolling survival horror game Dark Matter is now available on Windows PC, Mac and Linux through Steam and Good Old Games, developer InterWave announced.

Within the last year in working my current job my employer has started to make a shift on our project being more focused on our primary Operating Systems of Microsoft Windows and Solaris UNIX to Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Linux. One of the major problems is the two main system administrators (Myself the Certified Windows Admin and my partner Ed, the Solaris UNIX Admin) working on this project were NOT Linux literate, myself more so than my partner. Red Hat has found a way to basically charge for the use of what is supposed to be a free Operating System, so my partner did some asking around and found CentOS.

The Intel Core i3 4130 is a Haswell processor with HD Graphics 4400 and a dual-core part with Hyper Threading that retails for about $130 USD. While we have been amazed by the performance of high-end Core i7 Haswell CPUs, how's this budget-friendly processor? Here's a review of the Core i3 4130 CPU running Ubuntu Linux and compared to a variety of other processors.

Ubuntu 13.10 has just arrived, but Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth is already looking forward to the next version: Ubuntu 14.04: Trusty Tahr.

Today in Open Source: The best distro for beginners? Plus: Kubuntu 13.10 review, and Abiword the lightweight word processor

I mentioned that Radeon R9 270X Linux benchmarks would be coming and now I have the first Ubuntu Linux results to post of the Radeon R9 270X with the Catalyst driver.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has just announced a few minutes ago, October 18, that the fifth maintenance release of the Linux kernel 3.11 is now available for download.

A Haswell-based game console with Iris Pro graphics that originally set out to be an Android gaming platform is now looking to support Valve's SteamOS.

Canonical’s Ubuntu project released Ubuntu 13.10, complete with an SDK for developing Ubuntu Touch interfaces for mobile devices — but only in an experimental build that runs on two Android Nexus phones.

When thinking about the future of technology, it’s hard to imagine a future where most things aren’t connected to the Internet. Not because it’s fashionable, or because many of the largest technology companies are spending big money promoting the concept. Call it a fundamental law of things; if it can be connected to the Internet, it will be connected to the Internet. From golf balls to light bulbs to pacemakers, anything that can collect or display information, will.

An interview with The Yocto Project community manager Jeff Osier-Mixon is a community manager at Intel for The Yocto Project, an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. Basically: The Yocto Project allows development to happen without the worries of what hardware the code will run on. He will be ensuring the success of The Yocto Project Developer Day on October 23. There will be two tracks, so both new and experienced users are welcome. And then, Jefro will be speaking on Friday, October 25 at Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Note: LinuxCon Europe is from October 21- 23.) We learned more about Jeff and his job with Intel in this interview. His Twitter profile says he's an anatidaephilic and an enchiridionophile—so, of course, we asked: Which one is worse?

For those who love the Cinnamon desktop, but not the Unity desktop, the default on Ubuntu 13.10, but still like the run Ubuntu Desktop, the method given in this tutorial is the best way to run Cinnamon 2.0 because the stable version of Cinnamon in the Ubuntu repository is Cinnamon 1.7.4.