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Mark Shuttleworth has apologized for the letter sent to the owner of fixubuntu.com, saying that anyone who wants to criticize Ubuntu is free to do so.

ViewSonic announced an embedded Linux-powered wireless receiver for rendering multimedia content on projectors, desktop monitors, large format displays, and HDTVs. The ViewSync WPG-370 Wireless Presentation Gateway streams HD content from Windows, iOS, and Android mobile devices via Miracast, Intel WiDi (Wireless Display), and other protocols, and can also play content from directly plugged-in USB flash. […]

We can’t figure out if Canonical wants to be Apple or Microsoft. Of one thing we’re certain, however, they clearly don’t want to be Linux.

It seems that Micah Lee, a technologist for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has a website called “Fix Ubuntu,” on which he explains how keep Ubuntu from contacting Amazon and others everytime you use the OS’s search tool. Evidently, the folks at Canonical don’t like this and have instructed him that he must quit using their logo on his site. In addition, he must change the URL, https://fixubuntu.com/, to something that doesn’t contain the word Ubuntu.

To use Pear OS 8 is to fall in love with it. The desktop environment is intuitive but powerful, so you can work quickly and accomplish all you can imagine. You’ll be captivated by its elegance. Pear OS 8 loads quickly on any computer, but it’s super-fast on newer machines. With no unnecessary programs or trial software to slow things down, you can boot up and open a browser in seconds. Pear OS 8 works brilliantly with a range of devices. Simply plug in your MP3 player, camera or printer and you’ll be up and running straightaway. No installation CDs. No fuss. And Pear OS 8 is compatible with Windows files too, so you can open, edit and share Microsoft Office documents stress-free (with LibreOffice). Pear OS 8 comes with a set of pre-installed software, including MyPear 6, Clean My Pear 2 and more than 3,000 downloadable apps including Steam, the world’s most popular gaming platform.

If you're a student or teacher in a computer science school of a big college, chances are good that you pick stronger passwords than your peers in the arts school. In turn, the arts students usually pick better passwords than those in the business school, according to research presented this week.

The landmark study is among the first to analyze the plaintext passwords that a sizable population of users choose to safeguard high-value accounts...

Raspberry Pi is a cheap and tiny single-board computer powered by ARM processor. While it was mainly developed for children to learn computer programming, it has also become a versatile device for DIY electronic enthusiasts or computer professionals who build many useful tools based on the tiny hardware. Raspberry PI uses an SD card as backing storage for an operating system and other tools. This tutorial describes how to write a Raspberry PI image to an SD card.

The highly anticipated Pear OS 8 Linux distribution has been officially released today, November 9, by David Tavares, the father of the Pear Linux Project.

The merge window hasn't even officially opened yet on the Linux 3.13 kernel but it's already super exciting and I can't wait for the new code to start hitting mainline and to benchmark these massive changes to the Linux kernel. Here's just a few things to expect so far but it's already gearing up to be a super exciting release and perhaps the best of 2013.

KDE has released betas of the new versions of Applications and the KDE Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing. This release does not include Plasma Workspaces, which was frozen for new features in its 4.11 series.

The Anti Phishing Working Group is now lending its expertise to the IRS to help root out online and offline phishing scams that use a combination of e-mails and faxes to steal identities. Today's most successful online phishing scams use increasingly complex and sneaky tactics to trick people into divulging their banking account numbers, passwords and other personal information to steal people's identities.

Leadwerks, one of the recent commercial game engines that's being ported to Linux following a successful Kickstarter campaign, has shared more of their Linux game engine progress from a developer's perspective.

Wine 1.7.6 is now available as the latest bi-weekly release of the Wine software for running Windows applications and games on Linux.

The new philosophy for opentaps could be summed up as "Make it Benefit the Maximum Number of People," with the goals of making it as easy, inclusive, as useful as possible.

OpenSSH could be made to run programs if it received specially craftednetwork traffic from an authenticated user.

For those curious how Valve's popular Team Fortress 2 game is performing atop the Source Engine with Ubuntu 13.10 and the latest NVIDIA Linux drivers, here's updated benchmarks as we compare nine graphics cards spanning several GeForce generations.

Some people are still in denial about the rise of the Linux operating system with the Chrome Web browser interface, Chrome OS, and its hardware: the Chromebooks. The experts say, however, it's the one segment of the PC market that's growing while everything else shrinks.

Today in Open Source: The GIMP leaves SourceForge. Plus: Slackware 14.1 released, and a screenshot tour of GhostBSD 3.5 MATE

This week Nuxeo, the open source content management system for business, announced a major release that brings together several, earlier smaller releases. The platform provides the means to build "content-centric applications to manage business information in an open source package.

Another version of this great ebook management and conversion software has been released and it's now available for download

So id Software are moving Quake Live from a browser game to a native game, the bad news is they won't be supporting Linux (Or Mac).