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This tutorial describes how to visualize disk usage on Linux with Baobab, which is a GNOME disk usage analyzer. Its biggest advantage is the intuitive visualization interface. Baobab can analyze the whole file system tree, a particular directory tree or even remote folders over network.

At the XDC2013 X.Org conference it was decided to postpone the X.Org Server 1.15 release until year's end to let more features land. Keith Packard has now gone ahead and merged some of the new code and issued a new development release.

Bloomberg reports that conversations between HTC and Microsoft have revolved around the idea of HTC putting Windows Phone onto its Android handsets as an alternative. As enticement to pursue this strategy, the report states that Microsoft has offered to cut or eliminate the licensing fee.

Yes, it’s true: In a classic example of parody coming to life, a newly published patent filing reveals Google’s ambitions to solve one of the most troublesome challenges known to humanity: Splitting the bill at the end of a meal.

With mobile malware on the rise and scammers targeting Android users more and more, using an Android device without security software is no longer an option.

Summary: If you agree with me that little is as miserable as having your Android smartphone or tablet die of premature battery exhaustion, then you'll want to check these applications out.

Microsoft Corp. is talking to HTC Corp. about adding its Windows operating system to HTC’s Android-based smartphones at little or no cost. People with knowledge of the matter said that it's further evidence of the software maker’s struggle to gain ground in the mobile market.

Everyday the question is asked "which is the best operating system for my netbook?". Any answer given is subjective and down to personal opinion. Here is a list of 12 Linux distributions that work really well on a netbook.

Yesterday Mesa received support for a new OpenGL extension and after that another useful OpenGL 4.2 extension was added to Mesa and implemented within the Intel OpenGL Linux driver. This latest extension can be used for a driver performance optimization.

Qmmp is a music player written in Qt wich an interface that resembles the one of the old XMMS and Winamp 2.x. Qmmp comes with some very nice features including XMMS/Winamp 2.x skins support, an equalizer, plugins, configurable shortcuts and transparency effects.

The purpose of this article is to list the finest open source software that lets you dive into responsive design.

When a new article is posted on the Internet, the first addition to the comments section is often an inconsequential, one-word statement: "First!"... The Samsung Galaxy Gear says "First!" in hardware form. Samsung has beaten Google and Apple as the first major manufacturer to market, but much like the Internet commenter, it has sacrificed substance for the sake of timing.

Summary: The data released by Google shows that Jelly Bean power 48.6 percent of all Android devices. But fragmentation remains a big problem, and getting users onto the latest version continues to be an uphill struggle.

We've written a few times about patent troll Innovatio, which claims to hold some patents on WiFi, saying that anyone using WiFi (including home users) are infringing, though it has chosen "at this stage" not to sue home users.

The Sphirewall team is pleased to announce today the release of version 0.9.9.7, the latest version of the Sphirewall open source firewall. Along with this release we also announce the availability of our S3 Network Appliance.

The necessary plumbing has happened inside Mesa for handling the OpenGL ARB_texture_query_levels extension and it's now implemented for the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver on Sandy Bridge hardware and newer.

This is the first article in a series intended to cover the basics of Linux and working in with the command-line. Since this is a work in progress, one chapter will be provided at a time.

With many fixes having landed, Mesa 9.2.1 was released on Friday along with Mesa 9.1.7 for providing improvements to the Linux OpenGL graphics drivers.

Nokia advised developers that no new apps, or updates to existing apps, are to be accepted for Linux-based MeeGo and Symbian products starting Jan 1, 2014.

With this morning's revelation of how the NSA and GCHQ are trying to attack Tor, some of the presentations being used by the NSA to explain Tor are somewhat interesting or amusing. For example, in one presentation about the program EgotisticalGiraffe (I don't make 'em up, so don't ask), the NSA amusingly feels the need to highlight the fact that "terrorists" use Tor: