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SuperX 2.1 is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a tweaked KDE desktop, aimed at beginners and casual Linux users. This is a minor update to Darwin and contains mostly performance tweaks and updated software stack. For those are not aware of changes that came with our previous release - Darwin, we've enlisted top changes that came with Darwin and are continuing and changes that are specific to Ada. We still use Ubuntu codebase but starting from Darwin release we only use the LTS versions and development is done on its solid foundation.

Build a prosperous colony, fill it with magnificent factories worked by oppressed labourers, and harness the awesome power of steam through fearsome machines invented by determined men and women of Science!

Mainline Release (Linus's tree) News Linus Torvalds released 3.12 on November 3 2013 after seven 3.12 rc cycles. This time around, instead of opening the merge window right after the release, Linus chose to delay it by a week. The 3.13 merge window will be open on November 10th. In this release announcement, Linus started a discussion on bug-fix only 4.0 idea.

Most traffic monitoring tools are powered by libpcap, which is a packet capture library used to monitor network traffic in user space. Despite their versatility, however, libpcap-based network monitoring tools cannot scale to handle traffic on multi Gigabit rate network interfaces, due to the overhead associated with user-space packet capture. This tutorial presents simple shell scripts that can monitor network traffic on per-interface basis, without relying on slow libpcap library.

Plenty of companies have built businesses around Linux, MySQL, SugarCRM and other open source technologies. But what open source platforms will define 2014? Keep an eye on Hadoop, KVM, NoSQL, OpenDaylight and OpenStack. Here's why.

Learn how to install, benchmark and optimize this popular, shared-nothing and scalable open-source distributed filesystem in this special 12 page report.

Our survey of more than 3,000 developers and managers shows that after several years of being flat, salaries are on the rise once again

One of the businesses of the multifaceted Rovi Corporation is the creation of "interactive program guides," like the ones you might see on the DVR that comes with your cable or satellite service. Cable companies like Comcast buy Rovi's online guide services. There are other video-on-demand companies that don't want to use Rovi's guide services, but Rovi wants them to pay up anyway. The company believes the trove of patents it has acquired over the years mean it owns rights to a wide array of what are essentially online television guides.

Although Drupal 8 is not released yet, its features are frozen and here is what we can expect from new version of this popular CMS.

Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here, but Linux founder and “keeper of the flame”, Linus Torvalds, has put developers and the rest of the world on notice that a Linux 4.0 is coming sooner rather than later, “I don't want us to get to the kinds of crazy numbers we had in the 2.x series, so at some point we're going to cut over from 3.x to 4.x, just to keep the numbers small and easy to

Canonical and its partners will certify Ubuntu OpenStack cloud compliant hardware and software.

Here’s a development that could have enormous global implications for the search for a new commons-based economic paradigm. Working with an academic partner, the Government of Ecuador has launched a major strategic research project to "fundamentally re-imagine Ecuador" based on the principles of open networks, peer production, and commoning.

About a year and a half ago, we wrote about "Rockstar Consortium," a shell company set up by Apple and Microsoft (and a few other companies), in which they placed many of the patents they received when they outbid Google to get Nortel's patents. We noted at the time that one of the reasons regulators let Apple, Microsoft, RIM and others team up to buy these patents without it being an antitrust concern was that they promised that all the patents would be able to be licensed on "reasonable terms." Except... once they handed them off to Rockstar, that company's CEO, John Veschi, noted that this promise "does not apply to us."

Docker (previously dotCloud) made a big splash this year when they open-sourced their software for creating "lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers" that powers their Platform-As-A-Service offering. Developers are excited because Docker offers an easier to use alternative to Chef and Puppet for managing server environments. Instead of wrangling with configuration files, Docker allows developers to simply take an image of their system and share it with their team. When a team member makes a change to their local environment, they just create a new image (a Docker container) and share it with the team. Its like git for disk images.

This is a step-by-step guide for installing Ubuntu 13.10 on your computer that already has another OS running on it. For most users, that computer will likely be running either Windows 7 or 8, so I’ve used a test computer that’s running Windows 8 Pro for this tutorial.

Today in Open Source: SteamOS will not be based on Ubuntu. Plus: Metro Last Light out for Linux, and the Tuxmachines site has been sold

I just read about the Whisker Menu for Xfce at OMG! Ubuntu and installed it on my system from the Fedora repositories. While I’m happy with my panel on the left and the traditional Xfce Application Finder, I thought the Whisker Menu would be worth a try.

LibreOffice was bumped today for version 4.2.0 Alpha 1, the next major update to the popular open-source office suite...

How to Install Cairo Dock 3.3.2 in Ubuntu 13.10. Cairo-Dock is a desktop interface that takes the shape of docks, desklets, panel, etc. It is designed to be light, fast and customizable, and is desktop-agnostic.

The latest beta release of FreeBSD 10.0 is now available for testing...