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We were sold a lie. It's time to go back to 8-bit Stob I recently experienced a Damascene conversion and, like many such converts, I am now set on a course of indiscriminate and aggressive proselytising.…

Ubuntu 13.10 , code-named Saucy Salamander, is set to hit a download mirror near you sometime next month. But that won’t happen until major bugs have been fixed.

Microsoft is to stop giving support to the still popular version of Windows, Windows XP in April 2014. Windows XP is still popular with old desktop PCs, as it is perhaps the best Windows Version released by Microsoft, being stable and efficient.

Maybe the biggest thing that ever happened to Linux—at least scale-wise—is virtualization. As I recall, virtualization first materialized in a big commercial way with IBM, which started by putting many Linux instances on System z mainframes.

ABI Research says its data from the first half of 2013 shows that leadership of the mobile tablet market has now shifted from Apple to Android. Data from the second quarter show the number of Android-powered tablets sold surpassing iPads for the first time, and the share of tablet-related hardware revenues achieving parity.

This tutorial will help the system administrators how to securely copy files to remote linux servers from local linux machine & vice versa in UNIX like operating system.

Image placeholder services are useful tools for web app developers. They serve the singular purpose of marking the location of a future image within a design or layout. Spaces that will eventually be filled with production images can be worked around while the artists or photographers prepare the images behind the scenes. From the perspective of rapid application development, an image placeholder service is a standard part of the developer’s toolkit.

Designed to mate a wireless Arduino microcontroller with the Raspberry Pi, is the RasWIK what budding developers have been waiting for all this time?

SuperTuxKart Or STK for short, is one of the most popular racing games available freely and open-source on Linux.

Today in Open Source: High demand skill sets for Linux jobs. Plus: Microsoft five years from now. And are there too many Linux distros?

Hampton Catlin is the creator of Sass, Haml, Wikipedia Mobile, Tritium, and Moovweb. He's also the author of the Pragmatic Guide to Sass and is the founder of the libsass project.

Android has a clear lead in marketshare in the US and worldwide, but when it comes to the enterprise, this chart shows, it's iOS leading the way.

Intel ramped up its race to the bottom against ARM today, with the launch of an Arduino-compatible single board computer (SBC) based on its new Quark system-on-chip (SoC), and supported with a full Linux OS. In conjunction with the Galileo launch, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said Intel will donate of 50,000 Galileo SBCs to 1,000 universities worldwide over the next 18 months.

The GNOME 3.10 Wayland Tech Preview for Fedora 20 is nearing reality. While there wasn't the Wayland tech preview ready for the recent Fedora 20 Alpha, with the latest Fedora packages it's now possible to run the updated GNOME stack atop Wayland without the use of an X.Org Server.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2013 issue.

I've been working with and using Linux far longer than any other platform. Through those years, I've pretty much seen and used it all. Interestingly, my tune has changed on a number of things -- one opinion is about the relative security of Linux. Back in the day, I would have looked you in the face and said squarely, “There's no way anyone is going to hack a Linux server!” My tune now is a bit more somber, sober, and far more realistic. But before I get the chance to sing you that tune, let me set the stage.

Today in Apple: The real strategy behind Apple's 64-bit A7 chip. Plus: Android fingerprint sensors? And Qualcomm's CEO takes a slap at Apple's A7 chip

The latest point release to the Phoronix Test Suite 4.8 "Sokndal" series is now available, which adds a fair number of improvements to our leading open-source Linux / BSD / OS X / Solaris benchmarking platform. Phoronix Test Suite 4.8.3 is in very good shape for carrying out all of the latest benchmarks regardless of whether you're an enterprise user or just an enthusiast wishing to benchmark their favorite Linux distribution.

OpenStack, the open source cloud platform, is beginning to attract a training marketplace and user guides for administrators. Is that enough?

When Ubuntu 13.10 launches Oct. 17, Canonical will need to work closely with cloud services providers (CSPs), new software companies, telcos, VARs and PC makers. Here's why.