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In around 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.The LAMP option means you don’t have to install and integrate each of the four separate LAMP components, a process which can take hours and requires someone who is skilled in the installation and configuration of the individual applications. Instead, you get increased security, reduced time-to-install, and reduced risk of misconfiguration, all of which results in a lower cost of ownership.Currently this installation provide PostgreSQL database, Mail Server, Open SSH Server,Samba File Server, Print Server, Tomcat Java Server,Virtual Machine Host,Manual Package selection,LAMP and DNS options for pre-configured installations, easing the deployment of common server configurations.

Pear OS 8 Beta 2 has been released. Pear Linux is a French Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution. Some of its features include ease-of-use, custom user interface with a Mac OS X-style dockbar, and out-of-the-box support for many popular multimedia codecs.

Add the Adobe Flash Player to your Linux Mint 15 computer

Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian told geeks today that "I have no idea what I'm doing -- and that's awesome." The statement, delivered at Datto Partner Conference 2013, also included this: "You can disrupt an industry from anywhere. You don't need to be in Silicon Valley." But that's not all.

Intel offered new details about its 22nm “Silvermont” architecture “Bay Trail-T” system-on-chip, targeting affordable Android and Windows 8 tablets. The Intel Atom Z3000 family SoC will be offered in dual- and quad-core models, offering up to twice the performance of current Atom chips while providing up to 10-hour battery life, says Intel.

Rorschax is a simple yet challenging puzzle game where you must create the mirror image of a pattern by manipulating a grid of squares.

Today in Open Source: Microsoft makes big money from Android! Plus: Mageia 4 Alpha 2 screenshot tour, and Virtualbox tips for Linux

Just because software is free doesn’t mean it’s free software.

This may confuse those who only know the Windows world, where the software animal known as “freeware” is readily available but truly free software is a bit more scarce. They may be excused for thinking, when we Linux users talk about “free software,” that they use free software too. After all, doesn’t a free antivirus program qualify as free software? Or what about that gee-whiz free password manager that’ll generate and store five or six passwords–more if the “pro” version is purchased?

The Stones once lamented in It's Only Rock and Roll, what did they have to do to satisfy our teenage lust --suicide right on the stage? Apple may be wondering just what it needs to do to satisfy our tech lust because no matter what it does, it won't be able to recreate the excitement of 2008.

Do you remember the Indie title Amnesia the Dark Descent? A great Survival-horror game released in 2010 that has had a lot of success, and if you don’t know it, check it on the net, it’s probable that with the release of the new game you can find it at a discounted price. But I’m here to talk about Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, from the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes this new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness, sound interesting enough?

Thunderbird, the mysteriously abandoned (sort-of) open source mail client makes its return on September 17th. Faithful users have been marooned on version 17, receiving only maintenance tune-ups along the way, but that’s all set to change.

We're happy to announce that LinuxQuestions.org recently crossed the one million post and five million thread thresholds. With over 500,000 members, LQ remains one of the most active Linux communities on the web. We'd like to thank each and every LQ member, without whom the site wouldn't exist.

Aside from the Intel Bay Trail unveiling today, exciting news out of the Intel Developer Forum today is a set of new Chromebooks thanks to Google and their partners. Being at IDF, these are Intel-based devices and using the latest-generation Haswell CPUs.

Radxa is accepting preorders for a compact, open, Android- and Linux-ready single board computer based on a 1.6GHz quad-core Rockchip RK3188 SoC. The $89 and $69 Radxa Rock and Rock Lite SBCs offer up to 2GB RAM and 8GB flash, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet connectivity, real-world ports for HDMI, Ethernet, USB, and S/PDIF, and numerous other interfaces on a pair of expansion headers.

It's our pleasure to announce the immediate release of the fifth stable release of Semplice Linux. Semplice Linux is a simple, fast and lightweight distribution based on Debian's unstable branch. It includes a small collection of up-to-date applications running on top of the Openbox window manager.

A review of the games in The Humble Indie Bundle 9.

The Pirate Bay has long been a thorn in the side of copyright holders, but when Britain's record industry trade association asked Google to remove the notorious file-sharing site from its homepage, the search engine refused to comply.

A buffer overflow in Snack could result in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of Service.

KO GmbH today presents Krita Gemini for Windows 8. Krita Gemini is a fusion between Krita Sketch and Krita Desktop: Krita Gemini switches seamlessly between the full-featured desktop/laptop user interface and the sketch interface, which is optimized for tablets.

An updated Adobe Flash Player package that fixes four security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.