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The stated purpose of the Raspberry Pi is to provide a simple, inexpensive platform for experimentation. For myself, the US$35 (plus shipping, tariffs, and all that) has paid off in spades, giving me the opportunity to attain that Holy Grail of Linux programming: writing a kernel module.

The developers of Strike Suit Zero tweeted to us to let everyone know that the game is now out of beta and anyone can now purchase it and play.

A new kind of laptop, the SOL, is being designed for the great outdoors and it's powered by sunlight and it will be running Linux.

So, what happens when Super Mario Bros. and Night At The Roxbury collide in outer space at the speed of light? Electronic Super Joy happens. Billed as a “brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music”, Electronic Super Joy does not look to disappoint; delivering retro-platforming, and low-res graphics in the typical indie style that some of us just can’t get enough of.

Today in Open Source: Giant Android phones. Plus: Strike Suit Zero released for Linux, and is Apache the most important open source project?

In a server environment, it is wise to back up various server configurations in /etc directory regularly, to save trouble from any accidental changes in the directory, or re-installation of necessary packages. Better yet, it is a good idea to “version control” everything in /etc directory. This tutorial describes how to version control /etc directory in Linux with etckeeper.

Single sign-on (SSO) mechanisms offer the promise of users having a single credential (the sign-on) in order to log into multiple sites and services. When it comes to the Web, there are multiple sources of identity to power SSO, and open-source browser vendor Mozilla wants to be one of them. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/blogs/security-watch/mozilla-expands-pe...

I have been using Bumblebee with Optimus on my HP Dv6t-7000 CTO laptop since February 2013. My laptop has a Nvidia GT 630M that I use primarily for gaming on Windows 7. My first thought when I got this laptop was of course "How am I going to get my Nvidia card to work on Linux?".

The Ubuntu Edge smartphone is the source of premature envy the world over. The fact that Ubuntu users can have the most powerful phone in the world–that’s yet to be seen–and not have to deal with a shoehorned installation of their intended operating system, is awesome. The device bodes well for potential Android users as well. Those users who want to have a truly exotic piece of hardware but not have to abandon Android as their primary operating system. The Ubuntu Edge has something for everyone, but will we ever be able to know what it is really capable of?

The stable release of gNewSense 3.0 is a fact. With the help of GNU Linux-libre and various other people helping to check and hack on freedom issues, we've been able to produce a new major version that aligns with the Free Software Foundation's freedom guidelines as well as Debian's quality standards. You'll find that the look has changed from previous releases, marking the change from Ubuntu to Debian as a base. We also support 3 architectures now: i386, amd64 and mipsel (Lemote Yeeloong).

There are a lot of tools that comes with the LXC userspace. While it might seem daunting, you likely won’t be using most of these much (if at all), and some aren’t even for containers.

Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source Ubuntu Linux operating system, is on a mission to raise $32 million in 30 days, to build 40,000 Ubuntu Edge next-generation smartphones. It's an effort that just received the backing of financial news media giant Bloomberg LP. Will other enterprises buy into the effort?

This year Arianna Huffington delivered the commencement address at Smith College and dared the female graduates (it's still a female college) to change how society has been defining success for women from money and power to wonder, wisdom, giving back, and community. 

The last article we overviewed what LXC is and how its useful, and now we will be covering how to create your own containers as well as stopping, starting, and freezing them. There’s still a few tools of the trade after that but that will be covered in part 3.

Season of KDE is a community outreach program, much like Google Summer of Code that has been hosted by the KDE community for five years straight. It is meant for people who could not get into Google Summer of Code for various reasons, or people who simply prefer a differently structured, somewhat less constrained program. Season of KDE is managed by the same team of admins and mentors that take care of Google Summer of Code and Google Code-in matters for KDE, with the same level of quality and care.

The Linux kernel community is busy integrating and testing 3.11 content, working on 3.12 development, and finalizing the topic agenda for the upcoming Linux Conference Europe and Kernel Summit that are scheduled to be held in Edinburgh, UK from October 21-23 2013. Let's start with the release news.

On the latest Linux 3.10 stable kernel we have taken ten common Linux file-systems and generated an interesting performance comparisons. The Linux file-systems being tested in this article include XFS, Btrfs, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4, ReiserFS, Reiser4, JFS, F2FS, and ZFS.

It's not difficult to make an educated guess as to what happened. The Feds went to Lavabit demanding access to Ed Snowden's email. Lavabit refused. The feds went to (secret) court and the (secret) court said (in secret) that Lavabit had to turn over the information. And Lavabit's response is noble: it is shutting down and fighting in court, rather than becoming a pawn in this and compromising the trust and reputation its built up over the years. Lavabit also includes a link on their site for a legal defense fund.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 19 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 13.37, 14.0, and -current to fix security issues.