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When it comes to Surface RT and Pro tablet sales, Microsoft (MSFT) PR has lost all credibility. Why's that? Just look at Microsoft's statements about special Surface RT price discounts and sales on July 15 -- and then fast forward to July 18, when the software giant said it's taking a $900 million writeoff for the Surface RT tablet failure. Here's the update.

Benchmarks published this week on Phoronix showed that Ubuntu 13.10 can outperform Apple OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" with regard to OpenGL performance. However, when compared to Microsoft Windows, the open-source Intel Linux driver continues to come up short.

Almost two-weeks after Bluebox Security announced a vulnerability in Android's security model that could enable attackers to convert most Android applications into Trojans, and more than a week after Google released the fix for it, the vast majority of Android OEMs has yet to patch the hole. So, Duo Security and Northeastern University's System Security Lab (NEU SecLab) have released an app, ReKey, which fixes it for you.

Pythonistas are eager to extol the lovely virtues of our language. Most beginning Python programmers are invited to run import this from the interpreter right after the canonical hello world. One of the favorite quips from running that command is: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

An interview with the maintainers of the Xen packages for Debian: Bastian Blank and Guido Trotter.

The Linux 3.11-rc2 kernel isn't even out yet, but Intel's open-source developers have already begun lining up DRM kernel graphics driver changes for the Linux 3.12 kernel...

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 13.04 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

In three years OpenStack has come out of nowhere to be one of the most popular cloud programs around. How did that happen? Jim Curry, one of OpenStack's founders, explains.

Conky Manager – Simple GUI for managing Conky config files

Does the Raspberry Pi’s first official accessory live up to its high-resolution hype, or is its outlook blurred?

On the Unix portion of this digital magazine, Debian "Wheezy" is reviewed.

Looks like the official DOTA2 game has just hit Linux, you should now see DOTA2 alongside DOTA2 Test!

I recently spoke with Larry Cooperman, director of OpenCourseWare at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Larry also serves on the boards of the OpenCourseWare Consortium and the African Virtual University. I asked Larry about UC Irvine’s new OpenChem project.

It is one of many Python applications that expert and aspiring data scientists may use to mess with data. Orange is cross-platform, but because there are no installation binaries for GNU/Linux distributions, installing it on your favorite distribution entails building it from source.

The rest of this article shows how to build and install it from the downloaded source code.

The Wine team is proud to announce that the stable release Wine 1.6 is now available.

This week there's been much drama in the Linux kernel development world over Intel's Sarah Sharp and others wanting Torvalds and others to be less "verbally abusive" on the Linux kernel mailing list when criticizing kernel patches and other work.

Linaro has developed a new way foLinaro has developed a new way for Linux and Android developers to implement ARM’s Big.Little multi-core load balancing architecture, in a manner that optimizes power/performance tradeoffs. In addition to the In-kernel Switcher (IKS) released in May, the new Global Task Scheduler (GTS) offers faster, more granular scheduling control, support for non-symmetrical core combos, and the ability to run all cores simultaneously.r Linux and Android developers to implement ARM’s Big.Little multi-core load balancing architecture, in a manner that optimizes power/performance tradeoffs.

After a slew of release candidates, Wine 1.6 was officially released today. The Wine 1.6 release comes just one year after the Wine 1.4 stable release but it packs in about 10,000 individual changes.

The results have been tallied and Debian got the most votes in our Community Distro Poll. We would call them the “winner,” but this wasn’t about winners and losers. It was about trying to reach a consensus on what we mean by the term “community distro.”

For years, we've been hearing about cloud computing and we've seen a push back from many traditional IT pros for all the reasons you would expect. This infographic shows that while those concerns haven't gone away, it seems IT is finally ready to explore the cloud in spite of them --because they are finally beginning to look at the benefits too.