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MontaVista Software announced that its MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) 6.0 is the first Linux distribution to have been registered for Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 5.0 under the ARM profile. The move reflects an expected surge of ARM processors in networking and telecom gear. According to the company, MontaVista Linux CGE 6.0 is the [...]

But I found out while testing the main edition of Fedora 19 that it is far from a traditional desktop interface. That it is more like a hybrid desktop interface – a fusion of what could be considered a traditional desktop interface and the GNOME Shell.

Boxee, the Israeli startup that achieved fame first as the developer of an innovative, free, media-streaming software platform, and later through its partnership with D-Link around the iconic Linux-powered Boxee Box device, has been acquired by Samsung. According to reports by Haaretz and the New York Times, the company’s selling price was less than the [...]

Is Synology’s latest-generation two-bay Linux-powered NAS worth the upgrade for owners of previous models?

I found Igor through Steven Rosenberg, and like Steven says, Igor is both knowledgeable and funny. Igor’s setup is cool because of the variety of hardware and distros he uses. I was most interested in the variety of desktop environments he uses. I find it tough enough flipping between GNOME3 and Windows 7. I’m not sure I’d be able to handle even just a third variable.

While not directly Linux related, this afternoon at Phoronix we are looking at the SilverStone Air Penetrator AP123. If you're looking to make your "Tux" powered computer system a bit cooler this summer, the SST-AP123 is a great way to quietly do so.

LXLE 12.04 20130707 is available. The LXLE project is a Lubuntu-based distribution which attempts to be very light on resources while also improving support for older hardware.

For SUSE enterprise customers, SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 has been released today. The Nuremberg-based company calls this the first enterprise Linux distribution integrating UEFI Secure Boot support.

In this new age of software-centric everything, Linux provides the stability of a proprietary system without all the added-on licensing costs that tend to pile up quickly. There are still some challenges to open-source networking equipment, but the cost savings they deliver will likely overcome all obstacles.

Clementine is one of the best audio players, hyper-complete, highly configurable, powerful but easy to use, Clementine Player is simply the ideal for me. Multiplatform, open source and free, it’s a real pearl to try without hesitation. Clementine is a music player and library organizer, It is a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 framework and the GStreamer multimedia framework. It is available for Unix-like, Windows and Mac OS X.

In this guest column, Robert Nyman, a Mozilla technical evangelist and editor of the Mozilla Hacks website, provides a perspective on the history and evolution of Firefox OS. Nyman writes on the occasion of the first Firefox OS smartphone, the $90 ZTE Open, becoming available for sale in Madrid, Spain.

Google has found a fix for a vulnerability in Android's security model that could allow attackers to convert 99 percent of all applications into Trojan malware.

Here at FOSS Force, we haven’t changed our online habits one ort since the NSA news broke. Part of that is fatalistic. What’s the use? If the faceless “they” wants to know where we’re going online or what search terms we use to get there, they’ll find out. We might as well just hand it to them and save them the trouble of planting some sort of trojan on our computers–which would be a lot of work to only discover we’re just a bunch of old hippies who still hate the government but who are too tired to do anything about it but complain.

After speaking with jonkagstrom from Mojang on twitter it seems that Mojang has not forgotten about Linux!

Hey gang! The Powerbase wanted to sweeten up your summer with awesome free games. Each week for the next 8 weeks, we will be giving away games on Desura, Steam & Ubuntu Software Center. We’ll pick 2 unique games each week, and the winner decides which one they want! Super easy!

In part I, we learnt about the memory corruption and the probable causes. Presently, there are plethora Linux tools available to combat the issues of memory corruption. Such Linux tools assist a great deal in detecting the memory corruption and resolving them. In this article we will cover 3 popular open source tools available for debugging memory corruption related problem on Linux.

Digia and Qt-Project.org have released version 5.1 of their Linux-ready cross-platform development framework. Qt 5.1 offers new Qt Quick declarative UI language controls and layouts, improved OpenGL support, sensor and serial port support, an updated Qt Creator 2.7.2, and preliminary versions of Qt for Android and iOS.

SUSE Studio lets anyone quickly create their own customized Linux distribution and now SUSE is willing to give these distros commercial support.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES 11), one of the leading open source Linux operating systems for the enterprise, reached a major new milestone July 8 with the introduction of Service Pack 3 (SP3). From virtualization to next-generation storage to clustering, the update offers customers an array of new features and make SUSE, the Attachmate subsidiary that develops the OS, a strong contender in the enterprise server market.

The terminal emulator. Perhaps the most important tool in any one person’s arsenal for accessing systems remotely and locally. Unix and Linux admins would be lost without one; but despite it’s usefulness, little has been done to modernize the experience. Until now. Enter Final Term. The sexiest terminal you’ve ever seen. With progress bars! Final Term–thus far–offers the following;