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As Linux takes over the network operating system, the roles of Linux admin and network admin grow increasingly entwined.

"The Free Software Foundation has a Twitter account. Surprised? So am I, in a negative way, of course. And I will explain why on this post. I first learned about the Twitter account on IRC. I was hanging around in the #fsf channel on Freenode, when someone mentioned that "... something has just been posted on FSF's Twitter!" (yes, it was a happy announcement, not a complaint). I thought it was a joke, but before laughing I decided to confirm. And to my deepest sorrow, I was wrong. The Free Software Foundation has a Twitter account."

So one of the first things I tend to do on a new installation of Ubuntu Desktop is to disable it. On previous editions of Ubuntu, that meant uninstalling or removing the liboverlay-scrollbar package.

The Open Virtualization Alliance has joined the Linux Foundation as a collaborative project to deepen its ties with the Linux community.

Ultimate Edition 3.6 is available. Ultimate Edition, first released in December 2006, is a fork of Ubuntu. The goal of the project is to create a complete, seamlessly integrated, visually stimulating, and easy-to-install operating system. Single-button upgrade is one of several special characteristics of this distribution. Other main features include custom desktop and theme with 3D effects, support for a wide range of networking options, including WiFi and Bluetooth, and integration of many extra applications and package repositories.

Linux Mint, an Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux distribution, has seen tremendous growth in community support and installed base in recent years. Since arriving on the scene in 2006 with its first release called "Ada," Mint has become the most popular FOSS operating system on DistroWatch.com, surpassing both Ubuntu and Debian themselves.

Pandora FMS 5.0 looks much more beautiful now. With a completely renovated layout and a powerful graphic engine based on interactive Flot (HTLM5), the new interface lets you zoom in and out and get interactive windows without using Flash. Furthermore, Pandora FMS has a new console for mobile devices and tablets.

Collaboration can change the world and Linux and open source developers must use what they’ve learned to lead the way. This was the message delivered by Mark Hinkle, director of open source solutions at Citrix, in his inspirational keynote at LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe in Edinburgh this morning.

Football Manager 2014 went into beta last week on Steam for Linux. While it shouldn't be too surprising to the Phoronix-reading Linux graphics enthusiasts, the new non-FPS game has illustrated new Linux graphics driver bugs.

Getting a Nexus 7? It's the best small-screen tablet you can buy, but you'll want to install the right apps. Here are 20 of our favorites in a variety of categories.

As system administrator, or simple user that uses Linux on its desktop sometime you notice that something it’s eating all the memory of your system. As first thing be sure to understand how Linux manage memory, I’ve be called too many time by scared users that did a free and were unable to read its output properly, in short, don’t worry if the Linux Kernel it’s using your memory to cache file.

So let’s take a look at a nice small program that can help us in find which process/users are using, for real, the memory of our systems.

I'm not quite sure how this happened but it seems the dumbed-down computer tech of our everyday life is not easy enough; the public is baffled and apparently needs even more simplification.

This article is part of an interview series highlighting the speakers of the upcoming All Things Open 2013 conference in Raleigh, NC It's official: Twitter is a global phenomenon, and it's hard to argue against the numbers supporting that statement. What started as a small, quasi-micro-blogging company in 2006, gained steam in 2007 with the service generating around 400,000 tweets per quarter, or roughly 1100 tweets per day, and exploded to worldwide service with a staggering 400 million tweets per day by 2013.

SchalamzaarOS 0.0.1 is released. SchalamzaarOS is an openSUSE-based operating system for the micronation of Schalamzaar.

How to turn off the Smart Scopes feature in Ubuntu 13.10.

With Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu ships a solid desktop based on the work that has been done since 13.04, with few new features that are noteworthy, and no major changes. Saucy will be supported for 9 months, until July 2014. With 13.04 support ending very soon, Saucy is a good replacement to feature newer packages and a decent lifespan.

Just a week after the previous update, the developer has released yet another version of the famous application, bringing even more features and changes.

gcp is an advanced command line file copier that is inspired by the standard cp command but provides various advanced features like progress bar indicator, source lists, continuous copying even if there is a problematic file etc.

Tablets are the perfect way to surf the web, play games, and watch videos on the sofa or a train. The popularity of these small portable devices continues to gain momentum. The Hudl is Tesco's first venture into what is now a very crowded tablet market.

Less than a year after announcing the beta release of Steam for Linux, Valve unveiled plans for Linux-based SteamOS and Steam Machine beta hardware. So far, we’ve seen plenty of buzz, but we can’t actually install the new operating system or get our hands on the hardware. Will the Steam releases live up to the hype? Four brave experts weigh in with early predictions for SteamOS and the Steam Machine – and they certainly do not agree with one another.