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Today, August 1, 2013, the Arch Linux 2013.08.01 has been made available for download on mirrors worldwide (see download link at the end of the article).

This is probably the most thoroughly tested version of Parted Magic we've done in a while. More attention was given to fixing old problems then adding new features. That's not to say there are a few new ones. The program to download virus definitions has been overhauled to show more information after the download is complete. Such as the size of the files and the version. You can also decide to download the main, daily, or both. The program which displays what programs are installed has been split up into groups instead of a 1,000 package list. The EFI GRUB 2 menu and the syslinux menu have been completely overhauled from scratch.

Verizon and T-Mobile has announced that they'll be supporting the Ubuntu phone in the United States.

When AMD64 (AMD) and EM64T (Intel) CPU technology was new and ready for the prime market, there was much talk about whether the real-world was ready for 64bit computing in the consumer sector. At the time, 64bit computing had been around in the server sector for quite some time.

Before I came to Red Hat as a Social Media Marketing intern, I didn’t know a thing about open source. During the application process, I did some research into what Red Hat does and what this company is all about. I found all sorts of information about Linux, software, technology, and more. However, my eyes were not opened to the open source way until New Hire Orientation where this idea was stressed by every speaker. I quickly realized that this is a pillar of how Red Hat does business.

Today in Open Source: Your first Linux distro? Plus: Mark Shuttleworth and desktop Linux, and WordPress 3.6 is out!

In Linux, doxygen is the de facto standard tool for automatically generating cross-reference documentation from annotated source code. Doxygen is helpful when you are trying to publish source-code documentation for your project, or reading other people's code. This tutorial talks about how to automatically generate documentation from source code in Linux.

This release comes with a lot of bug fixes and application updates. We also have brought new functionality and services. First, hardware services. As a licensed ACER dealer we are bringing about a new hardware initiative. We are bringing state of the art, powerful, beautiful and functional hardware to the OS4 and Linux communities. We believe state of the art software deserves state-of-the-art hardware. So we have a wide range of towers, laptops, all-in-ones and of course our most popular, OS4 BriQ, is still available. We also have the engineering marvel, the Vision 64 all-in-one keyboard PC from Cybernet available. All of these systems make great gifts and they make a great addition to any home or office.

VLC Media Player 2.0.8 has been released. This is a maintenance release that fixes some regressions in the 2.0.x branch. There are also numerous fixes for crashes, dangerous behaviors, ISDB-S tuning and some OS X issues were resolved.

With Oracle's fairly recent acquisition of MySQL, a lot of people are looking to move away from MySQL in fear of Oracle changing the licensing, which could force you to change database backends. As such, today we'll migrate from MySQL to MariaDB, which is a popular alternative to MySQL.

What do you call a computer program that uses big data to write jokes? Basic, judging by the list of groan-worthy gags generated by this new wisecracking software. Eggheads at the University of Edinburgh have developed code dedicated to spitting out quips along the lines of: "I like my men like I like my monoxide - odourless" and "I like my women like I like my gas - natural".

The Italian Institute of Technology gave its first public demonstration of a Linux-based quadruped robot for navigating rough terrain. Meanwhile, a new version of the Hydraulic Quadruped (Hyq) robot is under development that can “feel” and step over obstacles using a step reflex algorithm, letting the robot navigate more easily in low-visibility environments.

This mini-howto describes how to set up KeePass on Centos 6. It requires building mono from source and installing the "portable" version of KeePass. Finally there are a few tweaks that need to be done so that it can execute properly.

When you run a virtual machine (VM) on VMware, the default boot sequence of the VM is “removable devices -> hard drive -> CD-ROM drive”. If you want to boot a VM from an ISO image instead, you need to change the boot sequence of the VM, so that it starts with CD-ROM drive. This tutorial describes how to change the boot order of a VMware VM.

Join Adrian Bridgwater, Trevor Pott, Freeform Dynamics' Analyst Dale Vile and Perforce's Mark Warren to discuss this significant trend in software development and deployment. The Reg’s group editor Joe Fay will be your host for the conversation. You can register before the Live Chat for free, and receive an email reminder before we go live.

The HackRF could do for software defined radio (SDR) what the Arduino did for microcontrollers, or what the Raspberry Pi did for ARM boards.

Ubuntu Forums are back to normal following a serious hack attack that exposed the usernames, email addresses and hashed passwords of 1.8 million open source users. Parent firm Canonical restored the forums on Tuesday as well as publishing a detailed summary of what went wrong and the broad steps it has taken to beef up security.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 19 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

MathJax is a cross-browser JavaScript library that displays mathematical equations in web browsers, using MathML, LaTeX and ASCIIMathML markup. MathJax is released as open-source software under the Apache license. This tutorial will teach you how to integrate MathJax in popular free and open source web platform WordPress.

Transmission is a must for those looking for a simple and efficient BitTorrent client for convenient everyday use, especially for lovers of downloading free music and software. The BitTorrent protocol is increasingly used, and sometimes almost indispensable, for example on a site of free music (http://www.jamendo.com/) is the official protocol, there are a few free clients such as Transmission. It is an open source, cross-platform, volunteer-based project.