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While Nvidia has been publishing very good graphics drivers for Linux for a very long time, AMD released its graphics drivers very sporadically and often in a poor state in the past. This has changed dramatically since the release of Steam for Linux. Today, the company publishes its graphics drivers regularly with a lot of improvements and has almost caught up with the graphics drivers for Windows.

Lynis is an auditing tool for unix/linux like systems which is used to scan the entire unix/linux systems for security issues, installed software informations, general system information, configuration issues or mistakes, software patch management, malware and vulnerability, firewall auditing, user accounts without passwords, invalid file permissions and many more.

When Google announced Blink earlier this month, then Samsung and Mozilla followed quickly with an announcement they were partnering on a new browser called Servo, it probably shook up a few developers, and with good reason. This in-depth piece looks at 5 things you need to know about these announcements -- and why you might not need to panic just yet.

The use of paper has been displaced from some activities. For example, the vast majority of journeys on the London Underground are made using the Oyster card without a paper ticket being issued. We have witnessed talk of a paperless office for more than 40 years. However, the office environment has shown a resistance to remove the mountain of paper generated. Things have changed in the past few years, with a marked shift in the paperless office concept.

Pour gasoline on the bonfire? You betcha. The FTC has invited public comment on their ongoing 6b investigation of PAEs. Microsoft and Barnes and Noble go on record. Dietrich Schmitz gives the scoop.

Have you gotten frustrated with Puppet? Corey Quinn offers an impassioned argument for his favorite open source alternative.

FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to set up ProFTPd with TLS on an Ubuntu 12.10 server.

Openness is not just about software. This trend in software is just one piece of a much bigger picture. In fact, openness is taking hold throughout the modern world. Katherine Noyes explains why.

Hard core Linux fans won't care for it, but for the average user the new Ubuntu desktop Linux has a lot to offer.

Obsidian Entertainment announced earlier that they would distribute their new game on 2 distribution platforms: Steam and gog.com. Steam is a DRM platform. gog.com has no Linux section to get native Linux games from. Is Linux being used to push DRM under the guise of DRM Free?

Apache CloudStack is being updated to version 4.0.2 today fixing at least 40 bugs. From my perspective two of the flaws are particularly interesting and those are the security flaws.

I thought it was going to be easy. Just click, listen, and get back to work. Wrong. My Chrome browser told me I needed to install the QuickTime plugin if I wanted to hear Mr. Bell.

There is a Linux distribution out there for everyone. PCLinuxOS is a great distribution for Windows users thinking of moving to Linux for the first time. Not a terminal window in sight.

ARM has added embedded Linux support to its free ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition (CE) integrated development environment (IDE), which previously had only targeted Android. DS-5 CE now offers full Linux support for its Eclipse IDE, GNU cross-compiler, DS-5 Debugger, and the ARM Streamline performance analyzer. The Eclipse-based development toolkit was announced for [...]

I've always had a little bit of "distrohopper" in me. I'd usually get bored and want to try something new after reading about it.

Almost always I end up back on Ubuntu after a while. I've really been using Ubuntu pretty much exclusively since 2005.

Last year I switched exclusively to Fedora for a while (about 9 months) because I was having to use RHEL/CentOS at work and needed to learn more about it. It was painful for me, not because Fedora is bad or anything, it's just not my ideal desktop distribution. It was the longest I'd ever stuck with something besides Ubuntu. As soon as I was comfortable with the Red Hat tool-set (and the fact I moved from being a Server Admin to a Software Developer at work), I moved back to Ubuntu.

An enlightened versions of Ubuntu, Bodhi is an incredibly lightweight and highly customisable distro using Canonical’s base. Is Bodhi crippled from this, or much better?

When the New Year’s Day sun rose in Europe and the United States, the reality of what had happened was hidden to almost all. Only a hundred or so targets had been struck, and the smoke from the ruins that remained was already dissipating. What people did immediately realize was that certain things that they were used to working now did not.

U.S. News & World Report was the first to announce this afternoon that the Senate will evidently not vote on the cybersecurity bill known as the Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act or CISPA. According to a report published on their website, the news organization has received assurances of the bill’s death from an unnamed member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation that has been considering the bill as passed last week by the House of Representatives:

Is heartwarming to see people writing Free software and is understandable newbie developers will create less than perfect applications, still there are some apps which should never be written, and in this category I include the "scripts" supposed to install and do "everything" on your distro, from installing Flash and codecs to... $DEITY knows what.

Monster Loves You! Recently popped up on the SteamDB so I decided to do my usual checks and get in touch with the developer to see if it is actually coming.