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Katherine is involved in a lot of great Linux initiatives. I strongly recommend her Twitter feed, which usually has a few interesting links per day. Katherine is also another subject who says her setup is close to ideal, which is always nice, and impressive, to hear. Also, despite the fact that I might seem obsessed with Fuduntu, it’s just a coincidence that Katherine uses it.

uniCenta oPOS is a proven, reliable Touchscreen Point Of Sale application that meets the needs of a wide-range of businesses. This guide is intended as a relatively easy step by step guide to: Install uniCenta oPOS on Ubuntu.

The largest pure cloud play service of all is based on Netflix's open-source stack running on Amazon Web Services.

GlusterFS is used in environments where high performance, redundancy and reliability are of a premium. The best part is that it’s exceedingly easy to use

The software featured in this article includes high quality standalone tools which help users to recover data in a range of circumstances. There are dedicated Linux distributions which provide lots of useful system administration software including data recovery tools.

My Game Company has just released its 6th Linux game, Word Play Deluxe! This game may look elementary, but don't be fooled - you'll have to think quickly and play skillfully to master it! If you enjoy word searches, you'll love this game!

It is easy to setup ad-hoc wifi router in Linux. The problem is, many devices e.g Android (currently) can not connect to it. Network Manager 0.9.8 brings AP-mode Hotspot. However, since it is not integrated into nm-applet or other easy tools, we will still have to wait some time for a seemless experience. Until then, we will have to rely on hostapd software.

Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail will be released Soon, If you have ubuntu 12,10, 12.04 Precise Pangolin or older version of ubuntu installed on your system, and you want to upgrade to this new release, you can do it by following these instructions.

With the release of the Linux 3.9 kernel being imminent, here's a recap of the most interesting features coming to this next Linux release.

In Fuduntu 2012.3, the screen lock feature is enabled by default. Here are 2 methods you can use to disable it..

Road Redemption takes the motorcycle combat-racing gameplay, pioneered by the Road Rash series, to the next level.

A crowd of well over 100 gathered near the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Friday, despite rising winds and the looming threat of a thunderstorm. We were all there to play (and to watch) Pong, but not on an arcade cabinet—the version we'd be playing would be played out on the programmable LED lights lining the side of Philadelphia's Cira Centre, a 29-story office building across the Schuylkill River from the museum. The lights, normally used to display static images or simple looping patterns, had been transformed into a fully interactive game of Pong by Drexel computer science professor (and Co-Founder and Co-Director of Drexel's game design program) Frank Lee and his team in just a few short months. It's being billed by the event organizers as the "world's largest video game."

Z3 Technology has introduced a board-level video transcoding subsystem based on a new Texas Instruments TMS320DM8269 DaVinci system-on-chip (SOC). The Linux-enabled subsystem targets 1080p/H.264 video processing in applications such as broadcast video encoding and decoding, real-time transcoding at 60fps, security and surveillance, video conferencing, industrial video processing equipment.

In an effort originally known as Project Sputnik, Dell dedicated resources into doing Linux on an Ultrabook "right"—writing code where necessary (and contributing that code back upstream like a good FOSS citizen) and paying attention to the entire user experience rather than merely working on components in a vacuum. The result is a perfectly functional Ultrabook with a few extra tools—that "Developer Edition" moniker isn't just for show, and Dell has added some devops spices into the mix with this laptop that should quicken any developer's heartbeat.

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 12.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Mentor Graphics has merged the Linux-based automotive infotainment technology it acquired in February from MontaVista Software into its own in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) platform. Additionally, the new Mentor Embedded Automotive Technology Platform (ATP) complies with Yocto Project 1.3 and GENIVI 3.0 requirements, says Mentor.

The developer of Hyperspace Pinball, an interesting twist on the old school arcade wrapped up in a universe of aliens, explosions and space travel, is asking for feedback regarding about whether or not the export of his Unity4 game works on Linux. If enough people confirm the game works it will be made available for free via Desura.

A recent event with a local client has started me thinking, again, about Microsoft, Apple, FOSS and vendor lock-in. I am not a proponent of vendor lock-in. ...

One of the main features of Linux is to provide a complete and functional operating system that can completely work also on dated PC where Windows XP has now become too old and the new Windows 7 requires too many resources. Linux can revive pc set aside because the hardware is no longer supported by Microsoft operating system and so providing a fast, complete and secure environment. On GNU/Linux there are many desktop environments some specially designed to be lightweight but at the same time they offer customization, effects etc.. In this article we will see some of the “light” desktop environments for Linux, the consumption of resources required and how to install them.

Planetary Annihilation has released the first ever in-game footage and information about when the Alpha version will start!