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Linux command line aficionados assemble! "Mastering The Linux Shell - Advanced Permissions" is ready.

Jeremy Allison, Founder of Samba recalls a story of his participation at the LinuxWorld Conference, book 'Crossing the Chasm' and reminds why Linux advocacy is still vital to its ongoing success.

Loyal penguin Dr. Roy Schestowitz aligns himself to Katherine Noyes' story "What is our Goal Here" with his own recapitulation of Linux goals and priorities.

For tweaking Ubuntu in general, there is the Ubuntu Tweak that take care of most of the system tweak and configuration. However, if you are using the Unity desktop, there are some features that are not covered by Ubuntu Tweak. This is where Unity Tweak Tool comes in. Unity Tweak Tool is a configuration tool for the Unity Desktop, providing users access to features and configuration options. While most of the configuration options are available in the System Settings as well, Unity Tweak Tool brings them all together in a single place so you don’t have to search high and low for each setting.

The core for Google Chrome, Chromium, is changing rendering engines to the WebKit-based Blink. The change is said to benefit users, but what about developers?

The first “project” on Master and Server is the installation of the WordPress.org blogging software in my account at devio.us. So what is devio.us? It’s an OpenBSD server run by a group of sysadmins who offer free shell accounts and web-server space to interested users of this security-minded BSD project.

David Tavares, the developer of the Pear OS Linux operating system, has proudly announced a few hours ago (April 4) that the server edition of the highly anticipated Pear OS 7 Linux distribution is now available for download.

The micro computer Raspberry Pi has become a real hit among tech fans all over the world. The model A was sold out in the US within a few hours. Everybody wants this credit-card sized computer. And of course, being cute and cheap isnt the main reason behind its success. It is because with Raspberry Pi, people can create a lot of amazing things. And if you wonder what these amazing things are, here is a list of 10 awesome projects created with Raspberry Pi.

Heroku's Matt Thompson has announced the Helios framework, an open source backend for iOS applications which provides a range of essential services. These include data synchronisation, user accounts, push notifications, in-app purchases and passbook integration. The design focuses on "mobile first" developers who build out their applications on the mobile device and then want to implement the server-side mechanisms as they become necessary.

This tutorial shows how you can install and run a Redaxo 4.4.x web site on a Debian Wheezy or Ubuntu 12.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

The chief developer of the popular alternative Android firmware CyanogenMod thought that requiring devices to report unique smartphone and tablet data would be an unqualified blessing. They reckoned without their users.

KDE 4.10.2 improves the desktop environment's Personal Information Management (PIM) application, Kontact, and its window manager and compositor, KWin. In total, the updated fixes 107 bugs

Late last year, I wrote about the EFF’s project to leverage the Patent Office’s new Preissuance Submissions procedure to promote open 3D printing technology. Here we are, several months later, and the fight for open 3D printing continues. Now, the EFF has partnered with Ask Patents to facilitate crowdsourcing of prior art searches for various 3D printing-related patent applications.

Google has announced that its Chrome browser is dropping the popular WebKit browser engine in favor of Blink, a new fork of the code that the Chocolate Factory says will make Chrome faster, more powerful, and more secure. The internet ad giant announced the move on Wednesday via the official blog of the Chromium project, the open source effort upon which Chrome is based.

Linpus has informed us via email that the second maintenance release of the Linpus Lite 1.9 Linux Live operating system is now available for download and upgrade (for existing users only).

The Activision and Raven Software game studios have open-sourced two of their games for "for people to learn from and play with" the code. The source code to the games Star Wars Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy are now open-source and hosted on SourceForge.

Are you winning if you own ninety-nine percent of a moribund market? I don't think so. Linux and Open Source/Free Software has crossed the chasm now. It has become the mainstream. Every Android tablet or phone out there is a Linux and Open Source/Free Software platform, and in the next few years I fully expect this to become the most common form of computing for most people worldwide.. So have we won? Should we just pack up the advocacy tent and go home? Unfortunately not. Most of the applications running on these devices are still proprietary. Most people using mobile devices, although they might be running a Free Software operating system underneath, still don't realize why Free Software is important.

Embest is accepting pre-orders for a $99 single-board computer (SBC) based on a 1GHz dual-core Freescale i.MX6 ARM Cortex-A9 system-on-chip (SOC). The compact “MarS Board” provides interfaces for Gig-Ethernet, SATA, HDMI, camera, and more, and it’s supported with ready-to-use embedded Linux and Android OS images.

One constant that is ever-present on the Internet: Change. In a story on TechCrunch Google made the decision today to fork WebKit to 'Blink' to advance their projects in the name of "speed and simplicity".

It is well known that Slackware ships with KDE4 and codecs for various types of audio and video. However, MP4 and a few other codecs are not supported OOB.