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Per-window private browsing, a new download experience, improved developer tool layouts and three critical bug fixes are the essential components of the latest update to Firefox

A linguistic look at some tenets of Linux.

If someone told you to come up with an RFP processing system in less than a week for less than $10,000, you might rightly asked if they were high. Here's how a consultant created just such a system in the Cloud for the State of Washington to be its 'pot czar.' Hint: He used WordPress as the base for all the ingredients.

Bloodhound in many respects is a fork of the open source Trac project. Like all other modern projects, it started out as an incubated project in December of 2011 and now is graduating to become a Top-Level-Project.

Today, the Humble team, which is famous for publishing of the game series Humble Indie Bundle, has released a game bundle with only AAA titles as part of the Humble Weekly Sale. This time the Humble team has even surprised us with 2 Games Collections.

Mobiveil has released an AMC form-factor board based on Freescale’s quad-core QorIQ P3041 communications processor. The AMCP3041 can support mixed control plane and data plane requirements in wireless and wireline networking equipment, and is supported with embedded Linux, U-Boot, Snort, and FreeNAS software.

More and more games are published for Linux and so it’s becoming more important to have a good performance with our beloved system, but some of the Desktop Environemnts can really slow down your gaming experience.

Many users who try Linux for the first time opt for Ubuntu. openSUSE is one of the bigger distributions. How well does it stack up against Ubuntu with regards to useability, functionality and performance?

Valve has done another push and put up 5 new games to Linux! All in Beta though so be warned there will be bugs! The titles are Ricochet, Deathmatch Classic, Team Fortress Classic, Half Life: Blue Shift and Half Life: Opposing Force!

When Oracle purchased Sun in April 2009, MySQL creator Michael "Monty" Widenius saw a bleak future ahead for the database, which Sun had snapped up in 2008. The day the purchase was announced, he forked MySQL, launching MariaDB.

Within the next few hours AMD will be publishing open-source driver code that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD graphics cards. This will finally allow open-source graphics drivers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding. Read more details in this Phoronix exclusive.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Azure cloud veteran Radhesh Balakrishnan has joined Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) to drive the open source company's OpenStack and virtualization strategies. Balakrishnan's career move comes at a critical time for Red Hat, which is striving to push beyond Linux to compete with Microsoft and VMware (NYSE:VMW) across private and public clouds.

There's nothing like digging into your first Linux distribution, whether you're a tech-savvy user looking to branch out or whether you're installing it on a friend's computer. But which distribution is actually better for beginners? Here, we'll delve into the differences between Ubuntu and Mint, the two most popular beginner distros, and perform a little experiment to see what new users prefer.

Firefox includes a new enhancement to private browsing that allows you to open a new private browsing window without closing or changing your current browsing session. You can shop for a birthday gift in a private window with your existing … Continue reading

Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) CEO Jim Whitehurst has long predicted open source virtualization will eventually leapfrog VMware's (NYSE:VMW) vSphere. So far that reality has not materialized. But a new Red Hat hire -- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) cloud veteran Radhesh Balakrishnan -- will aim to change that.

An Apple developer has shared plans to see LLVM 3.3 released in June of this year, following the month of May being dedicated to testing...

Tens of thousands of websites, some operated by The Los Angeles Times, Seagate, and other reputable companies, have recently come under the spell of "Darkleech," a mysterious exploitation toolkit that exposes visitors to potent malware attacks.

Here's a shocking fact I've learned from 25-plus years of security consulting: Most security projects fail to improve the safety of the organizations launching them. Security will be compromised as frequently after the project as before.

One month ago a FreeRDP-based remote compositor for Wayland's Weston was proposed. Now having undergone six code revisions, the Weston Remote Desktop Protocol back-end has been merged...

When it comes to education, most people agree, more is better. No one embodies that principle at least in regard to IT certifications better than Jerry Irvine. CIO of IT consulting firm Prescient Solutions and member of the National Cyber Security Task Force, Irvine holds more than 20 IT certifications, of which at least six are specifically information security-oriented.