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For many, Gov 2.0 is about putting government in the hands of citizens. Whether it’s a mobile app alerting residents to a local meeting or checking social media networks to see which roads are clear for the morning commute. The term should be defined primarily by its utility in helping citizens or agencies solve problems, either for individuals or the commons, according to a recent article on the subject by Alex Howard on GovFresh.

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) has awarded the Document Freedom Germany Award to die tageszeitung (TAZ)

Most people don't understand UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) or even know whether their computer has it. An interface layer between an operating system and firmware, UEFI offers much better security than plain old PC BIOS.

CAINE and NBCAINE 4.0 'Pulsar' are out. Changelog: Linux kernel 3.2, LibreOffice 4.0.1, Sqliteman, remote file system mounter, sdparm, netdiscover, NirSoft Launcher with FTK imager and sysinternals tools, new RBFstab and Mounter. Rbfstab is a utility that is activated during boot or when a device is plugged in. It writes read-only entries to /etc/fstab so devices are safely mounted for forensic imaging and examination. It is self installing with 'rbfstab -i' and can be disabled with 'rbfstab -r'. It contains many improvements over past rebuildfstab incarnations. Rebuildfstab is a traditional means for read-only mounting in forensics-orient distributions.

I have spent several months searching for a Linux Distro that meets my requirements. My trusty Acer Aspire One Netbook is equipped with 2 GB ram and a 160GB HDD and has served me well since its purchase in 2010 for $279 US. The changes to Ubuntu Unity and Gnome3 set me into motion in search of a replacement Distro. Last year I tried many Distros looking yet something was missing. I didn't realize what it was until I tried Fuduntu in its 2013.1 version released in January.

"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." That is the purpose of Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the Constitution, which is sometimes referred to as the "copyright clause" (or "the patent clause"), which enables both areas of law to be created via Congress. It's also the part that is most often ignored. As we've discussed, the whole purpose of this clause is to make it clear that the public are the sole stakeholders when it comes to proper policy making decisions regarding these laws. However, with this new push for comprehensive copyright reform, it appears that the copyright lobby is already working on ways to make sure that the public is marginalized in the discussion.

A company developing a low-cost personal computer based on Android launched a Kickstarter project yesterday, to help get the device into production. After just one day, the MiiPC project has already achieved Kickstarter pledges of more than $10,000 beyond its $50,000 goal. The MiiPC (pronounced “me-PC”) is basically a mini-PC running Android. However, it’s being [...]

"This is not some pie-in-the-sky that's never been done before," said William Gale, codirector of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. "It's doable, feasible, implementable, and at a relatively low cost." So why hasn't it become a reality?

This is an article highlighting my experience thus far trying to install and get Arch Linux working. It shows some of the pitfalls and challenges that I have met on the way whilst installing Arch Linux.

The poster captures the most useful command line utilities in 12 tabs and the flash drive in its small form factor can rest on your PC or laptop for eternity !

I gave a presentation at Libreplanet this weekend on the topic of Secure Boot and Restricted Boot. There's a copy of the video here - it should be up on the conference site at some point. It turned out to be excellent timing, in that a group in Spain filed a complaint with the European Commission this morning arguing that Microsoft's imposition of Secure Boot on the x86 client PC market is anticompetitive. I suspect that this is unlikely to succeed (the Commission has already stated that the current implementation appears to conform to EU law), and I fear that it's going to make it harder to fight the real battle we face.

In this guest post, Eric Gulliksen, a senior analyst at VDC Research, ponders the future of Moore’s Law, which in 1965 predicted that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double approximately every two years. Despite predictions that Moore’s Law can’t continue unabated indefinitely, there’s still cause for optimism. ? Moore’s Law — [...]

Open source is all fine and dandy, but before throwing yourself – and untold lines of code – into a project, make sure you understand exactly what’s going to happen to your code’s copyrights. And to your career.

The latest version of Cairo-Dock includes many minor enhancements, as well as new applets and plugins. Cairo-Dock equips desktop environments with an additional panel and can also replace existing desktop panels

The Eclipse community has honoured developers, evangelists and committed Eclipse members in the Eclipse Community Awards. Technologies and projects were also recognised for their openness and quality

When I write my column, I try to stick to specific hacks or tips you can use to make life with Linux a little easier. Usually, I describe with pretty specific detail how to accomplish a particular task including command-line and configuration file examples.

Hispalinux lodges a formal complaint with the European Commission, the EU's antitrust agency, against Microsoft over UEFI and secure boot.

This new crowdfunding site is targeted to all kinds of games and platforms, and is trying to set itself apart from other funding sites by offering interesting new services both to developers and contributors. Ostrich Island, developed by MeDungeon Games, is the first Linux game to launch a campaign there.

Geometry shaders are one of the few remaining features to be implemented before Mesa can officially declare itself in compliance with the OpenGL 3.2 specification. Fortunately, work on the Gallium3D side is ongoing...

In this edition: Eric Schmidt on a possible Android and Chrome OS merger, why Jeff Atwood uses Ruby, Arch Linux switches to MariaDB, a PC DOS emulator for the Raspberry Pi, the latest Linux Mint Debian, Fenrus Linux, and Red Eclipse 1.4