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Elive 2.1.31 is available. Elive, or Enlightenment live CD, is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution and live CD featuring the Enlightenment window manager. Besides being pre-configured and ready for daily desktop use, it also includes "Elpanel" - a control centre for easy system and desktop administration.

A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Solo or cooperate in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch.

Google has released Chrome 25.0.1364.97 for Windows and Linux and Chrome 25.0.1364.99 for Mac OS X, fixing 22 security vulnerabilities and introducing speech recognition while blocking silent extension installs on Windows

Hortonworks' Alan Gates has announced the Stinger Initiative, a four point plan for making Apache Hive 100 times faster. With other Hadoop distributors already having taken steps to speed up processing of large data volumes (e.g. MapR's Drill), Hortonworks prefers to rely on existing tools and input from Hadoop's large community.

I've taken to browsing the Web with a mobile device like a duck to water, despite the generally appalling user experience. I remember well the days of balancing hot and heavy Dell laptops on my middle, recumbent on a sofa -- peering awkwardly at an obscurely angled keyboard, lap getting hotter and hotter. Relief came when the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet debuted in the U.S. in November 2005.

With the same type of touch-screen available on most smartphones – Gorilla® Glass from Qualcomm, the Chromebook Pixel is a touch ahead other touch-capable computers available. But all that high-end features and higher-end price tag means this is not one Chromebook I’m going to buy just to see if I can install my favorite Linux distribution on it.

This week, we look at why you need to hack yourself, a computer that never crashes and the sad return of Linux FUD.

The touchable mobile version of Ubuntu is now available as a developer preview. The snapshot delivered is early in development and already reveals some design issues with Canonical's "swipey" vision which will need addressing over the rest of the year

Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux distro and to many people, Ubuntu has even become the synonym of Linux. However, one interesting fact I just learned today is that, despite being around since 2004, Ubuntu hasnt brought any profit to Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical yet.

If you don't know your -rw-r--r-x's from your 744's, then this article is definitely for you.

Here's some more details on my adventures with the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview after experimenting with it for a little more than 24 hours on the Google Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 devices...

The Free Software Foundation's annual LibrePlanet conference is an event at the intersection of software, social justice, and media studies. This year's conference seems to be the most broad and diverse yet, with a lineup of speakers from various backgrounds between programming, activism, and academia.

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced general availability of the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. It has been optimized for performance, stability and flexibility, and designed to help organizations manage their workloads across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux introduces several new components that help enterprises meet these core business objectives.

The FreeMedForms project was updated today to the version 0.8.2. This version is mainly a debug version with some new features. Please note that the debug process was by real doctors in their "day-to-day practice". Please visit: - Main website and full changelog - French non-profit association. Official support

It was just earlier today that Google announced the Chromebook Pixel, a much-speculated device with a very high resolution display and high-end hardware running their Chrome OS operating system. Google has already begun pushing Linux kernel patches enabling support for this expensive Google notebook...

The NOSH ChartingSystem v1.3 was released on December 27th and is available for download via Launchpad at https://launchpad.net/~shihjay2. More details about the project are available at http://noshemr.wordpress.com.

Boundless, the company that builds on existing open educational resources to provide free alternatives to traditionally costly college textbooks, has released 18 open textbooks under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA), the same license used by Wikipedia.

This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Scientific Linux 6.3 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as a standalone server, not as a domain controller. In the resulting setup, every user has his own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol and all users have a shared directory with read-/write access.

One of the first things I wanted to check when installing the Ubuntu Touch/Tablet Developer Preview is seeing what display server / compositor was in use by this newest Ubuntu Linux variant. Wayland? Compiz on X?..

Cloud Endpoints let Android and iOS apps plug into Google’s backend Google has updated its platform-as-a-service to ease mobile app development in the cloud.…