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David Laing, a senior analyst at VDC Research, examines the emergence of ARM's "big.LITTLE" processor architecture, whereby a single chip integrates multiple high-performance CPU cores along with a power-efficient core, enabling it to deliver greater performance at lower power-points than before.

The trend of mini computers is still going on. A new kid just showed up into the family of cheap, mini computers. MiiPC, a mini-Android based PC aimed to provide a safe environment for children to use the internet under the watchful eye of their parents.

In recent years, there has been no shortage of new Ubuntu derivatives to cater to different needs. Those have including different desktop editions (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu) and needs (ie. Ubuntu Studio Edition). Now Canonical, the lead sponsor behind Ubuntu is building a new version of Ubuntu specifically for China. The new version is call Kylin and is being developed in partnership with government agencies in China. Kylin will have Chinese language input and localization and will also have a Chinese calendar. The first version of Kylin will coincide with the Ubuntu 13.04 release set to debut in April. Moving beyond the initial release, Canonical plans on providing further specific Chinese integrations including the use of Baidu maps and Taobao shopping.

nginx (pronounced as engine-x) is a lightweight, high performance http server, reverse proxy server, IMAP, SMTP and POP3 server. In this tutorial my test box hostname and ip address are “server.unixmen.com” and “192.168.1.200?.

Mature, Open Source turn-key platform widely used for delivering scalable, full-featured Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.

One of the best-known Android developers is leaving Samsung for a new, as yet unknown, project.

The recently released version 3.0 of OpenELEC, the minimalist media centre Linux distribution, supports more hardware. Based on XBMC 12.1, it now includes images for the Raspberry Pi and Arctic MC001 computers

Oracle reported a modest loss in its most recent quarterly earnings report, but it could be a sign of a more fundamental underlying problem as the company faces pressure from cheaper cloud and open source alternatives.

The board voted last week, but the announcement came out today, so it’s officially official: Apache CloudStack is now a top-level project under the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). In the grand scheme of things, this may not sound like a big deal – the ASF announces new TLPs pretty often, and Apache currently boasts more than 100 TLPs. But a fair number of projects don’t make it, and the amount of work required for a project to go from incubation to graduation isn’t trivial.

In part three of this series, we discover that no file is so tough that it can't be deleted. And if you make a mistake, you can always live under an alias.

Cairo-Dock is a fast and light desktop interface, that is a good addition/replacement of the classic Shells (Unity, Gnome-Shell, KDE, XFCE, etc). Its strong points are: being very customizable, having a lot of ready-to-use themes and tons of useful applets.

OpenShot, the leading (currently) open source video editing package for Linux has reached the halfway point in its Kickstarter campaign today. OpenShot, which seeks 20k in funding to release upcoming versions of its software for Windows and Mac, has crossed the 10k threshold and is inching towards 11k. And with 22 days left to go in their campaign, it seems like they might cross the finish line early.

Surely many Ubuntu users will want to experiment with the new KDE 4.10 desktop which was recently released. KDE 4.10 can be installed on Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 and even Linux Mint with the instructions we have provided. Follow these few simple steps and you can enjoy all the new features offered by KDE 4.10.

Steve Kondik, founder of the CyanogenMod project and creator of its popular alternative ROM for Android devices, has left Samsung. Kondik revealed that he is no longer employed by the company as an aside in a Google+ post concerning the Galaxy S4 hardware. The well-known Android hacker, who also goes by the online name Cyanogen, started at Samsung's mobile division in August 2011 to work on "making Android more awesome". It is not currently known what Kondik's future plans are; when queried he replied "ask me in a couple of months".

One: Some of the Chinese military hackers who were implicated in a broad set of attacks against the U.S. government and corporations were identified because they accessed Facebook from the same network infrastructure they used to carry out their attacks.

There's been much ado about office suites over the past year or so, thanks in large part to the anticipation and then arrival of Microsoft's baffling Office 2013. We've seen the ascendance of LibreOffice, we've seen Redmond's wacky pricing plan, and we've even heard rumors -- as yet unsubstantiated -- of a launch that would blow more than a few minds. None of that could have prepared us for what came to light last week.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 open source projects and initiatives, announced today that Apache CloudStack has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles.

Today, when I checked the archives of the websites of the Linux distros, I was really surprised to see how different these sites looked back then. Here are the screenshots of the websites of some popular Linux distros when everything just started.

It now works as well as Ubuntu-based Linux Mint. The only issues with it are the same issues from GNOME 2 anyway, so I can heartily recommend it to newbies.

Monster RPG 2 the now open source source RPG game remiscent of early Final Fantasy games has just hit it's 2.0 release!