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No wonder that chkdsk flaw was never fixed Part one The unholy alliance of IBM and Microsoft unleashed OS/2 25 years ago with a mission to replace Windows, Unix and DOS. Back then, I was foot-soldier in that war: a contract bug hunter at Big Blue. Here’s how I remember it.…

This tutorial describes the installation and configuration of Z-push on a Debian Squeeze server with ISPConfig 3. Z-push is an open-source application to synchronize ActiveSync compatible PDAs and mobile phones. Z-Push was initially developed by Zarafa Deutschland GmbH (Germany). At the end of this tutorial, your customers should be able to sync their mobile phones, by using push technology, with their e-mail accounts stored on your server.

Mint 14 plus UI update Ubuntu users with a hankering for Gnome can take comfort: the latest version of Linux distro Mint has been released.…

Beats Pixar for once with release of smoke-and-mirrors-ware Animation studio Dreamworks has released some of its production animation code under an open source licence.…

Legend of Dungeon is a 1 to 4 Player Co-op Roguelike-like Beat'em'up RPG with dynamic lighting on awesome pixel art.

Animation studio Dreamworks has released some of its production animation code under an open source licence. OpenVDB, the software in question, is billed as “an open source sparse volume processing toolkit” and is available under version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License. The C++ library “comprises a hierarchical data structure and a suite of tools for the efficient manipulation of sparse, possibly time-varying, volumetric data discretized on a three-dimensional grid.”

Canonical shows no intention of changing course, so alternatives to Ubuntu are becoming increasingly popular. The most mature at this point is Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu, keeping its parent's flexibility and compatibility while taking a more traditional direction with its interface choices. The Mint developers have just released their latest version, Linux Mint 14, codenamed "Nadia," and it has a lot of nice things going for it.

Repurposing an old computer is a matter of choosing the room of the house that will be augmented by the introduction of a dedicated device. One of the most common repurposing projects for old computers is the digital jukebox. In the kitchen, old computers can be turned into fancy electronic recipe books. Another useful re-purposing project is to turn the computer into a file server or virtual host.

Sure it's in England, but The Pi Hut offers all things Raspberry one in one place.

For those not preoccupied by US Thanksgiving Day celebrations, the third (and likely final) development milestone of Phoronix Test Suite 4.2 "Randaberg" has been reached...

The Intel DRM graphics driver in the Linux 3.8 kernel will feature a number of user-facing changes...

I was very optimistic about the potential of Gnome3 since the beginning ..but I couldn’t never imagine all these things that are happening in 3.8. Gnome 3.8 is above any expectation and that has mostly to do with the refreshed Shell and Gnome Control Center we will get. If Gnome Shell 3.6 was a good release, Gnome Shell 3.8 will be more than amazing!

We explore the many ways to use Android on Raspberry Pi in the latest issue of Linux User & Developer

From the forthcoming GNOME 3.8, a fixed set of GNOME Shell extensions will allow users to add traditional desktop elements. The development team is also working on presenting documents, music, photos and videos within GNOME Shell

In a recent post, I introduced an initiative, along with Dima Kassab, for teaching open source NoSQL databases. We collaborated to prepare course materials for three NoSQL databases to 22 students at the Informatics Department of SUNY Albany, and we made all those material available under a Creative Commons by Attribution License.

Red Hat has announced that they've initiated a new project to bootstrap Fedora on the ARMv8 64-bit low-power architecture...

Open Recall is a space on The H for those things that are too small to package as news but are worth covering. This edition looks at the latest E17 alpha, Bio-Linux 7, the first point update to Wayland 1.0, a MINIX 3 job opening, and WordPress's latest supported payment method.

Today I was in need to install 1 single package from the unstable release of Debian in a server installed with the stable release, so what’s the best way to get this done? For this example I’ll use the package drush because there are a lot of differences in the versions between the different release of Debian.

Frank let us know that Steam For Linux Beta is now open for another 5000 people!

This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu 12.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.