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Mozilla's Minion project wants to lend a hand to web application developers by launching test attacks on web sites and apps on request

It is still possible to silently install an add-on into Firefox, though it takes a little more work than it did in the days before Firefox 8

The event-driven asynchronous framework for JVM-based languages is likely to be heading to the Eclipse Foundation following the project lead's recommendation of it. The community appears, so far, to agree

Want to become a Linux expert? Your first decision is expert in what? Kernel development, application programming, multimedia production, productivity, enterprise apps, system and network administration, embedded, mainframe...what? There are hundreds of options.

The latest version of the cross-platform, Java-based accounting and bookkeeping software Gnuaccounting improves the application's document management and fixes problems with asset management

OpenSUSE Linux is on track for an on-time, March 13th delivery of the next version of its operating system.

Everybody loves the Raspberry Pi, and there are so many things it can do, filling an issue with Raspberry Pi goodness should be a piece of cake! To do that, however, we need your help.

Are you a Python programmer who wishes your storage could do more for you? Here's an easy way to add functionality to a real distributed filesystem, in your favorite language.

Courtesy of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center are 13 new Linux micro-benchmarks that have been created based upon the Phoronix Test Suite and OpenBenchmarking.org. These brand new test profiles provide test coverage of systemd boot performance, timing of various common system tasks, GPU residency times, PowerTop wake-up monitoring, and much more.

Vincent Untz will be speaking at FOSDEM early next month in Brussels to "clarify the directions the GNOME project is taking, and to explain the rationale for various decisions." He's hoping that after this Belgian conference people will better understand the course of the GNOME desktop and begin to rebuild trust in the project...

With we are only about half-way through the development of the Linux 3.8 kernel, there's already exciting features beginning to enter the development spotlight for Linux 3.9. One of the features coming to the Linux 3.9 kernel will be grand changes to the very common "HDA Intel" audio codec drivers...

Planetary Annihilation the RTS game coming to Linux thanks to Kickstarter has released some really awesome concept images, if it's anything like the images it will be awesome.

HP cloud computing leader and OpenStack advocate Zorawar "Biri" Singh has exited the company, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) has confirmed. At a time when the struggling computer giant needs consistency and strong execution, Singh's exit may raise eyebrows among HP's cloud partners and customers.

Approx is a proxy server for Debian archive files. Having such a service within your LAN with multiple Debian like systems will provide you with number of benefits such as update speed since any update package needs to be downloaded only once. This will also lower down Internet download usage requirements, etc. This article will describe a process of approx setup for Ubuntu Linux.

After much delay, the Spherical Cow graces us with its presence. How does the final version of Fedora 18 stack up?

This week we look at hacking the hackers, 5 reasons why the Ubuntu Linux mobile OS might just succeed and the Internet by the numbers in 2012.

The Open Compute Project is gaining momentum, as evidenced by the increasing attendance at the Open Compute Summit. This week, the summit attracted more than 1,900 attendees that were interested in checking out the latest and greatest in Open Compute Project technologies, innovations and products. There has been a bit of buzz about some of the innovations unveiled at the show, and this can only mean good things for the open source cloud computing market.

Earlier today, Two Tribes tweeted saying they were keen to catch up on the latest Steam developments after focusing on Toki Tori 2 development.

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running CentOS 6.3) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (CentOS 6.3 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

No i'm not talking about that many titles! 10,000,000 is the name of a game that has popped up in the Steam database.