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The latest release of Zenwalk Linux, version 7.2, is now available and focuses on further improving the Slackware-based distribution's overall performance, as well as updating its underlying components. Project founder Jean-Philippe Guillemin says that the goal of the new version was to "achieve 100% Slackware Linux compatibility," while also keeping and improving upon most of the optimisations throughout all levels of the OS, including the kernel, applications and desktop.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an essential way of engaging with the Linux community. Being able to tap into the wealth of knowledge of individuals logged into IRC enables users to engage directly with developers and other users of distributions and applications. IRC is not just limited to obtaining and giving technical support to others; it can be used for many other activities.

In case you haven’t thought about it lately, it’s a fair bet that everything in your life today depends to some greater or lesser extent (usually the former) on the Internet and the Web.  And in case you’ve never thought about it at all, what makes those vital services possible has less to do with servers and fiber optics than it does with protocols and other standards. 

Arch Linux has two distinct advantages over most systems: it’s customisable and it’s educational. Michael Reed shows us how building Arch is also a lesson in how Linux works…

The US Patent and Trademarks Office (USPTO) has granted a patent to US IP licensing company Intellectual Ventures on a process designed to prevent illegal copying via 3D printers and other rapid manufacturing techniques. Patent number 8,286,236 refers to a manufacturing control system for the layered creation of objects, for instance via CAD construction files. The patented technology uses a digital watermark verification mechanism to ensure, for example, that a printer will only reproduce an object if the user is entitled to do so.

Herbert Lom, the actor who played the twitchy Chief Inspector Dreyfuss in the old Pink Panther movies, recently passed away. Linux fans can surely feel some sympathy with Lom's character. We may not have Clouseau to grate on our nerves here in the Linux community, but we certainly have something with the potential to be equally annoying: Windows 8 Secure Boot.

The Raspberry Pi Model B has had its RAM doubled to 512MB, but will stay at its original price

Gunnar Hellekson, Technology Strategist for Red Hat's U.S. Public Sector Group, presents a timeline created by tying together data about software the government has released as open source.

With Windows 8 now mere weeks away from launch, hardware manufacturers have been clamouring over each other to announce their latest devices geared towards running it. Interestingly, both of these will also be available with Ubuntu 12.04 pre-installed, indicating that the last batch of Ubuntu netbooks must have sold well for the company…

It is in the nature of things that ideas which upset the status quo or challenge the prevailing orthodoxies are watered down to make them more acceptable, which is why the free software movement is an essential part of the landscape

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has awarded its "Respects Your Freedom" (RYF) hardware certification to the LulzBot AO-100 3D printer made by Aleph Objects. This makes the LulzBot AO-100 the first device to receive the certification since the RYF programme's launch. The programme was originally created in 2010 to endorse devices that respect the customer's freedom and use free software in all parts of the product.

Vuurmuur is a linux firewall manager. It takes a human readable rule syntax and turns it into the proper iptables commands. It supports logviewing, traffic shaping, connection killing and a lot of other features. Suricata is a relatively new network IDS/IPS. It's multithreaded for performance, supports IDS and IPS modes, can extract files from HTTP streams and has a lot of other features. Fedora 17 includes both Vuurmuur and Suricata in its repository. In this howto I'll describe how to get a functional IPS using only Fedora packages.

The latest update to the Raspberry Pi mini-computer doubles the memory from 256MB to 512MB but keeps the price and specification the same

Another cool feature seems that will soon land in Gnome. This time Gnome makes “RAID Creation” easy, a work of Red Hatter David Zeuthen. David (G+, blog) mostly hacks gnome-disk-utility and together with the UX team is responsible for the new options and design in Gnome Disks.

This guide describes how to synchronize Google Contacts, Calendars and Tasks with KAddressbook and KOrganizer in KDE4

The first release candidate of the Linux 3.7 kernel was released on Sunday...

Worthy successor to the classic space strategy turn games with 3D galaxy map, turn-based 3D space battles and a load of new ideas.

The team is proud to announce the release of Snowlinux 3.1 GNOME 2, Xfce 4.8 and E17 released. Snowlinux 3.1 is a bug-fix release for GNOME, Xfce and E17. It solves many bugs and it also brings many features to the users. CTRL+ALT+Backspace restarts the X server if it has hung up. Click on tap was activated and lots of bugs were solved.

It has been a long hard journey to find a Linux which would work with the Lenovo Ideapad hardware but after weeks actual usage of the Linux it looks like I have found a stable and very usable Linux called Fuduntu.

The People music player for GNOME, New Music player Rhythmbox has been updated to version 2.98 and this version includes some new changes