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A bug introduced with version 3.6.2 of the Linux kernel can cause an ext4 filesystem to lose data if the system is rebooted twice in a short period of time. After the bug was reported, kernel developer Ted Ts'o quickly published a patch

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.10 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Feels like topic-necromancy right here, eh? Well, Blizzard isn't completely off hook when it comes to Diablo III. We've received reports of Linux-Wine users getting hit hard with the banhammer from Blizzard's auto-ban service and it's the WineHQ holocaust all over again.

While Wayland is sitting in the public limelight, DirectFB continues to exist as another means of handling Linux displays and input. DirectFB continues to quietly march on with new capabilities...

Ubuntu developers will be discussing this week about how they can rapidly bring-up support for new hardware within the Linux distribution...

While the ultimate future of Texas Instruments' OMAP division remains uncertain, their software engineers continue to work on maturing the OMAP5 Linux support...

Getting kids interested in electronics can be difficult, but the open source Hummingbird Robotics Kit aims to make it much more approachable.

I often discuss the Linux port of Scrivener with my writer friend Ken McConnell. We both like Scrivener's interface, and we both prefer to use Linux as our writing platform. Unfortunately, the Linux port of Scrivener just doesn't compare to the OS X version. The other day, Ken told me about Plume Creator.

While it looked hopeful at first with today's announcement of a fully open-source graphics stack for the Broadcom VideoCore found in the popular Raspberry Pi development board, upon closer examination it's actually not that good.

Linux kernel developer Theodore "Ted" Ts'o has released a series of patches for what he has called "a Lance Armstrong bug" in the kernel, meaning behaviour that does not trip up tests but also makes the kernel work differently than intended. A user had reported a problem that caused them to lose data; the kernel developers quickly narrowed this down to a fault in the ext4 implementation that was introduced with the release of Linux 3.6.2, just over a week ago. Apparently, the data corruption bug was hard to track down as it only manifests itself if a system is rebooted twice in a relatively short period of time.

The GNOME Project announced yesterday, October 23rd, the immediate availability for download and testing of GNOME Shell 3.7.1.

Today we have some really big news, which is going to mean a lot to many programmers in our community who have been asking about it ever since launch. This is one of those announcements that has been in the pipeline for quite some time, but we haven’t been able to talk about it until now.

All in all, Pear Linux 6 is a quite nice distro. In my opinion, it is very suitable for those who are new to Linux and just want a simple, good-looking distro. I just installed it for my little sister and she really loves it.

If you love RPG (role-playing games) and you think there's no future for these games on Linux, this post is for you. I’ll show you five new RPG games developed from scratch that run on Penguin: Questverse, Hale, Dawn, Flare and Arakion. Just a warning: these are projects in the making, so none of them are ready to be fully played. But if you like this genre, read on, you won't be disappointed.

The source for Raspberry Pi’s VideoCore drivers has been released, leading the way to a finished Android port and other hacks

The latest version of the Cairo-Dock application switcher for Linux desktops features integration improvements for Ubuntu's Unity desktop and updates the configuration window

Version 4.4 of the open source C++ integrated development environment adds a new welcome screen which the developers hope will help newcomers and provide a faster workflow for existing users

Code-named "Precise", the new edition of Puppy Linux is based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS binary packages and brings a variety of updates to the project's Ubuntu-based distribution

This howto will show you the way to set up OpenVPN to authenticate users against the LinOTP authentication backend. Thus you can bring up your VPN using two factor authentication with different kind of OTP tokens. The interesting part is, that we will also use client certificates, so that the VPN only gets established if the machine has the right client certificate and the user has the right OTP token.

Many Phoronix readers have been writing in over the past day getting excited that it looks like Team Fortress 2 is coming to Linux...