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We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 5.2. This is our 32nd release on CD-ROM (and 33rd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install.

It is our firm belief that Linux, despite its advances on the desktop side, as well as on tablets, should be taught starting with the command line. That's because it's an operating system that borrows heavily from Unix(TM), and there was nothing more than a text interface on it at the very beginning. Studies have shown that, if applicable, one is more efficient on the command-line rather than using a graphical user interface (GUI). "If applicable" means that we're not referring at photo/video editing or some other task that requires a graphical environment.

A few minutes ago, November 1st, Jaroslav Reznik sadly announced that the upcoming Fedora 18 Beta (Spherical Cow) release has been delayed, yes again, for the sixth time!

Proxmox Ve is an Open Source project developed and maintained by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH in Austria under the auspices of the Internet foundation of Austria (IPA) and it’s released under the GNU General public license 3. It is a solution based on Debian 6 Squeeze at 64 bit, which duly “customized”, allows to create a virtualization environment of type “bare metal” based on OpenVZ and KVM technologies.

Version 1.5 of the Burp security tool suite adds a few new tricks to the network analysis toolkit and introduces a completely overhauled user interface

Ubuntu developers are hoping to redesign Wubi, the Ubuntu Windows Installer, for the Ubuntu 13.04 release in April...

Opened emails are no longer stacked on top of each other pop-ups don’t need to be organized to have a clear overview

If you liked yesterday's post by Daniel Vetter of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center that covered going over the Graphics Execution Manager for memory management, today he's around with a second part that details command submission handling for the Intel open-source Linux driver...

The independent standards organisation has approved the open protocol for exchanging messages between systems as a standard

Version 1.2 of the web interface for the company's groupware solution introduces a new tab bar aimed at power users as well as support for meeting request delegation and message filters

Hybrid graphics support for Ubuntu and Linux in general still leaves a lot to be desired. There's some improvements on the horizon, fortunately...

Yes, as promised, we have more news from UDS-R, the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail), due for release of April 25th, 2013.

While Fedora has been using XZ-compressed packages for their RPMs for a while now with having a greater compression ratio than Gzip, Ubuntu developers remain unsure of switching to using XZ compression for the Ubuntu 13.04 release...

Even if you're not a designer, Bootstrap is a great way to make your sites look nice.

OpenBSD 5.2 was released today with an assortment of improvements...

Introduced by Softpedia at the beginning of October 2012, the first Release Candidate of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 ARM operating system got a lot of attention from both ARM and openSUSE fans.

Due to a 'technical glitch', Microsoft's legally-mandated browser screen was not displayed to Windows users for nearly 15 months. According to data from Mozilla, this resulted in the loss of 6 to 9 million downloads of Firefox alone

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Copenhagen today, developers discussed audio latency for gaming on the premise that "audio latency is relatively high on Linux and we need to be competitive with other platforms."..

It was only days ago that an EXT4 file-system corruption bug affected the stable Linux kernel, which was finally patched yesterday. Now though it looks like there may be another EXT4 corruption bug affecting the stable kernel...

The general X.Org discussion during the Ubuntu Developer Summit was held today to discuss X.Org/Wayland expectations for the Ubuntu 13.04 release...