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While there are many good IDEs for android development like eclipse, NetBeans, intelliJ; sometimes one may want to use lightweight editor to create android apps and still don't want to get into command line every time.

PS. Relisting as previous entry had no clickable link.

Xen virtualization support for the ARM architecture is now set to be pulled for the Linux 3.7 kernel...

In this part of tutorial we will see how to create Android virtual devices, create a project and deploy it.

The Linux 3.7 kernel will feature support for the ARM 64-bit architecture (ARM64), which is officially known as AArch64...

The Eclipse Foundation has released SR1 for Eclipse 4.2 on schedule with little in the way of announcements. The performance problems in 4.2 are also being addressed in this and the next service release due next year

Today I am doing a quick video review of Hanthana Linux 17 “LXDE”. Hanthana is a Linux based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. Hanthana comes to you in the form of a LiveDVD for regular PC (i686 & x86_64 architectures) systems. You can run Hanthana Operating System directly from the LiveDVD and check out each and every feature before installing it on your hard disk.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Here what's new in Joomla! 3.0:

Complete story: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/joomla-3-0-whats-new/

Well it's been another tempestuous week here in the Linux blogosphere, rounding out a month that never ran short on controversy, to put it mildly. The topic du jour this time? None other than Canonical's decision to integrate Amazon results into searches done through the Dash on Ubuntu's Unity desktop.

Rhythmbox 2.98 has been released yesterday, bringing a new dialog for importing music into the library along with some other small, but interesting changes and many bug fixes.

It may occur that the user needs to run a Windows application or game in Ubuntu and it finds that it cannot install windows programs. Wine is a piece of software that tricks programs to believe they are running in a Windows environment. In addition, this article will explain how to install Winetricks libraries needed to run windows, and PlayOnLinux applications to run games.

Jos Poortvliet from openSUSE has announced earlier today, October 1st, that the first Release Candidate of the upcoming openSUSE 12.2 ARM operating system is now available for download and testing.

This week's Linux Top 3 strikes right at the core of Linux with a kernel update, a new release of the world's first Linux distro and a milestone update of Red Hat MRG.

LibreOffice may have the community and momentum, but that doesn't mean it is the better choice for every document.

Pulse is a build server that can monitor your source repository and trigger a build and test cycle every time somebody does a commit. With Pulse you will always know if the most recent sources in your revision control system compile and if they pass your unit and system tests. Better yet, Pulse allows you to build and test your current working copy of checked-out source, during a so-called Personal Build, so you can see if your code breaks things before you commit your changes to the central repository.

The week-long Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) meets every six months at changing locations to discuss what will be in the next release of Ubuntu. The mostly unpublicized FOSScamp always meets the weekend before. The FOSScamp un-conference has no program, no invited speakers, and costs nothing. Like some sort of geek Woodstock but smaller, the Ubuntu hip just show up.

Properly speaking, Nadav Rotem's Open Text Summarizer (OTS) is not a summarizer at all. True summaries generally involve rewording contents at a higher level of generality while preserving the meaning, not just producing a condensed version of the original the way that OTS does. However, within its limits, OTS is an efficient tool for automatically producing abstracts of non-fiction, that, in the last 15 months, has received favorable mention from at least four academic publications, including one in which it outperformed similar utilities, including commercial ones such as Copernic and Subject Search Summarizer.

It’s that time again! The Fuduntu Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of Fuduntu 2012.4. This is the fourth quarterly release for 2012. Like all previous Fuduntu releases, this release follows our tradition of making small incremental distribution improvements that don’t sacrifice the stability of our Linux distribution. Existing Fuduntu users have already rolled up to 2012.4, as all of the updates available are released to our stable repository.

Some important changes: A refreshed desktop, refreshed defaults, and we've dropped Mono!

With the recent release of GNOME 3.6, developers and distributions are making updated versions of their packages available and applications such as Firefox are getting improved integration into the GNOME desktop

A new feature in the latest nightly builds of CyanogenMod 10 allows the alternative open source ROM for Android devices to update itself with over-the-air updates

The new release of Python, version 3.3.0, brings a new "yield from" syntax and the return of old style unicode literals, along with simpler debugging, virtual environments and a new Windows installer