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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.

A major new feature for desktops and laptops is hybrid sleep, long supported by Mac OS X and Windows. There have also been updates to Btrfs support

This is a simple tutorial on how to enable USB support in VirtualBox.

After a recent Ubuntu update Youtube has tinted the sky orange and people blue. This article will help resolve this issue.

I get offered products for review here and there. Usually those products are hard for me to get excited about. But a computer built for Linux, assembled in Berkeley, California, by the well-respected ZaReason? That was exciting. (Sorry it took so long for this review to see the light of day.)

Five of the best games to show off what your new Nexus 7 is really capable of.

Linus Torvalds released the Linux 3.6 kernel on Sunday afternoon...

The following tutorial will teach Ubuntu users how to install the latest Beta release of the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email and RSS client on their systems.

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has pointed to estimates that there are some 200,000 mobile patents with "complicated" and "overlapping" technical specifications. He further added that this ""literally prevents choice, prevents innovation. And I think that's a very bad outcome".

Oracle has no plans to offer MySQL as part of the company's public cloud PaaS (platform as a service) strategy for ISVs, the company confirmed at Oracle OpenWorld. Here are the details.

Amazon's integration with Unity is a welcome move as it opens doors for other GNU/Linux based distributions to find new revenue generation models beyond donation.

With GLX set to be deprecated in the not too distant future and EGL being in use with OpenGL ES on mobile platforms, KDE's KWin compositing window manager now has support for using desktop OpenGL over EGL instead of GLX...

Just before the arrival of their own September deadline, HP's remaining webOS developers have released the first version of the Open webOS mobile operating system

Ubuntu and openSuse both come with openJDK installed however at times one needs Oracle JDK to be present in the system. Here are the steps needed to install it on both OS.

The software developers have released version 14 of the oldest still-maintained Linux distribution, with kernel version 3.2.29. Slackware 14 includes numerous updated components such as the Xfce 4.10 and KDE 4.8.5 desktop interfaces

A patch has emerged that provides "AutoFDO" support for the GCC compiler for automated feedback-directed optimizations...

SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY") is a new networking protocol whose goal is to speed up the web. It is Google's alternative to the HTTP protocol and a candidate for HTTP/2.0. SPDY augments HTTP with several speed-related features such as stream multiplexing and header compression. To use SPDY, you need a web server and a browser (like Google Chrome and upcoming versions of Firefox) that both support SPDY. mod_spdy is an open-source Apache module that adds support for the SPDY protocol to the Apache HTTPD server. This tutorial explains how to use mod_spdy with Apache2 on OpenSUSE 12.2.

A revised patch-set was published a few days ago that can make meta-data operations for the Btrfs file-system approximately 20% faster. The latest patches build upon what I wrote about in February with A Patch That Can Make Btrfs 5~10% Faster. The idea comes down to providing an extent buffer cache for each i-node so that the item doesn't need to be searched from the root of a B+ tree everytime, thereby making searches quicker. The earlier patch wasn't merged but now it's up to a second version consisting of three patches and a stated 20% performance improvement for meta-data operations.

Ubuntu has developed itself out of the hearts and minds of many users, myself included. So, what do I do now?

You're already in the know regarding the C programming language. You got the taste of it and felt like you want to go further and write your own. Or maybe help the community and package that favorite software of yours for the distribution you like and use. Regardless of the situation, this part of the C development series will show you how to create packages for two of the most popular distributions, Debian and Fedora. If you read our articles so far and you have some solid knowledge of the command line, and you can say that you know your distro of choice, you're ready.