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Gigolo is a natty front-end for managing remote filesystems using GNOME Virtual File System (GVfs or GIO). Should you be interested in getting it?

Or should I say: “grep -R doesn’t automatically search amazon” ? This is becoming the most popular bug on launchpad, and if you are an Ubuntu user perhaps you have already seen it, for all the others..this is an interesting “bug” on a feature request, this is the original text of the bug posted by the user akeane

The Inverse team has just released SOGo v2.0 which features native Outlook compatibility using OpenChange and Samba4. This means Microsoft Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 can talk directly to SOGo - just like if it was a Microsoft Exchange server. No plugins are required in Outlook to make this work.

Netflix has a long history of keeping their customers under thumb, is it time the community fight back?

The second beta release for the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" Linux distribution is now available for testing...

Two-Factor Authentication Integration Announced Today

Quite a few options exist as far as Android tablets go. Some of them are great choices for personal entertainment and media consumption. Google's new Nexus 7 is a powerful little beast designed to serve up media from Google Play. Amazon's Kindle Fire is a great device for tapping Amazon's extensive content offerings.

The maker of an industrial control system designed to be used with so-called smart grid networks disclosed to customers last week that hackers had breached its network and accessed project files related to a control system used in portions of the electrical grid.

The latest achievement within the Wayland camp is wlterm, a native terminal emulator...

Canonical announced today, September 27th, that the second and last Beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system is now available for download.

Android may not be as fully open as many FOSS fans would like it to be, but the fact remains that it's essentially the poster child for Linux's success in the mobile world. So it was with some dismay we looked on at the impromptu battle that sprang up recently between Google and Acer over Alibaba's Aliyun OS.

OnSeptember 24th, the 4.0 Beta version of Qomo Linux, the communitydistribution of Linux-ren, was distributed. it is a grand new distribution thathas been developed from the scratch by the Qomo team, for several months.

Steam announced late yesterday via its blog that Steam and L4D2 will enter internal beta stage next week. This means that the software will be tested internally for a matter of 2 to 4 weeks. After that initial phase of testing Valve reports that there will be an official external beta program.

Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal beta 2 has been made avaialble for download today. There are quite a few changes in Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2, including a new Unity version which brings some more polish and tweaks along with 3 new Unity lenses, Amazon and Ubuntu One Music store webapps installed by default, a new default wallpaper, but also some LightDM and Messaging Menu changes. Read on to find out more!

AMD and Bluestacks have announced a partnership to bring Android apps to Windows 7 and 8 PCs and tablets.

Presently, Cinnamon is the most buzz-generating and headline-grabbing desktop environment in the Free Software community. But generating buzz and grabbing headlines does not a production-ready graphical interface make.

Sometimes I find a long and interesting video on youtube or vimeo about Linux events or presentations, documentaries or movies that I’d like to see in a second moment, maybe when I’m offline or from my TV that has an usb port but no wireless. There are dozen of extensions for Firefox and Chrome to do this kind of task, but today I’ve found an interesting program that can download a video from a long list of website and convert that video into another format: xVideoServiceThief. xVideoServiceThief (a.k.a xVST) is an open source tool for downloading your favourite video clips from a lot of video websites (currently supports 93 websites ) and it also provide you the ability to convert each video in themost popular formats: AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MP3 file formats.

A recent survey found a surprising level of disaffection with HTML5 among mobile developers -- but the question is whether it's really an indicator of broad dissatisfaction or just the way this particular survey chose to look at the numbers.

Hey! Great news! 4 games have been added to the Humble Indie Bundle 6! As always, if you already bought the bundle, you can download those new games immediately!

Valve's Steam Linux beta is finally arriving...