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With time open source software have emerged as potential contenders to proprietary software. Unlike the traditional understanding, open source software have proven to be as capable (or even more capable) than counterpart proprietary software and have been successful in claiming substantial market share. While we occasionally analyze the browser market share, this time we decide to compare the open source and proprietary browser market share and investigate how trends are shaping up in browser market.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from November 12th - November 14th, 2012.

Linux support for UEFI Secure Boot has been evolving and prime mover behind that support, Matthew Garrett, has now provided an overview of the current status of how Fedora, SUSE and Ubuntu are managing the challenge

Porn servers disclose their visitors' IP addresses, and payment processing services put their customers' active session tokens at risk. The cause, however, is no clever hack, but rather shoddy administration

What is Fuduntu? It's the Linux distribution with a "punny name" that has Fedora heritage but makes a hat tip to Ubuntu.

Phone maker VERY EXCITED about mega mobe probe RIM reckons more than 50 network operators are testing its BlackBerry 10 handsets, which sounds impressive until one remembers that testing is just a first step on the long journey to market.…

Each year automobile companies try to predict what new features consumers will want in their cars. If their predictions are right, they are richly rewarded with increased car sales. If they are wrong, they suffer the financial consequences. But wait, is that the best way to design cars? What if car companies invited consumers to the table as equal partners in the design process? The way I see it, consumers could be buying cars they co-designed—reducing the gigantic financial risk to car companies, not to mention the waste of never-purchased vehicles.

The beta for version 2.6 of the suite of open source productivity applications includes improvements to ODF handling and adds new features to the Plan and Kexi tools

It's no secret that many here in the Linux blogosphere greeted Windows 8 with jubilation -- not because they had any intention of using it, but because of the opportunity they think it represents for Linux to capture a greater proportion of mainstream users. That, indeed, was the hot topic du jour last week, but this week the conversation has shifted slightly.

New role for OS X 10.7 Lion's CoreStorage logical volume manager Top marks to hardware hacker Patrick Stein who has discovered that Apple’s Fusion Drive technology, which combines separate SSD and HDD storage into a single volume, can be added to old Macs. And he’s added one to his own Mac Pro.…

This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 12.10 server with PHP5 (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support. PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced a few hours ago, October 31st, the immediate availability for download of the fifth maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.6 kernel series.

My fiance started a new class this week - an MIS (Management Information Systems) class. While we were having dinner tonight she brought up the fact there are some - lets say - colorful definitions of Linux in her wonderful "Experiencing MIS" text book.

Now that Ubuntu's been ported to the Google Nexus 7 and there's other interesting Ubuntu work going into the tablet/mobile-space, developers want more open-source games ported to using OpenGL ES rather than the full OpenGL stack...

Following yesterday's article comparing the AMD Radeon Linux drivers on Ubuntu 12.10, Marek Olšák looked into some of the cases where the open-source Radeon Gallium3D driver was much slower than the proprietary Catalyst driver. Already with one patch that touches only two dozen lines of code, Marek was able to quadruple the open-source driver frame-rate for at least one game...

Optimization, with its Lean Sig Sigma standard-bearer, has always been the objective of management for the industrial era, designed to control variability and increase productivity. In the information age, with the pace of change accelerating, innovation commercialization will be equally as critical to a firm's ongoing viability.

With Ubuntu 13.04 there will likely be an AArch64 (64-bit ARM) spin of the popular Linux distribution...

With the introduction of virtualization, physical hosts have been freed from the bounds of single-instance operating systems. We efficiently multiplex our hosts with multiple operating systems as virtual machines (VMs). But, the density of operating systems on a host simply increases the management requirements. One solution for this management problem is the Virtual Machine Manager, or virt-manager. This article explores the use of virt-manager, illustrates its capabilities on modest hardware, and shows how to manage and monitor live VM performance.

First, let's address the idea that the Linux desktop's time is now. It's an easy kill, honestly—despite the ever-improving functionality of distributions such as Ubuntu, they hardly show up as a blip in global operating system market share statistics. Linux accounts for just 1.1 percent of the desktop operating systems in the world, based on statistics from NetMarketshare. By comparison, Windows systems own 91 percent of the market worldwide; OS X has 7 percent. Now, a big chunk of that Windows market share—anywhere from a third to almost half—is Windows XP. And, the reasoning goes, with XP now at the end of its support life, those XP users have to go somewhere. Why not to Linux?

A few days ago was only a rumour, but today, October 31st, we’re unhappy to announce that the upcoming Ubuntu 13.04 operating system from Canonical will have a single Beta release and no Alphas, not even a Release Candidate.