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This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.3 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has poured scorn on claims made by the co-founder of the GNOME Desktop project, Miguel de Icaza, that he (Torvalds) was in any way to blame for the lack of development in Linux desktop initiatives.

The beta of the open webOS is now available for testing...

Author of Mayan EDMS consults community to reach compromises that would allow the project to keep moving forward.

With an open source project like OI, contributors come and go all the time, but Alasdair’s reasons for quitting paint a very dark picture for the future of the project, certainly not a good advertisement for OI. From his email of resignation Alasdair sees the project as worthless and as good as dead, writing that:

How to create a simple text image with Imagemagick

Valve is expected to have the initial Steam Linux client available in the near future along with the Left 4 Dead 2 game in some form of beta, but a full-blown Linux push by Valve Software might not happen until around February...

A name server is a server that hosts a network service for providing responses to queries against a directory service. It maps a human-recognizable identifier to a system-internal, identification or addressing component, the program BIND is the most famous name server available on Linux, it can be used to do everything you need from a name server, but sometimes you need less.

Maybe you have a VPS and you want just to manage your DNS name, for this use you could check NSD a great alternative to BIND, it does not do DNS forwarding, it only serves its own domains. but this could be enough for your project.

In the week ending 1 September - warnings about the new Java 0day vulnerability, Firefox and Thunderbird 15 arrived, and a Linux 4.0 timeline. Also, examining the new Java 0day, updates for NVIDIA graphics drivers and a look at free integration frameworks on the Java platform

While we're now up to the Qt 5.0 beta stage, Qt developers are still settling for what MinGW implementation to use for the Windows build of Qt 5.0...

It looks like GStreamer 1.0 will be officially released in September prior to the release of GNOME 3.6...

Version 1.3 of the Red Eclipse first person shooter powered by the Cube 2 Engine has been released, which is dubbed the Galactic Edition...

A third release candidate of VirtualBox 4.2 was released this week...

This is the short linux and open-source news overview for week 35 of 2012. It features small articles bundeling (important) open source related news in one page. This week includes a video with Stephen Fry on OggCamp, Lazarus, FreePascal, Wine, OpenEMR, Firefox, Thunderbird, Java, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and more...

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible. I will go over the features of TIny Tiny RSS, compare it to Google Reader and write some things I like about it, and things I miss about it.

Welcome to the 215th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

Wine is a free and opensource software allows you to run Microsoft windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. The weekly development release of Wine brings some new features and several bug fixes. For further information and download …

With most Linux developers now returning from San Diego where LinuxCon, the Linux Kernel Summit, and the Linux Plumbers Conference took place, Linus has released Linux 3.6-rc4...

In my previous post i described how to setup an IPSEC VPN for use with Iphone, Ipad and Mac OSX IPSEC VPN clients.

This post describes how to enable split tunneling which is supported by the Mac OSX IPSEC client. Although split tunneling is considered insecure there are cases where it is ideal to run split tunnels.

The scenario for this post is that you are connected to a LAN (10.128.0.0/24) with internet access via a gateway on the LAN, you want to connect to a different network 192.168.1.0/24 which is only accessible via VPN, but you want to retain access to resources on the LAN while accessing the remote 192.168.1.0/24 network.