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KVM and XEN are both better than you think. To help clear out some of the misunderstandings about the status of FOSS Linux virtualization technology, Elizabeth Krumbach details the tools that deliver five advanced virtualization features that are evidently not yet widely known.

An interview with writer Tom Chandler about his desktop Linux setup. Chandler shows how Linux works for users who aren't necessarily sysadmins and talks about his wish for simple version control for writers.

antkorp html plugin tries to put qt applications inside browser. using broadway gtk+ front end antkorp html plugin helps to run every qt application inside browser. for demo pls visit http://youtu.be/ttlaK_OT6pQ for a demo.

Linux users have been mostly left out when trying to get in on the gaming action, but soon they'll be able to be "Left 4 Dead 2" instead. On Tuesday, Valve announced that it would bring its digital distribution service Steam to the Linux platform. The company reportedly formed a new team last year to work on a full-featured version of the Steam client for Ubuntu 12.04.

A tutorial on how to implement deep copy cloning in PHP using the __clone magic method

You might think that your phone is open, but even Android, Tizen and Firefox OS all depend upon highly proprietary code bases for making telephone calls and transferring data. When it comes to these fundamental capabilities, the open source part of a mobile software stack is only the tip of the iceberg, and behind APIs and simple interfaces for voice, SMS and data lies the technology that makes wireless communications possible – and it's far from being open source.

Linux Tycoon is a management game set in the world of the Linux distributions. We will have to create our distribution with the goal of making it the most used and famous in the world. An interesting thing of this game is the economical plan that its author Bryan Lunduke is “testing”, getting paid by the community for working on open source projects, the goal is to get 4.000 $ in donations every month. In the first month (June 2012) he reached the goal in just 1 week, and so he released this game and other projects he’s working on as GPL software, but sadly just the following month he made a sad post on his blog “Open Source Funded By Donations? Not So Much” where in short he wrote ;

Unfortunately things didn’t quite work out.

Yii is a high-performance, component-based PHP framework for developing large-scale Web applications rapidly. This tutorial will learn you how to install it on Ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux distribution. Full article: http://www.inforbiro.com/blog-eng/how-to-install-yii-framewo...

Sam Lantinga "Slouken" - co-founder and former lead developer at Loki Software, founder of Simple DirectMedia Layer, longtime development and engineering leader at Blizzard, joins Valve. Sam Lantinga announced it on the mailing-list of SDL.org recently.

Wednesday, July 17, at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) announced a new initiative to open up the organization to individual members. Historically, the organization was open only to affiliate members, so this announcement marks a significant new direction for the open-source advocate. The shift represents a move from a governance model of volunteer and self-appointed directors to one driven by members.

The most common mistake that new SSD users tend to make is installing a new Linux distro or replacing the current one without secure erase it first.

Linux Deepin, one of the most active community distributions in China, today released its version 12.06 that was originally scheduled for the end of last month. This project employs a half-year release cycle and is highly attractive to Chinese university students. The desktop environment in this release is Deepin GNOME Shell, which is the GNOME Shell adapted to the way users prefer to manage the desktop. Three extensions for Hide Message Tray, Kimpanel, and Panel Settings are introduced for better GUI experience.

A quick tip on how to change Thunderbird's date format in Date column to match your system's locale

Teresa W, Docs & Drive Community Manager, of Google assures, Google Drive for Linux remains a priority for the team. Thanks for following up with us!

One could write thousands of pages about all the features PostgreSQL offers. Instead, let's take a look at five features that are particularly interesting and find out where PostgreSQL sits in relation to other open source and proprietary database systems. PostgreSQL has a lot more to offer than might be immediately obvious.

Pidgin is a nice chatting client that is pre-installed in a lot of Linux distributions. Pidgin supports many chat platforms like yahoo, facebook, irc, AIM ... but unfortunately, the popular social network Twitter is not on this list.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that the Call For Papers for this year's upcoming ApacheCon Europe event is now open. The ASF's official European user conference will take place from 5 to 9 November at the Rhein-Neckar Arena in Sinsheim, Germany.

The two types of user accounts are Administrator and Standard. The user account created during the installation process is, by default, of the Administrator type. That is the superuser. A user with that account can perform any task on the system.

Steam on Linux may be a lot closer than you think, with the announcement of Steam for Ubuntu just the tip of the iceberg

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.