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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Pinguy OS 12.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.

Google have officially announced Jelly Bean, the next version of the Android Mobile OS. Here’s the list of updates coming to Android 4.1 revealed at I/O yesterday

Measuring app success by the number of downloads is so 2009. You need to look at app retention -- the number of times the app gets used instead.

It has been 66 days since Intel formally introduced their Ivy Bridge processors as the 2012 successor to Sandy Bridge. My views on Intel Ivy Bridge (specifically the Core i7 3770K model) back on launch-day were very positive in terms of the Linux compatibility, CPU performance, and the HD 4000 graphics capabilities. Since then I've conducted dozens of additional tests looking at the Core i7 Ivy Bridge on Linux in different areas from comparative benchmarks to Microsoft Windows, trying to run BSD operating systems on the latest hardware, looking at the virtualization performance, compiler tuning, etc. Here is a recap of this additional Ivy Bridge testing that has happened over the past two months of near constant benchmarking.

Bluefish is a free and open-source advanced text editor for web designer and programmers. It support variety of programming languages and service side scripting languages for creating dynamic and interactive web pages. It works on the major operating systems “Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, …

Linux kernels have their codenames and these codenames are weird and funny as hell.

Emerald Window Decorator is a custom window decorator shipped with Compiz Fusion that allows for change theme and full composite window decorations with the use of engines. Emerald also allows for all sorts of different configurations and layouts of buttons, look, title bars and frames.

But what has all this got to do with the Nexus 7, a tablet just announced by Google at the Google I/O Conference in San Francisco? A connection could be in the price. However, it is just the price, but what you get for the price. At just US $199, the Nexus 7 looks like a good deal. So what do you get for $199? Plenty!

It's not yet time for another Wine development release, but there's a heated discussion to point out on the development list concerning a PulseAudio driver for Wine...

Every tech writer on the Internet seems to want to be the one to crack the code and figure out what Microsoft plans to do with Surface. I thought I was one of them until I spent three days trying to write this article. I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t really care what Microsoft’s plans are or if they’ll pan-out for them. They bore me. They’re irrelevant now.

It comes to us courtesy of Sanko Co., Ltd. of Japan. Measuring just (in mm) 10x98x42, and weighing in at just 39 g (1.4 oz), this computer is really small. But size is not just what this device has going for it – it has its own fair share of connectivity. From the title of this article, you already know that it has an HDMI port. But it also has a: standard USB port, microSD slot, and Mic ports. Add built-in wireless connectivity to the list.

If you are homophobic, you probably want to stop reading now. Just go to the next blog, or dial up Fox News, because the rest of this blog entry will not be satisfying for you. Do not worry, you will be able to read my next blog, just not this one.

The Nexus 7 has been unveiled today to much fanfare. 2 years after the first mainstream Android tablet devices were introduced, Google has finally decided to make an official foray into a segment that is already populated by its immensely popular mobile operating system.

Google launched its Nexus 7 tablet on Wednesday at its Google I/O developers conference in San Francisco. The tablet, which is made by Asus, has an 1,280 by 800 display. It has an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core CPU with that processor's associated 12-core GPU. The Nexus tablet 7 has a front-facing camera and supports WiFi, Bluetooth and near-field communications.

Torrents are a great and unique way to acquire and share files with other people from around the world. We GNOME users have many torrent clients to choose from, but the two most popular choices are Deluge and Transmission.

Two years ago, I got into a conversation with another professional about the desktop. I opined that very shortly, the desktop would be our cell phone and there would be no need to put file servers at everyone's desk. This was partially driven by the announcement that morning, at LinuxCon, by Qualcomm, that they were going to put dual-core 1 GHz processors in their next generation cell phones. This professional pooh-poohed the idea as completely unworkable.

7-Zip and p7Zip belong to a family of file compression utilities that are among the best available for Linux/Unix. So you would think that the development communities would offer to Linux users what is available in similar compression apps on the Windows and Mac platforms. Think again!

Red Hat splits OpenShift into two versions, FreeShift and MegaShift, and announces pricing and details for MegaShift

Ever since the first time I read the blog post “Painless Threading” over on the Android Developers blog I have used AsyncTasks quite often in my code. Just about any time I have an operation that might slow down the user interface I just throw together an AsyncTask and have it run in the background. The class is extremely easy to use.

(Sacramento, CA, USA: June 27, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced that Linux Essentials, which introduces new users and youth to Linux and Open Source Software, is now available at select LPI affiliate locations and IT events in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The single Linux Essentials' exam leads to a "Certificate of Achievement".