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This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 17 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.

How to install GLPI (IT and asset Managemet Software) on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) Server

Bridge is a cool new indicator developed by David Callé (who's also behind some great Unity lenses and scopes), that uses Zeitgeist to provide quick access to documents, files and websites related to your current activity.

The Vice-President of Linux Engineering at Red Hat, Tim Burke, talked with Sean Michael Kerner, explaining him that Btrfs has been implemented and marked as experimental in the recently released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 release, and the next major version, RHEL 7, will have full support for the Btrfs filesystem.

The PS3 Media Server development team has announced a few hours ago, June 26th, the immediate availability for download of the PS3 Media Server 1.54.0 application, bringing assorted bug fixes and general improvements.

Preload is lightweight appliaction that considered to be read-ahead daemon apps and runs in the background of your Ubuntu system. it analyzes the applications which user runs and could make your Ubuntu system a lot more snappier. the basis of this analysis it predicts which applications user can run next time and launches these applications in RAM for improve the overall performance of your ubuntu system.

I had hit a wall. I was to sit with a laptop that I knew had power and strengths; that deserved to shine but couldn't be unlocked to its potential. Only in my dreams, I thought.

Baseball is a great metaphor for business, and much like an aging player gets pushed aside for the hot rookie, the latest and greatest hardware forces out once mighty companies. Such is the case with RIM, and that's fine.

The Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBC) that began shipping in April in $25 and $35 versions has taken the hacker world by storm. Yet, the education-focused, development board is just the latest and cheapest of a number of recent open source, community hardware projects designed for hobbyist devices, educational platforms, prototyping, and even some limited-run commercial products. Most of the seven open-spec boards listed below cost $100 to $200, but unlike the ARM11-based Pi, they feature ARM Cortex-A8 and -A9 processors and support Android in addition to running various Linux distributions.

A new packet scheduler is designed to help avoid buffer bloat and "Early Retransmit" offers faster connection recovery after TCP packet loss. The E1000e driver already supports the network chip for Intel's next-generation desktop and notebook platform.

Session saving is disabled in Linux Mint 13 by default. This tip shows how to enable it in both editions, MATE and Cinnamon, of Linux Mint 13

Research In Motion is set to announce quarterly earnings this Thursday, June 28. The BlackBerry maker is facing desperate times… and may finally pursue desperate measures. Here’s what you need to know…

The Transformer Prime is a killer piece of hardware, no doubt...but can it replace a full-fledged Linux Netbook?

However, we had some late submissions and I passed them onto our voting folks because they were just so good. One of them got a great deal of attention and it turned out that we have a tie. So, because we will have an opportunity to use both of them from time to time, we will award the prizes to both authors.

The first and last time I visited Diaspora was back in 2010, when the social destination was still in it’s Alpha release. Although it had a reputation, as alpha releases do, of being buggy, I was surprised at how well it worked. It was impressive, a lot like Facebook but also quite different in its design. The problem was, there was nobody there. It was like entering an eighteen story highrise apartment building in which all the tenents had been evicted, hollow and filled with virtual echoes. So I ran back to the noise of the crowd on the virtual party that is Facebook.

Peter Penz, the main developer of the Dolphin file manager for the KDE desktop and a K Desktop user since KDE v1.2, is calling it quits after contributing to KDE for more than the past half-decade. His reason for leaving the development of the popular open-source desktop environment is interesting.

Google will unveil a 7-inch tablet based on the Nvidia quad-core Tegra 3 processor and running Android 4.1, aka "Jelly Bean," at the Google I/O developers conference this week, according to Gizmodo Australia. The device will reportedly be dubbed the "Nexus 7" and be built by Asus.

The Document Foundation has announced on June 22nd that the second Beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 3.6.0 office suite is available for download and testing.

Current desktop machines are equipped with multi-core processors, gigabytes of system RAM and the ability to run many programs simultaneously. With the huge range of system resources available it is not surprising the software bloat phenomenon is witnessed. This is a process where successive versions of an application consume more system resources than necessary, or offer an ever-increasing number of features that the majority of users do not use or need.

Adam Pisoni from Yammer describes traditional enterprise software as being forced to eat soup with a fork when you know very well there are spoons are out there somewhere. He says, consumerization is forcing IT to give out spoons.