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Ground control to Uncle Linus The US Navy has signed off on a $27,883,883 contract from military contractor Raytheon to install Linux ground control software for its fleet of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.…

When Netflix teamed with Internet Server maker NGINX to design the open source servers for its content delivery network (CDN), it turned out to be a good match for all concerned -- including ISPs who got low-maintenance, highly efficient servers and users who should get smoother streaming of Netflix content.

While many developers are paid to work on open source by their employer or do so for free in their free time, two developers - Bryan Lunduke and Patrick Verner - are hoping donations from their respective communities will help fund their efforts full time

The latest VMware Player 4.0.3 fails to install in Ubuntu 12.04 (with Linux Kernel 3.2.x) due to a Virtual Network Device error, but you can get it to work using a patch. Here's how to do it.

Holyspirit is a free and open source isometric hack'n'slash game inspired by action role playing game, Diablo. The game is being developed by French game studio Alpha Arts.

Microsoft alleged years ago that Linux and Open Source technologies infringe on over 200 Microsoft patents. It's that basic allegation that Microsoft used to convince Novell/SUSE to sign a a Patent deal and it's the same basic underpinning for a dozen deals with Android vendors. So why is Microsoft allowing Linux to run on its Azure cloud? In particular, why Ubuntu?

Chris Mason, creator of Btrfs has quit Oracle. Chris is joining Fusion-io, next generation storage memory specialist. Chris says, "Oracle has been a fantastic place to work, and I really appreciate their support for my projects. But, I've decided to take a new position at Fusion-io. I will start the new job on Monday, June 11."

Linux Mint, in collaboration with CompuLab, is proud to announce today, July 8th, the immediate availability for purchase of a mini PC called mintBox.

Yes, you got it! Other 3 great games have been added to The Humble Indie Bundle V!

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu has become a Microsoft partner to bring Ubuntu to Microsoft's Azur platform. Canonical joins SUSE, the long time Microsoft partner which also helped Microsoft in validating that Linux infringes upon its bogus patents.

This week we look at what a Siri API might look like, coping with consumer devices in the enterprise and xkcd's twisted view on creating passwords.

CompuLab teams up with Linux Mint to create the mintBox, a slimline, portable PC running the popular operating system

Over a year ago I wrote a post complaining that you where unable to complete the "free application for federal student aide" from an FOSS operating system without first tricking the government's website into thinking you are running Windows...

Scrollout F1 is a free anti-spam and anti-virus email firewall (gateway) for multiple domains and email servers. This document describes how to install Scrollout F1 from scratch, on a fresh Ubuntu Server. It should work also on Ubuntu Alternate version. The installation is easy. Even if you are a newbie in Linux there is not much room for errors.

The CentOS developers have been hard at work insuring that future releases of the clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will not be delayed. Two of the developers are now employed full time to work on the distribution

The "Introduction to C" series is an ongoing tutorial on the C programming language. It assumes no prior knowledge of the C programming language, and only moderate knowledge of concepts in operating systems, application installation/configuration, and general computer jargon. It will guide readers through basic, intermediate, and advanced concepts in C programming, and end with the Linux programming interface, ncurses, and FLTK.

Ubuntu 12.10 has started churning releases. Kate Stewart of Ubuntu has announced the release of 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1.

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. The applications have been evaluated and the accepted work proposals have been announced so the work has already begun! Let’s take a look on the 29 things that GNOME users should care about.

June 8, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place.

As more competition enters the cloud space, prices are plunging, but this doesn't mean IT jobs are going anywhere. On the contrary, if anything it's just another thing for you to track.