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DarkRacer-PTOS Beta is released. DarkRacer is an Ubuntu-based distribution with a collection of utilities designed for ethical hacking, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment and cyber forensics.

Based on Wine 1.4.1, CrossOver XI can be used to run software like Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 in Linux effortlessly.

ROSA Media Player 1.5, the latest update, has added another feature – support for MIDI files. MIDI, acronym for Musical Instrument Digital interface, is a protocol which “enables a single player to sound as though they are playing two or more instruments simultaneously.”

This is the third profile in our 30-week series that features a different Linux kernel developer each week. Last week we featured Thomas Gleixner, after beginning the series with Linus Torvalds. The profiles we publish throughout the rest of 2012 will help illustrate how these developers do their work, providing important insight on how to work with them and what makes them tick.

Empathy 3.5.3 instant messaging client for the GNOME desktop environment has been announced earlier today, June 26th, bringing a completely redesigned contact list.

A very simple start to multi-threading in Java, with lots of references to related intermediate-level topics in concurrency

Working with Linux doesn't mean your work is restricted to command-line tools. True, most experienced Linux administrators use command-line tools for convenience and more efficient administration. However, the GNOME project provides some excellent tools for managing a Linux server using a graphical user interface (GUI). Using your Microsoft Windows background experience, you might find that these tools make the transition less dramatic.

The new version of Firefox for Android gets a facelift and many performance enhancements

Red Hat is making large splashes on the Linux Planet. This week, the company kicks off its Red Hat Summit event on the heels of a busy week of releases and earnings. Not to be outdone, Ubuntu Linux has weighed in on the UEFI Secure Boot issue with a solution of its own.

The month of June has not been kind to Microsoft hardware partners. Last week, Redmond revealed that it's getting into the Windows tablet game with the introduction of the Surface, meaning it will compete for sales with its own allies. It followed that up with news about Windows Phone 8.

Brackets was written using web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The open source code editor has been deliberately kept "simple yet productive", but can easily be extended.

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.