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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.

At Red Hat Summit and JBoss World this week in Boston, The VAR Guy expects plenty of surprises on the cloud computing, big data storage and Linux fronts. But the first news actually involves JBoss, an open source middleware platform that continues to gain momentum with partners and customers.

As the open source community continues to grow and thrive through the popularity of such enterprise ready platforms as Red Hat, the number of open source medical applications also grows with it. The truth is, medical software is expensive. Most health care providers – doctors, hospitals, dentists, independent clinics – have been under a lot of pressure to maintain or reduce run costs while at the same time continuing to provide the quality patient care and customer service expected of the medical care industry. In an effort to control these costs, many health care organizations are looking toward open source software to help them manage their complex billing and electronic medical records.

Tip about how to record to a log file everything that is run in the terminal and its outputs. This can very helpful for troubleshooting or seeking help on forums or IRC channels.

Some people are lazy, some people haven’t the time, some people don’t know how and some people just don’t really care to try Gnome 3.5.2, but I bet you all are curious to have a look at the new Gnome. So here it is, enjoy the tour :)

We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 9 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 8, this is just another step towards world domination. There you have it, shining at full bright, for your home computer, your laptop and your home server. Linux kernel 3.4, GNOME 3.2.3, KDE 4.8.3, Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.5.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Gentoo Hardened features, Rigo -- a new way of browsing applications, ZFS tech-preview, and PAE kernel for x86 editions.

A specter is haunting the open source world — the specter of UEFI Secure Boot, or so some Linux fans fear. Recently, Canonical spoke out about its efforts to make sure the new hardware specification won’t prevent Ubuntu users from running their operating system of choice. Here’s what it had to say.

Now, Fridrich Strba, of TDF reports that the team is working on LibreOffice CorelDraw Import Filter that will make it easier to import CorelDraw text into LibreOffice. This is an important development as for LibreOffice as CorelDraw text support was missing.

We're the Mageia community, and we are very happy to announce the release of Mageia 2! We've had a great time building our community and our new release, and we hope you enjoy using it as much as we enjoyed making it. Here are some of the nice things included in Mageia 2: KDE 4.8.2 SC, the current release of the popular KDE desktop; GNOME 3.4.1, Xfce 4.8.3; VLC 2.0.1; Flash Player plugin 11.2; Chromium Browser 18; GIMP 2.8 featuring the all new single window interface....

It's not often the "F-word" figures prominently in any major debate here in the Recently, however, it was catapulted into a starring role when it was uttered by none other than Linus Torvalds himself during a talk at the Aalto Centre for Entrepreneurship in Finland earlier this month. The topic was Nvidia, to be precise -- specifically, its longstanding lackluster approach to Linux.