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The Ubuntu News Lens is a very useful Unity Launcher plugin that allows users to search articles from various news sources.

As part of your overall hardening, and suite of security software you have installed, an IDS and/or IPS should not be left out. This is also a requirement for PCI Compliance. And IDS/IPS is very important for a number of reasons, first because when you are hacked, typically some sort of activity preceeded the hack, such as a port scan, which and IDS could detect, and an IPS could block. In addition the logs from your IDS/IPS can serve as part of your audit trail when investigating a security breach.

AMD admits it has had some Linux support problems with its graphics drivers and they'll be working to improve the situation. In particular, AMD concedes it has the most problems with OpenCL support on Linux. They attribute their Linux problems to the fact that there's many Linux distributions out there rather than just a single platform like Microsoft Windows.

Two weeks ago, Steve Wozniak made a public call for Apple to open its platforms for those who wish to tinker, tweak and innovate with their internals. EFF supports Wozniak's position: while Apple's products have many virtues, they are marred by an ugly set of restrictions on what users and programmers can do with them. This is most especially true of iOS, though other Apple products sometimes suffer in the same way. In this article we will delve into the kinds of restrictions that Apple, phone companies, and Microsoft have been imposing on mobile computers; the excuses these companies make when they impose these restrictions; the dangers this is creating for open innovation; why Apple in particular should lead the way in fixing this mess. We also propose a bill of rights that need to be secured for people who are purchasing smartphones and other pocket computers.

While there is no word from Facebook yet confirming the rumors, there are multiple reports going around the web saying that Facebook may be looking to acquire the Opera browser. According to English site Pocket-lint, "Pocket-lint has heard from one of its trusted sources that the social networking giant is looking to buy Opera Software, the company behind the Opera web browser." This, would, of course, put Facebook squarely in the browser game along with Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla and Google. But would the move make sense for Facebook?

If Dell buys Quest Software, it could thrust Dell into the virtualization market head-on against VMware, Citrix Systems and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, among other potential rivals. But is Dell really trying to get into the virtualization market? Here are some clues.

It's been an eventful year already here in the Linux blogosphere, but it seems fair to say few events have drawn as much attention as the Oracle v. Google trial. Bloggers have been discussing it for weeks already, of course, but developments last week brought forth nothing less than dancing in the streets of the Linux blogosphere.

SWFTools is a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files). The tool collection includes programs for reading SWF files, combining them, and creating them from other content (like images, sound files, videos or sourcecode). SWFTools is released under the GPL.

Companies can and do put out long wish lists of skills and experience to reduce the number of applicants to those who most closely match the position and related positions within their I.T. departments. That's all well and good. However, sometimes those desired or required skills effectively reduce the pool of qualified people to zero.

Consequently, I have not even bothered to install a distribution running GNOME 3 in its default state on a “production” boxen, other than for review purposes only. But while preparing a review of Mageia 2, I came across an extension that could just make me a believer and user of GNOME 3.

A busy week on the Linux Planet as a new chapter is written in the saga of the company once known as Mandrake Linux.

I put Fedora 17 Beta to an extreme stress test over the last several weeks. Now, on the eve of the official release of Fedora 17, perhaps the most anticipated Fedora release ever, I will reveal my test results.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is one way we communicate with remote computers. On this occasion I would share a tutorial on how to build an FTP server ubuntu server LTS 12.04, Acctualy,there are many applications that can be used in building FTP server, but on this tutorial how to build an FTP server on ubuntu server LTS 12.04 I will use an application called vsftpd (Very Secure FTP Daemon).

Your ubuntu desktop crash or you make some changes in Ubuntu Desktop that require restarting the X Server. To restart the Xserver without rebooting we usually use the key combination Ctrl + Alt + Backspace. but, Since Ubuntu 9.04, this key combination has been disabled by default, to eliminate the problem of accidentally triggering the restart.

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install Lighttpd on an Ubuntu 12.04 server with PHP5 support (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. I use PHP-FPM in this tutorial instead of Lighttpd's spawn-fcgi.

Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin, rolled out last month. The new version of the popular Linux distribution brings updated software and new features, including the highly-anticipated Heads-Up Display (HUD) interface. The HUD is one of several excellent improvements that have helped to make Ubuntu's Unity desktop shell even better in Ubuntu 12.04

When Unity was first unveiled in 2010, it was introduced as a new graphical frontend for the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Canonical later brought Unity to the desktop, making it the cornerstone of the company's Linux usability enhancement efforts. Ubuntu 11.04 (released last year) was the first version that shipped with Unity as the standard environment on the desktop.

Unity has come a long way since Canonical and the Ubuntu community began working to iron out its rough edges on the desktop. The performance and stability issues that afflicted earlier versions have largely been remedied. It was already in great shape back in October when version 11.10 was released, but it has benefited from further refinement.

Several recent announcements have illustrated that software companies are trying to make the cloud more enterprise friendly, and IT is getting more comfortable with cloud offerings.

BSD systems are the technological neighbors many of us meet daily, but few know much about. Martin Husemann of NetBSD explains, analyses, compares and refers to everything there is to know about BSD and NetBSD. Meet this fantastic operating system through another Monday’s interview.

Open-source handset versus Android and Apple First came the BlackBerry, bringing the smartphones for suits perfected by RIM to consumers. Next came the iPhone, which quickly hoovered up 23 per cent of the market. But the iPhone came at a price: the freedom of users and coders. It is tightly controlled by Apple, as Adobe quickly found to its cost with Flash.…

For years, web developers have had to build sites that work on Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. It's something that at one time, held us Linux users in a bind as sites big and small claimed to only work on IE.