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To some surprise, Gentoo FreeBSD -- the port of Gentoo running with the FreeBSD kernel rather than the Linux kernel -- is progressing...

Power consumption at Hetzner Online's data centres jumped by "about a megawatt" in the night from 30 June to 1 July due to a kernel bug which resulted in many Linux systems reaching 100% processor usage in dealing with the leap second added at midnight. The problem is described in an email sent by the web hosting company to customers, asking them to check their systems' CPU usage and, where necessary, to restart their systems in order to restore processor usage to normal levels.

In recent weeks, it's become fashionable for pundits and market watchers to alternately eulogize Research In Motion as a fallen pioneer and demonize management for not chopping up the company to sell for parts.

Here are two interesting gaming news for Linux users, as Valve director confirmed Steam for Linux, and Blizzard started banning Diablo III users who use Linux.

Cast the Nets!

I thought we'd gone native this month and were going to show how to work nets and fish like the penguins do. I had a double-fisted, sheep-shanked, overhand cinch loop to teach you, along with the proper way to work your net in a snow storm.

GNOME Shell weather extension by Neroth features multiple locations, no WOEID required, a symmetrical layout and a settings panel. Installation instructions for Ubuntu and Fedora included.

Reading the articles about Blizzard banning Linux users for using wine and not giving a refund made me think that the main problem once again, is the number of users using wine to play Diablo III. If the percentage was 15% for example, Blizzard would never ban them because they would love to keep them around buying more extra stuff when they release it.

While it's been less than two weeks since Wine 1.5.7 was released with dynamic device support, Wine 1.5.8 has already been released...

The Fuduntu team has released the latest version of their distro – Fuduntu 2012.3. This release comes third time in their quarterly release cycles which gives some minor updates to keep the system stable.

How to change login screen theme in Linux Mint 13

Pinta, a raster image editor, is the app equivalent of a diamond in the rough. Years of testing and reviewing open source and commercial software taught me never to assume that a relatively new application is not worthy of attention. That lesson proved true with this youngster of an app.

Like all previous Fuduntu releases, this release follows our tradition of making small incremental distribution improvements that don’t sacrifice the stability of our Linux distribution. Existing Fuduntu users have already rolled up to 2012.3, as all of the updates available are released to our stable repository. This cycle focused on many improvements under the hood, including core platform updates like GCC 4.6.3 and Anaconda 16.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the July 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Linux 3.5 is now capable of the "FireWire Target Disk Mode", which is a familiar Mac feature. Btrfs logs data errors, allowing unreliable storage media to be detected. Checksums have been implemented to ensure that Ext4 metadata is consistent

I'd like to take a moment to share a few wonderful videos one of the Bodhi team members has taken the time to put together.

If you use Gnome, you must have used Nautilus which is the default file manager that ships with Gnome by default. We have been closely monitoring Gnome 3.6 development and here is some interesting changes lined up for Nautilus.

While some companies like Valve are working on porting their software to run natively on Linux, it appears some other large companies are going to the extreme to prevent users from running their software on free operating systems.

After the positive feedback that we got for our interview with Martin Hussemann of NetBSD, we decided to reach out and meet people from all the major BSD projects this summer. We continue on that context with Dru Lavigne of the most popular BSD system.

This tutorial shows how to combine four single storage servers (running Ubuntu 12.04) to one large storage server (distributed storage) with GlusterFS. The client system (Ubuntu 12.04 as well) will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

This article tells how to make Nagios to show monitored hosts on the Google maps, it's pretty useful if you have number of servers located in different places around the world.