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As the latest Intel Ivy Bridge numbers to push out, here is a look at the Linux virtualization performance with the Core i7 3770K processor when comparing its raw/bare-metal performance to Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization and Oracle VM VirtualBox under Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

It's possible to optimize the Fedora 17 boot process to boot the system in less than three seconds. One developer went from a boot time of 15 seconds down to just 2.5 seconds...

I continue to believe that there is room for more mobile operating systems then we have now. Blackberry is a trusted brand and, if open, I think developers would be more willing to expand and extend its capabilities in ways and to places that RIM was just incapable of taking it.

It's not really an option to force all our users to play with hard to find firmware settings before they can run Fedora. We've been working on a plan for dealing with this. It's not ideal, but of all the approaches we've examined we feel that this one offers the best balance between letting users install Fedora while still permitting user freedom.

Judge William Alsup today ruled that the Java API packages Oracle claims were stolen by Google for use in Android were "free for all to use under the Copyright Act."

Recently Electronic Arts published a press release about its new program with benefits for the development studios funding games with the help of crowdfunding platforms such as KickStarter.

Judge Alsup has only just ruled that API's are not subject to copyright protection. This story is only just breaking and other details have not yet been reported.

The coalition of authors suing to stop Google Book Search scored a key victory on Thursday as the judge overseeing the case ruled that three individual authors and the Author's Guild could represent the class of all authors whose works had been scanned by Google.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from June 25th - June 27th, 2012.

Canonical bringing new functionality to the Ubuntu Software Store by offering games from the Humble Indie Bundle

A file manager is software that provides a user interface to undertake file management activities with file systems. The file manager is one of those essential applications for many users which is almost impossible to function without. Linux is blessed with a good range of file managers that help to make file management a breeze.

Remember Psychonauts? Once regaled in glowing reviews and positive reception from press outlets, the now classic Psychonauts has made its way, unexpectedly, to Linux. The game, designed by influential point-and-click pioneer Tim Schaffer...

One of the cardinal rules of open source is reciprocity: you can use my open-source code under the same terms that it was given to me. But as open source shifts to open APIs, "open" is increasingly a one-way street. As one major case in point, LinkedIn likes to tout its open API to developers, but apparently only developers of a certain kind: the kind who don't compete with LinkedIn.

This summer, Aaron Schmitz will create a Google API to integrate services such as Google Maps and Analytics into Joomla-powered websites as part of Google's Summer of Code program.

From the 'Linux = $$' files: IDC is out with its first quarter 2012 global server stats study and the numbers look good for Linux. While overall global server revenues were down, Linux server revenues were up.

Linux Mint 13 has introduced a new display manager called MDM, that supports themes just like the old GDM 2.20 (which has been used as the base for MDM. If you want to use it in Ubuntu, here's how to install it.

Google will not have to pay Oracle anything for violating 37 Java copyrights, because they are not copyrightable, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

On the 29th of May Red Hat released Fedora 17. This article is a review of Fedora 17 with Gnome 3.4. In this article I will discuss new features in Fedora 17 as well as any bugs I encounter.

Need to quickly off-load photos from your camera and neatly organize them into folders by date? The Fotobasher shell script cobbled together by yours truly can help you with that.

Bigger may be better if you're from Texas, but it's becoming increasingly clear to the rest of us that it really is a small world after all. Case in point? None other than what one might reasonably call the invasion of tiny Linux PCs going on all around us. Where's it all going? That's what Linux bloggers have been pondering in recent days.