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Last week, I received, in CC:, an email from a Mandriva Linux developer. This email was entitled “A foundation for Mandriva Linux *NOW* or Mandriva Linux to *DIE*?” That suggested to me that maybe Mandriva was not going very well. This, of course, hurted me. At the same time it leads to the interesting question of a Foundation for a project like Mandriva Linux.

Gaël Duval is the founder of Linux Mandrake, which later became Mandrake Linux and, after a merger with Conectiva, Mandriva Linux.

Actually, writing about the Qur’an Inserting text in LibreOffice Writer is inspired of Plugin Quran in Word in the Microsoft Office 2003. Plugin Quran in Word is plugin Microsoft Office 2003 which has a feature automatically insert Qur’an verses in Microsoft Word 2003 without typing the Arabic alphabet one by one.

Say what you will about the mainstream viability of Google Plus, but anyone who has spent even a few days on Google’s rapidly developing social network can tell you that the userbase seems unusually knowledgeable and tech-savvy. There have been numerous posts and articles attempting to explain this phenomena, but the most...

This Monday we meet Aviv Sharon, in an effort to learn more about the details behind this fantastic game (0. A.D), that many people already “love” although it is still in alpha state.

This guide describes how to easily create your own personalized theme for Google Chrome. Choose the background image and colors of the New Tab, the Background Tab and the Frame.

Welcome to the 195th issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you organize, update, gather,save informations and search news in a convenient. RSSOwl easy to use interface with endless flexibility.

This tutorial explains how you can simulate network devices for testing purposes with the free Verax SNMP Simulator. Verax SNMP agent simulator is a tool that can simulate multiple SNMPv1/v2c agents on a single host on standard 161 port through multi-netting. It allows IT personnel to build virtual, simulated networks of devices without purchasing any additional hardware, for instance for testing purposes. Individual simulated agent responses can be initially retrieved from existing devices and modified at runtime by user defined rules.

It's been a few months since last running any AMD Fusion tests under Linux, so here's a look at the AMD A8-3870K "Llano" APU performance under both the latest Catalyst driver and the open-source Radeon Gallium3D stack with Ubuntu 12.04. Besides the open-source driver being handily beaten by the Catalyst binary driver, the power efficiency is also a disappointment.

Terasology (previously known as Blockmania) is a free and open source Minecraft inspired game engine involving procedural terrain generation and efficient rendering techniques in Java using the LWJGL. The engine uses a block-based voxel-like approach seen in Minecraft. Terasology developers are now working on a full game incorporating elements from Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper.

When Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers and other executives take the stage at this week’s Cisco Partner Summit, I wonder: Will Cisco executives arrive with Cius tablets? The answer to that question could reveal how Cisco is feeling about its purpose-built tablets, which run Google Android. Here's the update.

Over the past year, I’ve watched closely as Microsoft’s two flagship cloud platforms — Office 365 and Windows Azure — gained anecdotal momentum. But here’s the challenge from Microsoft: It seems like the cloud computing world has increasingly gone open source. Here's the mounting evidence.

Nearly two years ago, Oracle went to court and accused Google's Android team of infringing patents and copyrights related to the Java programming language. After about 900 motions and filings, and legal fees that are undoubtedly mind-boggling, the trial will finally get started this week. Android has faced many legal challenges, but this is easily one of the most significant, and one of the only ones targeting Google itself rather than the company's hardware partners.

LXer Feature: 15-Apr-2012

The latest installment of the LXWR of the weeks big stories for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

Linus Torvalds announced the release of the Linux 3.4-rc3 kernel on Sunday evening...

According to survey results released earlier this year, Ubuntu still has a lot of room to grow in the cloud space. But it seems to be doing just that, the latest indicator being HP’s release of cloud products based partially on Ubuntu. Here’s the scoop, and why it matters for the Ubuntu world in particular.

Monitoring how much bandwidth is used is a fundamental task to check the status of your servers, or just your desktop, so i always test new tools to see if i find something good. This is the third article of this series and in this one I’ll take a look at Bmon, speedometer and Nload these 3 programs join NetHogs, IPTState, pktstats and IPTraf in my list of useful network tools.

There was a time not so long ago when finding applications to handle media manipulation on Linux was really difficult. One could barely find a decent player for media files.

Developers behind ErLLVM, an LLVM back-end for supporting high-performance Erlang, have called upon this code to be included in mainline LLVM...

A full review of Siduction 11.1.