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Though it’s not likely to happen, there is a possible way, however, to make Linux the next “big thing” in consumer computing. It would require a lot of money, thought and work – and the stars would have to be aligned just right – but if executed properly might just give Tux some lasting traction on the desktop. What if a commercial Linux distro with deep pockets, say Ubuntu, decided to become an OEM and follow the Apple model? What if Shuttleworth decided the best way to sell Ubuntu was on his own machines? After all, right now he can’t really sell the desktop version of his operating system at all, he has to give it away. But if he packages the OS with an impressive Ubuntu branded computer, there might be some money to be made.

(Sacramento, CA, USA and Madrid, Spain: June 21, 2012) The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced an innovative "School-to-Work" Linux training and certification program in Spain sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (http://www.educacion.gob.es/portada.html) and the European Social Fund (http://ec.europa.eu/esf/). This program (http://mil.lpi.org.es/), led by Spanish secondary schools and LPI-Spain, will initially prepare 300 students in careers as Linux professionals and IT trainers.

In my opinion, the login sound of Linux Mint is quite annoying so I believe many people would want to disable or change it. Although the method to disable login sound in Ubuntu 12.04 does not work in Linux Mint 13, there is another very easy way to do the task.

Scilab is one of the most popular FLOSS projects in the scientific computing area, in part due to its longevity, continuous development and community support. In this interview, Sylvestre Ledru, Scilab developer and operation manager for Scilab Enterprises, shares with us Scilab’s history and future. Enjoy!

Steve Jobs and Apple's mobile vision had a profound influence on the changes happening in IT today including consumerization and BYOD -- and it forever changed user expectations about how software should work.

GNOME Shell customization options may be a little more limited in comparison to its predecessor. But it’s not totally locked down and out of the users control. In this article, we’ll show you a few simple tweaks and extensions that will make GNOME Shell a little more clean-lined, sleek and usable.

Adobe wants people to know about the work it does in web standards and open source projects and has now created a web site to document that work

Cyril Oblikov, a KDE developer, is working on a new copy dialog for KDE as his Google Summer of Code (GSoD 2011) project. The idea of the project is "intelligent errors handling during the file transfer process."

Based on Android 2.3.7 "Gingerbread", version 7.2 of the CyanogenMod Project's popular modified firmware for Android devices adds several new features, including some that have been backported from version 4.0 of Android "Ice Cream Sandwich"

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 17 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

But there are applications that make it very easy to install most non-free applications on any edition of Fedora. One of those applications is called EasyLife. This article shows the simple steps you need to install it on your Fedora 17-powered box.

First look at Mageia 2 KDE.

Linux continues to dominate the world of super-computers, according to a list published by top500.org. For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer sits atop the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers. Named Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved an impressive 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores.

The Inspired by Linux T-shirt design contest has whittled down the entries to five finalists that you can vote for

Lars Torben Kremer proudly announced yesterday, June 20th, the immediate availability for download of the stable release of the Snowlinux 2 KDE Edition operating system.

In this article I will discuss everything you need to get started with Linux Mint 13 Maya. This is going to be a really long article so kick back and relax while you read it. This article assumes the user has installed Linux Mint 13 Maya on their system and has a basic knowledge of how to set up an internet connection.

Canonical, through John Pugh, proudly informed us on June 20th that the upcoming major release of the Unity game engine will support publishing to the Ubuntu platform.

Here's an interesting finding: at least when running under Wine, Half-Life 2 is faster on the open-source AMD Radeon Linux driver than when running on the proprietary Catalyst driver. There are also some other similar results where these Windows games have the advantage when running on the Gallium3D open-source driver.

Well it's been a Linus-heavy month here in the Linux blogosphere, what with Torvalds winning the Millennium Technology Prize and all, and even now that trend appears to be continuing. The most recent conversation, however, has focused on comments Linus made in the wake of his big win.

The US digital rights advocacy organisation has launched a new patent reform project aimed at promoting seven suggested "fixes" for the American patent system, including one which questions whether software patents are even necessary