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Ubuntu 12.04 has a number of challenges to overcome before we think it’s ready for the planned LTS release later this month. We continue our irreverent list with a few issues with calendaring…

A lot of time has passed since this article was originally written (January 2011), so some aspects of Chrome OS have changed…while still others have stayed quite the same. What do you think about the current state of Google’s experimental operating system? Let’s hear it in the comments.

Android is now dominating a lot of industries than just smart phones and tablets. I have covered many topics related to Android use in other gadgets like watches, belts, and even mirrors. And since Android is becoming famous in other industries, it is also finding a place in the auto industry.

The other feature worth writing about, is ROSA Media Player, or ROMP. It is a media player with a feature you will not find in Totem or other media players in other Linux or BSD desktop distributions. It is actually a fork of SMPlayer and was first released in November 2011.

Latest preview showcases new features, including new server product line, performance improvements, a revamped client GUI, and more

GIMX (Game Input MultipleXer) is application that allows users to control PlayStation 3 console using the mouse, keyboard, or joystick. This application will connect to the PlayStation 3 via Bluetooth, Bluetooth dongle, or USB adapter.

LLVM 3.1 is set to be released next month but will it offer up any performance improvements when paired with the open-source Mesa Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver for CPU-based OpenGL support? Here's some new benchmarks that were conducted over the weekend...

Trickle is a portable application bandwidth shaper lightweight. It can run in collaborative mode “together with trickled” or in stand alone mode.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 6.2 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

DragonFlyBSD is still finding its feet as a future-focused server operating system with not nearly enough attention able to be paid to going beyond the basics. The reliance on NetBSD's pkgsrc is both blessing and curse.

The computing world lost a luminary this past Sunday. Jack Tramiel passed away at age 83. As founder and long-time head of Commodore Business Machines, he spearheaded computing "for the masses, not the classes." His Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 systems were eminently hackable, to the point that full-speed emulators were available in the mid-1990's. And I have a personal story to tell about him.

Two years ago I wrote a post giving some of my thoughts on the benefits of the Android Market, now known as Google Play. The general idea of the post was that while there are some problems with Google Play, there are also some great benefits for developers.

There's some more progress to report on with Wayland and Weston beyond the Wayland talks at last week's LF collab summit, including a video showing various GTK applications running within Wayland on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...

I recently had occasion to explore some alternate screencast applications, since ogv files ceased playing back sanely on one of my systems. That issue was ultimately addressed by "upgrading" the video card in my aging Pentium 4 computer (with an old 128 MB nvidia card I got for $15). But not before I investigated some alternatives to recordmydesktop.

LLVM 3.1 is set to be released next month but will it offer up any performance improvements when paired with the open-source Mesa Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver for CPU-based OpenGL support? Here's some new benchmarks that were conducted over the weekend...

Development on the Linux 2.4 kernel is now officially over with no more maintenance releases being expected...

TrueCrypt is a fully open-source tool for encrypting data. That data can be on a completely encrypted hard drive, or just an encrypted image file. Thankfully, the encryption works the same regardless of your platform, so Windows and OS X users can share encrypted files between computers. more>>

Unless you've updated your kernel, rebooting isn't necessary. That's the beauty of Linux, but it doesn't mean you don't have to restart a few things in order to make sure they all use the latest libraries. So how to know what to restart after a system upgrade? Here's a nice little trick...

Following in the success of Wasteland 2's fundraising and other gaming initiatives that have taken to Kickstarter to kick-off their crowd-sourced fundraising efforts, more Linux-friendly games have come about...

Here are a few ways of using KAlarm to automate and customize alerts on your Linux desktop from the command line