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Red Hat's Matthew Garrett talked this week again about the troubles in supporting UEFI under Linux...

PySDM (Python Storage Device Manager) is an application allow us to mount disk partition without edit file /etc/fstab manually. Developed using PyGTK programming language (Python GTK) and supports ext2, ext3, fat, ntfs, reiserfs, swap and xfs.

Ring, ring. Collect call to Research In Motion and the BlackBerry team. You lost more executives this week. Your stock is down 80 percent since February 2011. And you’re seeking a chief marketing officer and a chief operating officer. Other than that, things are just dandy. So what exactly should RIM and the remaining BlackBerry team do? Here are five pieces of urgent advice.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: KDev-Python's new debugger gains a DUChain-supported local declaration list Digikam adds loc.alize.us support to their geolocation service Okular now remembers exact bookmark positions and more than one bookmark per page KWin adds Global Shortcut support for scripts and scripted effects and cursor-key navigation to Flip Switch and Cover Switch effects read more

Swap partition is used as a backup memory, if memory or RAM built computer is not sufficient to run the process. usually swap partition size is 2 x RAM. If a computer has a memory 128 MB swap partition was made into 256 MB. Ubuntu 11.10 by default using the Swap Partition as large as the existing memory if the memory more than 1GB

Multiple readers asked me today if I suffered from a “new” Mac OS X virus. Let’s slow down, folks. The alleged Mac virus reports spreading across the web have little to do with Apple and Mac OS X, and a lot to do with a small security hole in Java — which is owned by Oracle. And by the way, there’s a simple security fix. Here are details.

Trine 2 is the continuation of the magnificent side-scrolling puzzle platform adventure game named Trine. This game is one of the best games that you’ll see this year for the linux platform, and it surely is one of the most unforgetable stories that you’ll “witness” in front of your computer screen.

So Fedora 17 beta was supposed to have been released on April 3. Today is April 5 and we are still waiting. But that is the way it is with the Fedora project. Release dates are not set in concrete. They will release something when it is ready, not to meet a predetermined release schedule.

Gloobus Preview is an quick file previewer which supports images, documents (pdf, odf, ods, etc.), source files, audio (mp3, wav, ogg and more), video (avi, ogg, mkv, flv, etc.), folders, archives, fonts, plain text files and more.

Well today we at Only Human Studio have hit a milestone in the development of Ensign -1. We have reached a point where we feel happy to release the public Alpha build of Ensign -1 to all those that have backed us via Kickstarter and 8-bit funding.

There are a great number of Linux users who dual boot their computer with Windows. And in situation like this, one has to make different partitions to separate Windows and Linux partition. Windows usually (not always) uses NTFS file format while Linux is usually (again, not always) installed in Ext3 or Ext4 file format. While using Linux, one has to manually mount the drives. It doesn’t take time in mounting but in some situation you might prefer to have it automatically mounted at each start-up for e.g., if your Music files are on the NTFS partition and you want to use the same directory in Linux it is advisable to auto mount that drive. In this tutorial I will show you the easiest way to mount Windows NTFS partition at each start-up.

Bug trackers are great. They are a critical tool for open source development – as a collaboration medium for teams, as a way for projects to communicate back-and-forth with users, and as an organizational tools for individual developers. But as open source software spreads further and further, one inevitably finds oneself with a bit of a Web 2.0 problem – every major project uses its own, separate bug tracker. The more projects you're involved with, the easier it is for information to get lost among all the clutter and noise. That's where Entomologist comes in, providing one interface for multiple bug-tracking systems, whether you are a developer managing your code or a user following progress.

With iOS and Android dominating the mobile space, it’s sometimes hard to remember that it’s actually a congested and cluttered market. They are quite a few operating systems that are either in an incubating period, or already in your local Verizon store vying for your attention.

How successful is the open source content management system (CMS) Drupal? Well, in a recent interview, Drupal founder Dries Buytaert noted that nearly 790,000 people in 228 countries contribute to the platform, and it powers more than a million online sites. The White House, NASA and Twitter use it, and OStatic is also built on Drupal. In an interview we did with Buytaert, he described the core contributors to the project as on the "same scale as the Linux kernel." Getting started with Drupal can be daunting at first, but there are a lot of free resources for it. Here several good ways to get going with this powerful CMS.

Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced a new tool called Metal as a Service (MAAS) that is designed to simplify the provisioning of individual server nodes in a cluster. It primarily targets computing environments that have many physical servers. MAAS supports installing an Ubuntu Server image on computers over the network. It relies on PXE for that purpose, much like similar open source provisioning tools such as Cobbler. A simple Web-based administrative interface is provided for managing nodes. MAAS is implemented with Python and Django and is distributed as open source under the Affero General Public License (AGPL).

In the latest study by the Linux Foundation, Microsoft only just misses out on a spot among the top 20 groups and companies contributing to the Linux kernel. It has, however, achieved this only by dint of delivering bad code and then slowly improving it.

In a blow to diversity and independence in book publishing and distribution, Google announced yesterday that it will discontinue its partnering portal with independent bookstores next January (reproduced in full at the end of this blog entry).

There has been more than one time where I have needed to allow more than a user or group access to some files. Also there are times when the group/user that has ownership is just too powerful for the purpose of access. That is where ACLs come into play. Allowing a finer grained control over access to files and directories.

When it comes to OpenStack and open source cloud computing, here’s the key question I keep asking: Are any companies or customers actually profiting from OpenStack? Perhaps Mirantis can offer the answer. Here's why.

This week we look at cloud risks you might not have considered, writing a good BYOD acceptable use policy and 5 reasons for switching to HTML5.