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Facebook has released Folly, a collection of what it describes as “reusable C++ library artifacts developed and used at Facebook.” The trove awaits on GitHub and comprises around 50 items.

This article shows you how to install the Adobe Digital Editions which is used to DRM protect e-books (e.g. needed for renting e-books in a public library) on Ubuntu 12.04 and the trick that is required to make the e-book readers visible to the software so you can read the books also on your reader.

The Raspberry Pi received an extraordinary amount of pre-launch coverage. It truly went viral with major news corporations such as the BBC giving extensive coverage. Not without reason, it is groundbreaking to have a small capable computer retailing at less than the price of a new console game. There have been a number of ventures that have tried to produce a cheap computer such as a laptop and a tablet but which never materialised at these price points. Nothing comes close to the Raspberry Pi in terms of affordability, which is even more important in the current economic climate. Producing a PC capable of running Linux, Quake III-quality games, and 1080p video is worthy of praise.

Microsoft has shortly released the consumer preview of its flag ship operating system, Windows 8, that is evidently re-skinned to better suit touch-screen devices. Unfortunately, in attempting to revamp the OS, Microsoft has done some serious damages to it’s self and more importantly to the end-users. The post compares the version of Linux Mint 13.

Facebook this week released Folly, an open-source C++ library...

This document describes how to install and set up ownCloud on CentOS 6.2 on an nginx web server and php-fpm with postgreSQL database as backend. For other distributions there might be minor changes as to the software prerequisites installation procedures. This guide will not only help install the product, but also understand why certain points are done the way they are done.

This guide describes how to add VLC to the Ubuntu Sound Menu and integrate it with Unity.

Dropbox is the best free cloud service and extremely easy-to-use tool for sharing files and syncing them between computers, and you can also use Dropbox to back up files and access them from other computers and devices (including from your Android Smartphone, android tablets and iPad or iPhone, with dedicated Client apps for each of those devices). How to make dropbox features and services available on ubuntu server?

Welcome to the 202nd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: On startup, KPhotoAlbum can search for videos without thumbnails Dolphin allows remembering view properties for the search mode Screen edge bindings for scripts and scripted effects implemented in KDE Workspace New assert methods and Get Hot New Stuff support are available for KWin scripts read more

Supreet Pal Singh has provided an in-depth overview of his X.Org EVoC project for providing a Fermi scripting engine for the Nouveau driver that will allow for safe and dynamic GPU core / video memory re-clocking on modern NVIDIA GPUs...

Mozilla uploaded earlier today, June 2nd, the final packages containing the Mozilla Firefox 13.0 web browser for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems.

Dear Fedora fans, we are sorry to announced today that the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) operating system will reach end of life (EOL) in three weeks, on June 26th, 2012.

Boys and girls, grandfathers and grandmothers, sons and daughters, the brand new Humble Indie Bundle is here!!!!

If you have a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet and you need to connet to ubuntu 12.04, I have simple way to Transfer/copy files to and from your BlackBerry PlayBook when you’re using Ubuntu or Ubuntu Based Distribution. This should work with any form of Linux Distribution

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical talks about Ubuntu on ARM and Canonical at Linaro. . .

While not yet the default means of 2D acceleration for the Intel driver, the SNA architecture is even reportedly performing well -- better than UXA -- for the old Intel 855...

After a few days ago sharing a list of why you should use FreeBSD as said by FreeBSD developers and community members who use the BSD operating system, here's a list of reasons for why not to use FreeBSD or missing functionality...

An useful tool for the management of a shared server is etckeeper. This software is a collection of bash scripts that allow you to control through a distributed revision system our directory /etc/ where there are the configuration files of most of our Linux daemons. You could do the same thing without etckeeper leaning on a revision system such as darcs or git, but you must remember that for this directory is essential to maintain, for each file, its permissions and also its owner and group as well as the entire structure including empty directory.

Etckeeper helps us in the management, automating many of these tasks.

Attractive though this board is in price at least, it measures about the size of a credit card, it is quite hard to get one I know I have been waiting 4 or 5 months since I knew I could place an order and still don’t have one. I don’t know how true this figure is but am lead to believe some 350,000 people have ordered and waiting delivery for their Raspberry PI Board. If you cant wait to try Raspberry PI you can at least emulate the operating system and it’s processor using a method described below.

Below is a procedure for Raspberry PI Debian and to get working there are other distro which you could use instead and should be able to run using a slight variation on the command line executed in fact all you need do is change the image filename