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While putting on his "Linus T. speaks for me" T-shirt, Larry the Free Software Guy suggests there's really only one response to the recent Linus Torvalds-Nvidia hubbub: Yawn.

Are Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) and SAP falling in love… or simply countering Oracle Linux and Oracle applications? Either way, Red Hat and SAP seem to be spending more and more time together. Here’s the story.

Search for movie reviews through Unity's Dash in Ubuntu by using the Rotten Tomatoes Scope

Some useful tips to customize Linux Mint 13 (MATE) after a fresh install.

A lot of people use cloud storage systems like Dropbox, Spideroak or Ubuntu One, these software allow you to store your files on a remote server (on the clouds) and be able to access them on all your devices: computers with Linux,mac or Windows and also from tablets and smarthphones. But it wouldn’t better to manage yourself your own storage system ?

This could be really useful for small and large company to setup their own storage with their security policy and permission systems, or also for people that want to have the full control on their files.

The Open Source Initiative's affiliate scheme is five members stronger and now open to any eligible open source organisation to apply for membership

Nobody seems to want to talk about the desktop anymore. It seems that the trend followers have jumped to the next biggest thing. The glamor now isn’t in desktops and laptops, machines that do all the necessary grunt work, but in gee-whiz tablets and smart phones. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but desktops and laptops aren’t going to go away soon – not as long as there’s work to be done.

With all the recurring debates and "year of" discussions here in the Linux blogosphere, it's hard not to suffer frequent pangs of deja vu even on the best of days. Last week, however, was not the best of weeks, at least not for one Linux user by the name of Norma, who had an experience eerily reminiscent of one Linux Girl remembers writing about back in 2010.

It’s not uncommon for open source projects — especially those without strict commercial oversight — to treat deadlines loosely. It’s rarer for them to admit publicly when they face structural problems and need to consider new directions. Yet that’s what openSUSE developers did a few days ago when they announced delays in the 12.2 release. I recently spoke to Jos Poortvliet, openSUSE community manager, about this fork in the road. Here’s what he had to say.

Richard Stallman is giving three talks in the UK in June and for those who want to catch the founder of the Free Software Foundation.

Some IT departments have decided that the best defense against hackers could be a good offense, and while deceiving hackers is one thing, outright attacking them is another altogether.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yesterday, June 17th, the immediate availability for download of the third maintenance release for the stable Linux 3.4 kernel series.

Apple cash hose dislodged from Choc Factory maw Opinion So what about this Apple Maps thing then? Isn't it just so wonderful that Cupertino wants to improve the fanboi experience and thus has decided to replicate a perfectly serviceable alternative from a competitor? Sorry, become a competitor to its previous supplier...…

Robert Shingledecker announced last evening, June 17th, the immediate availability for download of the Tiny Core 4.5.5 Linux operating system.

The first stable point update to the 1.4.x branch of Wine fixes nearly 70 bugs affecting applications such as .NET Framework 3.0, LibreOffice, and Adobe Acrobat, as well as games like Borderlands

According to the latest list of the world's top 500 supercomputers, Linux is dominating the space with 462 of the planet's 500 fastest computers running the open source operating system

This tutorial is based on Ubuntu Lucid, but will work on later releases as well with small changes. I will show how I stream my desktop with audio from pulse and webcam from video4linux2. I will also show how to configure crtmpserver and flowplayer so you can watch the live stream from a web browser. In this scenario I use separate host for the tools. Flowplayer is installed on a server running Apache, crtmp server is on a separate server and ffmpeg is installed on the streaming desktop.

Blend in with the Windows-using crowd with Tails 0.12, which offers a Windows camouflage mode that allows its users to be more incognito at the internet cafe

Fabio Erculiani has announced the release of Sabayon Linux 9, a Gentoo-based distribution for desktops and servers: "We're once again here to announce the immediate availability of Sabayon 9 in all of its tier 1 flavours. If you really enjoyed Sabayon 8, this is just another step towards world domination. There you have it, shining at full bright, for your home computer, your laptop and your home server. Linux kernel 3.4, GNOME 3.2.3, KDE 4.8.3, Xfce 4.10, LibreOffice 3.5.3 are just some of the things you will find inside the box. Gentoo Hardened features, Rigo -- a new way of browsing applications, ZFS tech-preview, and PAE kernel for x86 editions."

In a question and answer session at the Finnish Aalto University, Linux creator Linus Torvalds has voiced strong criticism of NVIDIA for its refusal to support the Optimus technology in Linux