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Even the most hardcore Linux fan would admit that their favorite OS has not captured more than a very small market share on personal computers. And that would include us here at Pingdom: all of our engineers and 50% of or our developers are, in fact, running Linux.

Ubuntu has enjoyed great success, and more recently Mint, as well. But Linux desktop OS doesn’t seem to be able to break free and climb above the low single digits in market share.

But that may be changing if the latest numbers are anything to go by.

The open source mapping solution replaces Google Maps on Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service...

According to a report by Canalys, Android apps, when compared to the apps found in the iTunes App Store, are more on the expensive side. The survey was done by comparing the top 100 paid apps from both the marketplaces, and it was found that Android apps cost, on average, 2.5 times more than their iOS counterparts.

First, let’s lay out the situation. You have a site named mystore.com. It has a cart so you’ve set it up with SSL. Now, you’re redesigning it and have the subdomain newsite.mystore.com set up under your main account in cPanel for your redesign space. You’ve started your redesign, but you find out quickly that SSL is not set up on this new subdomain and you can’t find a way within cPanel to accomplish this.

Our first topic of discussion is distribution menageries. Some people, with a drive I confess I cannot even begin to understand, install distributions. And fanboys; people who write window$, M$ (winzort is popular here) and claim that Microsoft is out to conquer the world.

This tutorial will show you how to install the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13, on Fedora 16 as well as on OpenSUSE 12.1. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface.

Unity has been updated to version 5.4.0 which also sees the introduction of the new HUD feature. HUD still apparently has many outstanding bugs, but developers maintain that all bugs will be ironed out before Ubuntu 12.04 goes gold. also added recommendations to Ubuntu software center, new tool called “privacy”and other small new features.

Take a quick poll to help Dick MacInnis choose an alternate UI for Dream Studio.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced last night, February 29th, that the nine maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 series is available for download.

Handbrake, the absolute ‘gold-standard’ in video trans-coding for Linux, Windows and Mac, has reached version 0.9.6. For a full list of changes, please read the release notes here. Not surprisingly, the staff at The Powerbase is mostly concerned with changes that affect the Linux version. Here they are;

This article lists the top ten features that will appeal primarily to enterprise users. Keep in mind that most of them have not been fully implemented in Fedora 17 alpha, the first public release of what would become Fedora 17.

The features in alphabetical order, are:

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Addition of a video wall script in KDE-Workspace Support of third party window switchers by a KCM service that finds all available window switcher layouts Work on extended quick search to include fulltext results from Nepomuk in KDE-PIM Improved Nepomuk feeder throttling Improvements in Kexi Feedback Agent read more

Ubuntu is headed to Android, and Mozilla is partnering to build its own mobile OS.

Privacy International, one of the world's leading privacy organizations, last year released the results of a multi-year investigation into the shadowy world of the commercial surveillance industry. Dubbed "Big Brother Inc.," the investigation placed the spotlight on dozens of companies that specialize in covert surveillance technologies that are typically sold directly to governments and law enforcement agencies.

When I show friends and colleagues the things I’m able to do on my rooted Android device, many of them end up asking me to work similar magic on their hardware. I’ve always been happy to help out, and after a bit of research at home (how to get root, custom ROMs that are available, etc) I usually come to work a day or two later equipped with my laptop and the appropriate software. Unfortunately, I’ve recently come to realize that this doesn’t always work out to the advantage of the other person, or to me for that matter.

Earlier this month I published an article with benchmarks of the Gaming/Graphics Performance On Unity, GNOME, KDE, Xfce. Now, however, there's a much larger comparison, including results from OpenBox, Lubuntu, GNOME classic, and other desktop alternatives...

In "Tweaking Text in Scribus," I briefly described the tools available for manipulating text in Scribus. Now, it's time to really get your typographic geek on, and look in greater detail at how to adjust the spacing of text in Scribus: how to adjust the space between lines of text (leading), between characters (kerning), and upon a line (tracking).

XBMC 11 Eden RC1 has been released, this beta release comes 3 weeks after Beta3 release. According to the announcement, this release comes with a number of updated XBMC translations for final release, resolved a number of outstanding Airplay issues,

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has issued a rare public spanking for openSUSE after falling foul of its security procedures.

The first public step towards the release of Fedora 17, code-named Beefy Miracle, was taken yesterday with the release of Fedora 17 alpha.

Fedora fans are encouraged to download, install and report bugs to the Fedora QA team. From the test installation of this alpha release that I have made, bug hunters will be very busy. I know I will be.