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In New York's Financial District, Linux is your MAMA. The Linux Foundation rang the closing bell at the NYSE yesterday. The Linux Foundation is in NYC for their End User conference, which also served as a backdrop for an OpenMAMA announcement.

When Linus Torvalds sneezes the Linux world gets a cold. The father of Linux has praised Google Chrombooks for being more useful than Gnome 3 She

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the May 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Thanks to Monday’s joint announcement of Microsoft’s $300 million investment in a new Barnes & Noble’s digital and college textbook subsidiary, we will never know who actually won the patent showdown between the software and bookselling giants. An administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission last week put off an initial determination in Microsoft’s patent infringement case against B&N, which was tried in February. Now that the two are partners in the e-book business, the patent litigation will end without a ruling on the merits from the ITC or from the U.S. district judge overseeing Microsoft’s parallel infringement suit in Seattle federal court.

But that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about which side won the case.

Many of my Linux friends have no plans whatsoever to buy an iPad. I've chosen to buy an iPad and plunge headlong into creating multimedia iBooks for the iPad. Here are the reasons why.

Mozilla is planning to hold a series of free events throughout the month for hackers and developers to celebrate the opening of their new London offices...

I have decided to review the new Ubuntu 12.04 ‘Precise Pangolin’ because after hearing mixed opinions of it I was very intrigued to try it for myself, will it's apparent improvements persuade me to go back to it?

Next in our series of Python modules you should know is Pwtools. The package is used to generate and test passwords in Python programs.

The top 5 Linux platforms that suits diverse needs for the users. Most of the platforms are free and can be downloaded from their websites. Easy installation and features makes them the most preferred in the market today.

In this illustrated tutorial I will show you how you can get Trust No One encryption on ANY cloud backup service. So that the Google, Dropbox, Box.net, Carbonite, backblaze or any other cloud provider are not able to see or access your private files. Works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X!

While it's improved a lot recently, in the past setting up a multi-seat computer has been a pain in the ass with a lot of manual configurations needed and other peculiar steps to get the hardware/software combination working right. What if the process were a lot simpler? What if new seats could be added to a computer at a very low cost and the setup was effectively "out of the box" to the point that it's truly plug-and-play? Well, we are now effectively at that point on the Linux desktop and there is a new Kickstarter effort to help in that initiative.

Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Open Week for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) will take place between 2nd to 4th May, 2012, on the usual Ubuntu IRC channel, #ubuntu-classroom.

Microsoft's $300 million partnership with Barnes & Noble wasn't about e-books. It was about Android and Linux and preserving Microsoft's ability to be a patent bully.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Konsole gains a Web Shortcuts menu that allows searching selected text using any of the search providers; search scrollback is now possible in Konsole KPart New placement policy in KDEWorkspace: allow "under mouse"; work to include screenlocker into ksmserver Amarok ships the Free Music Charts by default; Amarok's iPod collection completely rewritten read more

Suppose you are a C++ developer and you need to do some prototyping quickly in Ruby. When you pick up a Ruby reference book like the Pickaxe or browse the Ruby site, you see familiar constructs like class declaration, support for threads, and exception handling. Just when you thought you knew how Ruby works, you realize that concurrency in your Ruby code is not behaving like Boost threads, catch and throw are not what they seem, and others have used something called self all over the place in their Ruby script. Welcome to Ruby!

Manslide is a cool apps slideshow generator with 3d effects features, it Qt-based application for making slideshows out of a set of images file (PNG,JPG).in additional, Manslide could potentially be a very useful application, and creating slideshow movies from a set of images is a formidable task.

This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a Debian Squeeze system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.

WordPress is an excellent platform for publishing photos on the web, but what if you don’t need all the bells and whistles it has to offer?

Ubuntu's six-month release cycle makes it a bit wearying to maintain the appropriate level of excitement. I use it as a reminder to clean my furnace filters. Anyway it's hard to have drama in a mature product. Improvements are incremental, the new has worn off, and there are a lot more excellent Linux distributions to choose from than when Ubuntu was the new kid. A lot of them are Ubuntu derivatives, and that is how it's supposed to work.

Microsoft is set to invest $300 million in Barnes and Noble's Nook business, Microsoft announced Monday. With that investment, Microsoft will have a 17.6 percent stake in a newly formed subsidiary that will handle B&N's digital and college bookstore businesses, and the partnership will result in a Nook application for Windows 8.