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This is one of those things that doesn't get explained much, because it's almost too simple to document: it's often useful to keep a few Debian package files (.deb files, used in Debian, Ubuntu, and Linux distributions derived from them) available for installation, either on your local host or on other computers on the same local-area network (LAN). You can make these available as an extra "repository" for your APT system, so that APT-based package tools (apt-get, Aptitude, Synaptic, etc) can access them. This makes managing these special packages just like your other packages, which can solve a lot of problems.

Read the howto at Free Software Magazine.

David Airlie has a last-minute pull request for the Linux 3.4 kernel following last week's main DRM pull. This latest Git pull request is set to introduce DMA-BUF PRIME support in the mainline kernel...

ShilaOS is released. ShilaOS is an Ubuntu remix with a theme dedicated to Shila Amzah, a popular Malaysian singer.

A few days ago I sent an e-mail to the CEO of Valve - Gabe Newell - in which I showed our wish for Steam for Linux and I have also asked him about the release date of Steam for Linux.

At this year's Game Developers Conference Sixense Entertainment has announced a new motion-sensing game controller Razer Hydra for the PC. This controller is similar to the other motion controllers such as Wii, Move or Kinect, but unlike these it promises a much better precision through the use of magnetic fields...

Google's Go programming language has reached version 1.0. Go represents Google's attempt to combine the best attributes of dynamically typed language with those of statically typed, compiled langauges. "Google's computer scientists believe there's a better mousetrap and they're right, but ... they have to be aware that [widespread adoption is] going to be a long process," said IDC's Al Hilwa.

KDE developer Mek is working on getting Calligra work on Android. The app is based on QWidget and is working fine on a N900.

Overview of 10 most popular feed readers for Ubuntu, including Liferea, RSSOwl, Akregator or BlogBridge.

This is a little script I wrote and use to get a daily report of all the files that have changed on my servers. What it does is list all the files that are modified within a certain time period from a given directory. It is then send via a cronjob to me so that I can see if there are thing going on I don't want.

This week we look at why code review is important, how security vendors are keeping up with bad guys and avoiding common pitfalls in app development.

Want to get started with hacking and tweaking your Android phone? Our series of free video tutorials guides you through some of the essential things you need to know.

Kickstarter backed Ninja Blocks is a tiny, open source interconnected device that allows you to automate tasks based on its environment...

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Debian Squeeze server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via http://FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

Almost there! Day by day we are getting closer to the final stable release of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin the long term support release. Today the second beta release is available to download for the testing purposes. So, let’s check the recent changes to Ubuntu Precise Pangolin highlights.

The Star Trek tricorder has become a reality, thanks to the hobby project of a cognitive science researcher. Dr. Peter Jansen has developed a handheld mobile computing device that has a number of sophisticated embedded sensors. The device is modeled after the distinctive design of the 24th-century tricorder.

Developer Dmitry Grinberg has apparently managed to boot Ubuntu Linux up to the shell on an Atmel 8-bit microcontroller; this has led some to ask if he's a genius or a madman. Since normal Linux distributions expect to find a 32-bit processor and a memory management unit (MMU), Grinberg had to overcome several obstacles. For example, he didn't hesitate to write an ARM emulator (ARMv5TE) for the ATmega1284p, which is slightly overclocked at 24 MHz. The developer said that he chose ARM because he was already familiar with this technology and because Linux runs on ARM processors.

Need to keep files and documents in sync across multiple Linux machines? Bitpocket provides a no-nonsense solution to the problem. This tiny shell script uses the excellent rsync software to perform the syncing jiggery-pockery. This means that you can have one machine acting as the "main repository", and then have several "client" machines which will be able to sync with it. (This obviously means that all client machines will have the same files). Here is how you configure it.

In Spring 2011, I started a project to attempt to create a free-culture compatible / non-DRM alternative to Blu-Ray for high-definition video releases on fixed-media, and after about a year hiatus, I'm getting back to it with some new ideas. The first is that I've concluded that optical discs are a bust for this kind of application, and that the time has come to move on to Flash media, specifically SDHC/SDXC as the hardware medium. This is a more expensive choice of medium, and still not perfect, but it has enough advantages to make it a clear choice now.

SystemRescueCd is One of the most useful rescue disk for both Windows and Linux systems, Linux Live CD distributions that allow it to boot on both 32-bit or 64-bit Intel /AMD systems. SystemRescueCd is based on the Gentoo Linux distribution.

Of course, we wouldn't have had it any other way: we wanted to be fair, as pledged, so here is the vim article, which is a counterpart of our last one on how to make your editor the perfect programming environment. So you must have the following profile for this article to be really useful to you: you know your way around programming, so you subsequently know what you would like in an editor, and you also know your way around vim, preferably more than what we talked about in the article dedicated to it. If you read the customizing emacs article, you already have a good idea on how this article is going to be structured.