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Matrius is a Linux distribution designed for penetration testers, hackers, security professionals or those who would like to play with tools and applications used by those groups. This article brings to your viewing pleasure screen shots that show the type of applications available on Matrius 1.2 Krypton, the latest edition.

The Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update for the Samsung Galaxy S2 is about to start rolling out to users around the world. Read on to find out when you’ll get it.

elementaryOS is an operating system based on the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) distribution from Canonical, offering a light, fast, clutter-free and smooth desktop environment.

As we've reported, the diminutive $25 Linux computer dubbed Raspberry Pi became available for purchase in its first incarnation only days ago, and the first devices sold out in mere seconds. Developers and tinkerers are putting numerous Linux distros on the devices, including Fedora, Debian and Arch Linux, and the next batch of Raspberry Pis is due imminently, and will probably sell out nearly instantly as well. ZDNet U.K. has gone so far as to say that "Raspberry Pi is the Linux punk ethic," and the device has already drawn interest from educational system and technology industry leaders.

High performance and high definition all in one laptop bundle? ZaReason supplies that -- and more -- in their latest laptop offering, the Verix 2.5, which was just released by the Berkeley, Calif.-based Linux computer maker.

elementaryOS is a Linux operating system based on Canonical's Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) distribution, powered by Linux kernel 2.6.35 and the GNOME 2.32.0 desktop environment.

You can use Lightning to get a calendar that's fully integrated with Thunderbird, but what about Google Calendar synchronization? Well, there's an extension called "Provider for Google Calendar", which lets Lightning read and write events to Google Calendar.

I've done a number of posts in the past complaining about a lack of support for Linux based operating systems from main-stream game companies. Today I would like to highlight a few different high-calibre game titles that bring Linux support to the table.

Near the end of February marked the release of DragonflyBSD 3.0 with multi-core speed boosts and other improvements, but how does this correlate to performance improvements in our usual open-source benchmarks?

Administrators can save a lot of needless writes to the disk by mounting partitions with noatime. Even if a file is read a write will occur to disk when you are using atime.

Looking for a no-nonsense command-line tool for monitoring your GNU/Linux system? Glances might be right up your alley.

Jose Antonio Calvo has announced the availability of beta version of Zentyal 2.3 on 9th Mar, 2012. Zentyal is server Linux operating system which is based on Ubuntu and this version is based on Ubuntu 12.04 beta 1.

Android developers can now hack code on the move with the beta release of AIDE, the Android developer kit which runs on an Android device to create Android applications. AIDE is at beta version 7, but already allows the editing and compiling of apps, as well as automatic error checking (and fixing) and LogCat visibility. The free application is even compatible with projects started on Eclipse, which is important as one might not want to create an entire commercial app on a mobile phone – but at least with AIDE one theoretically could.

ABLEconf adds catered sandwiches for lunch from famed establishment, Duck and Decanter. ERP or kernel tuning can help build the appetite with big data or Alfresco as the desert. ABLEconf is an annual business and technology Free Software conference from the Open Technology Educational Corportation. ABLEconf aims to show the Arizona business, non-profit, education and government communities that Free Software makes economic and business security sense.

Earlier this month I wrote about the Fog Framework, a high-performance graphics library alternative to the well-known Cairo. The principal developer of another open-source library, Enesim, has since written in about this project that works with the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries and focuses upon flexibility and extensibility...

Deepin Scrot is a lightweight screenshot tool used in Linux Deepin that lets you add text, arrows and drawing onto the screenshot.

Back in January the release of DirectFB 1.6 was imminent, but then the developers behind this frame-buffer project ended up dragging the release on for stabilization reasons. This month is now the project's revised target for doing the first DirectFB 1.6 stable release...

There are two revolutions going on right now in computing — occurring at opposite ends of the spectrum. At the high end, we're finding that modest systems are capable of handling so-called "Big Data" problems with the tools we're currently inventing. We're also finding that the supercomputing powers of today's servers coupled with their counterparts in the cloud provide more than enough horsepower to perform analysis that was inconceivable a few years ago. On the other end of the spectrum, smart phones are running dual-core processors; and quad-core CPUs are on their way shortly. Driven by this power, phones and tablets can easily run games at full speed, and comfortably serve as scaled-down PCs and laptops. As more cores are added, the "scaled-down" aspect will relate more to things like storage and networking, rather than processing power.

On March 11th, the Arch Linux distribution turned 10 years old, since its first release back in March 11th, 2002.

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