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The computing world lost a luminary this past Sunday. Jack Tramiel passed away at age 83. As founder and long-time head of Commodore Business Machines, he spearheaded computing "for the masses, not the classes." His Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64 systems were eminently hackable, to the point that full-speed emulators were available in the mid-1990's. And I have a personal story to tell about him.

Two years ago I wrote a post giving some of my thoughts on the benefits of the Android Market, now known as Google Play. The general idea of the post was that while there are some problems with Google Play, there are also some great benefits for developers.

There's some more progress to report on with Wayland and Weston beyond the Wayland talks at last week's LF collab summit, including a video showing various GTK applications running within Wayland on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...

I recently had occasion to explore some alternate screencast applications, since ogv files ceased playing back sanely on one of my systems. That issue was ultimately addressed by "upgrading" the video card in my aging Pentium 4 computer (with an old 128 MB nvidia card I got for $15). But not before I investigated some alternatives to recordmydesktop.

LLVM 3.1 is set to be released next month but will it offer up any performance improvements when paired with the open-source Mesa Gallium3D LLVMpipe driver for CPU-based OpenGL support? Here's some new benchmarks that were conducted over the weekend...

Development on the Linux 2.4 kernel is now officially over with no more maintenance releases being expected...

TrueCrypt is a fully open-source tool for encrypting data. That data can be on a completely encrypted hard drive, or just an encrypted image file. Thankfully, the encryption works the same regardless of your platform, so Windows and OS X users can share encrypted files between computers. more>>

Unless you've updated your kernel, rebooting isn't necessary. That's the beauty of Linux, but it doesn't mean you don't have to restart a few things in order to make sure they all use the latest libraries. So how to know what to restart after a system upgrade? Here's a nice little trick...

Following in the success of Wasteland 2's fundraising and other gaming initiatives that have taken to Kickstarter to kick-off their crowd-sourced fundraising efforts, more Linux-friendly games have come about...

Here are a few ways of using KAlarm to automate and customize alerts on your Linux desktop from the command line

A Red Hat Storage 2.0 beta with Big Data and Apache Hadoop support is now available. So what is Red Hat trying to achieve in the storage market, and where do partners potentially fit into the story? Here are some educated guesses.

While recent testing has shown how Ubuntu 12.04 LTS KVM/Xen/VirtualBox virtualization compares between Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Bulldozer platforms, in this article is a different look at the KVM virtualization performance of the forthcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system. In this review is a look at the KVM virtualization performance of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS compared to the earlier Ubuntu 10.04.4 and Ubuntu 8.04.4 Long-Term Support releases.

Open Octave Studio is a free and open source music production software and digital audio workstation (DAW). Open Octave Studio doesn't charge any licensing fees but have lots of features at par with many other commercial solutions. The application is written in Qt and you can install 2011 version on Linux by following instructions from here. Now Open Octave Studio 2012 is coming and they need your help in raising $50,000. These funds will be used to pay developers who are working on bringing new features. If the project is successful in raising $50k, you can win a computer powered by Intel i7, 24 GB RAM and 3TB Hard Drive.

As it turns out, a new analysis of code contributions for the OpenStack ESSEX release shows that Red Hat developers contributed more code than Canonical developers.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a CentOS 6.2 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

The application I am referring to, is called KLook. That is “look” prefixed with a “K.” What KLook does, is give you the ability to view images, text files (.txt), listen to audio and play video files from one application in a slideshow fashion.

Currently, it can be used to view images in png and jpg formats, listen to audio and video files supported by Phonon, and view text files. Support for reading PDF files is just around the corner. Starting KLook is pretty simple. Just select the files you want to view or play and press the Space bar on the keyboard.

There are three things that set 4Pane apart from other file browsers: speed, lack of bloat, and a four pane interface.

Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) recently became the world’s first $1 billion open source company. Now, the folks at SUSE, promoter of the rival Linux distribution, are seeking some bragging rights of their own. Indeed, SUSE says it now has more than 9,200 certified third-party applications and supports over 13,500 hardware, storage and networking devices. Impressive. But is SUSE in growth mode? Here's some analysis.

Digium, promoter of Asterisk (the open source IP PBX), is making a deeper unified communications push into Europe. The Digium effort leverages EntaTech, a telephony distributor in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The big question: Can Digium expand its international pipelines to maintain the company’s growth? Here's the update.

Small VPS if well configured can easily handle big sites, even if they are powered by CMS platforms like Drupal. It may worth the time to make a good configuration when starting a new site, you will be able to save money at the end of the day. Read here how Varnish can help you do just that.