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GhostBSD is a desktop distribution based on FreeBSD. It comes as an installable Live DVD image and is developed by Eric Turgeon and Nahuel Sanchez. The latest edition, GhostBSD 2.5, based on FreeBSD 9, is the project’s fourth release, and was made available for public download on January 24.

This article provides the first review of this distribution on this website, and it is based on test installations of the 32-bit version.

There is a theory in evolutionary biology that reciprocal altruism and cooperation first appeared as a solution to the food storage problem. If you were an early hominid and you killed a large mammoth, you could not possibly eat it all before it rotted. So you shared it. The best bank for your excess capital was your friend’s stomach. That way, you could play banker when your friend killed the next mammoth. — I was thinking of this little idea recently in the context of human wealth. Unless you are a professional investor, places to store surplus capital today where it will even be safe and/or not depreciate too fast are getting incredibly hard to find. — But there is one safe haven, if you know how to invest in it: software developers.

There's now a GStreamer plug-in to utilize OpenCL within this popular Linux video framework so that an OpenCL kernel can be applied against a video stream...

A critical success, a market dud. Here's what Redmond should do next Windows Phone might be the most impressive bit of software Microsoft has produced - but it isn't setting the world on fire. The iPhone and Android go from strength to strength - the latter proliferating so widely even Google doesn't know how many Android systems are out there. (It can't count the Chinese forks which don't use any Google services and don't phone home.)…

Ex-Redmondians play to big biz holdouts Internet Explorer 6 dead? In your dreams, Microsoft, in your dreams.…

I would like to focus on the “love your neighbor” commandment and how does it apply to software; specifically, how does it apply to one’s choices of which software to use?... Free software (free as in free speech) fulfils this requirement

The Recording Industry Association of America found itself in an unusual position this week: opposing an anti-piracy bill that's gaining momentum in Congress.

The RIAA also warns that the need to hire an attorney to navigate the ITC's arcane legal process will "put justice out of reach for small business American victims of IP theft."

It used to be there were four tiers of work in the United States. The first tier was for the truly uneducated: the illiterate. The second tier was for people who could be counted on to read and write and perform basic math: the high school graduates. Then there were folks who could be counted on to learn a lot more and take up positions of greater complexity: the college graduates. Finally there was a spot in the job market every so often for an expert. — Newsflash: the second and third tier are going away. In it's place is a single tier: people who are literate and are able to control computers. And we're nowhere near ready for the changes coming. — Programming is the new High School Diploma.

Here is a series of exclusive interviews with Greg Kroah-Hartman.

$25 credit card size ARM Linux PC Raspberry Pi is getting lots of love from community. First, XBMC playing HD video was shown shown off at Scale 10x. Now a specific Linux distribution Raspbmc is being developed by Stm Labs which is specially optimized for Raspberry Pi. XBMC team is not involved with development of Raspbmc. However, they are pleased that new distributions are making it easy to deploy XBMC on Raspberry Pi. XBMC team will continue to work on improving the XBMC experience on rPi and other systems.

VeriSign, the company that manages a key internet database for routing traffic to websites and email addresses, exposed private information after being hacked on multiple occasions in 2010, the company quietly disclosed late last year.

The executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, Bradley Kuhn, has reacted to the flame war over comments regarding a replacement for the popular BusyBox program.

The problem is this: Megaupload was accused of violating copyright through its file-sharing technology. This permits users to upload their own content and permit other users into their space. If anything that one person uploads is of uncertain copyright status — it could be anything, really — sharing it would then seem to amount to a crime. —— Which raises the question: Is every site that makes file sharing possible in danger?

NTT Docomo announced a pair of 4.3-inch Android 2.3 smartphones whose styling, user interface, and content all have a Disney theme. Both have dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4430 processors, but the & Disney Mobile on docomo F-08D& is clocked to 1.2GHz, offers HD resolution, and has a 13-megapixel camera, while the & Disney Mobile on docomo P-05D& offers 1GHz performance and a 960 x 540-pixel OLED screen....

RadiSys announced a ruggedized Type 6 COM Express module, featuring industrial temperature support and embedded-specific versions of Intel's & Sandy Bridge& Core i7 processors. The CEQM67HD offers up to 16GB of RAM, multiple video interfaces, four SATA ports, seven PCI Express x1 ports, and a PCI Express x16 interface, the company says....

It's been nearly two years since I got my first Asus convertible tablet/netbook, loaded it up with Linux and started kicking it around with my every day to classes. In general I have found it to be an extremely useful tool.

DreamLinux 5.0 is a truly "Dreamy" Linux distribution stacked full of all your favorite Linux applications. Check out DreamLinux 5.0 today!

This Monday GoL brings you parallel interviews with members of the core team for the free open-source game "Naev"

Disks are becoming cheaper and so it’s becoming common to have on our desk an external (usually USB) hard drive with a size of 1TB or more.

Here is a list with some beautiful themes for GO Launcher EX, Android's most popular home replacement app.