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Linux is everywhere. If you peer into the smallest smart phone, to the virtual backbone of the Internet, or the largest and most powerful supercomputer, you'll find Linux. That's no simple feat given the range of capabilities expected from these platforms. Discover the omnipresence of Linux and how it supports devices large and small as well as everything in between.

Software giant Oracle has gussied up the second iteration of its own kernel for Ellison's Enterprise Linux distro, dissing Red Hat's own tweak on the mainstream Linux 3.0 kernel. Back in October 2011, Edward Screven, chief corporate architect at Oracle and the person responsible for the company's Linux operating system and Xen hypervisor variants, gave a preview of the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2, and today's release makes good on all the promises.

Besides the DRM work already piling up for Linux 3.4, there's more. The Samsung developers responsible for the Exynos graphics driver have sent in their "-next" pull request, which brings several new features, including the basis of 2D acceleration for this open-source ARM graphics driver. There's also a virtual display driver that could be used for handling wireless displays...

Just one day after the release of Linux kernel 3.2.10 on March 12th, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced yet another maintenance release of the Linux 3.2 kernel series, this time fixing a single issue.

Want to know what's really going on with your server? Then you need to know these essential commands. Once you've mastered them, you'll be well on your way to being an expert Linux system administrator.

ITTIA announces the availability of ITTIA DB SQL data distribution features for the QNX(R) Neutrino(R) Realtime Operating System (RTOS).

This tutorial shows how you can install and run Feng Office (Community Edition) on a Debian Squeeze or Ubuntu 11.10 system that has nginx installed instead of Apache (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP). Feng Office is a web-based software that integrates project management, client relationship management, billing, financing, among other features that help you efficiently run your professional services business. nginx is a HTTP server that uses much less resources than Apache and delivers pages a lot of faster, especially static files.

The Bodhi Linux App Center utilises APTURL technology to allow users one click install for popular Linux software. We also ship with the Midori browser by default. If you are using a different Debian based distro and wish to have APTURL function in the Midori browser following is what I do to make it work on Bodhi:

Ubuntu Builder is a simple tool to create your own Ubuntu based distribution. The utility comes with an easy to use graphical interface and lots of customization options.

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.