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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.

Here's how to write a successful mobile app

I was searching the net and find Redcar, i know it is older, but something which surprised me is in the dependencies. Why is writing an editor for a language which requires another language cool?

Who runs Ubuntu? Where, why and how? That’s a question lots of people — including probably even Canonical employees — would like to be able to answer better. Toward this end, a survey of general Ubuntu users is underway. Here’s the scoop.

A few minutes ago, March 12th, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the immediate available for download of the tenth maintenance release of the stable Linux kernel 3.2 series.

Big Data is getting plenty of hype these days, but beyond the hype, you need to understand how to manage and analyze the growing body of information.

I have a 10 a.m. conference call today, and looking at the clock on my GNOME desktop in Debian Squeeze, my operating system on this laptop since late 2010, I dial into the call. There's nobody there.

San Francisco based Firefox Clinic plans to help Firefox users on 24th March, but it needs the help of more advanced users on the day...

Petter Reinholdtsen announced the availability of the SkoleLinux 6.0.4 which id debian based Linux operating system mainly for school and colleges. This distribution is also known as "Debian Edu". This distribution contain over 75 packages for students and 15 packages for networking.

I was able to boot using a Live CD, but several of the ones I have didn't work. Time to purge my "rescue disk" collection, download the latest Trinity Rescue and Knoppix, etc. The one that did work would not recognize that the HD even existed. So no fdisk, no mounting the partitions for backup, nothing. Doomed, I thought. Fried disk. Right.