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The Apache Software Foundation officially released the Apache 2.4 today as the first major update to this leading open-source web-server in more than a half-decade. Apache 2.4 is slated to deliver superior performance to its 2.2 predecessor and better compete with the growingly-popular NGINX web-server...

This guide describes how to easily monitor Ubuntu's system resources with Indicator-Multiload and SysPeek.

Cool your boots with quantum porn Patents for a cr@ppy, short-lived muffin-, strawberry- and porn-fuelled search engine created by three ex-Googlers have been scooped up by the Chocolate Factory.…

In this installment, I'll recount how I recently composed a nice business letter using TeX/LaTeX. A template will be provided, along with some basic explanations, that could be useful to those wishing to create their own letters using this document processing system.

This is tutorial on how to set up an Ubuntu server with apache, mysql, proftpd, webmin, setting up a user account and adding it to the sudoers list.

Canonical announced today their intent to make Ubuntu available on Android. Yes, on Android. So, what does that mean? We’ve all probably seen Ubuntu booting on a mobile device before, but this is completely different…

We’ll show Ubuntu neatly integrated into Android at Mobile World Congress next week. Carry just the phone, and connect it to any monitor to get a full Ubuntu desktop with all the native apps you want, running on the same device at the same time as Android.

Primal fear Analysis Flaws in the way some of EMC's RSA security division encryption keys are generated are down to a weakness in generating random numbers that's restricted to network devices rather than digital certificates on websites, according to both RSA and cryptographic researchers.…

After writing about Btrfs LZ4 compression support and that the Btrfs FSCK tool wasn't available, it turns out that there is the new Btrfs repair tool, but it's not widely known and it's not recommended to ever use it -- at least at this stage...

Canonical reveals Ubuntu OS that launches on Android ahead of its debut at MWC

Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop might be remembered as the Thomas Watson of our time, based on his remark you don't need quad-core processors for smartphones. "You don't need a quad-core phone unless you want to keep your hands warm in your pocket,” said the Yankee CEO brought in to re-float the Finnish ship.

Linux User sits down with Mint creator Clement Lefebvre to get a measure of the past, present and future of one of the biggest success stories in Linux distro history…

Sorry for being late, I don't have a lot of free time at the moment. Here's PlayOnLinux 4.0.14.

PCLinuxOS 2012 "Phoenix" has been updated to version 2 in Xfce desktop environment on 20th Feb, 2012. Linux Kernel is 2.6.38.8 and Xfce version is 4.8.3, X.org 1.10.4, Mesa 7.11.2 and many other updates like 3D support for most Intel and N-VIDIA graphics cards have been done in this update.

Canonical announced that the Ubuntu Global Jam event for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system will take place in one week, between 2nd and 4th March, 2012.

FlightGear, a free and open source flight simulator has received yet another major update and many new features have introduced. FlightGear features more than 400 aircraft, a worldwide scenery database, a worldwide multi-player environment, detailed sky modelling, a flexible and open aircraft modelling system, varied networking options, multiple display support, a powerful scripting language and an open architecture. Best of all, being open-source, the simulator is owned by the community and everyone is encouraged to contribute.

CUPS, is the printing standard that open source projects have used successfully to convert desktops and computers to become printer servers, allowing plug-in, modular type of printing. However, now Apple after it acquired it from its developer Michael Sweet, at Easy Software Products, in 2007, has chosen to abandon certain Linux exclusive features, and continuing with popular Mac OS X features.

The past week on the LinuxPlanet saw the return of SCO, a company most of us have long ago written off a footnote in the history of Linux's success. It also saw a new study from Ubuntu showing how broad and diverse its base of Linux users have become.

This tutorial is supposed to guide the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13. Cinnamon concentrates on holding on to classic design and functionality in times where Gnome 3 and Unity come up with different innovations to the user interface.

I like KDE and prefer it to Gnome but when I was a Gnome user I got used to the Gnome desktop switching.