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phpvirtualbox is a web-based VirtualBox front-end written in PHP that allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. It tries to resemble the VirtualBox GUI as much as possible to make work with it as easy as possible. It is a nice replacement for the VirtualBox GUI if you run VirtualBox on headless servers. This tutorial explains how to install phpvirtualbox on a CentOS 6.2 server to manage a locally installed, headless VirtualBox.

On July 9th, Karanbir Singh announced the immediate availability for download of the CentOS 6.3 operating system for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures.

Puppy Linux is very versatile and can be used for multiple purposes from retro gaming to system recovery. Other than as a main operating system here are 5 potential uses for Puppy Linux.

Ubuntu's default browser Firefox receives official updates when there is a new release, but same is not the case with Chromium which will only get updated on a new release of Ubuntu.

Mandriva gets new life from Mageia, Meego gets new life as Jolla and GPL forks toward Copyleft.next

A lack of clarity on the part of Red Hat open source licensing and patent counsel Richard Fontana as to whether he has, or has not, created a fork of the GPLv3 free software licence has led to the exit of well-known free software advocate Bradley Kuhn dissociating himself from the project

Fantasy Author Thomas A. Knight compares free software to free books and draws some important distinctions between the two.

Debian developers today at DebConf 12, aside from talking about the future Debian codename, discussed what to do about UEFI booting for Debian Linux...

Mike Elgan has published a passionate article "Why the ‘Boycott Apple’ Movement is Dumb" on Cult of Mac. I agree with Mike most of the time, but this time I do not.

Game designs and artifacts involve users more deeply in communities. Soon, prizes, trophies, and badges will be a standard part of the user experience of Web apps.

With their worst delays hopefully an issue of the past, CentOS 6.3 has been released today as the community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3...

Debian developers are still deciding on the name for the successor to "Wheezy + 1", but should be announcing a name within the next month...

Learn if your Mac can tame Cupertino's next big cat Apple has released the System Requirements for its upcoming new version of OS X, Mountain Lion, and as is usually the case with any operating system release, not all Macs need apply – even some that qualified for the Mac's current operating system, Lion.…

At today's FESCo meeting it was approved that Fedora 18 will aim for 256-color terminal support by default...

Translating the apps will be the hard part Just over a month since it debuted its App Center store in the US, Facebook is rolling out the service to global markets. Predominantly English-speaking countries will come first, with localized stores for other languages to launch in the next few weeks.…

It used to be -- at least when using the Windows Catalyst drivers -- that within the first few months of AMD releasing new Radeon graphics hardware that Catalyst driver optimizations would deliver measurable improvements in this short span. For the Radeon HD 7000 series, which is built upon an entirely new GCN architecture, is this still the case? Here are benchmarks of all the AMD Catalyst Linux drivers that have been released this year and then benchmarked on an AMD Radeon HD 7950 graphics card.

While Imagination Technologies has yet to change their stance on allowing open-source Linux graphics drivers or improving the quality of their closed-source Linux driver IP, they released two new GPUs today in the PowerVR line-up...

You've built the hardware, installed the software and cracked some passwords. Now find out how to fine-tune your attacks.

Former Nokia employees have founded Jolla Ltd to continue the development of MeeGo and to design and market MeeGo smartphones with their own custom UI

OpenDNS is a popular DNS provider used widely both in the server as in home desktop, one of the feature they provide to their customer is DNSCrypt, a security enhancement that should add protection against all DNS based attacks, such as cache poisoning.

In the same way the SSL turns HTTP web traffic into HTTPS encrypted Web traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS traffic into encrypted DNS traffic that is secure from eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle attacks. It doesn’t require any changes to domain names or how they work, it simply provides a method for securely encrypting communication between OpenDNS customers and their DNS servers. The software is released as open source on GitHub.