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Linux Mint, in collaboration with CompuLab, is proud to announce today, July 8th, the immediate availability for purchase of a mini PC called mintBox.

Yes, you got it! Other 3 great games have been added to The Humble Indie Bundle V!

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu has become a Microsoft partner to bring Ubuntu to Microsoft's Azur platform. Canonical joins SUSE, the long time Microsoft partner which also helped Microsoft in validating that Linux infringes upon its bogus patents.

This week we look at what a Siri API might look like, coping with consumer devices in the enterprise and xkcd's twisted view on creating passwords.

CompuLab teams up with Linux Mint to create the mintBox, a slimline, portable PC running the popular operating system

Over a year ago I wrote a post complaining that you where unable to complete the "free application for federal student aide" from an FOSS operating system without first tricking the government's website into thinking you are running Windows...

Scrollout F1 is a free anti-spam and anti-virus email firewall (gateway) for multiple domains and email servers. This document describes how to install Scrollout F1 from scratch, on a fresh Ubuntu Server. It should work also on Ubuntu Alternate version. The installation is easy. Even if you are a newbie in Linux there is not much room for errors.

The CentOS developers have been hard at work insuring that future releases of the clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will not be delayed. Two of the developers are now employed full time to work on the distribution

The "Introduction to C" series is an ongoing tutorial on the C programming language. It assumes no prior knowledge of the C programming language, and only moderate knowledge of concepts in operating systems, application installation/configuration, and general computer jargon. It will guide readers through basic, intermediate, and advanced concepts in C programming, and end with the Linux programming interface, ncurses, and FLTK.

Ubuntu 12.10 has started churning releases. Kate Stewart of Ubuntu has announced the release of 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1.

Google Summer of Code is a global program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source software projects. The applications have been evaluated and the accepted work proposals have been announced so the work has already begun! Let’s take a look on the 29 things that GNOME users should care about.

June 8, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. Significant bugfixes include improvements to the Kontact Suite, bugfixes in Dolphin and many more corrections and performance improvements all over the place.

As more competition enters the cloud space, prices are plunging, but this doesn't mean IT jobs are going anywhere. On the contrary, if anything it's just another thing for you to track.

While the decade long debate in the European Union over the definition of “open standards” has been well-publicized, it may come as a surprise to some that EU member nations are required to utilize a second standards filter in public procurement as well.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the June 2012 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

Softpedia is the first to announce today, June 7th, that the first Alpha version of the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) operating system is now available for download. As usual, we've grabbed a copy of it in order to keep you up-to-date with the latest changes in the Ubuntu 12.10 development.

Even though a browser approach ultimately makes more sense for smart phones, apps built a slight lead over browser usage in the latest comScore mobile report.

Samsung has opened a new front in the mobile wars against Apple by upping its investment in Linux and its mobile software. Samsung will plough half a million dollars into the Linux Foundation and get a seat on the not-for-profit's board of directors by becoming a Platinum member of the Foundation, it has been announced.

A few days ago, we've posted an article on how to install MDM (Mint Display Manager) in Ubuntu, and according to the comments, some Linux Mint users don't like MDM and further more, there's a bug and MDM crashes for some users, so here's the reverse too: how to use LightDM instead of MDM in Linux Mint 13 "Maya".

It's Christmas time for a GNU/Linux user. After the impressive release of Fedora 17, openSUSE is gearing up for version 12.2. The team has announced the first beta of openSUSE 12.2.