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Quoth The Maven evermore: “Prepare for Apple’s gentle rapping, a-tapping at your data center door.”

Should GNU/Linux distributions switch wholesale to GNOME 3 or should they make the transition gradually?

The ability to put massive amounts of RAM in servers is changing what we can do in real time and how we address business issues. Every developer is being affected

KDE Telepathy 0.2 The KDE Telepathy team is pleased to announce its second release. KDE Telepathy is a suite of applications that form an instant-messaging client for Jabber, Gmail, Facebook, MSN and more. KDE Telepathy stands out from previous instant messaging solutions by being able to integrate into the Plasma Workspaces, and can also be used like a traditional application. read more

Miguel de Icaza started the GNOME project back in 1997 along with Federico Mena. In recent years, my interactions with De Icaza have been all about Mono, the open source implementation of .NET. Even more recently, De Icaza's focus has narrowed further with his new startup Xamarin that is focused on mobile development.

Peter Hutterer has provided an update on the state of X.Org multi-touch support as he hopes to have this input feature ready for integration into the next X.Org Server release...

Linus Torvalds is known to make a few colorful remarks from time to time. Today he's become frustrated once again with the Linux DRM layer and has rejected a pull request for the Linux 3.2 kernel.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 is a maintenance release, bringing new features and lots of enhancements in various areas, keeping the enterprise platform stable.

Well folks it seems the Trine 2 hype has started again since it has now been released for Windows and Mac.

Media2.0sluts mourn In another blow to star of the Coalition's "digital economy" strategy, Netflix has decided to base its European HQ in Luxembourg, not "TechCity". Although Netflix is using the UK to spearhead its UK expansion - launching its video-on-demand streaming service here first next year - it will instead be “joining the many internet companies that have found it a great place to do business" in Luxembourg, CFO David Wells said on Monday.…

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 5.7 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

LiveCD and Live USB OpenBSD did not work for me. I could not accomplish any task I usually do during the OS tests. Such a frustration...This OS may suit somebody with vast Linux / Unix experience. But this OS is definitely not for beginners who want to get their computer up and running in new safe and secure environment.

Nick Bowler discovered CVE-2011-4081, a Linux kernel vulnerability where error conditions were incorrectly handled by the kernel GHASH message digest algorithm, leading to a kernel oops.

This week features some fantastic GNU/Linux stories; A Richard Stallman Lookalike, Linux Experts Have No Problem Finding a Good Job, a Donation Directory is Born.

In preparation for taking the Linux Professional Institute Certification exam LPI-302 for systems administrators, learn how Samba interacts with the Linux file system and how to manage permissions.

The Debian secuirty team, through Moritz Muehlenhoff, announced on December 6th that the Debian 5.0 (Lenny) operating system will no longer be supported started with February 6th, 2012.

The final part of our installation jigsaw puzzle is to create the answer file, in SUSE this is known as AutoYaST. If we were only ever to install one server or one desktop then maybe we could do without answer files; however where we need to install a few or many then AutoYaST provides us with an unattended installation:- a build script to create consistency and compliance we regulatory bodies governing security. In short we need answer files.

The Wine development release 1.3.34 is now available.

Pointing and clicking is fine for most day-to-day computing tasks, but to really take advantage of the strengths of Linux over other environments, you eventually need to crack the shell and enter the command line. Lots of command shells are available, from Bash and Korn to C shell and various exotic and strange shells. Learn which shell is right for you.

A list of games from great studios that proves that gaming on Linux is not dead! In fact, it's far from it.