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Opera 11.60 brings a revamped URL address field, which offers search suggestions, easy website bookmarking through the star shortcut in the address bar and ability to list website results faster than before.

For anyone wondering whether the Mesa/Gallium3D drivers will work with the Humble Introversion Bundle titles (or are thinking about buying the collection at the last minute), here are the results from some quick tests using different hardware and drivers.

This tutorial explains how you can mount a directory from a remote server on the local server securely using SSHFS. SSHFS (Secure SHell FileSystem) is a filesystem that serves files/directories securely over SSH, and local users can use them just as if the were local files/directories. On the local computer, the remote share is mounted via FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace). I will use Ubuntu 11.10 for both the local and the remote server.

This two-part series explores how to use Python to create scripts for managing virtual machines using Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). In this installment, learn the basics of using libvirt and the Python bindings to build a few simple status and display tools.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 delivers significant improvements in virtualization, resource management and high availability, and offers new features in storage and file system performance and identity management.

This is good news for all fans of Bisigi themes. I know some people think they're outdated but I think they are really nice and 'easy on the eyes' themes with focus on simplicity and getting the work done. When the project's end was announced, I took up the task of recreating/porting the themes to gtk3. Since I'm free from all my projects and practical report files now, I can work on those. I see a bright future for these themes. I hope this turns out to be good.

How to install and use a feature-rich open source program that allows you to store and organize online bookmarks on your own server

Fujitsu-Toshiba announced an Android 2.3 smartphone for Japan's KDDI network that features IPX5/8 waterproofing, an ultra-thin 6.7mm (0.26 inch) profile, and a low, 3.7-ounce weight. Built around on a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the Fujitsu Arrows-ES IS12F offers a five-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, infrared, NFC, and even a TV tuner....

Welcome, in this blog post we’re going to set Bodhi Linux up on a touchscreen device. Since the last post covered touchscreen calibration, I thought I would go one step beyond that by choosing and configuring a distribution to make the touchscreen easy to use (on-screen keyboard, finger scrolling, etc). This post won’t be an exhaustive run through of everything that you can do with Bodhi on a touchscreen system, but my hope is to give you a good start. Please feel free to talk about your own customizations and ways of doing things in the comment section. We’ll be focusing on desktop touchscreens and Intel based tablets here, but Bodhi also has an ARM version that’s currently in alpha. The ARM version of Bodhi will officially support Archos Gen 8 tablets initially, and then expand support out from there. I’m using Bodhi because it has a nice Enlightenment Tablet profile that I think makes using a touchscreen system fairly natural and intuitive. You of course could also use another distro like Ubuntu (Unity) or Fedora (Gnome Shell) with your touchscreen but, as I mentioned, I’m partial to Bodhi for this use.

Carrier IQ, whose diagnostic firmware has been criticized for supposedly monitoring keystrokes on Android devices, has been hit with at least eight lawsuits, most of which also target major device vendors and mobile carriers. Meanwhile, U.S. lawmakers and European regulators are looking into Carrier IQ, and a security researcher is claiming the snooping claims are overblown....

Disk encryption is one of several physical security measures that could be used to protect data on your computer from unauthorized physical access. And it is best configured during installation, not after. But once configured, how effective is it?

The PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don't merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we're seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors on the other—and even those who keep their PCs are being swept along. This is a little for the better, and much for the worse.

By the end of 2012, code from new "Data.gov-in-a-box" may help many more countries to stand up their own platforms. A partnership between the United States and India on open government has borne fruit: progress on making the open data platform Data.gov open source.

In our course through life, we all end up finding things that we enjoy and that we like to keep around. Linux and photography are two things have added to my enjoyment for a long time. [...] So, when I read about some of the features in OpenSuse 12.1, I couldn’t resist giving it a try.

"Until I can happily hand a new Linux box to a customer and KNOW that five years from now or even seven years from now it'll still be running WITHOUT having to disable updates, or jump through CLI hoops or chase forum fixes, the disadvantages far outweigh the advantages."

An interview with Alan Orth, a systems administrator for the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.

So, I want to take a shell script and be able to put it on any machine - and have it backup the databases on that machine using mysqldump.. and put them each separately into a backup directory.. here's what I came up with.

Can you make it better?

While trying to keep up with everything going on right now it is good to see that the Desura client open source is still going ahead and an unofficial update has been posted on the forum

Sonia Ouarti from Canonical announced a couple of days ago, December 2nd, that the Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth and devops expert Clint Byrum will hold a webinar about Juju, this Thursday, December 8th at 3pm GMT.

MegaGlest is a free, open-source real-time strategy game set in a medieval fantasy universe, based on a 3D engine, with support for single player, multi player, and mods. It’s available on Linux, Windows, and, starting with this release, also OS X.