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Chris DiBona recently showed the antivirus software industry who’s boss. He slapped them around like the proverbial red-headed step-child. Kudos to Mr. DiBona for being one of the few industry giants with the chutzpah to speak the truth; a truth thought by many, but one that most would NEVER publicly voice. Libreoffice is built on the hard work of great supporters who create a lot of wonderful tools for the office suite, usually voluntarily. The Ipad 2 is a great device with very poor support for free software. Finally, Linux Mint has risen to the front of the GNU/Linux queue.

The final version of Linux Mint 12 (& Lisa& ) was released, with & MGSE& extensions to GNOME 3.2 that let users create a more GNOME 2.3x-like environment. Based on Ubuntu 11.10 and Linux 3.0, Linux Mint 12 features upgrades to Firefox 7.0, LibreOffice 3.4.3 and Thunderbird 7.0.1, and introduces a new DuckDuckGo default search engine....

With the upcoming tsunami of Linux Mint 12 Lisa articles about to wash up on the FOSS shore, Larry the Free Software Guy goes against the tide to point out that CrunchBang GNU/Linux also has gone through some remarkable and profound changes in its new release, out over the weekend. Not only this, lead developer Philip Newborough not only talks the FOSS talk but walks the FOSS walk: He has decided to leave his job to work on CrunchBang full-time.

When Microsoft is making hundreds of millions of dollars on the sale of Android phones, it's clear that patents are no longer being used as they were intended -- to protect the intellectual property of individual creators.

De-duplication! That is the keyword and if your backup storage hardware does not support it natively you still need it. That is the focus of this article. So I wrote earlier about rsync backups and the strategies used in the backintime software. Having gotten a bit of time to work with it I hope to outline a method to do “snapshot” style backups using rsync. This gives us the ability to quickly and easily “roll-back” to a previous date and time. Additionally the management of our backups gets vastly simplified and the de-duplication that this brings saves a ton of space.

There comes a time in a network or storage administrator's career when a large collection of storage volumes needs to be pooled together and distributed within a clustered or multiple client network, while maintaining high performance with little to no bottlenecks when accessing the same files. That is where Lustre comes into the picture.

After Firefox 8 officially landed in Ubuntu 11.10 last week, earlier today (November 28th) Canonical announced that the Mozilla Thunderbird 8.0 email client is now available on the official software repositories of the Oneiric Ocelot operating system.

LinuxMint, being a true consumer OS just like Ubuntu, took Gnome 3 Shell experience to a newer and better level. I think the best Gnome 3 Shell experience is the one provided by LinuxMint 12. I think the biggest USP of LinuxMint 12 should be the awesome Gnome 3 Shell experience.

I heavily recommend LinuxMint to all those users who want to try Gnome 3 Shell with all the available extensions working out of the box. I heavily recommend all current LinuxMint users to upgrade to the latest version. Just clear all the doubts you have about Gnome 3 Shell. Accept the fact that we have to move forward, make way for newer and better technologies. Accept that it is no more Model T, its Ferrari and you will enjoy the LinuxMint drive.

My verdict: LinuxMint is the best Gnome 3 Shell implementation.

Message to Ellison: no more JavaFX reboots Open-source Java: Part Three Sun Microsystems in 2007 announced a re-imagining of GUI platform Swing with JavaFX. Swing, Sun said, had reached an architectural dead-end and need a reboot to compete on modern, Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms.…

Turned to Microsoft and Google? Open-sourcers are taking Ubuntu Linux in the direction of Google TV and Microsoft's Xbox 360.…

Presumably they will all be supping on Silicon Roundabout milkshakes soon IT and computer science in schools is in serious need of reform, the creative industries minister Ed Vaizey said today, thereby indicating that changes to the school curriculum were on the agenda.…

Fantasy author Thomas A. Knight discusses gaming history and the people who made it. From D&D to Nintendo, these were the people that made gaming what it is today.

Matt Housh announced on November 25th the immediate availability for download of the CRUX 2.7.1 Linux operating system, which comes with a new kernel and a few updated packages.

Most things (apart from the usual newer versions of programs) have stayed the same or improved since version 11.4...except apparently for hardware support, which can be a dealbreaker (and was for me).

Time-tracking software are an important part of a freelancer’s workflow. Not only do they increase productivity, they also save freelancers from the hassles of billing and invoicing. Though most of the applications in this genre are web-based, there are a few choices for users who prefer having a dedicated desktop software. For Linux users though, the choices are even more limited. So, if you’re a freelancer or simply a productivity freak, read on as we list some of the best time-tracking applications for Linux

Following on with this project I have finally put together a script to custom build a Debian installation ISO. Although this script does not provide a solution to all the design goals I had in mind it does provide a simple method and framework to work towards my ultimate goals.

"Memcached is free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load." This article is going to explain how to install memcached and PHP5-MemCached module on a Debian 6.0(Squeeze) system with Apache2.

Linux has a peculiar but systematic directory structure that effectively defines the roles of each system directory. The most common directories included in Linux are Bin, Boot, Dev, Etc, Home, Lib, Media, Mnt, Opt, Proc, Sbin, Sys, Tmp, Usr, and Var. These Linux directories form the core structure, sheltering almost all necessary Linux operations.

A new version of Parted Magic, simply labelled "2011_11_24", has been released. According to the release announcement post on the project's News page, the update to the open source, multi-platform partitioning tool includes the 3.1.2 Linux kernel and brings "some major changes that might cause some issues with the Multi-Boot-CD crowd".

Linux Mint 12, code-named Lisa, is the latest release of the popular desktop Linux distribution. This is the version of Linux Mint based on Ubuntu Desktop, not the one based on Debian. That one is called Linux Mint Debian Edition, or LMDE.