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Many Linux mail servers use clamav to scan for viruses. This application is dependable and has a history of updating virus rules quickly as new viruses are discovered.

The second milestone release for Phoronix Test Suite 3.6 (codenamed "Arendal") is now available. There's improvements to the Phoronix Test Suite core itself along with the Phodevi library and graphing components...

Lisa goes both ways, with shell to ease transition The forthcoming release of Linux Mint will see it shift to the Gnome 3 desktop for the first time, but it will continue to support Gnome 2 users with a separate root, and has a shell to ease the transition between the platforms.…

It will be four to six months before Android 4.0 (& Ice Cream Sandwich& ) is widely available on handsets, a Motorola Mobility executive has warned. Motorola does not even have the operating system's source code yet, Ruth Hennigar, the company's vice president of software product management, reportedly added....

HTC announced that at least seven of its smartphones will receive upgrades to Android 4.0 (& Ice Cream Sandwich& ). They're the internationally available EVO 3D Sensation, Sensation XL, and Sensation XE, as well as the U.S.-only Rezound, Design 4G, and Amaze 4G, according to the company -- whose CEO also told Reuters it will release one or more additional tablets next year....

Unemployment rate inches down The job situation in the United States has improved in the past three months, but the growth in the workforce is still not sufficient to keep up with population growth, much less make much of a dent in the unemployment rate, which remains stubbornly at high levels.…

We are still finalizing the direction this part of our project is headed in, but for now we have landed on the choice of Debian Stable as our core. Our repository is currently online and you can easily install our Enlightenment packages on top of your Debian Stable ARM install by following these steps.

In a compiled language, the makefile is arguably the most important part of any programming project. To compile your project, you first have to compile each source file into an object file, which in turn needs to be linked with system libraries into the final executable file. Each command can have a considerable number of arguments added in.

Barnes Noble announced a $249 Android tablet featuring a seven-inch IPS (in-plane switching) display, a dual-core, 1GHz processor from Texas Instruments, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of internal storage. The new Nook Tablet was joined by enhancements and a $50 price drop for the existing Nook Color, plus a new $99 price for the monochrome Simple Touch....

LinuxSecurity.com: An Interview with a Member of the Chown Group (COG) about the billion dollar hacking business in China

Besides the Ubuntu Developer Summit taking place last week in Orlando, happening halfway around the world was FUDCon India 2011. This event in Pune, India was another Fedora conference for users and developers...

The Linux that rose to the top of the heap and was going to be the consumer grade Linux on which users, ISV's, and OEM's could focus, fell from grace and became the Linux that likes to alienate its existing users. So what went wrong?

In spite of ad blitzes and marketing campaigns galore, Microsoft still lost market share in the latest comScore numbers, a development that has to be discouraging to Redmond almost a year after launch.

You may wonder why the title contains the words " the other side". In our Tripwire article we've shown that there are two major types of Intrusion Detection Systems: network-based and host-based. While Tripwire is host-based, this time we will show you how to install and configure Snort, a network-based IDS/IPS. We will not repeat the theoretical introduction, because we already exposed it in the previous article. We'll go directly to installing and configuring snort for your needs. What we expect from you in terms of knowledge is thorough understanding of networks, security and system administration.

While the desktop environment debates continue to rage, Clement Lefebvre and the Linux Mint team have been quietly coming up with UI solutions that will make Linux Mint 12 a hallmark in Linux distros. But more importantly, Larry the Free Software Guy thinks that coming up with these solutions -- by listening to their users and then delivering options -- is what a community FOSS project should really look like.

In each computing era, there was a defining piece of software. This article looks at the defining software of eras past and present--mainframes, PC's, and Web--and ponders what the defining software of the Mobile era will be.

GNU/Linux and free software are a boon to a lot of businesses, and a thorn in the sides of others. Both the friends and enemies of Linux are realizing that Linux is important, and that it is here to stay. HP is leveraging Linux to try to return from the brink of financial ruin. As colleges and other schools around the country teeter on the verge of bankruptcy, many are moving to open source textbooks as a lower cost alternative. Free software is freeing people from the shakedown that is cable television. Finally, Microsoft has broken down and contributed code to a GPL version 3-licensed project.

Open source is about more than code: it's about unlocking all possibilities. Here are four unusual projects made possible by open source.

Clement Lefebvre, father of the Linux Mint project, proudly announced on his blog that the upcoming Linux Mint 12 operating system will feature a new desktop interface built on top of the GNOME 3 desktop environment.

Although partitions created when installing a Linux distribution are automatically mounted on boot, the ones created before the installation need to be mounted manually (unless you manually create a mount point on installation). This can be changed, however, so here is how to mount these partitions automatically.