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Can Linux be infected by MalWare and is it a big concern? The answer to that question is both Yes and No: Yes, Linux can be Infected and No, it isn’t a big nightmare – yet. Unless you downloaded the Unreal IRCd (Unreal IRC daemon) and installed it between November 2009 and June 2010 on your Linux server. There was a Trojan downloader in it. A Linux Trojan. See the Softpedia Article

Only Human Studios have launched a more recent trailer depicting their recently released Linux game Helena the 3rd. Helena The 3rd is an action platformer where you pilot a tank named Helena capable of jumping. Exploring various styled underground caverns and battling hostile robotic enemies. You'll need to leave your vehicle on occasion to explore rooms you can only get to by foot. Gameplay switches from 3rd person to FPS as you search for the powerful upgrades you'll need to progress to new areas.

This Wednesday, October 26th, Canonical and Dell proudly announced their brand-new retail program designed to sell Dell laptops and desktops pre-loaded with Ubuntu.

Virtualization seems to be everyone’s answer to every problem. For BYOD, it might just be the answer to stressed budgets and user happiness.

This week we look at a debate on the merits of cloud computing, WebGL and the future of the web, and amazingly bad password practices

Want to watch a Blu-ray on your PC? That’ll be £50 please. Simon, for one, is fed up of this game. Join him as he looks at one of the many wheezes the proprietary software and hardware industry are still trying to pull…

GoAccess is an open source real-time Apache log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems. It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.

"Secure boot" is a technology described by recent revisions of the UEFI specification; it offers the prospect of a hardware-verified, malware-free operating system bootstrap process that can improve the security of many system deployments. Linux and other open operating systems will be able to take advantage of secure boot if it is implemented properly in the hardware. This document is intended to describe how the UEFI secure boot specification can be implemented to interoperate well with open systems and to avoid adversely affecting the rights of the owners of those systems while providing compliance with proprietary software vendors' requirements.

A step by step guide to creating a virtual machine using the Virtual Machine Manager.

You will find in this article, a step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 on a computer with two hard drives. The steps involved in this tutorial are very simple. They are: Install Windows 7 anew or keep the existing installation; Download Ubuntu 11.10 from here, then transfer the downloaded image to a CD, DVD or USB Flash drive; Install Ubuntu 11.10 to the second hard disk; Modify the Windows 7 boot program, adding an entry for Ubuntu 11.10 in its boot menu.

Silicon Roundabout is hiring Demand for Ruby, Hadoop and HTML5 developers jumped this year, with jobs requiring those skills increasing 70 per cent compared to the same period in 2010, according to a survey of the tech jobs in London by recruiters Azuna. Azuna collated every tech job advertised for London last month, a total of 100,000. HTML coders are still the most in demand, but also the most poorly paid – both at entry and top levels.…

In this HowTo I will show you how to configure a pfSense 2.0 Cluster using CARP failover. pfSense is quite a advanced (open-source) firewall being used everywhere from homes to enterprise level networks, I have been playing around with pfsense now for the last 3 months and to be honest I am not looking back, it is packed full of features and can be deployed easily within minutes depending on your requirements.

Red Hat and Canonical, both announced a few minutes ago, October 28th, on a short press release that it published a white paper called UEFI Secure Boot Impact on Linux.

Red Hat joined Facebook's Open Compute Project, intended to open source the design and development of second-generation data centers for powering web and cloud services. Red Hat has certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux on the Open Compute specs, and will test RHEL and other software on Open Compute servers -- whose hardware specs have been contributed by AMD, Asus, Dell, and Intel....

By way of Planet Debian, I found Vincent Sanders' article on the HP ProLiant MicroServer he bought for use at home instead of a dedicated NAS appliance. This is by no means a blade server. It's a squat little box. And the HP ProLiant MicroServer line starts at $329.

The early years of the 21st century forever will be known as the age of social media. I don't know if that's something we should be proud of, but nonetheless, here we are. During the past decade, we've seen things like Friendster, Pownce, Twitter, Wave, Facebook, Tumblr, Buzz, Gowalla, Brightkite, Foursquare, Loopt, Plurk, Identi.ca, LinkedIn, Yammer and now Google Plus.

This article is about using configuration settings and keyboard shortcuts to help Ubuntu 11.10 users manage their workspace better and more efficiently.

Two startups are about to go “chrono y chrono” with competing Android smartwatch gizmos.

There’s currently a bug in Sabayon Linux that makes you re-enter your administrator password and network password for your wireless network every time you log in. Not only is this annoying it’s a time waster as well. Well, fortunately there’s an easy fix to it:

In your own private cloud, there are a number of ways to work with virtual machines. There's always the command line, but there's also a nice graphical program called virt-manager that I'm rather fond of; literally the 'Virtual Machine Manager'.