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With this part of our C development on Linux article we are getting ready to get out of the theoretical zone and enter the real life one. If you followed the series until this point and tried to solve all the exercises, you will now have some idea about what C is about, so you need to get out in the wild and so some practical stuff, without which theory doesn't have much value. Some of the concepts you'll see below are already known, but they are extremely important for any C program on any Unix-like OS. Yes, the information is valid regardless of the OS, as long as it's some kind of Unix, but if you'll stumble onto something Linux-specific, you will know. We will treat concepts like standard input, output and error, in-depth printf() and file access, among others. Are you ready?

Being in Feature Freeze, the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system received numerous updates today, including the Privacy Settings mentioned in an article earlier.

Another week has passed in the Wine world since it went into code-freeze in late January and so now there's another release candidate available.

It's a good distribution that brings about high expectations that are ultimately somewhat let down.

Gnome 3 has failed to win users over. Unity was so unpopular it wiped out Ubuntu’s lead on Distrowatch and made Linux Mint number one. With the dominant desktop (Gnome) and the dominant distribution (Ubuntu) both failing to set users’ hearts racing we’re reminded once again why we love using Linux – there’s so much choice.

Shuttleworth continues on his mission to reshape the desktop

Accompanying the release of Netrunner 64-bit edition, we today release version 4.1 for 32-bit systems with the following changes compared to 4.0: switched to hybrid ISO images; Linux kernel 3.0, KDE 4.7.4 (latest stable); Muon 1.2.95; kde-gtk-config module for easy GTK+ 2/3 configuration under KDE; several bug fixes, including system freezes during automatic update. Since 4.0 had a critical bug related to the automatic package updating, we suggest that users of 4.0 manually upgrade to 4.1. Netrunner 4.1 Screenshot Tour

If you need a copy of CrossOver this is a good time to get it at 30 percent off and upgrade to the upcoming crossover 11 release.

Last week we talked about the concepts and goals behind launching a book promotion campaign.  This week, we’ll get down in the weeds, and talk about the specific tactics you can use to spread the word.  

Blender 2.62 has been released, this release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fix. In Blender 2.62, the Cycles render engine now has layers/passes, you can track objects inside videos now, have much better and faster boolean intersections and Many new UV editing tools were added.

It's a crazy, mixed up world. If it wasn't for 9/11, Whitehurst wouldn't be running Red Hat today.

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install RSYSLOG server on Debian 6 (Squeeze) and how to send syslog data to it from multiple client servers. We will also show how to install an Apache webserver and a MySQL database server to gather the syslog data and how to install LogAnalyzer to easily browse the collected data with a web-browser.

Cisco has appealed to the European Union's General Court, asking for the European Commission's approval of Microsoft's takeover of Skype to be made conditional. The network infrastructure company wants the EC to ensure "standards-based interoperability in the video calling space."

Ubuntu 12.04’s impending LTS release is the beginning of the end for the Lucid Lynx...

Hey! It's time again for a new Humble Bundle! But it's not the same bundle as always... This time, if you buy the bundle, your money will help charity and you will help the Mojang team (the creators of Minecraft!!) creating a brand new game in 60 hours. This game is what you pay for!!!

XBMC, the open source media center, has steadily grown from its humble origins as an X-Box only replacement environment into the cross-platform, de facto playback front-end for multimedia content. It merges the file-centric approach taken by traditional video players with an add-on scripting environment that handles remote web content. The project is currently finalizing its next major release, version 11.0 (codenamed Eden), which includes updates to the networking and video acceleration subsystems, broader hardware support, and numerous changes to the APIs available to add-on developers.

Even though Android is the most popular smartphone platform in the U.S., and even though there were 10 billion Android app downloads as of December 2011, many Android users are frustrated that they're still treated like a second-class app market. That's because "fragmentation" makes it more complicated to develop Android apps that will run on most Android phones. New research from Localytics claims that Android fragmentation might be becoming less of a issue.

This we look at an Android security overview overview video, why legacy code means a slow transition from Win7 to Win8 and the developing textbook battle between open source and proprietary formats.

While the Windows environment would represent the fine, civilized Kansas City, with its boardwalks, ladies in full-skirt regalia and parasols, Linux represents the best and the worst of the old west....Tombstone in its glory days. Muddy streets, bar brawls, gunfights and lowlife ruffians harassing the occasional good citizen with abandon. Chaos nicely contained within a Kernel.

As apps find their way into the car, it's going to be yet another place for developers to worry about -- and it has unique requirements you might not find in other mobile devices. And it's worth noting that Ford introduced an open source app development platform just today.