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This week’s interview is with Andy Spencer, developer of Aweather, a free software for visualizing meteorological radar data. AWeather has been on my radar (smart pun?) for a few years since I live in the Caribbean and weather is always a concern from June through November. I think readers will find this project interesting and I hope you will lend a hand to keep it rolling. Enjoy the interview!

There may be times that you may want a bash terminal or other Linux application but you are stuck in Windows. There are some ways around this so you can still access your Linux applications while using Microsoft Windows.

Today in New York, Amazon introduced Silk, an all-new web browser powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and available exclusively on the just announced Kindle Fire. You might be asking, “A browser? Do we really need another one?”

This article will tell you how to sync the Evolution email client with just about any cell phone in Fedora 15.

Linux groups announce open source project Tizen to develop a Linux-based device software platform supporting smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment. Initial release of Tizen targeted for Q1 2012.

A quick look at Bodhi Linux 1.2, including a gallery of images.

T-Mobile announced two smartphones that run Android "Gingerbread" on a dual-core, 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon, feature eight-and two-megapixel cameras and near field communication (NFC) radios, and support the carrier's 42Mbps HSPA+ 4G network. T-Mobile's version of the Samsung Galaxy S II offers a 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus display, while the HTC Amaze 4G supplies a 4.3-inch display as well as high-end camera features....

If Canonical had its way, OEMs would make sure Ubuntu ran well on their hardware before shipping it. But most OEMs don’t, so Ubuntu developers have resorted to the next best thing: crowd-sourcing hardware validation to users via the Ubuntu Friendly program, which is almost ready for prime time. Here’s the scoop.

If you ask around about Gentoo, chances are you will get mixed reviews : some will say it's a waste of time, others will say it's only for ubergeeks, yet others will tell you it's the only way, but no one can deny the power that Gentoo offers in terms of choices and speed. Gentoo is a rolling release distribution, which means it has no release numbers and it's updated continuously.Gentoo is also a source-based distribution, which means that everything you install you must compile first.

As always, the free software community and the technology world in general are in a constant state of flux. Once you get used to the way that things operate, you can be certain that they are going to change. A lot of surprising events occurred recently: Intel teamed up with Google, Microsoft teamed up with Arm, and a controversy brewed over whether Windows 8 will lock out GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and other free operating systems. The world of free software is NEVER boring.

It was recently announced that Windows 8 would support a shiny new feature that is known as "secure boot". In case you have been living with your head under a technological rock for the last couple of weeks, this feature would allow hardware vendors would have the option of only allowing operating systems signed with their secure key to boot on the hardware.

Today I ran in to the problem of getting my Android phone to sync with Banshee in Fedora 15. No matter what I did, my Android phone wouldn’t show in Banshee’s devices list. I fixed it (yay!) and now here’s some tips on what to do if your Android phone won’t sync with Banshee.

Today, Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong presented a new attack on TLS <= 1.0 at the Ekoparty security conference in Buenos Aires. Let's talk about how it works, and how it relates to the Tor protocol.

Short version: Don't panic. The Tor software itself is just fine, and the free-software browser vendors look like they're responding well and quickly. I'll be talking about why Tor is fine; I'll bet that the TBB folks will have more to say about browsers sometime soon.

There is some discussion of the attack and responses to it out there already, written by seriously smart cryptographers and high-test browser security people. But I haven't seen anything out there yet that tries to explain what's going on for people who don't know TLS internals and CBC basics.

Mozilla Firefox 7 has been released. The new release fixes some stability issues and several bug fixes. Mozilla Firefox 7 available to Download for Linux, MAC OS X, and Microsoft windows. Also available to install on Ubuntu “Natty, Oneiric” using PPA.

The Xtext framework takes DSL syntax and generates Java source code — removing the need to create your own executables

What do you know about Russia? Vodka? Bears on the streets? Siberia? Any more stereotypes? Let me give you another one: Linux. Yes, Linux!

Ladies and gentlemen, dear readers, Mozilla unleashed a few minutes ago (September 28th) the final and stable version of the highly anticipated Mozilla Firefox 7.0 web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0 mail client for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

You’ve heard the talk, the complaints, and the scathing reviews. Both GNOME 3 and Ubuntu Unity have been met with a hailstorm of bad publicity — so much so that people are turning away from adopting Linux — at least Linux that uses either of these two desktops. So if you want to switch to Linux but you don’t want to use either of these desktops, what can you do? Well, I’ll give you five what-to-do’s that will ease the troubled Linux desktop selection.

According to market analyst Nielsen’s August market data, more than half (56 percent) of the smartphones acquired over the most recent three months ran Android. Perhaps the market analyst’s most interesting observation, though, is that innovators prefer Android to iOS by a margin of 40 to 32 percent.

In the '60s, John Cooper took the staid Mini and enhanced its performance to make the Mini Cooper. Around the same time, Carroll Shelby took Ford Mustangs and made them a fire-breathing, track scorching legend. In that same vein, some Linux developers are taking mass produced, mainstream distros and adding high performance changes to them, creating pixel-burning distros worthy of racing stripes on the hood and flames on the fenders.