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The last stable release Mozilla Firefox 8 is now available for Linux, Android, MAC OS X, and Windows. Firefox 8 for desktop and mobile devices which known as Fennec as well, both brings many enhancements, performance improvements and new features.

Need to make some changes to your iptables rules running on one of your servers? Don't worry. While iptables can be a bit risky in that it'll let you add rules without checking your logic there are a few steps that can make your life much easier. Also, as just a general tip: Whenever you are working with modifying network access to a machine or just managing a server in general it pays to have local and/or remote console access to the machine.

A full review of Kubuntu 11.10, including a gallery of images.

Been 7 years since the first release of Mozilla Firefox version 1. Since the first release of Firefox web browser become one of the most usable web browser by many users. Firefox comes in the second place and has 25% approx of web browsers usage share. Latest version of Mozilla Firefox 8 become 32 times faster than the first release of Firefox, and always brings the newest features, security improvements and more stability with every release. Now Mozilla Celebrates the 7th birthday of Firefox web browser.

As newer distributions appear, older ones have to retire. Therefore, we are sorry to announced today that the Fedora 14 (Laughlin) operating system will reach End of Life (EOL) next month, on December 8th, 2011.

What does it take to build a Cloud OS? According to Oracle, it takes a high degree of performance, scalability, security and manageability which are all baked into the new Solaris 11 operating system.

Fedora 16 "Verne" Post Installation Guide. A detailed tutorial on how to Install nvidia drivers, tweak Gnome Shell, install JAVA and other usefull applications.

BURG-Manager is a graphical interface for managing BURG, the new bootloader that is based on GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader. It is a very simple application with many features, but the user interface is not going to win any style points from an honest evaluator. Here are just a few screenshots to show the features of this application.

In September last year, uTorrent Server was released for Linux and BitTorrent Inc promised that soon a desktop client will be made available for Linux. There has not been any news about desktop client since then. Now it has been explained that other priorities at the moment more important then Linux desktop client. One of the developers further explained that Linux desktop client will now need lots of work as uTorrent client for other platforms has evolved considerably since the original plans for Linux client were laid down.

Though I've flirted with console e-mail in the form of Mutt and Pine, I came to the realization long ago that GUI mail clients are the thing for me. I've used Claws Mail, and I pretty much centered my mail-client universe on Thunderbird, running it on every platform I can. But I have kept a fully configured Evolution mail client at the ready on my Debian laptop.

At work, I always have a browser tab open for each of our two Nagios instances. At home, I used to check them from time to time. When out and about, I used to check my mail every time I got an email because I wanted to make sure it wasn't Nagios complaining about something. Now that I've installed aNag on my Android phone and have special alert sounds set up in it I've become a happier admin!

There is a fresh mint(ed) flavor on LinuxMint now. In the last one month, it has scaled the distro charts and is now the number one distro for opensource users. Distrowatch, the unofficial platform for all Linux distros, shows that LinuxMint has been has had the maximum number of hits in the past few weeks to become the most popular distros today.

SuperX v1 "Galileo" is now available! SuperX is a new desktop-oriented computer operating system based on Ubuntu and Debian GNU/Linux, using the KDE desktop environment. It was originally developed in India by a teenager who built it using free and open-source software. SuperX is highly modular, flexible and cloud-centric, with a desktop user interface especially designed with Linux beginners in mind. SuperX v1 Screenshots

Adobe is stopping development of Flash Player for browsers on the mobile platform, ZD Net reports. From now, the company will be focusing its efforts on HTML5 and mobile apps.

This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 15 system to Fedora 16. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.

Stock kernel for Oneiric (3.0.X.Y) has the same Xen configuration as 3.1. In meantime I had to pass through procedure bellow with intend to benefit from PV-on-HVM feature providing by Xen 4.1.X Hypervisor and properly built 3.0 or 3.1 linux kernel. I follow [1] step by step updating config.flavour.pvhvm as required to perform kernel rebuild.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is on a good-will tour of Asia trying to assure his Android partners that Android will continue to stay open in spite of Google's Motorola Mobility purchase, but it sounds as empty as any politician's promises I've ever heard.

Here's the thought (and action) process I went through to edit a video today with OpenShot 1.4.0 in Debian Squeeze (I've been using the OpenShot .deb package from the OpenShot Launchpad page to make sure I have the latest version). I used the audio and video from one long clip interspersed with titles created in OpenShot and still images from the same event. The "trick" was keeping the audio and video in sync, with the audio playing continuously, while I traded off the images with the video.

The book retailer claims also that the fees Microsoft was demanding were equal to or greater than those it demanded for an entire operating system, Windows Phone, even though the patents covered only "trivial and non-essential design elements" of the Android user interface. It also noted that there is only one patent common to the the five patents it is being sued over and the six that Microsoft was offering to license.

A few minutes ago, November 9th, The Document Foundation company proudly announced the fourth maintenance release of the LibreOffice 3.4 open source office suite software for Linux, Windows and Macintosh platforms, bringing several bugfixes.