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An important field where GNU/Linux is gaining ground is that of schools, both primary and secondary. I think it’s important to teach children and young people that there is a whole world of open source software to explore, and that not everything that is connected to a computer means Windows and/or proprietary systems. There are specialized distributions to help teachers in making their students know at this world, in this article we’ll see an overview of these distributions.

What you're reading is only the first of the many articles from the "Learning Linux commands" series. Why would we want to do such a thing? Because it's useful to you to have every option and possible use of a widely used command all in one place. You will find some options or even some commands that you didn't even knew existed, and your life as a Linux user / admin will become easier. If you're not afraid of opening a terminal and know the basics of using a Linux system, this article is for you.

The government is now mulling plans to popularize FOSS within the government and beyond. DIT (The department of information technology) of the center government is now seeking advice from the International Center for Free and Open Source Software, Kerala.

What’s on your big wish list for 2012? A new gadget? A new car? A better job? Think bigger.

The Turkish company's prototype uses a 10-inch Android Honeycomb-based tablet to power a 65-inch LCD with 1080p support for basic gestures, like pinch and zoom. The display currently has two touch sensors, but a version with four sensors is on the way, which will bring multi-touch support.

The openSUSE Linux distribution is out with a new release today, providing users with new desktop, cloud and backup features. One of the key new features in the openSUSE 12.1 release is the Snapper tool that helps users to take full advantage of the Btrfs filesystem.

Amazon's Kindle Fire is the world's smallest vending machine disguised as a tablet. In other words, according to this eWEEK review, it's really a dedicated media device, not something you should expect to use for work....

Take one tablet and call me anytime.

For those wondering about the impact that AMD's Cool 'n' Quiet and Turbo Core technologies have under Linux for the latest-generation Bulldozer processors, here are some tests illustrating the changes in performance, power consumption, and operating temperature.

PandaBoard.org's community-driven PandaBoard is the first device to run Android 4.0, according to Texas Instruments (TI) and the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP). Based on TI's dual-core, 1GHz OMAP4430 processor -- similar to the OMAP4460 available in the soon-to-ship Samsung Galaxy Nexus -- the PandaBoard has been demonstrated on YouTube running an experimental build of & Ice Cream Sandwich.& ...

cron is a powerful and easy method for automating tasks in Linux on both the server and desktop. It is a standard part of Linux, and is most likely running on your Linux computer or web server right now even if you were unaware.

This article is about how to back up your files with duplicity's graphical user interface déjà dup, a file based backup program. I have tried the tutorial on the Linux Mint 11 distribution, but it should work fine with all other Ubuntu based distributions.

SCaLE's 10x call for proposals is closing Thursday. There is a bit of effort required for speaker registration, so don't wait until Thursday night to start

"Barnes & Nobel has exposed Microsoft's extortion plan which means from now onwards no company will sign any deal with Microsoft. The Exhibit D of the letter filed by Barnes & Noble gives a "a long detailing of the incredibly insignificant patents Microsoft has the nerve to use against Android, claiming control of the entire operating system with what is pretty much a handful of stupid patents no one really needs or which are so trivial that the fees it claims become outrageous.""

The latest Clementine music player available in the Clementine Development PPA got some very interesting new features: you can now listen to Grooveshark or Spotify songs through Clementine. For this, you need a Spotify Premium / Grooveshark Anywhere account though.

Screen is a great tool, and highly recommended, tool for any Linux user. It provides a Terminal environment that can withstand network disconnects, random computer restarts, power outages at home and more. With screen you can be assured that if PuTTY, or whatever SSH Client you use, closes you will almost never lose your work.

After eight months of hard work, the openSUSE 12.1 operating system was officially released a few minutes ago, November 16th, on mirrors worldwide, available as a Live CD and DVD.

Btrfs was supposed to have been the default file system for Fedora 16, but for technical reasons, that did not happen. Word on the street says it will be, in Fedora 17. But you do not have to wait for Fedora 17 to get your system humming on btrfs because you can do it right now.

openSUSE 12.1 comes with the new GNOME Shell 3.2. Notifications are much nicer, you can now configure your online accounts in one place and Shell handles multiple-screen setups better. Among the features is color management, something GNOME shares with KDE where openSUSE is the first to integrate the Oyranos color management system. Also new from KDE is Apper, an easier-to-use PackageKit front end.

Firefox 7 was released only a few months ago and Firefox 8 has already arrived. Technically speaking these version numbers have become irrelevant ever since Firefox adopted Chrome-like rapid release cycle. What's hard is to stay updated with the latest version of Firefox, if you are using GNU/Linux. Under Windows/Mac you can simply download the latest version and install. But with one trick you will get an upper hand over Windows and Mac user -- something their operating systems can never match.