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"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'.

Microsoft has announced that there will be a version of Firefox that will have as default search engine Bing, this agreement between Microsoft and the Mozilla Foudnation is born probablly to counter the rise of the Chrome browser (or Chromium) and raise some cash for the foundation in adifferent way.

Before anything, this article is for those using KDE and GNOME and start feeling the need for more, or something else. This is not a trolling article (we hate that), nor is a rant against the two DEs. We respect the freedom of choice, and the Open Source world is all about freedom of choice. With this article we only want to show you what other options you have, the pluses and the minuses, with no bias whatsoever. We'll go less than technical with this article, and we hope we'll widen your perspective and help you use something that's really fit for your needs. All you need is a working Linux machine and the minimal knowledge of knowing how to install software on it, plus the use of an editor of choice.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of the Asterisk open source PBX project. I've been a user since the 1.0 release, which is coincidentally the first time I ever wrote about the project, all the way back in 2004. Today Asterisk 10.0 is being released and just like the first Asterisk, it offers a whole lot of practical promise.

As a follow-up to this morning's Linux 3.1 Enhances Sandy Bridge, Preps For Ivy Bridge article that looked at the Intel SNB graphics performance with the new Linux 3.1 kernel, here's a look at the power consumption when enabling RC6...

Skype, now under the control of Microsoft, has announced a new developer preview of SkypeKit. It surprisingly brings good news for Linux users.

HP plans to use ARM-based processors in some of its data center servers, according to a pair of Oct. 26 reports. The CPUs in question will apparently be quad-core Cortex-A9 SoCs (systems on chip), expected to be introduced by Calxeda on Nov. 1....

Unlike other major mobile phone platforms, Android can be customized the way you want. And that is one of the things I like most about Android. If you are thinking about customizing Android, Launchers are a good place to start. There are quite a number of good third-party Android Launcher apps, both free and non-free, available in the Android Market. Let's explore and find out the finest five among them. Read on.