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Every year there are articles published about this being the "Year of Linux". I read many of them and I realized that there is no specific "Year of Linux". I also wrote my own article arguing that every year is the year of Linux and as the Linux market share grows, one day we will realize that Linux is everywhere.

Humble Indie Bundle #3 just launched last week Tuesday and in its first day it grossed more than $100,000 USD and before even starting the weekend it raked in more than $650k USD. Now on Monday evening, this collection of multi-platform DRM-free games where you "pay what you want" is approaching the million dollar mark...

The Linux utility sed provides a great way to substitute text strings in a file. Using the "s" option and by listing the current string and the string to use as the new text allows sed to perform this task.

Many scientists cheered last year when a federal judge ruled that human genes couldn’t be patented... But now the courts have reversed themselves again.

(includes a link to free Perl code to check the BRCA genes in a non-patent infringing way)

One of the long sought after features of X.Org and the Linux graphics stack has been the ability to run multiple X Servers from a single graphics card. While this wouldn't be used by many, there are still many interested in seeing this feature request become a reality...

Canalys tracks smartphone sales in 56 countries around the world, and released a summary of its data for Q2 2011 on August 1. According to the firm, Google's Android operating system led in 35 countries and achieved a global market share of 48 percent....

A recent article at Fox News (Internet Explorer Users Are Dumber, Study Shows) points out that a study by AptiQuant shows users of the web browsers Camino, Chrome, Chrome Frame, Firefox, Opera and Safari scored higher on IQ testing than most users of versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

With thanks to Constantinos of the greek Linux site OSArena, he sent me a request to publish an interview he did with 0 A.D's Aviv Sharon.

Should free and open source projects and companies require developers to sign community agreements in order to contribute, possibly signing over their copyrights? Some do, some don't, others have mixed policy. Canonical is leading an effort, called "Harmony", to create standardized community agreement documents, an effort they compare with the license standardization work of Creative Commons. Of course, developers want to keep the rights to their creations. On the other hand, some project and business leaders say that they must have copyright assignments to be successful. Is there a middle ground?

Bisigi themes has a special place in the hearts and minds of long term Ubuntu users. I have been using Ubuntu for about 5 years now and in my opinion, the first set of really professional looking themes were introduced by Bisigi. And unlike many other theme packs for Ubuntu, every single Bisigi theme was a wholesome deal, included everything from wallpapers to icon themes. Bisigi themes stable PPA for Ubuntu 11.04 has just been updated and now you can install the full set of 15 Bisigi themes for Ubuntu Natty in just 3 steps. Read on.

It's stable, rock-solid, light, quick, reasonably user-friendly, and will have 10 years of support, but I see no reason to use it over Scientific Linux, which is all of the above and a little more user friendly too.

The Zen Cart ecommerce application, which was initially a value added fork of osCommerce, doesn’t seem to be affected. Kim Elliott, one of the founding members of Zen Cart, told me, “As far as I know there hasn’t been a problem. As long as you have our latest version and file permissions set correctly you shouldn’t have any issues.”

The advantage of using JMeter is that you can use it to create a graph which is visually more appealing to many administrators.

Wineskin Pro users can now easily play hundreds of Windows games on their Mac computers with the wrappers from PaulTheTall.

Those who read my previous entry on this topic know that Service Pack 1 refused to install on the Windows 7 Home Premium portion of my Lenovo G555's hard drive. And it probably had something to do with my running Linux (specifically Debian Squeeze).

As revolutionary and disruptive the visual transition from Firefox 3.6 to Firefox 4 was, the impact of the transition to the new UI, which may come with Firefox 7 or 8 later this year, will be even more dramatic. If there have been complaints about too much change before, Mozilla will now definitely need a legacy mode to keep software migration managers happy.

Cat is one of the most well know commands of the Linux as well as of Unix systems. It’s mainly use to display the file contents of a small file on the terminal. But scope of the cat commands is not just limited to display, We can use the cat command to create,append and even in the concatenation of the two files. In this post we will learn how to complete these jobs using the same cat command.

I've been recommending Asus computers to friends and clients for some time now. After my recent dealing with the Asus support/repair center I will continue to recommend them for the foreseeable future.

July saw the release of KDE SC 4.7. Like all recent KDE releases, this is a combination of updates to the bundled applications, underlying desktop and associated technologies. Canonical have already pushed 4.7 through to Kubuntu desktops. If you are a 4.6 user who has just upgraded, don’t expect to be aware of major changes the first time you reboot. Some of the core applications have been updated, but most of the work has gone into improving the underlying frameworks. The applications themselves have been shifted to a greater reliance on Akonadi, the PIM storage framework and NEPOMUK, the semantic information database.

Bringing up arguments like "it provides more clarity to contributors, a 'check point' to look at the legal situation and reassurance of legal status to users" or the already-debunked "but it is helps protect the copyrights and handling of disappearing contributors" doesn't convince me that contributors should sign away their code while running the risk TO GET SUED BY THE COMPANY THEY JUST GAVE THEIR CODE TO FOR WRITING IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.