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Larry the Free Software Guy, a Californian, likes to poke fun at his friends from Texas when it comes to the Golden State's superiority in most things. But he'll eat some crow here with some salt, washing it all down with a Lone Star, on the issue of getting Linux/FOSS into the hands of everyday folks, since Texans lead the way here. Move over, Ken Starks and the HeliOS Project in Austin: TexOS, the Texas Open Source Project, is providing Linux/FOSS boxes and instruction to kids up the road a spell in San Angelo.

Adobe Flash. Those two words have driven fear, annoyance and hate into the hearts of many users and developers for some time now. I am here to say today, in case you had not noticed, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I say with certainty that the days Adobe Flash enjoys as a dominant web development tool are numbered.

Get an early snort of Office 365 cumulus BlackBerry users wanting to get into Microsoft's cloudy Office 365 only have a few months to wait, and the properly impatient can sign up for the beta this month.…

Eurotech announced a GPS-enabled rugged display computer for in-vehicle installations, featuring EN50155 compliance for railways. The DynaVIS 10-00 is equipped with a 1.1GHz Intel Atom, soldered 512MB RAM and 2GB flash, a 4GB microSDHC card, a 5.7-inch touchscreen, optional Wi-Fi and cellular modems, a wide-range power supply, plus a variety of wired I/O expressed via dual opto-isolated ports....

What lies beneath the Jules Verne submarine art? Review The Fedora Project has released the first beta of Fedora 16.…

...Step away from it now Apparently, there is a perceived shortage of C# and Java programmers, certainly a good percentage of all job ads are for these languages.…

How’s your French? If you’re fluent enough, you could help translate the seminal Debian book “Cahiers de l’Admin Debian Squeeze” and earn yourself dinner with the authors…

m23, which is a deployment and client management tool for Linux, has now added support for openSUSE (in addition to Debian, (K/X)Ubuntu, LinuxMint and Fedora) to be installed on client computers. In the latest version rock 11.3, there have also been made a lot of improvements concerning client language support, hardware detection and other fields. m23 can be downloaded as ISO, install packages for Debian systems or as a virtual machine for testing.

Tim Cook, Scott Forestall and Phil Schiller spoke today before a group of eager onlookers at Apple's Cupertino headquarters to announce the iPhone 4S GSM/CDMA smartphone, to be available Oct 14 through AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint.

Oracle announced last night, October 3rd, a new maintenance version to its popular and powerful VirtualBox virtualization software, VirtualBox 4.1.4, which brings many improvements and lots of bugfixes.

Dave needs a new 64-bit Linux for his primary audio production machine. What shall he do ? Read on to learn how and why he decided upon the Arch Linux distribution.

How to write a log normalizer for fail2ban logs using the PyLogsParser library.

Chromium Browser talks with Telepathy (IM/Chat Library) to provide an in-browser IM client - prototype

GNOME 3.2 got a "web application mode" through Epiphany web browser, allowing you to save websites as web apps. These web apps show up as regular applications in both GNOME Shell and Unity and can be pinned to GNOME Shell's Dash or Unity's launcher, etc.

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Fedora 15 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

The Linux find, grep, and awk commands are amazing power tools for fine-grained file searches, and for finding things inside files. With them you can find the largest and newest files on a system, fine-tune search parameters, search for text inside files, and perform some slick user management tricks.

Find Largest or Newest Files

The find command can do nearly anything, if you can figure out how. This example hunts down space hogs by finding the 10 largest files on your system, and sorts them from small to large in human-readable form:

I am not a coder, nor do I fancy myself as any kind of security expert. If I can figure out that secure boot will barely be a speed bump for the bad guys, but will be a killer for the casual computer enthusiast, wouldn’t it be safe to figure that the geniuses at Microsoft understood this long before the decision was made to require the feature’s full use by OEMs who want one of those nifty “certified Windows 8? stickers on their boxes?

Following a series of embarrassing intrusions that hit the servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system, project elders have advised all developers to check their Linux machines for signs of compromise. Emails sent Friday by Linux kernel lead developers Greg Kroah-Hartman and H Peter Anvin arrived as volunteers with the open-source project worked to bring LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and Kernel.org back online following attacks that gained root access to the multiple servers that host the sites.

IBM presented an update on Linux on its mainframe line of computers. It was refreshing to learn about the success Linux has been having outside of the realm of industry standard X86-based systems. Here’s a quick summary of the session.

Every Linux user, after a while, starts creating a toolbox that he/she takes with him/her everywhere. However, that depends on the task at hand. You might need to install a distribution, you might just need a livecd, doing security-related work or just backup. And so the toolbox gets bigger and bigger, thus becoming less and less convenient. The subject of today's article is NetbootCD. NetbootCD is not a supplement for a live Linux environment, but rather it is designed to help you to install multiple Linux distributions using a single multiboot disk as oppose to requirement of 7 Linux installation disks.