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Reduced hardware and operating costs, improved backup and disaster recovery, cloud computing, and lower costs of development and testing have made virtualization viable for small businesses.

The biggest news this week has centered around fears that Linux may become uninstallable on Wintel machines from the big OEM’s. But there’s been more. Some fun stuff. Some silly stuff. Some stuff that might eventually develop into something important…

Canonical released a windows client for the online storage of the Ubuntu One personal cloud service. The Ubuntu One online storage allows you to synchronize your files across platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and to publish / share selected files. This service is similarly to Dropbox. Now that all my clients are supported I tested the free Ubuntu One account that provides 5 GB of online storage with my Linux, Android and Microsoft Windows devices. The installation and setup on all devices was very easy and the service is still running smoothly. For this article I made some screenshots of the various clients and I will explain how to publish selected files.

Samsung announced a replacement for its original seven-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet, upgraded with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is faster, thinner, lighter, and adds HSPA+ service -- plus, it should be inexpensive, considering the competition from Amazon's $200 Kindle Fire and HTC's Flyer (about to be slashed to $300)....

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Beta has been released! If you have ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal or older version installed on your system, and you want to upgrade to this new release, then follow these instructions.

The following tutorial will teach every Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS user how to install the current stable version of the popular Mozilla Firefox 7 web browser.

X2 Computing announced a seven-inch tablet that runs Linux or various Windows flavors on a 1.6GHz Atom Z530 processor. The ruggedized X2372 has up to 2GB of RAM and 64GB of SSD (solid state disk) storage, a resistive touchscreen with 1024 x 600 pixels, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, plus options including an encrypted PIN pad and a three-track MSR (magnetic stripe reader), the company says....

GNOME Shell and Unity are the two new approaches towards creating the ultimate desktop experience by GNOME Foundation and Canonical respectively. Both approaches stirred up fair amount of controversies, with personalities like Linus Torvalds going so far as to call GNOME Shell an unholy mess. But things aren't that bad, or are they? Let's find out.

It's time for a new performance comparison... It's time for (perhaps) the most addictive soccer game in history... Ladies and Gentlemen.. Pro Evolution Soccer 2011!!!!

This week we look at identifying passionate developers, explore cloud paranoia and speculate on life after the silicon computer chip.

Anyone paying attention to technology news lately knows that the Titans are clashing for control, or at least a share of the monetary rewards, in the mobile marketplace.

Windows 8 has learned a lot of cool things from a number of other operating systems but is Microsoft moving backwards where it counts?

AMD announced two days ago, September 28th, the immediate availability for download of the ADM Catalyst 11.9 video driver for Linux platforms.

Online educational solutions based on Silverlight prevent 5 to 10% of Dutch students to get their schoolwork done and forces them to buy and install Windows instead. No longer they say.

For some months I've been meaning to try out WattOS, an Ubuntu derivative that claims to do more than providing simple desktop theme changes and other high-level customizations. It seeks to provide a simple and fast desktop that's also said to conserve more power and run better on older hardware, but is this actually the case? Here are benchmarks of WattOS R4 compared to the upstream Ubuntu 11.04 release from which it's derived, and the numbers are quite revealing.

Are Linux Users Shooting Themselves In The Foot? In April of 2009, my Windows XP computer crashed for the umpteenth time and this time around I lost a lot of valuable data. I was so angry because I didn't even have a cd copy to reinstall my OS. Neither did I have the cash to shell out for a new cd so I did what most broke people do in my situation, use (don't tell anyone) a bootleg cd of TinyXP. Even though I hated going this route and I never feel confident about their security, I felt it was a necessary evil that got me to the point I am now.

This how to will show you how to install and build memcached with replication, create a startup script and configure PHP to use memcache for sessions rather than storing them as files. This tutorial assumes you have set up 2 servers to replicate the information over.

"..it appears GRUB has to be ditched in favor of something under a more permissive license such as the BSD license. Interestingly, an old boot loader for Linux called LiLo (literally meaning “Linux Loader”) has just resumed development last year, and it is licensed under the BSD."

Microsoft is working with an Apache-licensed open-source project to make Hyper-V and Windows Servers an integral part of cloud-computing infrastructure. The software giant is providing support and technical guidance to OpenNebula to put Hyper-V on a list of hypervisors that the project officially supports.