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The changes this month from some of the biggest brands in technology have shaken the very foundation of the technology business and it's hard to know what's going to happen as a result.

Shortly after Fedora 15 was GA’d, I decided to take the plunge and give Gnome 3 a try. Gnome 3 is, in my humble opinion, such a drastic change from the traditional desktop environment that I have had a very difficult time adjusting to how different it is. Call me old fashioned, but I like a few icons on my desktop, a fixed dock for shortcuts to my favorite applications, and a minimize button. My first Gnome 3 experience on my laptop, which I use for testing new releases, was a failure. Therefore, when it came time to upgrade my main desktop at work, I chose to once again attempt a conversion to KDE 4.

Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It is one of the most popular games in the world, played by millions across the world, in clubs, by correspondence, in tournaments, and increasingly over the internet.

I am still using XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) aka Jabber for secure chat communication in my company, or for chats with friends. Lots of clients are available for every operation system – Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, iPhone OS and Android. After setting up a new server in our hosting location I installed ejabberd and wrote this small tutorial.

Fresh doubts have been cast over the Romanian government's position with regard to open source. The minister for Communication and Information Society, Valerian Vreme, announced back in May that the government would recommend open source "wherever appropriate"; however, a tender from the government emerged in August that specifically prohibited the use of open source software in any offer made in response. Now, a report from OSOR.EU quotes several authoritative sources doubting the validity of the prohibition and whether "it would stand in court".

In the constant battle for performance and lower power consumption some OS makers are preparing for ARM-based server clusters

The SCALE Call For Papers opens as of today August 25, 2011. Submittals for a wide range of topics around Open Source software will be considered. If you have an idea or subject pertaining to FOSS, submit your proposal to http://cfp.socallinuxexpo.org

If I had a single wish for Linux," said Slashdot blogger hairyfeet, "it would be that a Gates or Jobs would come along and just take it away from the hackers and trolls and give us a true third way where the user was No. 1 and everything was so simple and intuitive both Apple and MSFT were left thinking, 'How did that happen?'"

Google Chrome is not only the fastest loading and rendering browser available, it's also grabbing market share the fastest. And like all good browsers, Chrome offers thousands upon thousands of extensions that can be added to expand the functionality and fun of the browsing experience. Problem is, with so many extensions available, it's hard to know which ones are of the most interest to certain user groups. So, I took the time to dig through the piles to find what I thought to be the best collection of available Chrome extensions for Linux users. So, without further ado, let's get on with the list.

Lessfs offers a flexible solution to utilize data deduplication on affordable commodity hardware. In recent years, the storage industry has been busy providing some of the most advanced features to its customers, including data deduplication. Data deduplication is a unique data compression technique used to eliminate redundant data and decrease the total capacities consumed on an enabled storage volume. A volume can refer to a disk device, a partition or a grouped set of disk devices all represented as single device. During the process of deduplication, redundant data is deleted, leaving a single copy of the data to be stored on the storage volume.

Because Linux is free software and belongs to no-one, it is often assumed that Linux is “surrounded by legal uncertainties,” but Linux is no more or less prone to legal uncertainties than any other software. Richard Hillesley looks at the latest attempt to cast fear, uncertainty and doubt around the GPL and the Linux kernel…

HP showed just how difficult it can be to place reasonable bets as a mobile developer, but it also might have pushed the idea of a more standardized approach like HTML5 to guard against the vagaries of a changing market.

I'm working on a movie Software Wars based on the book. Here is 9 minutes of the raw audio of the interview with Linus Torvalds. The rest will be available in 2012.

As we have mentioned before, graphical configuration of most things in openSUSE is pretty easy. Command line configuration is pretty easy too and once known can be quicker than the GUI. We will step you through both configurations as we build up in this series to PXE Installation server.

Today, the Linux kernel is the most pervasive piece of software in all of computing. It runs the world’s stock exchanges, transportation systems, consumer devices, smart grid technologies, 90 percent of the world’s supercomputers and much, much more..

Following the recent fire sale of HP's TouchPad tablet, members of the Hack N Mod hacker and modder community have setup a cash bounty for the first functional port of Google's Android OS to replace the default Linux-based webOS mobile operating system. The Hack N Mod prize is intended to "speed up the porting process" and is currently valued at a total of $1,500.

Icinga is an enterprise grade open source monitoring system which keeps watch over networks and any conceivable network resource, notifies the user of errors and recoveries and generates performance data for reporting. It is a fork of Nagios. This tutorial explains how to install Icinga on a Debian Squeeze server to monitor this server and another Debian Squeeze server.

I had the pleasure of chatting to the lead developer of the xcom open source remake

Armed with my VIDEO_TS files lots of caffeine and sugar and some time to burn, I tried K3b and a few other Linux programs. Resulting in many hours of failed attempts.

After 14 years and over 15,000 stories posted, it's finally time for me to say Good-Bye to Slashdot. I created this place with my best friends in a run down house while still in college. Since then it has grown to be read by more than a million people, and has served Billions and Billions of Pages (yes, in my head I hear the voice). During my tenure I have done my best to keep Slashdot firmly grounded in its origins, but now it's time for someone else to come aboard and find the *future*