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This week we have for you another interview with a company whose business model is built on top of open source software: Equalis. The open source software in question is Scilab and Dr.Neil Mitchell, COO and Co-founder of Equalis, will be answering our questions.

While KDE 4.0 has been around for nearly four years (and most complaints regarding the initial KDE4 fallout have been addressed) and the last KDE 3.5 stable snapshot (v3.5.10) came three years ago, the Trinity Desktop Environment has issued an official release today to keep the KDE 3.5 desktop living.

Since in our first part of this article we said we expected you, the reader, to have some programming knowledge, in this part we want to help you get a on where C stands in comparison to other programming languages you might know. The choice of those languages was pretty tough because of various criteria, but in the end we stopped at C++, Perl and Python. Since programming languages can be classified in lots of ways (depending on paradigm, syntax or style, for example), we didn't try to find languages that are in the same category as C.

LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from November 16th - November 18th, 2011.

OpenMAMA is an effort to standardize and simplify the MAMA APIs that have been in use since at least 2002. The basic idea behind have an open source implementation of MAMA is to have a level-set, a baseline implementation that is used to promote interoperability.

Extensions support is one on the most widely appreciated feature of GNOME Shell. In our previous post which listed those stunning GNOME Shell themes, we all saw how difficult it is to do such trivial stuff like installing themes in GNOME Shell. Well, there is a GNOME Shell extension called User-Theme Extension that makes everything about GNOME Shell theming a lot simpler and easier, exactly how it should have been in the first place. Learn how to install GNOME Shell themes the easier way in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

Unity looks nice, but who is its audience? It's not great for older hardware. It's too different for enterprise. And experienced Linux users seem turned off by it. What good is an innovative interface if there's no one who wants to use it?

Joy! A new humble bundle is here! Well... This is not a real "bundle", but it's humble for sure! This time, Humble Bundle team has created this package which includes the very first alpha version of a cute platform indie game called "Voxatron". From the site: "Jump into the Voxatron alpha and shoot your way through twenty challenging areas filled with blocky baddies, destructible toys, and palliative powerups."

Sierra Wireless and the Eclipse Foundation announced an Eclipse working group to define an open development standard for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Together with founding members IBM and Eurotech, the M2M Industry Working Group will establish an integrated development environment for M2M networks, as well as a Linux-based, lightweight communications protocol, based in part on Sierra Wireless' Koneki project and the Lua scripting language.

Is there a Hacker Gene? Is the hacker personality a learned set of behaviors? Research suggests that both are at work.

Kubuntu 11.10 became unusable. At least for me. At least now. It still remains in my heart as (almost) first love... But it won't remain on my hard disk. The love is broken...

"In the month that this was released we had 110,000 new users of UbuntuOne," Shuttleworth said. "25,000 of them had never used Ubuntu before. 25,000 users are coming to this platform just because of Ubuntu One."

The organizers of Humble Indie Bundle today announced a new initiative on humblebundle.com, which allows anyone to buy Voxatron, an unreleased indie game for the PC at the price that you want. Voxatron, it’s at this time in Alpha stage, this game is a platform shooter retro-style, with more than 20 rich areas of enemies to defeat. The game is available for Windows PC, Linux and Mac, DRM-free, and with the guarantee that all future updates will be completely free.

Canonical certainly delivered some exciting news this week when it announced that its Ubuntu Linux distribution is on the way to tablets, smartphones, and TVs. There's no denying that this is big news for Linux in particular and for mobile users in general, but it's not exactly surprising. After all, much as Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth might have appeared indifferent to the mobile space in recent months, Ubuntu's new, touch-enabled Unity interface was nothing if not writing on the proverbial wall.

This tutorial shows how to set up network RAID1 with the help of DRBD on two Ubuntu 11.10 systems. DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device and allows you to mirror block devices over a network. This is useful for high-availability setups (like a HA NFS server) because if one node fails, all data is still available from the other node.

x86 hardware has always been fairly free and it should remain as such right? Yes it should. Something that really bothers me though is the fact that ARM hardware is treated in a very different way.

The Google Plus application for Android received a major update today. Among the major changes in this version is a completely revamped User Interface that matches the look of the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich. Apart from bugfixes, battery improvements and navigation enhancements, the update also brings support for Google Apps. Here’s a detailed look at what’s new.

GNOME Shell is GNOME foundation's official shell for GNOME 3.0 and as we have seen in so many posts before, GNOME Shell is an incredibly good alternative for Canonical's Unity UI which became the default Ubuntu interface starting from Natty Narwhal release. The least you can say is, now you have two unique interfaces to choose from instead of plain vanilla GNOME. Top things to do after installing GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10.

But, to be honest, what bothers me most, what saddens me the most, is that I’ve always held onto the myth that Linux was the last, best hope for those of us who like to do it ourselves and like to run software we’ve built ourselves. And here’s where my mea culpa comes in. It was, ultimately, my fault that I believed in Linux as much as I did. Those of you working with Linux on a daily basis aren’t at fault for doing what you do or loving your environment.

Both on dri-devel and at the most recent Kernel Summit, the idea of a KMS based console program came up yet again. So in the interest of facilitating the lazyweb to write one, I thought I’d provide a review of what it takes to write a simple KMS program that ties in with GL, just in case anyone wants to port the VTE widget and give me my VTs on a cube.