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There's a new Wine development release available this weekend for those not partaking in the Berlin Desktop Summit. The new Wine release is version 1.3.26 and it delivers on several core improvements...

The House will soon be considering a bill that will require ISP’s to maintain logs of their customers Internet use for a 12 month period. As I understand it, the law would include a customer’s browsing history, credit card numbers, etc. The stated purpose of the proposed law is to catch pedophiles visiting child porn sites, but everybody who knows anything about the Internet agrees it won’t be very effective at doing that. What it will do, if enacted, is bring Orwell’s “Big Brother” vision a little closer to home and make your network connected devices look even more like telescreens than they do now.

Sharp announced a seven-inch, 1024 x 600-pixel & Galapagos A01SH& tablet running Android 3.2 on an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor -- and its FCC approval suggests it's eventually destined for the U.S.. Meanwhile, the Toshiba Thrive & Honeycomb& tablet has received a sleep-and-resume bug fix, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 got a & magazine-like& TouchWiz UI update....

With KDE 4.7, the KDE team has managed to create one of the most beautiful desktops out there, and to be honest, it’s even more appealing than Windows 7 or Mac OS X. On the usability front, KDE doesn’t seem to cut corners. Trademark features like Activities and Plasmoids (widgets) are polished to near perfection. Also, since the initial KDE 4 release, a lot of quality community-created widgets and plugins have sprung up, making the KDE workspace more than just an alternative to GNOME 3 or Unity. So, if you’ve just installed KDE on your computer, here are some of the best widgets you can drop on to your desktop and make your friends jealous.

Smart Modular Technologies announced a solid state disk (SSD) that squeezes 1.6TB of storage into a 2.5-inch form factor, reading data at up to 1GB/sec. The Optimus SSD is enterprise-focused, featuring a 6Gb/sec. SAS (serial attached SCSI) interface, according to the company....

What does history teach us about the rise of Homo Sapiens in relation to the Neanderthals -- and how does open source figure into it?

Canonical's Kate Stewart has announced the release of Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" Alpha 3...

If you are reading this, you are most likely a Linux user in some way. You are also quite likely familiar with a certain phenomena. You probably love, hate, hate loving, and love hating Linux. Why does this occur?

Sprint will begin offering a WiMAX 4G-ready Android 2.3 phone for just $100 on Aug. 21. The Samsung Conquer 4G features a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 3.5-inch, 480 x 320 screen, plus Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, and optional mobile hotspot capabilities, says the carrier....

Do you want to see your name on the front page of a book? It’s easier than you might think. First, write the book. Next, follow these simple steps to prepare an ebook using the free OpenOffice.org desktop publishing application

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 3 has been released and is now available for download. This release features Linux Kernel 3.0 final, Thunderbird 6, Firefox 6 and New Gwibber with improved design. Comipz, Unity and Unity 2D has been updated and Unity 2D is now fully compatible with GTK3. Both Unity and Unity 2D share same settings and Unity 2D have now better accessibility support.

Working for an IT Support company I needed a solution for automatically backing up a bunch of Linux servers, this guide will walk you through setting up rsnapshot on CentOS for automated rsync & ssh binary diff backups.

With the recent launch of Google+, Linux User columnist Simon Brew wonders if the search giant has the power to reinvent social networking…

Linus Torvalds has joined those who are stating that they really do not like the Gnome3 desktop. Linus states he is using Xfce ~ he thinks it's a step down from gnome2, but it’s a huge step up from gnome3; and Linus is not the only major Linux player who thinks Gnome3 is a backward step.

Red Hat is preparing a cloud surprise for partners in October 2011. Indeed, Red Hat’s first-ever North America Partner Summit (Oct. 25-27, Miami) will include a Cloud Symposium designed for VARs, integrators and cloud services providers (CSPs). Here's a preview.

There are almost more virtualization tools out there today than even Wikipedia can count. KVM, however, stands out among them as perhaps the only free, non-commercial and open source hypervisor designed for enterprise-grade performance. And it’s come far in its (comparatively) short life — so far, in fact, that it may be time to consider it as a virtualization solution for the desktop as well as the server. <a gref="http://www.thevarguy.com/2011/08/03/kvm-virtualization-ready-for-the-desktop/ ">Here's the update</a>.

This week we look at Amazon's practice of giving away Apps without compensation, the advantages of throwing out your code and software patent traps.

We take a step by step approach into getting Wi-Fi filesharing on your Blackberry Playbook to work with Linux.

Linux is not exactly the first platform that comes to mind when one thinks of computer gaming. Yet Canonical continues to expand the lineup of games available for purchase by Ubuntu users in the Software Center. Here’s a look at the latest additions, and the partnerships Canonical is building through them.

Fedora, Mint, Arch, Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSUSE go head-to-head - we've dropped the six most popular Linux distributions of the day into a cage fight for your affections. Read on to discover which distro comes up top for installation ease, customisation, performance, security and more. Which flavour of Linux gets the gold medal?