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Google may be willing to negotiate, however, as they’re suddenly remembering once talking to Sun about licensing Java for Android and recollect that Sun had offered a license for a mere $100 million. Anyway, it’s becoming pretty evident that Google’s probably going to pay something, but don’t look for it to be a deal breaker for Android. That’s another fight, that involves Apple, Microsoft and HTC…

Android Market now lets developers mount multiple Android Package (APK) files optimized for different devices and releases, instead of selling the optimized versions separately, says Google. Meanwhile, security firm Dasient reports that eight percent of Android apps are transmitting personal user data to unauthorized computers, and some Android malware is specializing in & drive-by downloads,& leaving users unaware of what's being installed....

Can't make it to OSCON this year? You can still catch keynotes, interviews and news via live streaming video. Check back right here during the conference July 25-29, 2011 to enjoy some great content virtually.

Just when I'm thinking, "Windows sucks less than it used to," here I am with my dual-boot system -- Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit on one partition, Debian Squeeze 64-bit in LVM (with encrypted swap and home partitions) on another. Everything has worked well until the arrival of Service Pack 1. It just won't install. It won't install via the Windows Update mechanism. It won't install after downloading a 900 MB file. A 900 MB file. For a service pack. Let's ponder that for a minute.

In my last article, ArchBang: A small review I was a bit unfair to the distro. I did not want to see these distros (ArchBang and Arch Linux) for what they really are and I consider that to be very wrong. Therefore, I bring you a few thoughts on Arch Linux after playing around with it for about 2-3 days.

The Internet is a cold, cruel place that holds onto your words forever. Be careful of what you say, to whom you say it and the date on any article that you quote.

[I happen to agree with Linus, speaking only for myself of course. - Scott]

After a little less than two months of beta testing, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 is now generally available. RHEL 5.7 hit public beta status at the end of May, and isn't just about bug fixes and driver support. RHEL 5.7 also introduces some new features to RHEL 5.x even as Red Hat pushes and promotes the newer RHEL 6.x branch.

Finally! We are proud to announce today, July 22nd, the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Linux kernel 3.0, announced by its father, Linus Torvalds.

Oracle's latest acquisition is that of Ksplice Inc, the company behind the software to apply updates to the Linux kernel in real-time without requiring a system reboot or other downtime. "Never Reboot Linux For Security Updates," as Ksplice says.

One of the most important tasks an administrator has is to set up and maintain storage resources and let users share files across the network. FreeNAS, a NAS server based on FreeBSD, makes implementing NAS simple. With FreeNAS, you can share files among the Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Unix machines on your network. What’s more, FreeNAS provides incremental backups and supports LDAP user authentication, among its many features.

0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy (RTS) game of ancient warfare. It is a historical war and economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. The project involves state-of-the-art 3D graphics, detailed artwork, sound, and a flexible and powerful custom-built game engine. The game has been in development by Wildfire Games , a group of volunteer, hobbyist game developers, since 2001. The code and data are available under the GPL license, and the art, sound and documentation are available under CC-BY-SA.

Recently at, we’ve been setting up several new instances of OpenERP for customers. Our server operating system of choice is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Installing OpenERP isn’t really that hard, but having seen several other "How Tos" online describing various methods where none seemed to do the whole thing in what I consider to be "the right way", I thought I’d explain how we do it. There are a few forum posts that I’ve come across where the advice is just plain wrong too, so do be careful.

Oracle released VirtualBox 4.1 on July 19 with a slew of improvements ranging from usability improvements to rasing the ceiling for RAM to 1TB for 64-bit hosts. With 4.1, we decided to take VirtualBox out for a spin and see how it handles.

I’ve been a die-hard Debian fan for about 10 years, and I’ve written several articles on the subject. That said, most of our Linux-savvy readers are Ubuntu users, so that’s been my main desktop OS for as long as I’ve been a MakeTechEasier writer. Ubuntu has always been fine, and generally got the job done without hassle, however this past release (11.04, Natty Narwhal) has been the cause of a rift among many Ubuntu users. This release pushed Unity, their homegrown desktop environment, front and center. Like many others, I’ve never managed to get a feel for Unity. After weighing my options, I decided to jump ship and try out Fedora 15. It’s the first Fedora I’ve tried since Core 1, and things certainly have changed.

Lightweight Portable Security (LPS), created by USA's Department of Defence, is a small Linux live CD focusing on privacy and security, for this reason, it boots from a CD and executes from RAM, providing a web browser, a file manager and some interesing tools. LPS-Public turns an untrusted system into a trusted network client.

When I got it to work, it worked really well and it was relatively stable overall, but because it took me a while to get it to work, I can't recommend it for newbies.

Do you want Oracle VirtualBox 4.1? Do you have five minutes? If you said, ‘Yes’ to both questions, then this tutorial is for you.

A standard for contributor agreements was the promise of Project Harmony, but now the project's agreements have been released, they appear to have hit all the wrong notes with many in the community. We look at why Harmony is off-key.

"First Adobe's off, then on, then off, then on again... Does anyone there know what they are doing?" wondered blogger Robert Pogson. Sixty-four-bit computers are "pretty standard these days, and GNU/Linux and Android/Linux are making waves. Doesn't Adobe want their product to be where it's happening? Isn't the game about maximizing share to exclude the competition?"

I am a big fan of the Software Wars graphic map. Since it hasn’t been updated for years, MrTomLinux decided to recreate it from scratch in SVG and to share the files. Source is now forked it in github and can be used in inkscape for further forks