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Three key business developments suggest Canonical is finally getting the Ubuntu house in order. Here's a look at each of the three efforts, and the potential implications for Ubuntu partners and customers.

There are literally thousands of games that can be played on Linux, if you're a casual gamer or hardcore Linux fan who is looking to have a bit of fun on your favourite distro, there's plenty of games to choose from.

If you are unsure what to get, this list will help you out. This list includes all the popular and free high quality games that runs on Linux natively, from action/first-person shooters to real-time and turn-based strategy games to rpg/mmorpg etc.

Just landing in Europe now for the Phoronix Oslo event taking place tonight in Aker Brygge, but the news on the Internet seems to be that -- at long last -- Oracle has officially released Java SE 7...

In any case, StarCraft 2 came out and it’s an OK game, but doesn’t have the same atmosphere as the old one in my opinion. One thing I do love about it though is the interface and I figured, how could I make my Linux system into something similar.

My goal was to modify an Xfce interface to resemble the SC2 command one. This is what I came up with:

sed can select lines in a file that can be individually modified, printed or deleted. sed is able to select and number any of lines within a file.

Chakra's awesome. I mean, it's *really* cool. It's fast, it installs programs really easily, it's stable, it's rolling-release, it's light on memory for a KDE distribution, and it's polished!

Here's a theory: Apple iPads and iPhones offer better investment protection and longer years of service than rival Google Android devices. Skeptical? Here's the evidence.

Here we go again, stealing the IP of David Letterman. Actually we found some prior art on this so we think we’re okay – so we offer this week’s Top Ten list!

We first covered the release of VirtualBox 4.0 back in January. Amongst other improvements and new features, 4.1 adds VM cloning and a nascent PCI passthrough feature. more>>

Most people, who like Linux, love Ubuntu. Oh they may object to Ubuntu’s new Unity desktop, but at day’s end, they still use Ubuntu. Technology businesses though have a more jaundiced view of Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company. Canonical, though, is now taking steps now to make its potential hardware and software partners happier.

KDE is delighted to announce its latest releases—Version 4.7—providing major updates to the KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform. Check out the highlights below, or read the full announcement. read more

Nielsen released its U.S. smartphone subscriber numbers for June, showing Android inching up to 39 percent share ahead of Apple's iPhone with 28 percent. Meanwhile, some Android smartphone devices are being returned at a rate of 30 to 40 percent, claims an industry report....

Microsoft is more open — at least on the surface — and that’s all that matters in the cloud era, one company exec maintains. At Oscon 2011, Gianugo Rabellino, Senior Director for Open Source Communities at Microsoft, said as long as the APIs, protocols and standards for the cloud are open, that is, open surface, customers don’t care about the underlying platform. So, it does not matter that the cloud is built primarily on open source technologies, notably Linux?

Public cloud, that is Canonical's Ubuntu Linux variant is popular out there on the public clouds of the world, but there is a serious mismatch between how support contracts are sold for bare-metal servers used inside corporate data centers and how virtual servers are deployed and used out there on the cloud. And Canonical wants to fix that and make a bit of money, too.…

Newly released Firewall Builder 5 adds several new features that make it easier than ever to manage large numbers of firewalls including those based on Linux iptables.

Now here's where some fun stuff starts! I hope many of you have followed my installing Backtrack 5 guide and read up on what ARP is as well as basic Linux commands so you can follow along easily; if not, go read those now!

I have done a lot of silly stuff in the past. For those of you who have read my articles, you are up to date with what I’m doing. For the rest of you: I’m trying to find the perfect distro for my level of knowledge. Ubuntu is too easy, Linux Mint Ubuntu waaay to easy, Arch is just a bit over my head, Gentoo is waaaay over my head. I’ve tried quite a few others as well: Slackware, CurnchBang, ArchBang, SliTaz, Bodhi but so far nothing has actually caught my interest enough.

By now i am sure you have all heard of Project Zomboid, the zombie survival game. It is a java based game with a public demo/alpha out which doesn't actually work under Linux (come on it's java!), so one faithful user on a mac fixed it up and it works for Linux now too!

One of the things open source advocates often pride themselves on is their software of choice being more secure than the closed source alternatives. I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't though...

In these days I’m testing an alternative web interface for Nagios : Thruk The First impression is definitely positive, and so I decided to share this information so more people can know and use this software.

Thruk is an independent multibackend monitoring webinterface which currently supports Nagios, Icinga and Shinken as backend using the MKLivestatus addon.

It is designed to be a “dropin” replacement. The target is to cover 100% of the original features plus additional enhancements for large installations.