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SUSE and Xamarin have announced a deal to support existing SUSE Mono customers, while Xamarin will get a "broad, perpetual licence" to all of SUSE's Mono intellectual property including Mono, MonoTouch and Mono for Android. Xamarin will also become the new home for the open source Mono project. SUSE's Mono customers will now receive support and updates directly from Xamarin via support.xamarin.com for the rest of the lifetime of their support subscriptions.

As expected, the second Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) event for 2011 has been officially announced a couple of minutes ago by Jono Bacon in an email. The Ubuntu 12.04 Developer Summit event will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA from 31st October to 4th November.

Cats and dogs; apples and oranges; Linux and Microsoft. Two of these three things do not go together. Would you believe that Microsoft—yes Microsoft—was the fifth largest contributor to the soon to be released Linux 3.0 kernel? Believe it. In a Linux Weekly News story, currently only available to subscribers, an analysis of Linux 3.0 contributors reveals that Microsoft was the fifth largest corporate contributer to Linux 3.0. While only 15h overall, that still puts Microsoft behind only Red Hat, Intel, Novell, and IBM in contributing new code to this version of Linux.

Mailman is an open-source mailing list manager, i.e., it can be used to manage email discussions and newsletter lists. It is probably the most popular and widely used mailing list manager on the Internet. This tutorial explains how to install and configure Mailman on a Debian Squeeze server with a Postfix mail server.

Following bellow is the first attempt to create PV domain at stock Xen 4.1 Dom0 on top Ubuntu Oneiric (alpha2 +) running kernel 3.0.0-5-generic. One bug in system configuration was fixed after initial install. I added to /etc/modules: xen-gntdev xen-blkback xen-netback

Google Plus is THE most happening thing on the internet! Earlier we gave you an overview of Google Plus App. Now as Google Plus is gaining momentum we see developers spawning with apps in the Android market. In this post I have gathered some interesting apps for your Android phone.

It's stable, rock-solid, pretty fast, and surprisingly easy to use. Plus, it's 10 years of official support is way better than many other distributions and rivals the other OS.

As part of our effort in giving Linux games category its due share, here is our second post featuring some really good games for Linux. If it was about top RTS games for Linux before, now its time for some fast paced first-person shooter(FPS) games for Linux. Quick collection of 10 FPS games for Linux((in no particular order) every Linux gamer should be aware of.

News out of Nuremberg today is that SUSE has formally partnered up with Xamarin to take responsibility for the existing (and future) SUSE/Novell customers using Mono, to take over stewardship of the Mono project, and Xamarin gains rights to the IP surrounding Mono.

If you need to justify the move to a virtual infrastructure, you have it: Money. And, now you can prove it by putting numbers to these five good reasons.

If you have been by my blog before then odds are you know I am a large fan of the Enlightenment desktop. While there are a number of reasons DR17 is my desktop of choice, one of them is the wonderful selection of themes that exist for it. The following are seven of my favorites.

Google+, Google's new social network, counts already 10.000.000 users! If you are a Google plus user here are some extensions for Chrome that will improve your experience!

Quest Software, owner of PacketTrap MSP, has quietly invested in Jaspersoft, which develops open source business intelligence software. The big question: Will Quest eventually connect the dots between PacketTrap, managed services and BI software capabilities?

Tarsnap is an online backup service written and run by Dr. Colin Percival, the FreeBSD Security Officer. It is built for the "truly paranoid" and those who don't trust their data to other services such as Mozy and Dropbox.

Now, if you’ve ever tried to use sudo to run a command sequence such as a pipeline, where each step required superuser priveleges, you probably got a Permission denied error. This is because sudo only applies to the first command in the sequence and not the others. There are multiple ways to handle this, but there are two that stand out to me. First, you can use sudo to start a shell (such as bash) with root priveleges, and then give that shell the command string. This can be done using the -c option of bash. To illustrate how this works, I’ll start out using sudo to run cat on a file that I created in the /root directory that I normally wouldn’t have access to.

Jos blog post today reminded me that I had a look at the Harmony Agreements and tried to decide for me whether I would consider to sign such a CA. To make it short: signing a Harmony Copyright Assignment is for me unacceptable.

As soon as Oracle announced they were offering OpenOffice.org to The Apache Software Foundation, there went up a collective sigh of relief from the FOSS community. Some, no doubt, would have preferred the project to be turned over to the folks at The Document Foundation, whose members had worked with the code for the better part of a decade and who’d already done a bang-up job improving OOo with their fork LibreOffice, but you don’t always get what you want, and Apache is an open source organization not lacking in credibility. At least now OpenOffice is out of the hands of Larry Ellison, who is a friend to open source the same way that a fox is a friend to a chicken.

Last week there was a GNU Hurd status update, which generated a fair amount of attention as it stated there are plans for a Debian GNU/Hurd release in conjunction with Debian "Wheezy" when it's out in late 2012 or early 2013. After being in development for more than 20 years, the Hurd is finally taking some shape. The Debian GNU/Hurd installer for Wheezy is even now working, which I tried out and ended up porting the Phoronix Test Suite to GNU Hurd. In this article is a brief look at Debian GNU/Hurd along with the first-ever benchmarks of Debian GNU/Hurd against Debian GNU/Linux.

One of the age-old criticisms of Linux-based operating systems is that they are complicated, not easy to learn, and not user-friendly. Those who actually use Linux, however, know this is not the case. Like any new technology, you do need to take time to learn it, but once you do, it will open up doors for you, allowing you to unleash the full power of your server.

This tutorial shows the process of installing CentOS 6.0 using the HTTP NetInstall method. This method is much faster for basic systems since you don't have to download ISO files or one huge DVD based ISO just to get started. If you are installing many systems you may want to look into the stand-alone DVD as it will save time in the end.