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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.

Linux is generally considered as a geek’s operating system and I am completely agree with it. Linux is not only limited to work only. You can also enjoy a lot while working on it. There are many crazy commands which will bring a big smile on your face. Below we are going to discuss few out of them. 1. Oneko : This utility remembers me of the cat mouse game. Cat chases the mouse pointer regardless of its position. You have to download it from the repository by typing “sudo apt-get install oneko” (without quotes) in ubuntu .Then just launch it by typing oneko . You will see a

Content negotiation is the ability of a web server to deliver the document that best matches the browser's preferences/capabilities. For example, if a resource exists in multiple languages, the web server can choose which variant it serves based on the Accept-Language header delivered by the browser. This tutorial describes how to configure content negotiation in Apache2 to serve different languages based on browser preferences.

Mandriva, through Eugeni Dodonov, announced last evening, July 27th, the immediate availability for testing of the second and last Release Candidate version of the upcoming Mandriva Linux 2011 operating system.

Kongoni is based on Slackware. There are not many Slackware-based Live distros (SLAX, Porteus and Nimblex - those I know). That makes each new review in this area very interesting for me. Also Kongoni claims to contain only Free Software Foundation approved software.

You might have read or heard people talking about custom ROMs they have installed on their Android devices. Here’s how to do it quickly and safely…

The last of the pre-releases of Mandriva Desktop 2011, Mandriva Desktop 2011 RC 2, was made available for download yesterday, just one day behind schedule. It, of course, looks better, runs better, than the previous pre-release, which I previewed here. As the title suggests, this article is not a full review, but a screenshot tour of the major features of what will be Mandriva Desktop 2011, due for final release on August 28, 2011.

Pentaho, which develops open source business intelligence software, continues to polish and enhance its partner program. And the latest financial results look pretty darn strong. Here’s the update.

Rest of world gets to shout into fruit around Xmas The next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Mango, is with device manufacturers and looks like it will hit Japanese shelves in September, with the rest of the world having to wait a little longer.…Free Whitepaper: Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers