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There is no dearth of good CD/DVD burning tools for Ubuntu. Brasero Disc Burner comes as default in Ubuntu and it is a good enough tool with almost all functionalities you expect from a basic CD/DVD burning application. But what really are the alternatives. Here is a quick listing of very good CD/DVD burning applications available for Linux(in no particular order). Read on.

Android will surge to a dominant 39.5 percent share of the fast-growing global smartphone market this year, then further climb slowly to a 45.4 percent share by 2015, says IDC. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 will see the fastest growth as it supplants Symbian to reach a second-place 20.9 percent share by 2015, the research firm projects.

Dear Ubuntu 9.10 users, the time has come to say goodbye to the Karmic Koala release of the popular Ubuntu operating system. One month from today, on April 29th, it reaches end of life (EOL).

This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on a Debian Squeeze desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an Nvidia GeForce 8200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.

You could call it E or E17, but, whatever you choose to call the Bodhi Linux 1.0.0, with the Enlightment 17 window manager for the first time, it will remain to be one of the true Ubuntu distros. It will continue to remain on most Linux desktops for its exceptional modular structure and high customization features.

Presentation schedule for ABLEconf is now online. Register for the free-admission business conference with presentations on open source cars, cloud computing and FLOSS for business or education.

Bodhi Linux released its first stable version, 1.0.0. It has a few aesthetic and organizational issues, but its application selection makes it much better than before.

The trouble with open source is that most coders aren't lawyers and most lawyers aren't coders. And even if everyone did wear both hats, there would still be ample room for disagreement. The law, you must remember, is subjective.

There's just one week left to win one of three copies of Unigine's OilRush game, which is a real-time strategy for Linux / Mac OS X / Windows operating systems that's built atop Unigine's impressive game engine with first-class Linux support.

I spend a lot of time on airplanes. It used to be you'd often strike up a conversation with the person next to you on a plane. Over the years I met the editor of a newspaper in Roswell, New Mexico (and, yes, he was human as far as I could tell), an LA Laker Girl (no kidding), and many other interesting characters. But these days, you don't get much chance to visit with your flying neighbors because everyone has an iPod, or a laptop, or some other gadget to keep them busy.

Linux is a wonderful and underrated audio production platform, with great applications for every audio task. MuseScore and LilyPond bring elegance and sophistication to score writing, and Chordii is a wonderfully simple guitar sheet-music maker. (PDF)

After your first fifty distribution reviews, a certain ennui creeps in. Most have the same selection of software, and GNOME or KDE for a desktop, and, if they are new, are derived from Ubuntu. Under these circumstances, features worth writing about tend to be rare. That is why Bodhi Linux has been attracting attention from reviewers -- because it has actually done a few things differently.

Google took a step backward with Honeycomb last week. Instead of locking the source they should start treating Android as a real open source project and start enforcing the Android trademark.

A lot of people have recommended the SugarSync file-synchronization service as an alternative to Dropbox. SugarSync offers 5 GB for free vs. 2 GB for Dropbox and has more flexible pricing when you want more storage. The big problem with SugarSync, for me anyway: No Linux client.

The business office is where the Linux desktop should reign. Why? Linux is a reliable, stable, secure solution that would have any business user working day-in and day-out without fail. With an unheard of resistance to viruses, trojans, and worms, the office user enjoying the Linux desktop would have no concerns about down time as does the average Windows user. But what tools are there available for the usual office worker? Plenty!

I’ve been planning to build a computer for at least a year. I started with the idea of a mini-ITX motherboard and case to produce a small, low-power desktop, to which I’d hook up a keyboard, mouse and monitor and use as a traditional desktop computer. However, what I need (and/or want) is a server. I’m thinking principally of a file server-slash-backup server. Maybe a light-duty web server.

F-PROT Antivirus ‘Fire & Ice’ is Free for Linux home users and has earned the VB100 Certification from Virus Bulletin, World’s Leading PC Security Publication

On a security mailing list over the weekend, an unknown party published details about the structure and content of databases on the website of database vendor MySQL. The information was apparently accessible via a security hole on the MySQL.com website.

According to a recent study from The Patent Board, Red Hat's patent portfolio is now ranked 50th in the Information Technology category. The top patent holder in the IT category is IBM. Red Hat's position at number 50 is a 16 spot jump since November of 2010. Red Hat now holds 137 granted U.S. patents as part of its intellectual property portfolio. "Open source is Red Hat's mission, and our patent program is done for the purpose of protecting and defending Red Hat and open source," Rob Tiller, assistant general counsel and vice president, IP at Red Hat told InternetNews.com. "The patents relate to a variety of technologies."

The Bordeaux Technology Group released Wineskin Pro 2.0 today. Wineskin Pro 2.0 is our initial release of Wineskin for Intel based Mac computers. This release has a custom built Xquartz X11 server that Microsoft Windows Games require to run in full screen mode.