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Apple's share of the media tablet market fell to 73 percent in 4Q 2010, due to the arrival of Android tablets led by the Samsung Galaxy Tab, says IDC. Still, the iPad will maintain a 70-80 percent share in 2011, the research firm adds, while Forrester puts the figure at 80 percent, and projects that only Amazon.com could mount significant competition via a color Kindle.

Fedora braves the first release of Gnome 3.0. Living up to its reputation for being one of the more adventurous Linux distributions on offer, Fedora 15's alpha release includes Gnome 3.0.

The following tutorial will teach you how to install the famous Dragon Age 2 role-playing game on a Linux platform, especially a Debian-based one, such as Ubuntu.

Joli OS 1.2, a new name of an Ubuntu-based distribution formerly known as Jolicloud, has been released, this new release comes with many new features and improvements, features like application sharing (the little star) can now be found more easily.

id Software mad scientist and first-person shooter "granddaddy" John Carmack said that DirectX has matured to the point where it's now a better API than OpenGL. It handles multi-threading better and newer versions manage state better. But he doesn't have plans in moving to DirectX any time soon, blaming inertia for the studio's continued use of OpenGL.

The first DraftSight - an AutoCAD compatible CAD software - public beta for Linux was released today.

Mark Shuttleworth names next Ubuntu release and lays out future plans. Oneiric Ocelot. It's the name of the next release of Ubuntu, which was announced earlier this week by Ubuntu chief Mark Shuttleworth.

The OpenSUSE project released OpenSUSE 11.4, and launched an optional rolling release repository called "Tumbleweed." OpenSUSE 1.4 is built on Linux 2.6.37, offers improved performance, scalability, and boot time, and provides a faster the ZYpp package management system, LibreOffice 3.31, and Firefox 4.0, says the project.

With the Firefox 4.0 release right around the corner, the big question for a lot of users is how fast is Firefox 4.0? How does the new Moz compare with Google Chrome, Opera, and the rest? If you're curious, take some time this weekend to perform your own benchmarks and see for yourself. Consider this an audience participation article: We're looking for your feedback as well.

R is an open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It consists of a language together with a run-time environment with a debugger, graphics, access to system functions, and scripting.

The Bodhi Linux team and I are proud to announce the release of our third and final release candidate. This release includes several important bug fixes including several that increase boot time...

So, I am sitting in my apartment in the North East Georgia mountains, an unlit cigarette is hanging out of my mouth, I have no idea what to write, and I am realising that this unfortunate bout of writer's block is likely due to the fact that nothing is really going wrong with my Linux box(es).

You have built a rock solid firewall, tested it with nmap scanning for ports that were open, locked down SSH with port knocking, restricted outgoing ports with iptables, setup psad to block attacks, and tcp_wrappers to limit access so you are set right? Well, not exactly....

As mentioned at the bottom of my prior posting, because of a surprising number of errors being received when I tried to use my venerable external card reader, I had ordered an internal multi-card reader. Well, it arrived in good order, and now the front of my PC has one more blue LED than it had. I guess this is the way that streetlights have destroyed the night for so many of us, one bulb at a time.

LinuxCertified, Inc. announced its next two day, hands-on course that provides attendees with experience in creating Linux kernel source code within various subsystems of the Linux kernel. This course teaches attendees to acquaints developers with the fundamental subsystems, data structures, and API of the Linux kernel

Reports have suggested that the Google I/O developer conference scheduled for May 10-11 in San Francisco sold out in just 59 minutes. Further reports have also suggest implied that some tickets have even surfaced on eBay for as much as $2000. A few lucky developers may still yet get the chance to attend though, but they'll need to show that they are worthy enough of a place in the Moscone Center this year. The 'Last Call for Google I/O' competition is a series of 10 developer challenges that will provide tickets to 100 winners.

Announced today at conf.kde.in in Bengaluru, Project Neon is back, new and ambitious. Those of you who have been around KDE for a while might remember the old incarnation, which provided nightly builds of Amarok. Now the new generation of talented young Kubuntu developers announce that Project Neon is open for business! read more

This tutorial will tell you how to install Camfrog Server 5.0 Linux on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). When I first saw that Camfrog Server 5.0 was released I was excited until I realized it was only for RedHat AS/ES 4.x 5.x, CentOS 4.x 5.x, Fedora 6.x 7.x 8.x operating systems. Then I realized you can convert rpm packages to deb packages using alien; you can even have alien install the rpm automatically after converting it.

Novell shareholders are going to have wait just a bit longer until they can cash in and be acquired by Attachmate for $2.2 billion. Though Novell shareholders have already approved the sale, the deal is contingent on Novell selling off 882 patents to CPTN Holdings - a group which includes Microsoft, Apple and Oracle. The CPTN patent sale is in the process of being reviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice and according to a new regulatory filing from Novell - the process is going to take more time than first expected. The DOJ has issued a second request for information from Novell which Novell is complying with.

Fuduntu 14.9 Stable has been released featuring kernel 2.6.37.3, Compiz autodetection, AWN smart default preferences, and much more.