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The proliferation of highly portable tablet PCs and the range of new operating systems these devices use has caught the IT security industry napping

With Nokia's recent news of jumping off the Linux bandwagon, it makes this Linux user wonder if a couple years down the road if we are going to have any choice other than Android when choosing a Linux based handset. I keep fairly current on news in the FOSS world, but I had never heard about the LiMo Foundation until a few days ago.

I've been anxious to try the next Ubuntu release, which will be even closer to the proverbial bleeding edge than usual, opting for a new interface called Unity that is slated to knock Gnome out of its default spot in the wildly popular Linux distribution.

Whether you are upgrading components for a system refresh, selling an old laptop on Craigslist, or recycling your desktop PC, there comes a time when you have to wipe a storage device in preparation for giving it to someone else. Chances are, you don't want whoever gets physical access to your old hard disk to have unfettered access to its contents: files, email, passwords, the embarrassingly-high frequency of Justin Beiber sites in your browsing history. You'll find several open source utilities for wiping away personal data — so this weekend, why not take stock of your options and put together a deep-clean routine?

The Android Market gets a much-needed updated and makes some important strides forward in how apps are distributed. For a couple of years now the Android app purchasing experience has been largely on-device as the web based “market” page was little more than a page with a handful of top-selling applications.

Version 1.0 of the Open Source Hardware Definition (OSHW definition), first initiated in July 2010, has now been published. Originally planned as a singular licence, the process expanded to cover a range of licences by creating a definition of what open source hardware is. The OSHW definition attempts to codify a definition for hardware that has a design made publicly available for others to study, modify, distribute, make or sell things based on that design.

When you run Debian Stable, you get used to updates to the system being few and far between. While there is certainly some truth to the open-source OS adage that bugs related to functionality (and not security) at release tend to stay unpatched, the emphasis in Debian on releasing when ready means there are theoretically (and practically) fewer broken pieces in the system and not as much need to push updates for non-security-related issues.

Lubuntu is best known as a lightweight and speedy Linux distro, but when it comes to beauty and elegant, it is still lacking. Its default theme is rather plain and boring and its library of themes is limited too. Luckily, there are tons of beautiful themes out there that you can use and you can easily theme it up to make it the best looking distro out there. Here’s how:

Canonical published a database of 1,300 certified components for Ubuntu, said to enable ODMs to more quickly bring to market Ubuntu- or other Linux-based computers. Meanwhile, Canonical and Autonomic Resources announced an "ARC-P-UEC" cloud computing platform for the federal government based on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud running on Dell Blade servers.

When Nokia announced they where merging Maemo into the MeeGo project I openly voiced my support. With a corporate backer like Nokia, Meego was sure to quickly become a forerunner in mobile technology. Today Nokia revoked that backing.

Open sourcers unite! Open...and Shut Microsoft used to be the bête noire of open-source advocates, riling freedom-loving software developers with its sometimes anti-competitive behavior.…

The broad Nokia-Microsoft partnership announced Friday in which the Windows Phone operating system would run on Nokia smartphones sounds like good news for both companies because of their struggles in the smartphone arena.

But many analysts wonder what the companies will make of the relationship in the coming year. Can Nokia come up with smartphones, tablets and related services and applications that outdistance Google's Android, Apple's iPhone and others?

Who is smarter, Linux or people? IBM's SUSE Linux powered supercomputer Watson faces off against human contestants on the TV game show "Jeopardy".

Nokia, we invited you into our house. We let you put your feet on the coffee table.  And yet this is how you treat us? Heck, we even tolerated the resistive screen on the N900, because it was a full blown Linux computer. We even put MeeGo on the cover of our March issue, and now you decide to defect to the dark side? Oh, Nokia... more>>

This tutorial explains how to install OpenPublish on an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server. Open Publish is an open source platform designed specifically for the online news industry.

Gareth Halfacree shows us how to get started with programming for Arduino and open hardware by create an electronic music box. The first of our three part guide assumes no prior experience in either programming or developing with Arduino…

SQL Injection can be done manually or via automatic tools. Automatic tools are easy to use and do not require much technical knowledge. In this tutorial we will discuss Havij. Havij is an automated SQL Injection tool that helps penetration testers to find and exploit SQL Injection vulnerabilities on a web page

Debian has a reputation in the world of Linux distributions as, well, "stodgy". Debian Stable is pointed to as being out of date, stale, boring. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Debian developers have put together a titanic number of software packages, and done the work to make them function together like... "...like an enormous clock."

Ubuntu release team, through Kate Stewart, announced today (February 11th) that the release schedule for the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system has been changed. Therefore, there will be no Release Candidate version! It was replaced with a Beta 2 release, scheduled for April 14th, 2011.

LinuMint10 KDE RC is released, this release comes with many new features and system improvements. LinuxMint 10 KDE RC features latest and recently released KDE 4.6, the menu was switched to Lancelot, the Software Manager got a better categorization of software and the use of application icons.