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Sometimes the How-to-Geek covers Linux stuff. This time it is definitely worth looking at. This is a nice overview of a few applications you may not be familiar with to help your kids do better with their school work.

Given the favorable nature that GNU/Linux and free software enjoy, especially in the current economic environment, what makes Hacker Hector's accomplishment so significant? He shows those that live in the proprietary world what is possible.

Oracle‘s Java ambassador Henrik Ståhl has reacted to reports from various media outlets about a dual license for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) based on a merger of the JRockit and HotSpot virtual machines. As presented at JavaOne in September, this "united" JVM is to consist of the best features of the two JVMs. The result is to be incrementally implemented in OpenJDK, although a number of components – such as Sun’s Java for Business and Oracle’s JRockit Mission Control, JRockit Real Time and JRockit Virtual Edition – will continue to be sold as proprietary, commercial premium extensions.

This blog post has two sections. Firstly, a section covering "Memory Leak detection in the Linux kernel in 10 easy steps" and the next section is about, "Implementing operating systems in managed code (like C#/Java)". Feel free to goto any section you prefer.

How often do you need to install your favorite Linux distribution in a single year either virtually or using real hardware? How frequently it happens that you just want to test new release of certain Linux distribution so you install it on different partition or simply virtually using your current system as a host. How often do you need to deploy a server which is a complete clone of the one you configured yesterday. The installation part of any Linux system today is a very straightforward process. Nonetheless, the hardest and the most tedious part comes with a fine tuning, customization and configuration of your system's services as well as your own user environment. You can simply copy your custom system configuration files from one system to another but engaging in this concept this task can become quite disorganized, time consuming and most importantly error-prone.

Ubuntu will drop the Gnome interface, replacing it with its own Unity interface. Naturally not everyone is happy. Apparently frustrated by the delays in creating a new desktop interface, Ubuntu has decided to run with its own desktop interface instead of Gnome's shell. The underlying desktop for Ubuntu 11.04 will still be based on Gnome but the actual interface that users will interact with will be Ubuntu's own Unity interface.

According to the makers of Jolicloud, the popular cloud-based netbook distro, something big is about to happen in the world of little computers. Introducing the Jolibook – the ‘Fast, Fun & Connected’ Jolicloud 1.1-powered netbook…

While the discussion surrounding the Wayland Display Server and Canonical's plans to deploy Ubuntu atop Wayland continue to be ongoing within our forums (here, here, and here) and elsewhere, some new technical capabilities and plans for Wayland have been discussed. Here's two features that Wayland is set to have that is not currently supported by the X.Org Server.

LinMin Embraces Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0’s Scalability and Performance Required in Enterprise and Service Provider Data Centers

I've been sitting on old kernels for too long in Fedora 13. First I kept 2.6.33.8-149 because I could use the open-source ati video driver, but then I moved to 2.6.34.7-56, where I had working and speedy video with the fglrx driver direct from ATI/AMD as well as the ability to mute the speakers fed by my Lenovo G555's Conexant 5069 sound chip.

ActiveState, the dynamic language experts offering solutions for Perl, Python, and Tcl, announced today a robust sales revenue growth rate of 43% for the third quarter of 2010 and an average revenue growth rate overall from last year, year-to-date (YTD) of 19%. These strong revenue growth rates were led by a stellar line up of new Business and Enterprise Edition customers in the second and third quarters this year over a wide range of verticals including high-tech, financial services, healthcare, and aerospace companies: BNP Paribas, Cardinal Health, Daiichi Sankyo USA, Health Now, Juniper Networks, McAfee, Northrop Grumman, Research Affiliates, Standard Chartered Bank China, Tesco Bank, Vodafone, Omnitel.

I was a bit tired of GDM's bland default brown background and the Clearlooks GTK theme so I deiced to change these. I did not want to install an application to accomplish these two simple configuration changes - luckily I didn't have to and neither do you.

Compiz 0.8.x has some very cool plugins which are marked as "experimental" and thus are not available in the Ubuntu repositories.

Having just discussed replication in Linux -- what it is, how it can be used and how it's not the same as a backup -- it's time to tackle a simple example of one of the replication tools: rsync. You will be surprised how easy it is to use rsync to replicate data to a second storage pool.

DuckDuckGo hereby pledges to tithe 10% of its income to free and open source software projects. I'm really hoping more companies will join me. Of course they'd be free to make their own requirements and allocation decisions, e.g. 10% of employee time vs income or allocations towards open source bounties, etc. I'll report back with pledge and donation amounts after the end of the year.

When you think of a giant lizard-monster stomping through a major metropolitan area, you tend to think of Godzilla. Or maybe Rodan. What you probably don’t think about is a non-profit corporation that helps millions around the world gain access to the information they need in their day-to-day lives…

You read the Fastest Flash article so you already know Ext4 can turbocharge your thumb drive. But you run Linux, so of course want even more! Is there anything else to do? Yup. Use a GPT (GUID Partition Table) rather than the usual MBR scheme. It will hop up flash performance on almost any filesystem -- not just Ext4.

Balancing work, home, school, or any other component of your life can be hectic. Many people use computers with the intention to simplify their lives, but that does not always happen. One of the biggest obstacles to effective use of computers is file and application organization. File managers, docks, panels, task bars, and other similar tools are all designed to make file management easier. KDE 4 offers an alternative to the traditional icons scattered all over the desktop with a Plasma widget called Shelf. Just like a shelf in a library, the shelf widget keeps files, folders, devices, and applications in order and easily accessible.

NoMachine NX plays an important role in providing schools in the developing country of Grenada with first-ever computing technology

Today We’ve received a letter from EditShare subscription. In this letter we’ve found that Lightworks is going to be released very soon, and we want to share these good news with you. Lightworks is a professional Non-linear video editing tool. First version of it was published in 1989, has since worked hard to compete with Apple products. British company, the developer has repeatedly resold, and ultimately purchased by EditShare last year.