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Everything is moving to the Web, including the tools being used to build applications. Ask any serious software developer which programming tools they use and the chances are that you will hear the name 'Eclipse' more than a few times. Eclipse is one of the most popular programming IDEs, or integrated development environments.

Proxmox Virtual Environment is an easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Machines. Proxmox VE is simple to use: Pre-built Virtual Appliances, Install and manage with a few clicks.

Canonical (Ubuntu's parent company) finally is putting in something that is NOT included in Debian: the Unity Desktop. I just got done with an article all about how Linux is flexible, that the same applications can be presented in ways to suit anyone's preferences with different window managers and desktop environments, so let's check out Unity.

When you use awk with operators levels, comparisons and ranges can be part of the data search.

It wasn’t too long ago that I did a very late review of Debian 5. I’m happy to say that it didn’t take me nearly as long to get around to the latest release, Debian 6 Squeeze. If you aren’t familiar with Debian then this release is a great chance to learn about a distro that is the foundation for a lot of other distributions including Ubuntu, Linux Mint and others.

"When asked about the possibility of dumping Windows in favor of Linux, AISD technol­o­gy director Gray Salada said that in terms of a cost-benefit analysis, it simply isn't worth it. Windows comes preinstalled on most computers, he said, so there is little savings to be realized from removing it and incurring the costs of retraining teachers and the district's 12 engineers, who are already proficient in Windows, to support Linux."

And therein lies the problem within the Austin Independent School District.

The mail server can increase speed by placing a caching-nameserver on the mail server itself. This provides recursive lookups and a cache for the mail server to work with. The caching-nameserver does not require much resources and is easy to install.

The time command is an excellent tool for analyzing the performance of a shell script or command. Simply type time followed by the command that you wish to time. Three results are printed when the program or script finishes executing: the actual length of time (real-world time spent on the program), the total time spent in the program, and the total time spent on CPU overhead. The first figure is perhaps the most useful, but the third figure will tell you how busy your CPU is.

Robotics is the branch of artifical intelligence concerned with the study of robots, automatically guided machines which are able to carry out tasks and functions on their own. Robotics covers a wide spectrum of areas including the design, construction, operation and manufacture of robots.

Fuduntu 14.8-4 is proving to be a solid release, with no significant issues reported since release on January 29th. Development focus now shifts towards Fuduntu 14 maintenance, and planning for Fuduntu 15.

By performing these basic commands you will begin to see the power and flexibility of the Linux utility awk. This exercise is designed to start you down the path of using awk.

MPEG LA, the organisation which acts as a patent pool for many royalty bearing standards, including H.264 and MPEG2, has begun a search for patents which are considered "essential" to Google's open source and royalty free WebM/VP8 video codec. The move by MPEG LA is the first step in possibly creating a patent pool which would be able to demand royalties for the use of WebM/VP8.

An update for Pinguy OS 10.04 LTS was released today: 10.04.2. For those who are not familiar with Pinguy OS: it's an Ubuntu remaster with a lot of useful default applications "built to have eye candy (Gloobus Preview, GNOME Do, Docky, Nautilus Elementary) and for every part of it to be user-friendly".

I’ve discovered Linux in 1995 and I have been using it as my only home/work operating system since then. I still love it and mean to continue to use and promote it, but in the last 2/3 weeks it’s become almost impossible. In this page I explain why, hoping to get and collect useful suggestions.

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.