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FreetuxTV is a TV player for Linux that lets you watch free Web TV Channels and listen to Radio. The application that runs on VLC backend comes with lots of pre-added channels for many languages. The most interesting feature is the ability to record TV shows while you are away.

Basenji is a tool which indexes your removable media such as CDs/DVDs and USB sticks and keeps a history of the data on each media you add to its database so you can later easily search / browse for something on your CDs/DVDs or USB sticks without actually plugging them into your computer.

Google has filed its Answer with Counterclaims to Oracle's patent and copyright infringement complaint, and how! It's a very aggressive and confident response to Oracle's complaint. Google asks that Oracle's complaint be dismissed, for a judgment in favor of all its counterclaims, for a declaratory judgment that Google has not infringed or contributed to any infringement of any of the patents, a declaration of the invalidity of all the Oracle patents, and a declaration that all Oracle's claims are barred by laches, equitable estoppel and/or waiver, and unclean hands. It wants Oracle to have to pays its costs and expenses of this litigation, including Google's attorneys' fees and expert witness fees, asking for a judgment that this is an exceptional case warranting it.

The topic, "Should I try OpenBSD/FreeBSD?" came up recently on the Fedora Forum, and while I answered there, my answer is sufficiently long-winded enough to spin into a blog post.

This is the first in a series about using the "command line" in Linux. It is also about knowing when to use a gui instead. But before going into any of that we need to understand what is meant by a "command line" application. You'll find that as we explore that idea, a lot of things that are not really true 'cli' (command line interface) apps arguably count as cli, including menu driven console based apps and even gui apps. This will be controversial. Let's start with some basic definitions. If anyone has any problems with any of the following just let me know. Consider this a first draft subject to revision!

A full review of Trisquel 4.0 LTS. There are Linux distros that contain some free software and there are Linux distros that contain only free software. Trisquel is one of the latter distros; you will find only free software included with it. If you want proprietary software, you’ll definitely have to look elsewhere. Trisquel is perfect for Linux purists who only want truly free software on their computers.

Google announced some major content partners for its Google TV platform and revealed some more information on the Android-and Intel Atom-based IPTV platform. New Google TV content partners include Turner Broadcasting, NBC Universal, HBO, Twitter, and Amazon.com, says the company.

Google has responded to Oracle's lawsuit over the use of Java in Android, claiming that the mobile OS does not violate Oracle's patents – while accusing Ellison and company of a certain Java open source hypocrisy. In August, Oracle filed a complaint in federal court alleging that Google deliberately infringed various Java-related patents and copyrights that Oracle acquired in purchasing Sun Microsystems. The suit claimed infringement of seven patents by the Android OS, specifically pointing to Android's Dalvik virtual machine and the Android software development kit.

Keeping the insides of our computers clean is a good practice, but canned air is expensive and wasteful. One alternative is portable air compressor. My home computers live in a dirty environment; out here in the country we have real dirt and lots of it. So I take them outside a couple of times a year and blow out all the accumulated dirt and bugs. Sometimes it's enough to plant potatoes.

Drivers in 2.6.36 include considerably improved support for infra-red receivers and remotes, optimised USB drivers, and a solution for a much discussed problem that Android developers, in one way or another, had solved long ago.

Android Patently Challenged, Blackberry steps to the table(t). For months it seems as though the noise in the main stream mobile market has been a two pony race. It has been a contest between the dessert-minded OS gang from Google versus the black turtle-neck-wearing content-company otherwise known as Apple.

The Linux New Media learning portal, Linux Magazine Academy, is presenting online training courses in English to prepare candidates for the LPI certification exams: http://academy.linux-magazine.com. Completely new for the English language videos, the double-screen streaming solution shows the trainers simultaneously with their presentation material.

Microsoft is taking Motorola to court with allegations that its Android smartphones violate a number of Microsoft patents. It is hard to tell if the real target is Motorola, or Android itself, but one thing seems certain--patent suits as a product strategy are getting old, and ultimately it seems that all parties lose in the long run.

Yes! As of today noon, paid apps are now visible on my Android Nexus One in India. Noting down a few salient points about this which includes some more worldwide marketplace changes. Also, look at the end to see how to get paid apps if you are not able to see them yet.

In the city of Gainesville, which is the majority of Hall County Georgia, open source software is starting to make an impact. For the past two weeks, I have been taking note of the software installed on machines that come in for repairs. The results, so far, have been rather astonishing...

This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into ProFTPd for virus scanning on a Debian Lenny system. This is achieved through mod_clamav. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through ProFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware.

October traditionally kicks off the year-end release festival for Linux users. Almost all of the major distributions have a new version in its final stages of development and ready to be launched into public. Among these are Ubuntu, Fedora and OpenSuse.

This post is targeting pvops kernel 2.6.32.23 configuration close to 2.6.34.7 aka Suse 11.3 Xenified kernel. This config by some reasons allows OpenSolaris134/OpenIndiana147 PV Guest obtain IP address pretty stable on systems Xen 4.0.1 & PVOPS like it happens on OpenSuse 11.3 with Xen Hypervisor upgraded up to 4.0.1 and the most recent XenLinux 2.6.34.7 kernel.

The final release of Ubuntu 10.10 Marevick Meerkat will be out this week, after you install or upgrade to this new release you will need to customize your ubuntu by installing all needed software, tools, games and repositories your system, in this post you can find Top things to do after installing Maverick Meerkat.

It is well known on the Debian Community that the Stable version, is aimed for production environments mainly focused on stability and security, but not in having the latest packet versions. Therefore desktop users usually use Testing version for desktop environments, but this leads to some problems, as it is not intended for normal use, but for development and testing of the new stable version. Some of those problems as Mr. Hertzog states are that some packages could just dissapear, or broke the system, among other problems. Do not think this happens a lot, but it could happen.