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N8 will be the last Nokia N-series phone running Symbian operating system. Nokia's Symbian operating system has been dealt a further blow with the cellphone maker announcing it will be dropping it in favour of the Linux MeeGo operating system for its high-end smartphones.

For several years now, Sprint has been in next-to-last place among U.S. wireless network providers. But that might eventually change if Sprint continues to offer smartphones like the HTC EVO 4G ($200 with a new contract), a well-reviewed Android 2.1 handset boasting several firsts and currently a Sprint exclusive in the U.S.

Already reviewed GoogleCL on LinuxNOV on this post for how to use GoogleCL without using Graphical User Interface, but in this post will show simple script for GoogleCL also you... readmore

I found a useful sound effect in an online video from NASA which replaces an earlier temporary sound I used in a scene soundtrack for the Lunatics pilot, “No Children in Space.” I’m going to extract the sound from the video (with VLC), cut out the sound I need, clean it up, and insert it into an existing sound mix (all with Audacity). This should give you some insight into using Audacity and a VLC on a real project. Read the full howto at Free Software Magazine.

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst has a cautionary message for VMware partners and customers. Indeed, Whitehurst claims VMware over the next few years will suffer the same fate as Sun Microsystems. Here’s what Whitehurst had to say.

NetUP have released a new version of IPTV Complex, an interactive TV software bundle. It introduces new graphic interface featuring a number of improvements both in design and on technical level.

Nokia announced that Symbian would no longer be used to power the company's popular N series of smartphones. The replacement? MeeGo, the jointly developed, Linux-based OS developed by Intel and Nokia.

Bijk is a web service offering a whole bunch of server monitoring capabilities with a simple setup and at no cost. It supports most of the popular flavours of Linux used on servers. And it creates neat-looking graphs from the data…

Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 was just released featuring faster search, quick filter toolbar, better migration assistant and many other improvements.

MeeGo, the open source operating system shepherded by Intel and Nokia, announced the first annual MeeGo Conference. Slated for November 15-17, the conference takes place in Dublin Ireland with more details set to come. As of now, registration and paper submissions have yet to be announced and sponsors haven't even been nailed down.

Linux is regularly accused of being too fragmented but Microsoft has its own minefield to navigate. One of the regular criticisms levelled against Linux is that with so many versions available the platform is "fragmented". The idea is that because there are so many "distributions" of Linux, users will be confused and unsure of which to pick.

A little over a month ago we released the Linux port of Osmos, promising statistics on our sales and downloads. We wanted to find out - from a financial perspective, for our studio - “is it worth porting games to Linux?” The short, simple answer… is “yes.” Did we get rich off it? No. But the time we invested was repaid, with room for margin of error, and possibly with a little extra at the end. Allow me to break it down..

nVidia released the new 256.35 display drivers as stable, just 2 days after the release candidate.

With many Linux distributions receiving major updates in recent weeks and months we have carried out a five-way Linux distribution comparison of openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, and Arch Linux. We have quite a number of tests comparing the 32-bit performance of these popular Linux distributions on older PC hardware.

Linux has changed almost beyond recognition since version 1.0 in 1994 and Ubuntu is about as polished and professional as it gets. It's approaching the level of polish of Mac OS X, is faster and easier to install than Windows, includes a whole suite of apps and offers tens of thousands more, runs on cheap commodity hardware and costs nothing.

In this article series by Reynante Martinez, we’ll discuss the following: * What is a particle system and where can we find it in Blender? * What are the types of Blender particle system? * Basic and practical uses of the Particle System * Creating Dust * Creating Smoke * Creating Fire * Creating Bubbles * Simulating Rock Slides * Creating Hair/Fur/Grass

This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Ubuntu 10.04). The GRUB2 bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

Microsoft and Red Hat, Linux and Windows aren't supposed to get along right? But they do, and apparently Microsoft and Red Hat are now getting along very well too. During a Q&A session during Red Hat's Analyst Day this week, Red Hat revealed that it's relationship with Microsoft isn't as stormy as it once was. "That relationship with Microsoft, believe it or not, is pretty strong,"Paul Cormier executive vice president and president, products and technologies at Red Hat said.

agedu scans a directory tree and produces reports about how much disk space is used in each directory and subdirectory, and also how that usage of disk space corresponds to files with last-access times a long time ago.

The VideoLAN project is shipping version 1.1 of its open source VLC media player, adding hardware acceleration, WebM support, and faster HD decoding, but deleting Shoutcast support. Meanwhile, several industry reports suggest possible reasons for Adobe's temporary suspension of its beta 64-bit Linux version of Flash.