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A very nice read out on Linux.com about a veteran developer, often with and for Microsoft products, decides to totally drop all ties to Microsoft products. An…

A new Linux kernel was released over the weekend by Linux Torvalds.

Summary states: 2.6.26 adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State P…

The SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards is open for your vote. In keeping with the community atmosphere, these awards are chosen by you an me.

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Google now provides Linux users with Google Gadget support. If you are not familiar with how gadgets work, it is similar to Yahoo! gadgets and the Mac's dashboard widgets, i.e., small utilities/…

The Sugar UI interface that has been made popular by the OLPC is available for others to use, i.e., not exclusive to the XO laptop. Sugar Labs Foundation is now the steward of Sugar and will also be…

I featured a couple of Twitter applications last year. Twelve months after, we have more Twitter applications for Linux users. A blog article from Fsckin.com features a total of twelve Twitter clients…

The Give One, Get One program of the One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) is about to end tomorrow and I have yet to get my hands on one.

My main contention is WHY is it only available in North America? I m…

KDE just released version 4.0 release candidate 2 of its desktop environment. This is the second to the last release candidate before it is released for distribution. This version claims to be up to 4…

Switchers from non-UNIX-based users are baffled why there is a need for a swap partition and/or file. Little did they know that most modern OS have their own way of doing this and it is just that in L…

Several years ago, I gave the task of creating a home-grown LiveCD to a couple of students hoping that the distribution will be used by the university. The students were able to finish it but the time…