Sitting incongruously among the hangars and laboratories of NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley is the squat facade of an old McDonald's. You won't get a burger there, though-its cash registers and soft-serve machines have given way to old tape drives and modern computers run by a rogue team of hacker engineers who've rechristened the place McMoon's. These self-described techno-archaeologists...
Albatross-X (20130906) is available. Albatross-X is a 32-bit Linux-based desktop operating system featuring the Xfce graphical desktop environment. Albatross Technologies Unlimited strives to put control of your computer back where it belongs, in your hands....
X Distro is a new Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution which focuses on being attractive and easy to use. The project is controlled by its community, organizations and relies on the contributions of individuals, working as testers, writers, usability experts, artists and ambassadors or developers. The project embraces a wide variety of technology, people with different levels of expertise, speaking...
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 14.04LTS (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on anUbuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support....
Mint 17 is a good, solid desktop that Linux and Windows XP users alike will feel at home in....
The administration in the Austrian capital, Vienna, is expanding its use of open source solutions, including on its workstations, because of new requirements, open data, budget constraints and the major shift towards smartphones and tablets."Open source helps to solve IT vendor lock-in situations", Norbert Weidinger, ICT-Strategist for the city, said in a presentation on the city's use of free...
Having an excellent base from which to build, LXLE releases can head straight into beta testing thanks to the superb work already performed by Canonical and their LXDE desktop team a.k.a. Lubuntu. The LXLE 14.04 release attempts to continue some successful ideas portrayed in the 12.04 series, addresses known issues and bugs, and attempts to fulfill known shortcomings of the OS. This first beta of LXLE...
In a recent article I explained the merits of Windows XP users choosing PCLinuxOS over Ubuntu. But what about Mint? Do I live in a parallel universe where Linux Mint ceases to exist?...
As we have reported before about Epic Games adding in Linux support for Unreal Engine 4.1 it is now a reality. Unreal Engine 4.1 has been released!...
Ikey Doherty is probably one of the most tech-smart people I know. Fact is, Ikey is much like that guy you hear about on the news, the guy that can hear a string of four digit numbers and tell you the sum of them in a couple of seconds. Now, I don’t know if Ikey is capable of that feat, but I do know what he can do....
Valve just released an update for its Steam desktop client. This update addresses bugs and stability improvements across all platforms, and includes support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Gamers in Linux now can select a voice input device when using “Big Picture” mode....
For many years we've written about the serious problems with CAFC, the court of appeals for the federal circuit, which is better known as the appeals court where all patent cases go. CAFC was created in the early 1980s under the belief that a more "specialized" court could better handle the more complicated technical issues related to patents. But what really happened is that it basically built a club...
Thanks to the recent fiasco of The Witcher 2 I wanted to write down some thoughts on why we shouldn't accept bad quality ports from developers....
Learning a new programming language can be a daunting experience. To help break down the barriers, this article presents our pick of the finest free programming books available to download over the net. There is 1 book selected per language, which made selection problematic to say the least. ...
In the wake of the Heartbleed OpenSSL security disaster, The Linux Foundation has brought together both open-source supporters and companies better known for proprietary software to fund mission-critical open-source projects....
First, a brief rant about Ubuntu, then a few hints to make the latest version less annoying....
Netrunner 14 RC1 available. Netrunner 14 Frontier (RC1), the first release candidate of our upcoming standard version based on Kubuntu 14.04 LTS is available for testing. It comes with the following features: Linux kernel 3.13, KDE 4.13.0, Telepathy 0.8.1, Skype 4.2.0.11, Firefox 29.0, Thunderbird 24.5.0, LibreOffice 4.2.3rc3, VLC 2.1.2. Please help us test and report bugs in our forums....
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court smacked down the Federal Circuit (CAFC) for its made up rules that made it almost impossible to enable victims of patent trolls to get the courts to order the trolls to pay legal fees. As the Supreme Court noted, CAFC seemed to set up arbitrary rules for no reasons at all. And this is important, because courts almost never award legal fees, and with the untimely...
What is a Cloud? Depending on who you are talking to, you’ll get different answers to this question. A technically savvy end-user might define cloud as the ability to store and access personal or business data on-demand, over the internet, without having to store it locally. A business might define cloud as an IT infrastructure […] Read More: What is Cloud Computing? Introduction to Cloud...
The announcement has gone out. The gist? Flash will no longer work with Chromium on Linux. Many of you are probably wondering, "What is Chromium?" Essentially, Chromium is the open-source version of Google's massively popular browser, Chrome. The big Flash debacle is simple: the old way of handling Flash (within a browser) is insecure. It was driven by the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI) -- an architecture...