Palm, HP's recent acquisition, has presented a limited beta version of the next generation of its mobile WebOS operating system. The release of a publicly available version is expected to arrive before the end of the year

Before Israel was founded in 1948 it made sense to conclude a Passover seder with the words “Next year in Jerusalem.” With Israel a reality the arguments over the phrase have changed. Yet they endure. Desktop Linux is the same sort of deal.

French vendor Archos is set on Android: At the IFA consumer electronics fair, the company presents a total of five mobile devices with Google's operating system - from a pocket model up to a 10.1-inch tablet PC

New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service

Novell is a semi-shut (or "mixed source") company, not "Open Source" as some Web sites falsely report

You may find our Python alarm clock too geeky or complicated, so I thought I should share with you an easier way to use your Linux desktop (particularly Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distributions) as alarm clock.

I decided to make a full post and a screencast for this - especially since there's an annoying bug when trying to make an app always open on a certain virtual desktop.

Okay, before we go any further I need to make it clear that we’re not talking about the latest adult video release, but rather a networking utility for Linux. Sorry. That cheeky tagline comes straight from the author. And it’s true!