According to Google's Platform Versions device dashboard, half of the total number of Android devices in circulation are now running version 2.1 of Android - up by nearly 18% compared to early May

SL is a Linux release put together by Fermilab, CERN, and various other labs and universities. Its primary purpose is to reduce duplicated effort of the labs, and to have a common install base for the various experimenters.

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. To use Conky, you must manually set it up - and that's not easy as you must manually create the configuration file and customize it yourself. But now you can do this a lot easier using ConkyWizard, a GUI written in Qt and C++ to set up Conky and customize everything visually.

Novice Windows users know very little about Linux. Just imagine this poor Windows user locked in a room, surrounded by 300 bouncing penguins crying out: "Try me, try me, TRY M-EEE!" Appalled, the user yells: "But which one is Linux??"

Enterprises can be skittish about open source because they don’t understand there are two types

RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools  written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use. Currently, it is integrated into the Nautilus file manager and only supports Subversion, but our goal is to incorporate other version control systems as well as other file managers.

At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling close to half a billion active users. This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that.

Java father James Gosling has endorsed plans to juice managed runtimes on Linux from a company that was once at loggerheads with Sun Microsystems over his beloved language.