Stéphane Teletchea is working in a French research laboratory. He is also contributing to Mandriva Linux as a tester and packager for some years now. What follows is his testimony in Mandriva Linux use for his daily scientific work.

In hindsight, it is claimed that Red Hat too has an ambivalent view on the subject of software patents, at least historically; Novell, as expected, is not against software patents

icoGEN will generate for you  whole new iconsets based on SVG files. You can change colors of icon, see preview of the result, and finally apply generated theme.

For some reason getdeb site is not stable for quite some time so if you want mirror site use the following ones in your sources.list file

A month ago we began reporting some Linux hardware statistics from those Phoronix Test Suite users that utilize Phoronix Global for uploading their test results publicly so that they can share their benchmark scores with others and make it very easy for their friends or colleagues to compare their performance numbers via the Internet.

As well as churning out millions of electronics devices for sale under upscale brand names like Apple's, China's manufacturers have a tendency to produce lookalikes at low prices, mainly for the Asian markets. The iPed is one of the first.

What's the big deal about Linux Mint and why is it so popular among Linux users? It's because that it includes a number of improvements and tweaks that aren't set up out-of-the-box in the base Ubuntu distribution

Now, a wave of homegrown programmers, developers and software makers claim to be heralding a new era of African independence.