Though Performous is a really fun open source karaoke game, I'll spare you the sound bite of me singing along with my favorite tune (trust me, you don't want to hear). Instead, you'll want to go download this cool cross-platform app and spend the day crooning into your hairbrush and pretending you're Elvis.
Read more »Intellectual Ventures Takes Indirect Route to Court
Patent-hoarding giant Intellectual Ventures has long beat the drum that it doesn't file lawsuits. But now Intellectual Ventures has started selling some of its 27,000 patents to people who aren't afraid to sue...
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Red Hat Aims RHEL 5.4 At The Cloud
New operating system release and hypervisor development work put the open source vendor on a collision course with VMware and Microsoft
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Cracked in 60 Seconds: WPA Falls
It has long been predicted that WPA (wireless encryption) would go the way of WEP and become ineffective. Japanese researchers demonstrate that WPA can be broken as quickly as WEP---in less than a minute.
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Vixta Linux 2009.7
A lot of Windows users have considered switching to Linux and usually when they do switch it means getting used to a whole new look and feel on their desktop computers. But what happens when Linux is made to look like Windows? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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Guru Tips For The Linux Road Warrior
There is also a growing army of stealth Linux road warriors, that are running under the radar.
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Metadata Performance of Four Linux File Systems
Using the principles of good benchmarking, we explore the metadata performance of four linux file systems using a simple benchmark, fdtree.
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Open Source Is Polluting the Windows Experience
It's like a cancer: a creeping, deadly disease that slowly erodes all that's good and clean, replacing it with a swill of malignancy and decrepitude.
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Android software development relatively unprofitable
Matt Hall at the game developers Larva Labs has complained in a blog entry of low sales in Google's Android application store. In August, the company generated an average revenue of $62.39 per day with two games.
Read more »Comparing windows and Linux hardware management.
An operating systems most basic function is to act as a layer between the computer hardware and the user space programs. What an operating system provides to those user space programs is a standard interface to the computers hardware, no matter what type of hardware that is.
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Simple, Fast, and Geeky Console-based Audio Players for Linux
To those of you who are new to Linux, you may not know that you can use the shell terminal to do some fun stuff like play games, watch Star Wars, and even browse the web. You can even blast your favorite music with it, which I will be showing you how.
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Make your own Wayback Machine or Time Machine in GNU/Linux with rsnapshot
A good backup system can help you recover from a lot of different kinds of situations: a botched upgrade (requiring re-installation), a hard drive crash, or even thumb-fingered users deleting the wrong file. In practice, though I've experienced all of these, it's the last sort of problem that causes me the most pain. Sometimes you just wish you could go back a few days in time and grab that file.
Read more »Kolibri - a desktop operating system in under 3 MB
What if I told you that I was recently running a modern operating system that requires about 5 MB of disk space and about 10 MB of RAM? That sounds like a stretch, doesn't it, even for Tiny Core Linux?
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The Best Image Viewers For Linux
Below are a selection of Image Viewers that provide more features than the default application and how they compare against it.
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A Few Details On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 was just released, but Red Hat engineers have already been working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and today a few details regarding this next major feature release were learned during the Red Hat Summit in Chicago.
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