Subversion is a version control system: It keeps a record of changes over the lifetime of a file, allowing you to revert to an earlier version at will. It's particularly useful for code projects, but it can handle, and be useful for, pretty much any type of file (e.g., for tutorials!). It's available as a package for most Linux distros, or as source from the web site.

Microsoft security news: bounty on cyber-criminals; botnet problem; "critical" vulnerabilities and more

How many times have you searched in several places for information about your hardware ? This happens often when we are asking for a solution to some problem in a forum. The first thing you’re asked to do is tell what your hardware specs are. Instead of going through all the proc filesystem gathering the information, I find the ls* family of tools very useful.

Video demo of Elive E17 Compiz - Just released is this demo of the new feature/s.

Over the past 4 months we have continued to receive a steady stream of emails from individuals recommending games that were not included in our previous free game articles. After much testing, we have whittled down these users' recommendations to a list of 21 highly addictive Linux games

Boudewijn Rempt has summarised results of development for the next version of Krita, the painting and image editing application for KOffice. Krita 2.0 will contain a host of new features, some of which are unique in the free software world. Below Piotr introduces some of the new features which will be available in this release.

System rescue cd from http://www.sysresccd.org/ include clam anti virus, during our standard operating procedure process I use this cd as one of virus detector.