With the end of the next kernel version's main development phase, the most important new features of Linux 2.6.33 have been determined: DRBD, Nouveau, support of the Trim ATA command and a bandwidth controller for block devices. The developers have also improved the Radeon drivers and the support of Intel Wi-Fi chips.

Writing about the best and worst in operating system is like a crap magnet: I'm pressing the big red button.

What is it that really holding Linux & FOSS software back from absolute domination? In a sentence "go read the source code". The thing that's meant to be its strength is its greatest flaw. But its fixable, fix this one, stand well back, watch the World Change!

This Postfix tutorial explains the vacation message option of Postfixadmin which allows you to conveniently send an automatic reply when you're not available. This installation is for Ubuntu 9.10 but should work for just about any Linux distro.

Screenshot tool 'Shutter' shuffles into view as we continue our 12 favourite applications of 2009 countdown.

First things first - Shutter is quite possibly the best Screenshot tool ever created. Period."

Oracle commits to swallowing but not devouring the dolphin, whereas the creator of MySQL database, who is now with Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation, lobbies with Microsoft against it

If you yearn for the operating systems or arcade games of the past, and are willing to make the effort to bring them back to life, free and open source software is definitely the way to go. Green screens and might-have beens, operating systems and games, BeOS, Amiga OS or DOS can be relived and replayed through a host of emulators, simulators or rewrites in varying stages of completion.

The USPTO needs advice from the public as flaws are realised and a solution is seen as required