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What types of apps will developers create for Google TV?

If the end of the year is a good time to take stock of all that's passed in the preceding 12 months, then why not the end of the summer? That, indeed, is just what Linux bloggers have been doing over the past week or so, thanks to a recent...

Firefox 3.6.9 now supports a server header which can help to prevent clickjacking. The new version also fixes 14 vulnerabilities, including the DLL vulnerability in the Windows version...

Have you run a virus scan lately? Nope? Don't need to, you say. That's because you run a Linux OS. Think again. To quote the title line of Bob Dylan's third studio album, "the times they are a-changin.'" Yes they are. And part of that change is the greater risk...

The Mozilla Labs Gaming project has announced its existence. "Modern Open Web technologies introduced a complete stack of technologies such as Open Video, audio, WebGL, touch events, device orientation, geo location, and fast JavaScript engines which make it possible to build complex (and not so complex) games on the Web.

The annual Ohio LinuxFest is a genuine grass-roots community event. It is one of the most fun and most worthwhile Linux fests, and one of the most welcoming-- everyone from brand-new Linux users, people curious about Linux, to wizened gurus and everyone in between are welcome.

When you're a fan of Linux, any blog post entitled "27 Good Reasons to Love Linux" is going to be impossible to resist. No wonder, then, that a recent post with just that title has created endless fodder for conversation in the Linux blogosphere of late.

The 1.10.0 release of the Cairo graphics library has finally been released. "One of the more interesting departures for cairo for this release is the inclusion of a tracing utility, cairo-trace. cairo-trace generates a human-readable, replayable, compact representation of the sequences of drawing commands made by an application. This can...

In the last week, I started working on the last big missing infrastructure piece of the mesh networking peer-to-peer network. A way to send messages between may two nodes in the peer-to-peer network. Each node communicates with at most 20 neighboring nodes, this is useful to form a mesh, but it only gets interesting is you can route messages by hopping from node to node. 

Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browser; the Account Manager feature - announced in April of this year - has now been dropped from the major browser update...

The KDE PIM Team has asked users to help test the third beta version of the KDE PIM Suite, whose components use the new Akonadi framework for storing data...

Packages for the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.5.1 are available. Bugs in packaging should be reported to kubuntu-ppa on Launchpad. Bugs in the software to KDE. Users of 10.04 LTS can install it from the Kubuntu Backports PPA. To update, use the Software Repository Guide to add the...

The FreeMED Software Foundation has been involved with a medical clinic and teaching project in Guatemala for some time. The project, hosted by Pop-Wuj, a non-profit Spanish language school in Xela (Quetzeltenango), Guatemala, hosts a medical clinic for the poor in the city and surrounding pueblos.

As a result of the openSUSE Boosters’ ‘HackMeck‘ two weeks ago at FrOSCoN we are proud to present you with a new beta of openSUSE Connect. Connect is supposed to become the central user database for the openSUSE project. Sounds bland, don”t it? But you know the Boosters, everything we do comes with a grain of spice and Connect is no different. The spice here are a lot of nifty social network features like user profiles, friending, groups, an event calendar and possibly more. Thats possible because on top of the user database we use a Free Software social network framework called Elgg. Elgg will help us to go a step further in one of the most important areas of the openSUSE project: Connecting our community. We do a very good job connecting code at the moment but there is no central place for openSUSE users to mingle, form relationships and...

Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo.

Mongrel2 is a language agnostic web server capable of routing web requests to applications written in any one of ten languages...

Google adds a new labs feature to its bleeding-edge version of Chrome to make it easier for users to test features that are still in development, but at least partially ready for users to explore.

Back in July we reported that Unigine Corp, the company behind the advanced Unigine gaming/3D engine, was working on its own strategy game. This game was supposed to be announced by the end of July, then in private we were told it got pushed back to the middle of August,...

New features enhance collaboration of the distributed version control system with GitHub's hosted service...

The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.4 of its free, open source Flash player, adding support for localisations and ActionScript exception handling.