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The Time to Listen is Now. Linux Not Microsoft

It was the year 2001. And the world of Windows users were in high levels of anticipation for the arrival...

HTC Myst: Putting Facebook First

The social giant Facebook is always looking for novel ways to engage more and more users. Although the much hyped about “Facebook smartphone” never...

Confirmed. New Facebook Home Service Coming to Android

Less than 24 hours ago, a potentially massive announcement was made by the Founder and CEO of Facebook. The announcement...

NVIDIA Linux Driver Vulnerability Exploits Root Privileges!

According to NVIDIA there is a major vulnerability in their UNIX/Linux driver that every Linux user should be aware of. Especially now, that most...

GNOME 3.8 Released. Brings Back Classic Mode

This morning, GNOME 3.8 was released. While there are many new exciting features for the GNOME Shell...

Is Android malware capable of devouring your children?

The whole Android world is reeling in shock. Reports of Android being plagued by malware attacks are coming in from various sections. And there...

Kali Linux Released

If you consider yourself a penetration tester or security expert then you are already aware of BackTrack Linux, a distro well known for its...

OpenShot goes cross-platform

OpenShot Video Editor is a program designed to create and edit videos on Linux.  It can easily combine multiple video clips, audio clips, and...

The Basics of Everything – DNS

Following on from our previous post by one of my colleagues, I thought it would be a good idea to dive a little deeper...

KDE Telepathy 0.6 beta released

KDE Telepathy is an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client for KDE desktop, which supports text, voice, video, file transfers, and...

Vokoscreen: A new screencasting tool for Linux

The last few years, many users upload their how-to videos (also known as videorials -- like tutorials) in Youtube, showing their Linux desktop and...

Linux Steam client on rampage

Just a few weeks after the official release of the Linux client for Valve’s Steam gaming platform, Linux gamers are on rampage, making up...

Gentoo bugday is back

For once you have tasted Gentoo you will compile the kernel with your eyes turned red monitor-squared, for there you have been and experiencing...

Microsoft goes soft on Office, to debut Linux version by 2014

Looks like Linux has finally challenged the dominance of decades of proprietary office document software. As the market share of Android devices continues to make...

Introduction to LanyFS

Back in July 2012, I had the privilege of talking with Dan Luedtke. He was busy working on a new project for his studies,...

How to Securely Share Files Between Linux Systems

Last week, I posted a “How To” on how to share files using an FTP server. Unfortunately, FTP is not what is considered secure,...

Adobe bundles Game Developing Tools with new Creative Cloud

If you are a keen game developer and have a cache of games hidden away on your desktop, then it will soon be time...

Top Linux Stories Roundup 2012

And we are on the verge to cross yet another year and blog posts regarding the year-in-review have already started to pour in on...