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Independent game developer KarjaSoft announces the Linux version of Spandex Force, a tongue-in-cheek puzzle game with RPG elements.
Spandex Force is a superhero-themed puzzle game that lets the player create his or her own hero to clean up the crime-infested town of Vigilance Valley. The game features many different kinds of minigames including, but not limited […]

The Kingston 8GB Class 4 Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Memory Card offers larger-volume data storage and optimized recording performance with support for FAT 32 file formats. In addition, this card complies with Kingston’s Class 4 speed rating, which means that the card provides a minimum data transfer rate of 4MB/sec. for optimum performance in […]

OpenOffice.org is becoming more and more widely used. OpenOffice.org’s Open Document Format (ODF) has received both OASIS and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) approval - a first for an office file format - and some countries, such as Belgium and Malaysia, to name but two, will be migrating government offices to ODF. But for […]

Mandriva, the number one European Linux publisher, will gather its community of users across the globe during a worldwide install party on Saturday, November 19th.
Following the release of Mandriva Linux 2006, Mandriva is mobilizing its network of Linux User Groups (LUGs). Free community installation sessions will take place around the world. Major participating locations include […]

Nokia’s Linux-based Tablet will be available in the USA this Thursday, a week after its European debut.

In this introductory article, Jon Watson provides an easy guide to installing the new Open Office source on non-rpm Linux systems. The emphasis is on the use of alien to help convert rpm packages for quick installation to the latest Debian releases.

The open-source PHP Group has shipped a new version of the general-purpose scripting language to fix several potentially serious security vulnerabilities.

Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. is aggressively pushing to get Xen virtualization technology included in the Linux kernel as quickly as possible.

A Taiwanese systems integrator is readying a tiny Linux-powered PC likely to make even Mac Mini owners envious. The AOpen MiniPC measures 6.5 x 6.5 x 2 inches, is powered by an Intel Pentium M or Celeron M processor, and runs Linspire Linux.

QEMU is an open source cross-platform emulator for Linux hosts. It allows you to emulate a number of hardware architectures (x86, x86-64, and PowerPC are currently known to work, with others, including SPARC and MIPS, in development). QEMU thereby lets you run another operating system on top of your existing OS. Going through the process […]

Welcome to LAMP 101. Two years ago, the general IT population still didn’t know exactly what LAMP was; it was a well-kept “hobby” in the dark corners of enterprise development. Although it still hasn’t reached the height of cocktail conversation, LAMP has come a long way, building momentum among developers and reaching the ears of […]

Slackware is old-school Linux. Back in the day — before Red Hat seized the throne — Pat Volkerding’s Linux distribution was the undisputed king of the hill. Many still use it today. By the time I started playing with Linux in 1995, or running my Web server with it in 1996, Slackware’s slump in market […]

A week after stating that the OpenDocument standard requires some development in order to be used, Corel has reaffirmed its commitment to the OpenDocument Format, and called for its adoption.

Novell unveiled Suse Linux 10.0. It is designed among Linux distributions to create a user-friendly experience, delivering everything that enthusiast and home users need to get started with Linux. Additionally, Suse Linux 10.0 includes more than 1,500 open source Linux applications and packages that can be optionally installed for advanced Web hosting, application development and […]

BitTorrent has become one of the most widely used apps on the Internet — so popular, in fact, that it’s estimated that over 33% of all Internet traffic is now generated by BitTorrent. 33%! It’s not that surprising, really. BitTorrent is an awesome tool.

Mozilla has had to delay the first release candidate of Firefox 1.5 by a few days to smash some late-appearing bugs, a company employee announced late Monday.

Over the years, I’ve used many methods to motivate beta-testers: bonuses, threats, whips…
Whatever it took.
But, BitDefender, a security software provider headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, is trying an approach I never used: free beer.

The new MySQL 5.0 combines enterprise-grade reliability and performance with advanced SQL 2003 standard-compliant features, making it the most cost-effective database solution for business-critical applications. The product’s new functionality will be especially familiar to database developers and DBAs of proprietary relational database systems — allowing IT departments to ease the integration and transition of their […]

Debian’s APT makes installing software a breeze: you just run apt-get update&&apt-get upgrade to download and install the latest versions of all your software, or apt-get install widget to install widget on your machine. Pretty easy and painless. But now there’s something available that’s even easier and more painless: klik.

Why would you want to use a beta of Firefox when you an have a more stable release? The version that comes with Breezy Badger has a bad memory leak - and 1.5 runs faster.