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As you spend more-and-more of your time on the Internet and connecting with others, Flock can help to streamline repetitive social activities.

Can Intel’s Moblin revive the ailing Linux netbook market? The Moblin v2.0 beta release is giving it a try with a very slick update.

The vast of amount of data being stored in this day and age, naturally leads to files sitting unused for longer and longer periods of time. A new app, agedu, can quickly tell you what data on your filesystem is lying fallow.

"Making the world’s knowledge computable" — Sounds like a job for parallel computing.

Tired of Arial and Verdana? Add some sizzle to your Web pages with a new open source project that can render any font in a page. (Flash not required.)

Download, install and go to work in less than an hour.

The founder of btrfs talks about features, terabyte raid arrays and comparisons with ZFS.

The latest Firefox may still be in beta but it boasts a number of behind-the-scenes features that will make developing for the web easier as well as end-user changes that add new functionality, like private browsing and support for drag and drop.

The TomTom case exposed a long-simmering problem resulting from the combination of patents, proprietary software companies and open source. Andrew Tridgell recently patched Linux’s VFAT implementation, but the cult of silence that surrounds intellectual property will bedevil open source projects for some time to come.

Linux cracks 1% of the OS client market. But does this 1% represent the path forward, or the beginning of the end?

In part 2 of this interview, Linus talks about the process of managing kernel developer commits, selecting a revision control system and how he personally uses git.

The latest release of Postgres has a slew of built-in features that allow you to improve both performance and systems administration. Learn how you take advantage of them.

Linus reflects on 18 years of working on Linux, the developer ecosystem and his goal for Linux on the desktop.

ZFS may be locked into the Solaris operating system but “Butter FS” is on the horizon and it’s boasting more features and better performance.

Oracle picks up SUN for $7.4 billion and gets MySQL in the bargain. Did the world's most popular open source database just get put on life support. Or have it's plug pulled?

Open call for nominations: Whether you’re a systems administrator in a datacenter, a software developer, or just really like to use the latest open devices we want your feedback.

Take a screenshot tour of Novell’s latest release of SLED. Get the scoop on what’s new and what works (and what doesn’t).

Checking out improvements to Rails’ ActiveRecord object, including dynamic scopes and batches.

Destined to become the default file system for the more popular Linux distributions, ext4 is out of experimental mode and gearing up for production environments. Here’s what you need to know.