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Current U.S. court ruling could jeopardise the future of software innovation – Linux User & Developer magazine’s news reporter Rory MacDonald explains all…

Screencasts have become a very popular way to make tutorials to explain how software or services work in recent years. Let’s look at how you can make them of your own cool project, or anything cool you’re doing with Linux…

As budgets tighten, governments around the world are firming up their open source pledges. Rory MacDonald investigates if 2011 might well be the year open source breaks into the public sector…

Swayam Prakasha concludes his excellent three part series on shell scripting with some of the more advanced concepts, including two very useful commands…

Gareth Halfacree takes the KDE spin of popular desktop Linux distribution Ubuntu, known as Kubuntu, through its paces…

Mozilla Jetpack is designed to make it incredibly easy to build Firefox add-ons using a number of common web technologies like HTML and JavaScript. Join Kunal Deo as he demonstrates how to get setup ready for your creative juices to start flowing…

The Jolicloud team have today announced their intention to release Jolicloud 1.1 for download later today with updates rolling out to current Jolicloud users during this week. Click through for more details…

Hot on the heels of Ubuntu 10.10, the Linux Mint project announced the release of Mint 10 code-named Julia. Dmitri Popov takes a look at what the new version of this polished and user friendly Linux distro has to offer

Apple makes some great hardware, but their closed eco system is far from Linux-friendly. Thankfully it can be done – here’s how you can use your iPad, iPhone and iPod with your Ubuntu Linux computer…

These virtualization tips and techniques are presented to educate, save money and save endless Googling for answers. With luck they’ll propel your virtualization efforts forward with new momentum and with minimal frustration helping you to improve the performance, reliability and security of your virtual machines.

Linux User & Developer magazine reviews four of the best netbook distros currently available in a bid to uncover the ultimate open source user experience for your netbook computer…

The latest beta release of Pardus Linux sports a slew of tweaks and under-the-hood improvements. But does the new release make the distro a viable alternative to the Ubuntus and Fedoras of this world? Dmitri Popov investigates…

The Selenium project has some very useful tools for testing your web applications, including an excellent Firefox extension. In this tutorial we get started with Selenium IDE and RC…

Gareth Halfacree takes a look at the final release of Fedora 14, and sees if the Red Hat-based distro has what it takes to conquer the desktop market…

In his latest column Jon Masters covers the new Tile architecture in the 2.6.36 kernel, scalability concerns in the IMA security subsystem, and looks ahead to 2.6.37 development…

With ARM processors growing in popularity in the server market, now is a great time to start thinking about brushing up your development skills on the architecture…

Simon Brew wonders if there are 20 billion reasons why the spirit of open source is being distorted. Over $20bn. Twenty billion dollars. It’s an unquantifiable amount of money, which, were it to be delivered in cash, would surely result in the closure of a couple of motorways just to get it from A to B. It’s also the kind of money that’d fill a couple of buildings, and surely require half the staff of a bank to count out.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is the first true contender to Apple’s tablet crown, but has Samsung bitten off more than it can chew? Russell Barnes spends a week with the Tab to find out…

Forget Perl’s claims, Emacs really is the Swiss Army chainsaw of the *NIX world. Join Richard Smedley for the conclusion of his three-part series this time exploring how you can live your life online and do it faster and better with Emacs…

Sometimes even experienced developers can be a bit overwhelmed by Linux’s extensive development capabilities. Sit back and soak up these tips to become a smarter and more productive Linux developer overnight…