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Last month Linus Torvalds released the final 2.6.34 kernel, following a bumpy few weeks that saw a major virtual memory (the subsystem responsible for memory management in-kernel) glitch, the usual round of regressions, and a power outage that knocked vger.kernel.org…

The PocketBook 301+ is actually a recent update of the original model released in 2007, itself based on a popular eReader design that’s been sold by various companies…

The first three months of the year were defined, in the technology sector, by some very scary numbers. Just feast your eyes on some of these. Apple, we learned, pulled in profits in just three months of over $3bn. That’s not in a year – that’s just in a quarter…

UDS is always held in a different location, and usually switched between Europe and the USA each time. The latest one was held in La Hulpe (near Brussels), Belgium, to plan the next Ubuntu release Maverick Meerkat. Ubuntu's Dave Walker takes us through the event…

The market for open source hardware is hotting up, with the top 13 companies in the space turning over nearly $50million last year – according to Phil Torrone, designer at Adafruit industries. Speaking with Adafruit’s founder Limor Fried at the O’Reilly Foo Camp East in May, Torrone also claims there's plenty more money to be made…

Although Popcorn Hour’s C-200 Network Media Tank was released in September last year, its initial firmware was a little patchy. Let’s see how it performs now it’s had ample time to bed in…

Sometimes we need to create an intelligent document containing a form for a client to fill out. This form is shared either by email or by downloading from a web location. A lot of people will use a word processor, most often Microsoft Word, to create such a document. Not us…

The Pogoplug 2 is a Linux-based network file-sharing device that allows secure access to share, upload, download and manage files from within a web browser. Kenneth Hess shares his thoughts…

Novell have today announced their intention to release SUSE MeeGo as a fully supported netbook operating system. Novell expects their new OS, which is built on the codestream from the MeeGO Project established by a collaboration between Intel and Nokia, to be pre-installed on a wide variety of devices from OEMS in the next twelve months.

Spring is a lovely time of year, when the flowers bloom, the birds sing and community Linux projects release the fruit of their winter labours. Specifically, the Fedora and Ubuntu projects come to the end of their six-month cycles in the April/May time frame. This year’s yield is a bumper crop, with Fedora 13 including a number of interesting technologies and improvements and Ubuntu putting on its finest polish for a Long Term Support (LTS) release…

You need to process lots of data (more than 1 TB)? You want to parallelise across hundreds or thousands of CPUs and you want to make this easy? You need MapReduce for large-scale parallel data processing. You have lower demands? No problem. MapReduce can do that too…

LightZone is a cross-platform photo-editing program that works on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. Although we wouldn’t put it in the same feature bracket as Adobe Photoshop, it comes packed with some very useful features that will allow you to turn your photos into some great-looking work…

The past month saw steady progress toward the final 2.6.34 kernel release, including the announcement of initial Release Candidate kernels 2.6.34-rc1 through 2.6.34-rc4. Join Jon Masters as he wraps up another month in the Linux Kernel…

We help celebrate ten years of Linux on the mainframe with an exclusive interview with Novell’s senior vice president and general manager of open platform solutions, Markus Rex, discussing the technological and business transformation since it’s introduction…

Simple Invoices is a simple, lightweight web-based invoicing application. It’s an open source application that you have to install on a computer running a LAMP stack. Its hardware requirements are quite minimal, depending upon your level of usage. Simple Invoices opens in your web browser and has a simple, yet aesthetically pleasing user interface.

If you need network services, there is little need to build up your own hardware. Try using cloud services and bring your infrastructure into the cloud. You need an in-house infrastructure? Try Eucalyptus…

Ex-Linux User & Developer editor, Simon Brew, tries to get interested in the iPad, and wonders if it’s about time freedom took a hold on the mainstream eReader market…

The two fundamental concepts in a Linux operating system are processes and time slice. A process is an instance of a program that is being executed by the computer’s operating system. When we say that two computers are communicating with each other, we mean that two processes, one running on each computer, are in communication with each other.

If you manage a number of servers that require a good uptime, you should know how crucial it is to maintain well-organised backups of your data. Kleo Bare Metal Backups is a complete back-up solution for servers and desktops…

Another month, another kernel release. Last month saw what is hopefully the final RC (release candidate) 2.6.33 kernel, and so it should have been released by the time you read this.