As you may be aware by now Nokia and Intel have announced that they will merge their respective Maemo and Moblin software platforms to create a combined Linux-based operating system targeting a new broader range of fixed and mobile devices. But is MeeGo, just an Android me too?

MoBlock is a cutting-edge open source security tool for the Linux platform designed help fine-tune the network security of your Linux desktop or server. Sukrit Dhandhania expMoblock02lains how to use it to secure your Linux box…

If you have worked in the desktop publishing business or used some of the commercial desktop publishing tools such as QuarkXpress or Adobe InDesign, you must know how easy they made your work. They are also quite expensive. Depending upon how deep your pockets run, it is unlikely that too ...

Ex Linux User & Developer editor, Simon Brew, ponders just what kind of definition of free is preferable where software is concerned…

Exciting news from Google yesterday as they announced the development of Google Chrome OS - a lightweight operating system for desktops and notebooks based on the Linux Kernel. Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director posted the news on ...

The month of June saw the Android operating get a further boost in the form of the Hero, the latest handset from Smartphone doyens HTC. It’s certainly better looking than the T-Mobile G1 and while this isn’t difficult in itself the real ...

Gerry Gavigan sees a brave new world in which Linux enthusiasts push the open source concept into the mainstream. You've got your first bit of code accepted into the Linux kernel, just successfully completed a Google Summer of Code project? Or maybe you are a serious Unix guru, with over 20 ...

Which do you spend more time interacting with: your operating system, or your software? It's possible to get too pedantic with the answer as ultimately everything comes back to the operating system, but really, the answer is your software. You edit a file in ...

HTML 5 will no longer specify Ogg Theora as its video codec, the Google employee who maintains the burgeoning web-coding standard has announced. Ian Hickson wrote on Monday that he was reluctantly dropping the open standard due to opposition from Apple, and said the rival H.264 codec could also not be ...