1. 'Software Wars' the Movie: A Message to the Masses
(Software/Multimedia)

There is a war for freedom going on that will determine the path of modern society.  Software freedom may be a critically important topic for those of us in the Linux community -- distinguishing, ...

2. The People Who Support Linux: Brazilian Developer Hacks Health Care with BeagleBoard and Android
(Featured Blogs/Libby Clark)

... Brazilian developer Daniel Neis Araujo couldn’t imagine building open source health care equipment that could compete with traditional and respected proprietary solutions. But recent advances in Linux ...

3. 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Glauber Costa
(Special Feature/Linux Developers)

After a one-week hiatus due to catching our breath after LinuxCon Europe, we're back with 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks. Glauber Costa takes up week #23 in the series as we make our way through ...

4. How to Change the Linux Date and Time: Simple Commands
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

Telling the time on Linux is more complicated than it might seem at first glance. Here are some simple Linux commands to measure how long a process runs, tell the time across time zones, use a calendar ...

5. Fluendo Advances Multimedia for Linux
(Featured Blogs/Jennifer Cloer)

The Linux Foundation in March announced that Fluendo was becoming a member. The company has been at the forefront of building legal multimedia solutions for open environments and works very closely with ...

6. 30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: Jean Delvare
(Special Feature/Linux Developers)

This is the fourth profile in our 30-week series that features a different Linux kernel developer each week. Last week we featured Linux kernel xHCI driver maintainer Sarah Sharp. You can see all ...

7. Happy Birthday - Phoronix Turns Eight Years Old
(Community Blogs/General Linux)

It was on 5 June 2004 that I founded Phoronix.com, what has become the leading source for Linux hardware reviews, Linux / open-source graphics drivers, Linux gaming, and much more enthusiast information ...

8. Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hits 10-Year Anniversary
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

Today marks the tenth anniversary of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and many people who have followed the rise of the RHEL platform may be surprised that it is so young. Released while the burning embers ...

9. Weekend Project: Get to Know LocalWiki for Local Information Sites
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

Wikis have a well-earned place among the ranks of content management systems (CMSes) as the de facto solution for crowdsourced, document-centric sites. But they are not one-size-fits-all. The encyclopedic ...

10. Scientific Linux, the Great Distro With the Wrong Name
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

Scientific Linux is an unknown gem, one of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux clones. The name works against it because it's not for scientists; rather it's maintained by science organizations. ...

11. Are Your Linux Skills Right for HPC Jobs?
(Enterprise Computing/Business News)

Do you have what it takes for that Linux job with an HPC vendor you've got your eye on? Brent Welch, the director of software architecture at Panasas, talks about the role Linux plays in HPC at ...

12. Big Data Predictions for 2012
(Enterprise Computing/Cloud Computing)

At the end of 2010, I asked some of my friends and Linux Pro Magazine readers to make predictions for 2011. Now as we look back on the year, we get to decide whether our predictions were on target. ...

13. The Ada Initiative: Looking Back and Looking Forward
(Featured Blogs/Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier)

... organizations, but Aurora says that founding an running a U.S. non-profit was more complex than anything they've done prior. "And I include the Linux VFS in that statement." Beyond Open ...

14. 7 Years of Ubuntu: Ubuntu Then and Now
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

Today marks seven years since Mark Shuttleworth announced Ubuntu 4.10. Dubbed "Warty Warthog," Ubuntu 4.10 was a major departure from other Linux distros at the time. Seven years, and 15 releases, ...

15. DocVert Can Handle All Your Document Conversion Needs
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

Thought you'd be living in a Microsoft Office-free world by 2011? Unless you're in a Linux-only shop that does business only with other Linux-only shops, the chances are that dream remains a ...

16. PiTiVi: A Solid B-Lister of a Movie-Maker
(Software/Applications)

... has room for improvement. Read more at LinuxInsider  ...

17. A Look at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 3.0
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

... info is particularly important for systems like Linux that do not have a single corporate owner. IBM and Sun could dictate AIX and Solaris layout without consulting anyone. Red Hat, SUSE, and Debian, on ...

18. The People Who Support Linux: Windows Turned Linux Admin
(Featured Blogs/Jennifer Cloer)

Alexander Swen is a true Linux evangelist. Since 1996, when he started using Linux-Mandrake on his home computers, he’s been happily converting friends and family to the OS—even getting ...

19. Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 3.0 Process Begins
(DistributionCentral/Distribution News)

The filesystem hierarchy standard (FHS) describes how files and directories should be laid out on a compliant distribution. The FHS has not been updated since 2004, and is starting to look dated in ...

20. IPv6 Crash Course For Linux
(Learn Linux/Linux How to and Tutorials)

You might be used to working with IPv4 on Linux, but like it or not IPv6 is on its way in. Roll up your sleeves, spit on your palms, and get ready to go to work because this is your crash course in ...