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New group advocates for FOSS in libraries

Author: Susan Linton A new advocacy group, the Public Software Foundation (PSF), is working to make free and open source software available to local libraries...

WeatherBug For Linux Is Live!

After months of work and beta testing on a multitude of Linux distributions, WeatherBug is proud to redefine the way we retrieve weather data...

Social networking for sports sits on an open platform

Author: Tina Gasperson Sportsvite.com, a kind of MySpace for ballers, exists because Steve Parker and a few friends wanted to find a better way to...

Ask Linux.com: Choosing a distro, working with external hard drives, and learning how to...

Author: Linux.com Staff Some questions keep coming back in recent threads on the Linux.com forums, such as how to choose the right Linux distribution. If...

Inspecting disk IO performance with fio

  Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed...

The hidden world of Linux

There are many great FOSS projects that utilise old PC hardware and give it a new lease of life. The best is desktop computing...

Future Open Source Superstars

Author: JT Smith This week’s Open Source Business Conference was a strange meeting of Enterprise IT users, venture capitalists, and free software entrepreneurs. The opening...

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Linux-style

Author: Lisa Hoover Today is St. Patrick's Day, a national holiday in Ireland that's celebrated by people of Irish lineage worldwide. Like Ireland itself, the...

Choose the DVD ripper that’s right for you

By Andrew Min   Linux is sometimes belittled for having inferior applications, but that's simply not the case. Take DVD rippers, for example -- a plethora...

Icon herding gets easier with Tango Generator

Author: Nathan Willis When you want to customize the look and feel of your Linux desktop environment, you can find many resources for altering window...