Do you know - How to create customized backup using touch and find commands? Why rm command fails with error ‘Argument list too long’? How to follow multiple log files on the go? Learn all this and much more.

Perhaps the most important term in any standards organization’s Intellectual Property Policy (IPR) policy is the acronym “RAND,” standing for “reasonable and non-discriminatory” (in Europe, they add an “F” – for “fair”). The problem is, no one can agree on exactly what it should mean.

The first maintenance release of the GNOME Documents 3.8 app, the main document viewer of the GNOME desktop environment, has been released a few days ago, bringing various fixes and improvements.

The OpenMW team is proud to announce the release of version 0.23.0! This release introduces the initial implementation of NPC movement AI, item repairing, enchanting, levelled items, texture animation, basic particles, and more, along with an extensive list of fixes and improvements.

We’re pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals (CfP) for the second CloudStack Collaboration Conference is now open! The conference is being held in Santa Clara, CA from Sunday June 23 through Tuesday June 25.</p> The Collaboration Conference will feature tracks for users, developers, and integrators of Apache CloudStack. We’re looking for presentations that provide insight into best practices in deploying and developing Apache CloudStack. </p>

When the Raspberry Pi first came out, the board-only design got a lot of people desiring a case to go with it. Since then, a few companies and Kickstarters have popped up to supply cases to those that want them. With many different designs on the market, it’s hard to know what to go for, and mainly comes down to how you plan to use the case. SB Components have created a simple case that is suitable for many uses, at a price that reflects the Raspberry Pi itself.

The GNOME development team announced a few days ago the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release of the GNOME PackageKit 3.8 application, which now displays the update viewer in the app overview.

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the system and available software, to detect security issues. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information, installed packages and configuration mistakes.This software aims in assisting automated auditing, software patch management, vulnerability and malware scanning of Unix based systems. It can be run without prior installation, so inclusion on read only storage is no problem (USB stick, cd/dvd).

Dietrich Schmitz shows how to turbo charge your Fedora YUM downloads in this how-to utilizing Fastest Mirror and AxelGet plugins.

The new Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) has just been released. This guide shows how you can upgrade your Ubuntu 12.10 desktop and server installations to Ubuntu 13.04.

You know that Linux kernel thing, that has thousands of developers from all over the world, some of which do it professionally, most of which do it for the love of solving problems (or something)?

I look at it as a great chance for learning.

Around 2005 I decided to educate myself in computers as an extension of my trade: radio-technician. Cheap imports meant that our trade was just about obsolete. Dark thoughts had been on my mind but Linux saved my life!

The Automotive Grade Linux workgroup aims to get more open source technology in vehicles

Last week North Bridge Venture Partners and Black Duck Software released the 7th Annual Future of Open Source survey. Previous years' surveys have generated interest industry-wide, with implications that cross industries and ecosystems.

The Obsidian project, an open source unit test generator built for the JUnit framework, has been in development for two years at the College of Charleston's Cyber Infrastructure Research and Development Lab for the Earth Sciences (CIRDLES). Using open source components such as JUnit and Netbeans, Obsidian concentrates on building standardized test implementations that are comprehensive and easy to maintain.

Arduinos have grown in popularity over the past few years, to the point where they are ubiquitous. Learn how you can use them from Linux to create a sensor system

New native configurations for GDB 7.6 include AArch64 GNU/Linux (64-bit ARM on Linux), FreeBSD/PowerPC, x86_64/Cygwin, and Tilera TILE-Gx GNU/Linux. New target configurations are ARM AArch64, ARM AArch64 GNU/Linux, Lynx 178 PowerPC, x86_64/Cygwin, and Tilera TILE-Gx GNU/Linux.

Power management is always an issue in portable device. Be it a laptop or a mobile device, you always want the battery to last as long as possible without it dying on you. If you are running Linux on your laptop, you can make use of the TLP module to manage your computer’s power usage in the background.

After eight Release Candidate versions, Linus Torvalds proudly announced a couple hours ago, April 28, the immediate availability for download of the highly anticipated Linux 3.9 kernel.

Wondering how to get a VPN working with your business and Amazon VPC? Check out the new: How to create a Site-to-site VPN between pfSense and Amazon VPC using Virtual Private Gateway feature

Ready to start programming for Google Glass? The tools are out there. While only a handful of Google Glasses are out, but Google has quietly released its Android-based core kernel code.

Six months have gone by since Windows 8 hit the market and it looks like Linux distributions - at least the better-known ones - are still struggling to ensure that they can live side by side with this operating system.

Trisquel is a 100 per cent 'free as in free speech' GNU/Linux distribution started by Rubén Rodríguez Pérez nine years ago.

Recently I’ve posted an article about the Windows manager and desktop environments that use less resources on Linux and thanks to a comment of Sebastian I’ve discovered Livarp, a lightweight GNU/Linux Distro. Livarp is a DEBIAN-based distro that tries to take the best part of available Debian GNU/Linux applications without loosing accessibility or design, special attention was paid to the documentation that in a simple page collects all the most important information you need to know on the available software of this distribution and how to configure it.

Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language that is released under the BSD license. It blends the functional and object-oriented programming models.

The developers of Worlds of Magic email me in to ask if we could do a shout out for their game. The game itself is meant as a spiritual successor to Master of Magic.

When will the Linux Desktop madness end? Dietrich Schmitz surveys the options and leads the way from insanity to sweet serenity. Serenity now!

One often wishes to cut and paste commonly used commands into a shell script for later reference, and reuse. So we introduce an approach for invoking parameterized functions in a bash script.

Philip Müller and the Manjaro development team has announced the first maintenance release for Manjaro 0.8.5, which was made available for download two weeks ago.

On April 21, members of the Fuduntu team that are involved with the creation of the new post-Fuduntu distro met in #fuduntu on IRC to discuss some key aspects of the new distro. This was a public meeting and members of the community were invited to join in the discussion.