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Mobile app development is hot, very hot, but only few mobile developments platforms are successful. So, what’s the best way to build and maintain a viable mobile development ecosystem? Gyanee Dewnarain thinks he has found the key. In “The Guide to Building Developer Communities,” he opines that: Before you set out on your quest, it [...]

Cloud computing, like it or not, is here to stay. But if you must use it, you should at least know how and where to thread. Here are top 6 gotchas to look out for: Standards: The cloud, while filling our life right now, is still relatively young with minimal standards. This one is particularly [...]

Pardus is a desktop-oriented Linux distribution with roots in the National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (UEKAE), Turkey. The latest table version, Pardus 2011.1, was released just yesterday. Like the previous stable release, Pardus 2011, it seems that this edition has a bug in YALI, the installation program, that causes installation in Virtualbox to [...]

Pardus is a Linux distribution using the K Desktop Environment. It is developed and maintained by the Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey. Pardus 2011.1, code-named Dama dama, is the latest stable release. With this release comes the option to disable LVM, the Linux Logical Volume Manager, as the default disk partitioning scheme. It [...]

CentOS, Community ENTerprise Operating System, is a Linux distribution “derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor” (read Red Hat, Inc.). Version 6, released two days ago, is the latest stable release. It is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. While I work on a detailed [...]

The easiest method of resetting a user’s account password in Linux is to use the passwd command. To do it on Linux Mint, Ubuntu or any Linux distribution that uses sudo, start a shell terminal and type the following command: sudo passwd You will, of course, be prompted to authenticate with your current password before [...]

Linaro is an outfit formed mid last year to deliver “the best tools and Open Source Software (OSS) for Linux on the ARM Cortex-A family of processors.” Linaro 11.06 is the latest release. According to the release announcement: 11.06 is the Linaro’s first release delivered on the new monthly cadence. Since we started focusing on [...]

Seems like every outfit is offering a cloud service. If you are using Mandriva Linux, and expect to upgrade to the soon-to-be-released Mandriva Desktop 2011, you will have access to one that you may use to store all or some of the contents of your home folder. The service is in beta mode, but you [...]

We know that Linux can be installed on just about any hardware, no matter how old. However, with some of the distributions, the memory requirements of just the installer means you cannot install it on some hardware, especially if they don’t have a lot of RAM. Take Fedora, for instance. The installer, Anaconda, will not [...]

Getting closer to the release of Mandriva Desktop 2011. The first release candidate was made available June 30, 2011. I do not like to review pre-stable releases, so this is not going to be a review, but a short preview. Out of curiosity, I wanted to find out if there has been any changes to [...]

“Can police officers enter your home to search your laptop? Do you have to give law enforcement officials your encryption keys or passwords? If you are pulled over when driving, can the officer search your cell phone?” Those are very important questions that you need to be prepared for, if you own a computer or [...]

Can cross-platform development tools end OS wars? Jonas Lind doesn’t thinks so, but offers an interesting analysis. According to him: A popular view in the industry is that the market is inevitably moving towards an Apple-Google duopoly. Apple’s app store has more than 400,000 apps. Android is growing quickly from a base of more than [...]

The 2011 edition of the Open Source Software World Challenge, an annual contest hosted by Ministry of Knowledge and Economy of Korea, will be sponsored by bada, the mobile platform division of Samsung. Any coder 12 years or older from any part of the globe, is eligible to enter the contest. The contest’s objective is [...]

My Mandriva 2010.2 system is still running Firefox 3.6.17, and that is with all updates applied. I have to do something special to run Firefox 4. And Firefox 5 has just released today. When is the latest Firefox coming to Mandriva? If you are running a recent distribution release, say, Ubuntu 11.04 or Linux Mint [...]