It's been a few days but the latest kernel, 2.6.33 is out. There are some changes that affect the storage world that you probably need to check out.

Appcelerator ups the ante for mobile developers

Download and use Nikto before an attacker reduces your website to a burned-out cinder.

Building a scrollable, dynamic user interface for iPhone.

A look at an alternative means of constructing user interface elements for Android developers

Google is having another go at a social media offering, and this time it looks like the company may be on the right track. Google Buzz was rolled out en masse this week, to largely positive reviews. The service has a few rough edges, but has quite a bit of potential.

Psst. Hey, would you like to hear an Ubuntu secret? OK, how about five secrets?

Gentoo is a source based distribution which lets the user decide how to optimize their system in many ways and includes building for a specific CPU architecture. Linux Magazine benchmarks four such options; i486, i686, pentium3, core2, and throws in Ubuntu for good measure.

A confirmed GNOME superfan takes a new look at KDE 4.4 and likes it.

When you're hot, you're hot. And SSD's are hot right now. Let's review recent developments in SSD hardware and to see where the technology is headed. Prepare to drool over new hardware!

The nouveau project has done it! Finally, an open source 3D driver for NVIDIA video cards has arrived and will ship with Fedora 13. Let's take a look (including a few benchmarks).

The major derivatives of Ubuntu are well known, but what about the others? Just because they aren't as popular doesn't mean they don't have something to offer! We introduce five of the least known, yet simply outstanding distributions.

Chrome is catching up to Firefox pretty quickly in the extension department. The Chrome Extension Gallery has added more than 2,700 extensions in just a few months. Meanwhile the Mozilla team is busy perfecting Jetpack to make life much easier for add-on developers. With the 0.8 release out the door, let's look at what the road ahead looks like for Mozilla Jetpack and the future of add-ons with Mozilla.

Beef up your sysadmin toolkit by extending the powerful monitoring features of Nagios.

Save time and gain functionality by starting your GUI apps from the command line.

The Android SDK is strictly for Java Programmers -- however, the Native Development Kit cracks the door to let some "C" inside

February has been a strong month for open source on mobile devices, including the release of the Symbian OS source code, an Android update and Linus giving a nod to the Nexus One.

When 140 characters is all you need, the command line does it better.

Looking for a new flavor of Web browser? If the mainstream favorites aren't doing the trick, or you just want to test drive something new, we take a look at several of the "alternative" Web browsers for the Linux desktop.

Turning from Metadata performance to throughput performance, we examines the impact of journal size on ext4 when the journal is disk-based. Dig into the numbers and see what you can do to improve throughput performance.

This week the first milestone release of openSUSE was made available. Together with the KDE 4.4 release candidate and excellent integration of GTK applications such as Firefox, openSUSE simply provides the greatest KDE experience available to date. Here's why.

Commodity trends at the low end are generating interesting ideas in HPC