Just announced today by Lenovo, the new S2005, S2007, and S2010 Android tablets are slated to reach the Chinese consumer market sometime next month.

In an opinion which, if affirmed by judges, would have dramatic impact on the definition of software and standards – at least in Europe if not eventually worldwide – the Advocate General in a European Court of Justice case involving U.S.-based business analytics firm SAS, has argued that the language in which computer programs are written may be exempt from copyright.

A few weeks ago, the Top500 Supercomputer list came out, as it does each November. As expected, Linux is still the most used OS for supercomputing, as it has been since taking the list by storm in the early 2000s.

There's an active discussion on the Fedora mailing list concerning a "software center" for Fedora Linux…

Netfilter developer Patrick McHardy has released patches for the ip6tables IPv6 packet filter under Linux; the patches allow the software to replace the address information in IPv6 data packets…

The 2.6.32.49, 3.0.11, and 3.1.3 stable kernel updates are out; each contains a long list of important fixes.

Philip Newborough has announced the release of an updated build of CrunchBang Linux 10, code name "Statler", a lightweight Debian-based distribution featuring the Openbox window manager: "New Statler images have been made available. These new images contain some significant changes since the last release. The main thing to….

GNUstep, the leading free software implementation of Apple's Cocoa Objective-C libraries and related Mac OS X components, has reached a new version. GNUstep runtime 1.6 is this new version with many new features after being in development for more than one year…

Linux Mint 12 has been officially released…

When you want a good reliable and easy-to-configure LAN name server, try Dnsmasq. Dnsmasq does DHCP, DNS, DNS caching, and TFTP, so it's four servers in one. If you have no public servers it should meet all of your needs, and it's a great complement to an authoritative name server. In this tutorial we'll learn how to deliver all network configurations to our LAN hosts through DHCP.