While some organizations continue to hide their open-source adoption, NOiV (Nederland Open in Verbinding), has published a map of over 200 open-source products currently in use by the Dutch…

Fedora is a giant among giants, in the shadow of a giant from which it was born. But every giant is born of humble beginnings. So to understand the giant, you first have to understand from where they…

One of the benefits of moving the different graphics hardware drivers over to using kernel mode-setting, an in-kernel GPU memory manager (whether it be GEM or TTM), and other newer X innovations is…

TuxOnIce is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows’ hibernate functionality, but better. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up…

There is a MOKO event for the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which includes some nice promotional photos featuring models like Sun Yiqi and wuyiman. I think Megan Fox is hotter but…

By default Fedora 10/11 does not have /etc/X11/xorg.conf then you xorg can not configure monitor to the right Refresh rate. Under Gnome/KDE I can not find any configuration tools to change this….

Update: Building Voldemort read-only stores with Hadoop.

A write up on what LinkedIn is doing to integrate large offline Hadoop data processing jobs with a fast, distributed online…

For all you Unix geeks:

Yes, Android can do that!